Another multi-trillion asset manager has entered the Bitcoin game: Capital International Investors, a division of Capital Group, which itself is an investment firm with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management, has purchased 953,242 shares in business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, according to an SEC filing released last week.
Obi Nwosu is the CEO and co-founder of Coinfloor, the UK's longest-running Bitcoin exchange. He has over 20 years’ experience building online marketplaces and bringing virtual currencies to tens of millions of people. Obi writes The Road to Bitcoin Hegemony, a weekly recap of some of the most
Likely to nobody's surprise, the European Central Bank's (ECB) research on the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) has now reached its next step: the official launch of a digital euro project.
In November last year, the ECB had initially launched a public survey
Likely to nobody's surprise, the European Central Bank's (ECB) research on the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) has now reached its next step: the official launch of a digital euro project.
In November last year, the ECB had initially launched a public survey
Another multi-trillion asset manager has entered the Bitcoin game: Capital International Investors, a division of Capital Group, which itself is an investment firm with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management, has purchased 953,242 shares in business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, according to an SEC filing released last week.
Obi Nwosu is the CEO and co-founder of Coinfloor, the UK's longest-running Bitcoin exchange. He has over 20 years’ experience building online marketplaces and bringing virtual currencies to tens of millions of people. Obi writes The Road to Bitcoin Hegemony, a weekly recap of some of the most
Bitcoin miner HIVE Blockchain Technologies has added 3,019 new MicroBT WhatsMiner M30S machines to its fleet. The new additions will boost HIVE's hash rate by around 46%, the company said in an announcement on Monday.
The high-performance machines have an aggregate hash rate of 264 petahashes per
Circle seeks to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that would place its valuation at $4.5 billion.
The news became public on Thursday, when Circle announced the planned merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., making the firm the latest in a list of cryptocurrency
German neobank N26 is working to enable Bitcoin and other cyptocurrency purchases for its seven million customers by the end of the year.
The move comes although N26 co-founder Valentin Stalf is not exactly a Bitcoin fan, as German finance magazine Finance FWD reports. However, "the customers want crypto,
Bitcoin privacy wallet Wasabi has set out on a mission to make Bitcoin privacy more user-friendly. As the BTC Times reported last year, the developers behind Wasabi seek to make certain privacy best practices "effortless" — the pursuit tackles what some see as a major pain point in the
As Bitcoin underwent its largest downward difficulty adjustment in history, miners may have rejoiced: the 27.94% reduction in difficulty makes mining easier and therefore more profitable for current miners. The drop corresponds with the large amount of miners being pushed offline in China in recent weeks.
The difficulty level
