Chainlink, Ethereum Classic, Decred Price Analysis: 12 February

It's been a good few days for the crypto-market, with its price fortunes given an impetus a few days ago by the news of Tesla's $1.5 billion purchase of Bitcoins. Following the same, the world's largeThe post Chainlink, Ethereum Classic, Decred Price Analysis: 12 February appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin: Here's why $50,000 will come sooner than expected

Tesla's latest purchase of Bitcoin worth $1.5 billion, assuming that it was purchased at $39,000 per Bitcoin, amounts to a total of 38,000 Bitcoins. Soon after the news was made public, the market's rThe post Bitcoin: Here's why $50,000 will come sooner than expected appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Tesla invests $1.5 billion in bitcoins

Elon Musk's company disclosed one and a half billion investments in bitcoins. The cryptocurrency rate renewed its historical maximum, jumping to $44,000.

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MicroStrategy buys another $10 million of Bitcoin, and it’s now sitting on over $2 billion in BTC

Expect Micheal Saylor to purchase all your Bitcoins the minute you stop paying attention. The post MicroStrategy buys another $10 million of Bitcoin, and it’s now sitting on over $2 billion in BTC appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Subtle hints that indicate Elon Musk is already a Bitcoin Whale

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, with a net worth of over $180 billion at report time, may have silently stacked a fair share of Bitcoins for himself; but not silent enough to distract a large number of the public from the clues and hints that could make these observations true. Bitcoin whales […]

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MicroStrategy reports on billions of investments in bitcoin

The Virginia-based company MicroStrategy, traded on NASDAQ, announced its total investments in bitcoins in 2020 reached $1.125 billion. The average purchase price was almost $16,000.

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MicroStrategy Buys The Bitcoin Dip, Now Has Over $1 Billion In BTC

Virginia-based business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has officially joined the bitcoin billionaire club after buying another $650 million worth of bitcoin. The firm’s total bitcoin holdings now amount to over 70,000 bitcoins — worth approximately $1.

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MicroStrategy Eclipses Over $1 Billion in Bitcoin Purchased

Announced in a press release by MicroStrategy and echoed by CEO Michael Saylor, “MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 29,646 Bitcoins for $650 million at an average price of $21,925 per Bitcoin and now hodl an aggregate of 70,470 Bitcoins purchased for $1.

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Side-Chaining $3 Billion in Value: There’s More Than 141,000 Tokenized Bitcoins Issued on Ethereum

According to onchain statistics, there is a colossal amount of bitcoin, approximately 141,231 bitcoins or $3. 3 billion at the time of publication locked into Ethereum-based tokens. There are roughly seven different wrapped or synthetic bitcoin tokens but the Wrapped Bitcoin project has the lion’s share of coins with 115,411 under custody.

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Red Alert: Bitcoin Risks Significant Pullback As Mt. Gox’s $2.6 Billion BTC Stash Could Soon Move

The bitcoin price is facing serious correction risk as the deadline for Mt. Gox’s rehabilitation plan draws closer. The infamous bitcoin exchange is supposed to return over 150,000 bitcoins to the victims of the 2014 hack in a week’s time.

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Companies Now Own Almost 1 Million Bitcoins Worth ~$16 Billion

It seems as if almost every week new companies are allocating a portion of their treasury reserve assets to bitcoin. This increased drive in corporate adoption across a variety of industries and sectors may bode well for the emerging asset class and the crypto that leads them.

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Grayscale Surpasses $10 Billion in Crypto Under Management With Over 500,000 BTC in Bitcoin Trust

Grayscale Investments has surpassed $10 billion in cryptocurrency assets under management. About $8. 85 billion are held in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which now holds more than 500,000 bitcoins.

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A Look at ‘Individual X’ and the Seized Stash of Silk Road Bitcoins Worth $1 Billion

On November 3, 2020, the cryptocurrency community noticed that one of the largest addresses holding 69,369 bitcoins from the Silk Road were transferred. Following the onchain movement, the U. S. government revealed it had seized the coins from a person they dubbed “Individual X.

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Wrapped Bitcoin on Ethereum Enters Top 20 Tokens

Tokenized bitcoins on ethereum have now become a top 20 cryptocurrency by market cap. They’ve risen from just $120 million during July of this year, to $1.4 billion within just...

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187,000 BTC Drained: Over $2 Billion in Bitcoin Leave the Top Exchanges Since June

Cryptocurrency reserves held on digital asset exchanges have been dropping to new lows, as some of the top exchanges have seen significant bitcoin reserve balance drops. A few months ago trading platforms had a lot more bitcoin reserves on hand and onchain data shows a few exchanges have seen customers steadily drain 187,000 bitcoins ($2.

