Former Crypto Critic Carl Icahn Considering Billion-Dollar Cryptocurrency Investment

Billionaire businessman and founder of diversified holding company Icahn Enterprises, Carl Icahn, has revealed that he is looking at getting into the cryptocurrency industry in a big way, with the possibility of investing up to a billion dollars in crypto assets.

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CME Bitcoin Open Interest Increases by 850 Contracts This Week

Black Wednesday ended up wiping out more than $7. 5 billion in Bitcoin open interest and is currently at levels last seen in early February. With almost all the 2021 uptrend retracted by the market and billions of dollars cleared out in liquidations, it makes sense that the OI would also get more than halved.

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Game Changer: The Universal in-App Currency Made for Both Users and Developers

Global gaming revenues are booming, with mobile games surpassing 75 billion U. S. dollars in annual revenue, which accounted for 43 percent of the global gaming market in 2020 (Source: Statista). While purchasing the game used to be the main monetization method of games, today, the reality is much different.

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Vitalik Buterin Donates $1B Worth of Shiba Inu Tokens to India’s Crypto Covid Relief Fund

On Wednesday, Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin took control of his stack of Shiba Inu, a dogecoin ERC20 token, and donated more than 1 billion dollars worth of the currency to India’s Crypto Covid Relief Fund.

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Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum wallet holds $8 billion in Shiba Inu coin (SHIB)

Peek into Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum wallet and you’re going to see a Shiba Inu coin worth billions of dollars. The post Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum wallet holds $8 billion in Shiba Inu coin (SHIB) appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Can an adversary, one with $7 Billion dollars, take down bitcoin in 51% attack?

Understanding a 51% attack on Bitcoin is important to understand how secure the network is. The attack comprises a potential attack on a blockchain network, where a single entity or organization is abThe post Can an adversary, one with $7 Billion dollars, take down bitcoin in 51% attack? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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A Whopping $2.7 Billion Wealth In Bitcoin: Ukrainian Officials On The Spot

On Saturday, 10/4/2021, Ukrainian government officials revealed the mind-boggling billions of dollars they allegedly hold in the form of Bitcoin. Data gathered from 791,872 government officials, including the 652 Cryptocurrency holders, shows just how much digital assets are popular in Ukraine.

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Inside America’s largest Ethereum mine with its anonymous founder

Global revenue for Ethereum miners broke a new monthly record, surpassing $1 billion dollars in February 2021. The post Inside America’s largest Ethereum mine with its anonymous founder appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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The crypto market took just 3 months to rise another trillion

The crypto market has seen boisterous growth in the past year, rising from an under $500 billion market in early 2020 to over a $1 trillion giant in early 2021.   And while the first trillion dollars took over 10 years to reach, the next trillion came in just three months.

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Tether Prints $20 Billion This Quarter

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About $40 billion from stimulus payments may be spent on Bitcoin

After the stimulus package worth trillions of dollars received the green light from US authorities, many Americans received their own stimulus checks. US citizens have decided to put these funds to inThe post About $40 billion from stimulus payments may be spent on Bitcoin appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Kraken Clients Stake $725 Million Worth of NFT Coin FLOW

Kraken, the market leader for secure token staking services, has announced that clients have staked nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars worth of FLOW –...

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World’s First Bitcoin ETF Records Stellar Growth, AUM Crosses Half A Billion Dollars

The world’s first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched in Canada last week to a great reception by investors. It set the record for the best-performing ETF in Canada and one of the top five ETFs in North America.

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Инвестиции в биткоин оказались для Tesla выгоднее продажи электрокаров

Нереализованная прибыль Tesla от вложений $1,5 млрд в биткоин оказалась выше, чем от продажи электромобилей за 2020 год. Об этом сообщила аналитическая компания Wedbush Securities. There’s no doubt that $TSLA has already made a billion dollars on paper due to the recent #Bitcoin investment.

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Virtual Reality – The New Driver of Cryptomarket Growth

The virtual reality market has shown quite impressive growth recently. Estimates of the virtual reality market volume vary between analysts, but the dynamics are clear. In 2017, the VR market was estimated to be between 7 and 10 billion dollars.

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Musk Versus Saylor on Bitcoin: What do They Really Think?

On Feb. 19, MicroStrategy announced that its most recent senior notes offering ran to $1. 05 billion dollars. The company took on this debt in order to buy another billion worth of Bitcoin. And on Feb.

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Over $1 Billion In Stablecoins Are Sidelined Waiting To Push Bitcoin To $100K

Bitcoin is trading only a couple thousand dollars below $50,000, but according to one crypto analyst, there’s over $1 billion in stablecoins waiting on the sidelines to push the leading cryptocurrency by market cap to a price of $100,000 per coin, within the next thirty to sixty days.

