Crypto market sales accelerated overnight with bitcoin BTC$83,894.71 and ether ETH$2,702.72 down a further 2.7% and 3.5% respectively since midnight UTC to compound Thursday’s miserable session. The decline comes alongside heavy losses for precious metals, with silver now trading at $96 after falling 20% from Thursday’s record high of $121. Gold is trading back below […]
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Latin America’s largest digital bank has taken steps towards being able to offer crypto custody in the US São Paulo-based Nu (NYSE: NU), which has 127 million customers, has received conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to branch in the US, the bank announced Thursday. Nubank said that
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Bitcoins BTC$82,746.90 The sell-off late this week may have had little to do with crypto-specific factors and instead everything to do with the US dollar. After what is now becoming a customary weekend dip in crypto prices, bitcoin actually rallied through the week, in part as the fall in the US dollar accelerated. Bitcoin peaked
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The US government now has legal ownership of more than $400 million in seized cryptocurrency, real estate and cash linked to the once-popular darknet bitcoin mixing service Helix, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Commingling services like Helix are designed to hide the origin and destination of crypto transactions by pooling and redistributing funds,
Where bitcoin trades from here: Expect patience before the next stage higher. Hougan expects bitcoin to trade sideways between about $75,000 and $100,000 in the first half of the year. “There’s still a lot of Bitcoin for sale around $100,000,” he said, pointing to options market positioning. A breakout is more likely later this year
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The bubble in precious metals could have popped this week, with silver’s sharp drop on Friday bringing the group down. After hitting a new high of $120 an ounce earlier in the session, silver has retreated to $75 in US afternoon hours, now down 35% for the day. Gold – which as recently as Sunday
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Coinbase (COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong is running into a wall – and it looks a lot like the heads of America’s biggest banks. During meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Armstrong reportedly approached several Wall Street leaders to discuss the crypto market structure moving through Congress, according to a report in the Wall
Wall Street’s payments giants aren’t sold on crypto’s utility in day-to-day transactions — at least not yet. In earnings calls this week, both Visa and Mastercard executives offered cautious assessments of digital assets, particularly stablecoins, signaling that consumer demand hasn’t necessarily materialized in meaningful ways. “As I’ve said before, in the United States, if a
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