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BlackRock may plan to get involved in Bitcoin, two filings made by the firm with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) suggest. The world's leading asset manager, counting $7.43 trillion in assets under management at the end of 2019, filed two Statements of Additional Information (SAI) on

Allegations against financial services institution Deltec and stablecoin issuer Tether, one of Deltec’s customers, spread rapidly this week as a story first published by CoinDesk implied that Deltec had used Tether’s funds to buy bitcoin. The article in question refers to a recently published year-in-review video by Deltec,

Value investor Howard Marks appears to be revisiting the topic of Bitcoin. In a memo to clients at alternative investment management firm Oaktree Capital Management, the company's co-founder wrote about a conversation with his son Andrew Marks that involved a discussion about Bitcoin. Marks describes his son as

After Bitcoin casually broke its 2017 price record of $20,000 a month ago and went on to climb as high as $41,000, it reignited the interest of various media outlets that had either declared it dead after 2017 or simply moved on to more sensational topics. Yet, in

Federally chartered banks in the U.S. can now operate nodes and use stablecoins, according to a letter published by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a bureau within the U.S. Treasury department, on Monday. Specifically, the letter explains that banks may "connect to blockchains

The hardware wallet market is getting a new contender. Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream is joining the game with its open-source hardware wallet Jade, according to a press release shared with the BTC Times on Sunday. The hardware wallet allows for the offline storage of bitcoin as well as all Liquid

Bitcoin has kicked off the year with strength, sitting at $29,400 on the first day of 2021, over 300 percent higher than on the same day in 2020. The past year has been one of accelerated recognition for Bitcoin as it has been increasingly talked about for its capabilities

As Bitcoin presented a rally from just under $25,000 to more than $27,300 at press time in just over a day, the asset's market capitalization has crossed the half-trillion mark. At the time of writing, Bitcoin's market cap sits at $508 billion. Bitcoin'