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Bitcoin Price Rockets as SEC Reveals $1.5b Tesla BTC Purchase; Miami May Follow

Bitcoin’s price saw a massive upswing overnight following news regarding Tesla’s purchase of $1.5 billion worth of BTC to add to their balance sheet This represents 10% of the company’s total cash balance, which is significant considering its size Naturally, this news riled investors and caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of short-sided liquidations […]

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Bullish? Grayscale bought $500 million worth of Bitcoin in a single day

Grayscale purchased half a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in the last 24 hours, according to Qiao Wang, an investor at DeFi Alliance. The post Bullish? Grayscale bought $500 million worth of Bitcoin in a single day appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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US Dollar Shorts Hit All Time High

Data from the CFTC show the largest week-to-week drop against the dollar, since September. Net shorts of USD reached the highest mark on record in terms of dollars. The shorts reached $35 billion, a $3.

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The Bitcoin ETF Nears $1 Billion

The Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) listed on Toronto’s stock exchange has crossed one billion Canadian dollars and is close to crossing that milestone in USD too with it currently...

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Bitcoin at $100,000, Lindsay Lohan Predicts

This week in crypto has been a wild ride, or as crypto-lovers call it, “Monday”. Bitcoin was down 25% (and a few hundred billion dollars) and back up in just days. It is hard to agree on where the price will go next.

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Shyft Network’s Joseph Weinberg on the meaning of Bitcoin (and DEXs for 8 billion people)

The DeFi market has boomed in 2020, attracting billions of dollars across use cases like lending, derivatives, decentralized exchanges, and others. The post Shyft Network’s Joseph Weinberg on the meaning of Bitcoin (and DEXs for 8 billion people) appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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MicroStrategy Stock Up Over 200% Since Initial Bitcoin Purchase

Led by CEO and Bitcoin mega bull, Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy has purchased over $1. 3 billion in BTC. This $1. 3 billion does not include the hundreds of millions of dollars in BTC that Saylor owns personally.

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Bitcoin Price Touches $28,600, Crypto Asset’s Value Gains Over 288% in 2020

The price of bitcoin touched an all-time high at 3:12 a. m. (EST) during the early morning trading sessions reaching $28,600. The crypto asset’s market valuation is over $519 billion on Wednesday, as bitcoin markets command over 14 billion dollars in global trade volume.

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A Major Investment Firm Is About To Inject Over Half A Billion Dollars Into The Bitcoin Market – What This Means

Guggenheim Partners is a global investment firm that’s currently hitting the headlines in the crypto society. The firm runs the Macro Opportunities Fund, an investment fund of around $5. 3 billion in assets.

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China Construction Bank Pulls Planned Listing of Bitcoin-Tradable Bond

The "Big Four" Chinese bank has suspended the listing of a $3 billion bond issuance that was intended to be tradable for bitcoin and U.S. dollars.

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China Stock Sell Off Wipes Billions, Is it Going to Bitcoin?

Chinese stocks have seen much red this week with Alibaba losing some 756 billion Hong Kong dollars ($97 billion) while rival JD.com lost 201 billion Hong Kong dollars ($26 billion)....

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Apple Can Buy 145k Bitcoin With Just 1% Of Its $191 Billion of Dollars Held in Cash

Apple has a total of $191.83 billion cash on hand, down from quarter third of 2020, when it was $193.8 billion. Apple is known for having one of the largest cash piles among the companies. At Bitcoin’s current price of $13,300, if the tech giant Apple, hypothetically, decides to buy as much BTC as it […] The post Apple Can Buy 145k Bitcoin With Just 1% Of Its 1 Billion of Dollars Held in Cash first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Uniswap volumes bump to $2 billion after attack on DeFi project Harvest Finance

Harvest Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project led by an anonymous team, was attacked using a flash loan exploit earlier today leading to millions of dollars worth of FARM tokens stolen by hackers and its prices falling over 60% at press time.

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Total Value Locked in Harvest Finance Surpasses $1 Billion, Up 366,200% Since September

Decentralized platform Harvest Finance that provides users a way to farm assets for the highest yields now has more than a billion dollars in total value locked (TVL), as per DeFi Pulse. A few days back, Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) captured third place by overtaking popular DeFi projects Aave, Compound, and Curve Finance.

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Companies Have Now Invested $10 Billion in Bitcoin

Publicly traded companies and other businesses currently hold some $10 billion worth of bitcoin. Cutting edge MicroStrategy inc. has the most at half a billion dollars, followed by asset management...

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$10 Billion in BTC Reserves: Companies With Bitcoin Treasuries Command Close to 4% of the Supply

The web portal bitcointreasuries. org now shows close to two dozen firms with a large number of bitcoin reserves. Currently, the aggregate total bitcoin held in reserves by the 23 companies listed is roughly 785,999 BTC worth well over $10 billion dollars.

