By now, it’s well-known that bitcoin sits at more than double its previous high set in December 2017. Some attribute this incredible outperformance to a rush to perceived safe-haven assets that carry little-to-no counterparty risk. Yet there’s a bigger story here, and it’s about more than bitcoin’s price…
Companies are making bigger and bigger bets on bitcoin. The real news here: the world’s largest asset manager has dipped a toe into the bitcoin pool, which could send far-reaching waves…
BNY Mellon, America’s oldest and tenth largest bank, directly manages $2.2 trillion in assets. Will this oldest-of-old-school banks backing bitcoin finally pave the way for Boomer adoption?
Tesla buying bitcoin is big news. Even bigger news, though, is Apple’s perfect positioning to dominate the entire crypto marketplace by opening their own exchange and giving 507 million users worldwide access to cryptocurrencies via Apple Pay. Here’s our take…
The world’s largest credit card company, with its 1.1 billion credit cards in circulation and its partnerships with 275 banks, has launched a crypto buying, trading and custody platform for partner banks. Thanks to Visa’s vast global reach and long-term relationships with banks, this could be the catalyst the cryptocurrency world has been waiting for…
Banks, traditionally conservative and risk-averse institutions, are increasingly getting involved in blockchain and digital currency transactions. Here are the latest three banks with big blockchain plans, and what their role in mainstreaming cryptocurrencies might mean for the future…
We’ve all seen both DeFi and cryptocurrencies playing a larger and larger role in the world economy, and adoption increasing at institutional, personal and the policy levels. With the Biden administration, will we finally get the key officials the cryptocurrency world has been waiting for?
A recent poll found huge increases in financial planners as well as their clients purchasing cryptocurrencies. While that’s a big deal, there’s even bigger news on widespread crypto access and adoption…
The OCC finds blockchain to be on par with other widely-used electronic payments like SWIFT, ACH and FedWire, and even said blockchain payments could provide a more resilient system as the large number of nodes would limit tampering on the network. Has crypto finally come of age?
In 2020 we’ve seen another spike in Bitcoin’s price, from under $5,000 when the pandemic lockdowns began to over $28,000 in December. Are we looking at a reprise of 2018’s cataclysmic crash? Or is this just the beginning?
