Bitcoin Vaults Over $70K, Hits New Highs

Nov 13, 2020 at 12:22 p.m. UTCUS Company Now Lets Travelers Pay for Passports With BitcoinPeninsula Visa, a firm providing passport and visa services in the U.S., says it now accepts payments in bitcoin.Peninsula said Wednesday that the payments will be processed through Coinbase Commerce, the merchant payments arm of the cryptocurrency exchange.Not all services…

news The U.S. House of Representatives is launching a new task force aimed specifically at financial technology – including blockchain. The new task force, referred to as the FinTech Task Force, was established by the House Financial Services Committee by a voice vote Thursday, and will examine blockchain and cryptocurrency tools, among others. The task force…

Over 107,000 BTC, worth around $7 billion, were transferred from Mt. Gox wallets to an unknown address in thirteen transactions, possibly as part of a plan to repay creditors by October 31, 2024.The market reacted bearishly to these movements, with Bitcoin dropping by 1.4% to as low as $67,680 after reaching a high of over

Jamie Crawley is a CoinDesk news reporter based in London.A trio of European cryptocurrency firms are teaming up to bolster their digital asset trading offering to institutions.Crypto exchange LMAX Digital and Standard Chartered-backed custodian Zodia Custody are to provide institutional-grade trading infrastructure and custody to digital asset manager CoinShares (CS.ST), according to an emailed announcement…

Dec 30, 2019 at 06:00 UTCChinese flag via ShutterstockChina Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the country's financial watchdog, has recently received an application for listing an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that will track blockchain-related stocks as underlying assets.Dubbed Penghua Shenzhen Stocks Blockchain ETF, the application was filed by Shenzhen-based asset management firm Penghua Fund and was accepted…

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Shares crypto-related companies surged for a second straight day after bitcoin (BTC) traded above $34,000, fueled by hopes that a spot-price exchange-traded fund (ETF) for the largest cryptocurrency may finally be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Stocks of crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), software company MicroStrategy (MSTR) – which held more than 158,000

markets View Bitcoin looks set to end its five-month winning streak with prices currently down 9 percent from the monthly opening price of $10,759, according to Bitstamp data. A low-volume price breakout seen on 4-hour chart indicates BTC may have a tough time scaling key resistance at $10,235 in the next few hours. Long-term charts…

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