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Tether Prints $1 Billion in Weeks

Tether has added to the market some $1 billion worth of tokenized dollars since last month, with its market cap now surpassing $16 billion. Some $150 million was printed just...

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Flash Loans on Aave Protocol Close to Half a Billion Dollars

Coinspeaker Flash Loans on Aave Protocol Close to Half a Billion DollarsThe Aave Flash Loans service enables users to borrow instantly and easily, no collateral needed provided that the liquidity is returned to the pool within one transaction block.

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Stocks & Gold Getting Hammered But Bitcoin Fundamentals Do Not Support A BTC Crash to $7k

In another red day of the week, Bitcoin dropped to about $10,150 level. Just like the weak price performance, with BTC currently trading around $10,415, volume remains extremely low too, at just above a billion dollars.

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Bitcoin Must Outperform Altcoins To Kick Off A Long-Term Bull Market

For the past four days now, bitcoin has been hovering around $11,000. Trading in the green, the digital asset today went as high as $11,185 but with the ‘real’ volume only about a billion dollars.

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Huge! MicroStrategy Acquires Over 16,000 Additional Bitcoins, Bringing Total Holdings To Almost Half A Billion Dollars

Earlier today, ZyCrypto reported that US-based business intelligence firm MicroStrategy had filed with the SEC indicating that it was considering adding its bitcoin holdings. Well, according to the firm’s CEO, MicroStrategy has kept its word and increased its BTC holdings past the $250 million prior investment.

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Bitcoin Tokenized on Ethereum Near $1 Billion

The movement of bitcoins towards eth is growing somewhat parabolically, doubling in two weeks from around 40,000 to now more than 88,700 bitcoins. That’s worth some $960 million dollars, an...

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Uniswap & SushiSwap Fork, Sake, Enters; Locking in Over Half A Billion Dollars

Despite the rug-pulling and all the drama in the DeFi sector, newly cloned projects continue to pop up in the market.  Copy-pasting has become a norm of the market, just like in 2017, with the initial coin offerings (ICO).

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SushiSwap DeFi ‘Vampire’ Sucks $1 Billion From Uniswap

The Uniswap fork known as SushiSwap has successfully migrated to its own protocol and drained over a billion dollars from the token swapping platform it spawned from in the process. Is this the new normal for proceedings in the DeFi sector? The much-hyped SushiSwap platform has pulled off its protocol migration, successfully draining Uniswap of […] The post SushiSwap DeFi ‘Vampire’ Sucks $1 Billion From Uniswap appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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KIMCHI is the Latest Hot Dish in DeFi with Over 30,000% APY

Sushi was yesterday; KIMCHI is now! Uniswap’s clone SushiSwap has been forked to create KIMCHI. Within four hours of its launch, the unaudited project saw half a billion dollars locked in KIMCHI, which claims to “become the next hot DeFi mining token.

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DeFi newbie Sushiswap locks up $1 billion, SUSHI pumps to ATHs

Don’t be mistaken if you hear of sushi and a billion dollars in the same sentence one of these days. The post DeFi newbie Sushiswap locks up $1 billion, SUSHI pumps to ATHs appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Messari: $500M in BTC tokenized for DeFi is just the beginning

With more than half a billion dollars worth BTC already tokenized, Messari believes that projects bringing Bitcoin to DeFi will emerge as leaders of the crypto sector.

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Uniswap Copycat Locks in Over a Billion Dollars, SUSHI Gets Listed on FTX, Binance, & Huobi

As we reported last week, the latest hot DeFi project in the market is Sushi, a clone of the most popular DEX Uniswap — it accounts for more than 60% of all DEX volume. After YFI, YAM, Spaghetti, and Based, now it’s time for Sushi.

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Aave (LEND) Becomes First DeFi Asset To Reach A Market Capitalization Of $1 Billion

Today, one of the DeFi assets, Aave (LEND) has set a record by becoming the first of its kind with a market cap of over a billion dollars, according to Messari DeFi token data. At the time of reporting, the token has a market cap of $1.

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Half a Billion Bitcoin Tokenized on Ethereum, is it Propping Up Price?

Bitcoins are moving to the ethereum network at an accelerating speed with some half a billion dollars worth of 44,000 BTC running on the smart contracts platform. That’s up some...

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Aave and Curve Finance Join DeFi’s Billion Dollar Club

DeFi is growing exponentially, adding a billion dollars of collateral locked in a mere two days. Aave and Curve have been the most potent drivers, as each project smashed past...

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Curve Collateral Surges to $1 Billion Following DAO Launch

Crypto collateral on the Curve Finance DeFi platform has spiked to almost a billion dollars propelling it up the total value locked list to third place. The influx of capital came after a rather perplexing deployment of its governance token and DAO on Thursday.

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