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Analysts make a slew of wild predictions as Bitcoin continues its moon mission in this week's Bad Crypto podcast 1784 Total views 20 Total shares Bitcoin continues to move through the gears. The currency is up more than 12 percent over the week and is now playing with the $18,000 mark. And it’s not just…

On Jan. 20, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) issued a report summarizing its position on digital assets and proposing a ban on any crypto trading and mining operations in the country. Although the CBR’s strict position on the matter was never a secret, such a bold statement triggered waves of fear, uncertainty, and doubt…

The European Central Bank is looking to renovate its payments infrastructure, studying both public and private solutions, with or without blockchain. 2428 Total views 61 Total shares A blog post from the European Central Bank (ECB) discusses the importance of resilient payment mechanisms. While the report focuses on legacy systems, it also mentions novel blockchain-based…

Goldman and Galaxy Digital are partnering up again to help the former’s clients gain more access to the crypto industry that the latter offers in spades. 393 Total views 21 Total shares Financial services giant Goldman Sachs has been offering clients exposure to ETH through Galaxy Digital’s Ethereum Fund according to a new Securities and…

Brooks is optimistic that regulators will find it easier to work with algorithms than with bankers. 2232 Total views 11 Total shares In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times on Tuesday, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks put forward the need to reconfigure banking regulations for an age of algorithms. Brooks, who currently…

After a successful fractionalization into $DOG Tokens, the total implied value of the Original Doge meme NFT has gone through the roof. 1683 Total views 13 Total shares The original Doge meme NFT has soared to a valuation of around $220 million following its successful fractionalized token sale this week. Ludicrously high prices for in…

As Bitcoin’s (BTC) price floats in the waters of uncertainty in the low $8,000 range, one might wonder how crypto’s largest asset found itself at the bottom of a steep drop after its exuberant price rise from $3,330 to $13,880 earlier in 2019. One explanation could be that the move was simply the market’s reaction…

“Bitcoin” had been an unfamiliar term to many individuals just a few years ago. While cryptocurrency continued to enter the mainstream, Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and other digital assets were being discussed more frequently. Recently, “Bitcoin” searches across Google hit a record high in 2020, and “Buy Crypto” searches surged for the first time at…