Gallup Poll: 75% of US Investors Think Bitcoin Is ‘Very Risky’

Artificial Intelligence (AI) might one day be humanity's downfall, but in the meantime, humans are doing a pretty good job marketing it for their profit. The creators of crypto's latest AI darling project, "ai16z" (a cheeky riff on the prolific venture fund Andreessen Horowitz), found that out the hard way this week. They planned to

JPMorgan notes that mining stocks have slumped ahead of the bitcoin halving.The bank favors Riot Platforms and Iris Energy.Bitcoin’s outperformance may mean that part of the typical post-halving rally has been pulled forward, the report said.Recent weakness in mining stocks ahead of the bitcoin (BTC) halving offers an attractive entry point for investors, JPMorgan (JPM)

news Salesforce, the leading provider of cloud solutions for business management, revealed its own blockchain solution today built on the Hyperledger Sawtooth platform. Executives made the announcement at the company’s tech conference, TrailheaDX. The product, named Salesforce Blockchain, is “a low-code blockchain platform that extends the power of CRM (client relations management).” The company says…

NEWS Switzerland is to see the launch of the first ever exchange-traded product (ETP) tracking multiple cryptocurrencies. As reported in the The Financial Times on Saturday, the country’s principle stock exchange, Six, has given the go ahead for the ETP, which is called the Amun Crypto ETP and will go by the ticker symbol “HODL.” Trading will…

Robinhood is expected to benefit the most from crypto deregulation in the U.S., the report said. Bernstein raised its price target for the trading platform to $51 from $30. The company's acquisition of crypto exchange Bitstamp is expected to boost the value-added crypto services it can offer, the broker said. 03:27 Trump's Media Company in

A British man who made roughly $900,000 in an elaborate Twitter hack and a separate crypto-related SIM-swapping scheme received a 5-year sentence from a federal judge on Friday, Inner City Press reported.People’s lives were affected by Joseph O’Connor’s actions, said Judge Jed Rakoff during the sentencing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…

A number of well-known crypto startups had their eyes on BitTorrent prior to its acquisition by Tron's Justin Sun. CoinDesk has learned that in addition to Tron and Neo, blockchain governance-focused project Icon and Protocol Labs, the developers of Filecoin, also entered into talks with BitTorrent to explore a purchase. People familiar with the negotiations say…

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Dec 2, 2020 at 9:32 p.m. UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Flat at $19K While Ether Options Traders Bet Bearish on 2021Low volumes are keeping the bitcoin market in the $19,000 neighborhood; option traders expect a high ether price in December but aren’t so convinced about next year.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $19,110 as…