This Week In Crypto is a weekly segment from the Live Coin Watch News team, providing readers with a fun, succinct, and pertinent summary of the most important Bitcoin-related events in the past seven days.
What a week it has...
Starbucks has received a significant portion of equity in Bakkt despite not being a cash investor. Bakkt which is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, is a service for people and institutions to seamlessly buy, sell, store, and spend digital assets....
The unfortunate death of QuadrigaCX founder Gerald Cotten was felt throughout the greater cryptocurrency industry. Per previous reports, the Vancouver-based exchange lost access to approximately C$190 million worth of crypto funds held in cold storage, with the passwords known...
The institutional herd is coming, or so crypto optimists once said. The Block reports that institutional-centric offerings in this ecosystem have begun to lose talent, as this facet of the Bitcoin market loses its status as an oasis in...
Big surprise! The World Gold Council (WGC) has claimed that crypto assets, even Bitcoin (BTC), aren't suitable to replace precious metals. Yet, a number of key industry pundits have overtly begged to differ.
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According to CoinDesk, who...
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, the world's most prominent futurist and entrepreneur, recently broke his silence on Bitcoin. In a podcast interview with Ark Invest, a fintech upstart that focuses on "disruptive innovation," the member of the elusive so-called...
Ever since Bitcoin (BTC) began to post lower lows in early-2018, with air quickly escaping the seeming cryptocurrency bubble, investors who bought the top have clamored to stay afloat. This grasping for straws has rapidly taken the...
It is no secret that Bitcoin has crashed. Over the past year, retail investors have fled the nascent crypto sector en-masse, as BTC's tumbles were proven to be a detriment to community morale.
But, industry insiders have still done their...
2018 was a harrowing year for cryptocurrencies, there's no doubt about that. Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled by dozens of percent, as some claimed that the nascent asset class overall faded from the public limelight.
Since Bitcoin (BTC) was thrust into the mainstream, rumor has it that Wall Street institutions & high net-worth hotshots have been loading their 'bags' with crypto assets. Yet, as this hearsay has continued to mount, even amid...