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Even The Rothschild’s Are Buying Bitcoin; Grayscale’s Holdings Surpass 450k BTC

The Rothschild Investment Corporation has bought 27 bitcoins in share form through Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). GBTC itself added another 6,937 BTC (worth $72 million) in the past few days after reporting the third straight record quarter with inflows reaching $1 billion.

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Rothschilds Buy Bitcoin

The Rothschild Investment Corporation has bought 27 bitcoins in a stock form through Grayscale’s GBTC. They are reported as holding $1.4 billion in assets with $235,000 of it now held...

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Over 100k Bitcoin Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion Tokenized on Ethereum; WBTC & RenBTC Leading

The number of Bitcoins locked on Ethereum continues to hit new records. It has already surpassed $1 billion. Currently, nearly $1. 2 billion worth of Bitcoin has been tokenized on the second-largest platform.

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Bitcoin Skeptic Turns Bitcoin Bull: Billion Dollar Company Buys 17K BTC in 74 Hours

Nasdaq-listed company Microstrategy recently bought almost 17K bitcoins within 74 hours, costing about $175 million. The CEO of this billion-dollar company used to be a bitcoin skeptic but has recently become a bitcoin bull when his company purchased $425 million worth of bitcoin.

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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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Over $1B worth of Bitcoin is locked in DeFi

Over 100k “synthetic” bitcoins or $1.07 billion has been minted on Ethereum as people...

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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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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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$4.6 Billion Under Management: Grayscale Purchased Over $100M Worth of Bitcoins Last Week

This week cryptocurrency proponents discussed the firm Grayscale Investments, as the firm purchased 9,702 bitcoins (over $110 million) in the past five days. The news follows Grayscale informing the U.

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‘Bitcoin Is Superior To Cash’, Says World’s Largest Business Intelligence Company

Publicly listed business intelligence firm MicroStrategy announced on Aug 11 that it had purchased 21,454 bitcoins worth $250 billion at the time, in a bid to hedge against Fed-led inflation. This is a major achievement for bitcoin as it adds credibility to the narrative that the king of crypto is gaining popularity on Wall Street as […]

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Bitcoin Rises on Futures Expiry

Bitcoin has reached record volumes on Wall Street’s CME where $1.4 billion worth of 125,000 bitcoin contracts exchanged hands this Monday. As of 5PM London time today, 60,000 bitcoins exchanged...

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Research: $1.4 billion in bitcoin laundered through crypto exchanges in 2020

In just six months, 147,000 bitcoins were laundered through cryptocurrency exchanges, including such large platforms as Binance and Huobi, according to one study.

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Market Update: Plustoken BTC Moves, Crypto Prices Dive, Coronavirus Cripples Global Markets

Cryptocurrency markets lost more than $30 billion in the last 24 hours as digital asset prices have been slashed alongside traditional stock and commodity markets. Further, crypto proponents have spied Plustoken bitcoins on the move again and speculators assume that 13,000 BTC ($102M) might have invoked the weekend’s massive sell-off.

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US Government Prematurely Sells Seized Bitcoin, Missing Out on $1.65 Billion

The United States government, which has held a total of 185,230 bitcoins following multiple seizures, has lost out on almost $1. 7 billion by selling them too early. Meanwhile, other governments have their own holdings of Bitcoin and have been reaping the benefits.

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Bitcoin worth $600 million was spent on the darknet in 2019 Q4

The year 2019 saw 11 exchanges being hacked, resulting in the theft of almost $2.8 billion in bitcoin. According to an earlier report, the stolen bitcoins were moved into several exchanges with bulk mThe post Bitcoin worth $600 million was spent on the darknet in 2019 Q4 appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Nearly 1 million Bitcoins worth $8.4 billion now held in Coinbase’s cold storage wallets

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly holding nearly 1 million Bitcoin (BTC) in its cold storage wallets. While digital currency exchanges have been known to fake trading volume, it appears that the amount of funds held in offline storage provides a better picture.

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4 Million Bitcoins Worth $40 Billion in Danger from Quantum Attacks

4 million BTC (about 25% of all Bitcoins) are potentially at risk from a quantum attack. The mentioned stash is valued over 40 billion USD. The stories about bitcoin being at risk of being obliterated by quantum computing have been going around for a long time now.

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Federal Reserve Loaned Equivalent of 12.7M Bitcoins to Bailout Banks (In One Day)

With the potential for an economic crisis intensifying, global central bankers are having to work overtime to ensure some stability. This has led to the Federal Reserve stepping in to add $111. 9 billion to the financial markets to help with liquidity.

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$2 Billion Lost in Mt. Gox Bitcoin Hack Can Be Recovered, Lawyer Claims

A Russian law firm says it can help Mt Gox creditors recover up to $2 billion worth of bitcoins stolen in the 2014 hack.

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5 Facts About Bitcoin You May Not Know

Bitcoin turned heads when it hit an all-time high price of $20,000 in December 2017. Folks who were already invested in it since the genesis became overnight millionaires and billionaires. Lots became self-proclaimed bitcoin traders and investors.

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Zero Odds of Craig Wright Crashing Bitcoin: Analyst

Craig Wright, the man who claims to be the original creator of Bitcoin, is using an unfavorable court ruling to play mind games with bitcoin investors. The Australian computer scientist has to pay $5 billion in bitcoins to Ira Kleiman who earlier accused Wright of stealing the cryptocurrencies from his deceased brother, Dave Kleiman.

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Half a Billion Dollars Worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum Now Locked in DeFi

Millions of eth and more than one thousand bitcoins are now locked in what has been dubbed Decentralized Finance (DeFi). This DeFi-iance can be described as native financial services that... The post Half a Billion Dollars Worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum Now Locked in DeFi appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Nearly 4 million Bitcoin worth over $40 billion unmoved in five years

The number of “untouched” Bitcoins increased significantly over the past five years, according to recent data from CoinMetrics. Nearly 4 million BTC, an amount currently valued at around $40 billion, has not moved from wallets that may be holding the cryptocurrency as a store of value.

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CME Traded 2 Million Bitcoin Futures Contracts Since Launch

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group claims it has hosted trading of over 2 million bitcoin futures contracts with $70 billion worth of volume since inception. The derivatives marketplace said in a tweet Wednesday that it traded over 2 million contracts – which equals more than 10 million bitcoins – from December 2017 until July 21.

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Bitcoins [BTC] worth $2.5 billion moved in block 578,327 and 578,328; part of transfers linked to Binance

In block 578,327, a total of 144,076. 47 BTCs worth 1. 25 billion was moved, costing only $19. 42 in fees. The next block, 578,328, also contained a total of 157,157,457. 61 BTCs worth 1. 35 billion, moved a few minutes after the first block.

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Collective Hacker’s Honeypot Now More Than Satoshi’s Bitcoin Holdings with Over 1 Million BTC Stolen

Hackers have Stolen over 1 million of the 21 Million Bitcoins that will ever Exist Since 2011, hackers have been out to steal Bitcoins from those who own it especially on exchanges. According to data from Chainanalysis, over a billion dollars were stolen through hacks on exchanges alone. It is estimated that Satoshi Nakamoto has […]

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Bulgarian Gov’t Holds More Than 200,000 Bitcoins Worth $1.7 Billion, US Gov’t Sold 144,000 BTC For Just $50M

The Bulgarian government in May 2017 conducted a raid on illegal Bitcoin (BTC) activities, seizing over 200,000 Bitcoins that… The post Bulgarian Gov’t Holds More Than 200,000 Bitcoins Worth $1.

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Binance Reveals Hack Information as Security Becomes a Public Concern

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Since May 1, 2019, bitcoin’s price has been rising, reaching a top of over $6,000. As the whole cryptocurrency industry was enjoying the rise, an unexpected hack put a stop to the rise of bitcoin.

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Craig Wright Faked an Email to Get Out of $10 Billion Satoshi Nakamoto Lawsuit

Coinspeaker Craig Wright Faked an Email to Get Out of $10 Billion Satoshi Nakamoto LawsuitAn expert witness has filed an affidavit in the Kleiman vs. Wright case, which alleges that Craig Wright stole billions of dollars worth of bitcoins from Dave Kleiman.

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Expert Witness Testifies Against Craig Wright in Whopping $10 Billion Satoshi Nakamoto Lawsuit

By CCN. com: An expert witness has filed an affidavit in the Kleiman v. Wright case, which alleges that Craig Wright stole billions of dollars worth of bitcoins from Dave Kleiman either before or after he passed away.

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Venezuela Bitcoin Trading Record Underscores Fiat Currency Hyperinflation

Venezuela transacted more hyperinflated bolivars for bitcoins than ever before last week — but actual Bitcoin (BTC) volumes still decreased.   Hyperinflation Bites Bitcoin Traders Data from monitoring resource Coin.

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Bitcoin at a $200 Premium in Brazil with Record Breaking Trading Volumes

A record breaking half a billion dollars worth of 100,000 bitcoins exchanged hands in Brazil within a 24 hour period according to a local stats site. The vast majority of... The post Bitcoin at a $200 Premium in Brazil with Record Breaking Trading Volumes appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Next Generation ‘Hardware 2.0 Wallet’ is Eradicating Storage to Improve Security

Next Generation ‘Hardware 2. 0 Wallet’ is Eradicating Storage to Improve Security From initial coin offerings to cryptojackers, security is a big issue when it comes to cryptocurrency.

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Venezuela Bitcoin Trading Sets Giant All-Time High

Venezuela traded more bolivars for bitcoins than ever before last week. Volumes on P2P trading platform Localbitcoins reaching 15. 7 billion VES ($10 million) amid increasing political instability.

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