Cryptocurrency

The price of Bitcoin surged to $47,806 on Tuesday, making MicroStrategy’s current 125,051 BTC holdings worth roughly $6 billion. MicroStrategy subsidiary will purchase Bitcoin after closing $205M crypto-collateralized loan. MacroStrategy, a subsidiary of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, said it will purchase Bitcoin after obtaining a multimillion dollar loan from Silvergate …

Geopolitics continued to impact the economic outlook throughout the previous week. Christine Lagarde emphasized the punitive measures were designed to target the regime, not the Russian people, while new “fiscal remedies are still needed” to stabilize Europe’s economy.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February has fundamentally brought about deep economic …

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that new forms of digital money such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins present risks to the US financial system and will require new rules to protect consumersPowell, speaking Wednesday on a panel organized by the Bank for International Settlements, a global organization of central …

The US dollar edged lower against most major rivals on Tuesday, except against the Japanese yen, with USD/JPY soaring to 121.02, its highest since February 2016. Economic DataManufacturing activity in the US central Atlantic region rebounded in March after growing marginally in February, according to a survey from the Federal …

Bitcoin rose to a three-week high as cryptocurrencies moved with major stock market indices. Bitcoin rose to $42,673, up 4.1% within the previous 24 hours.The price of the largest cryptocurrency by market value touched $43,337 earlier Tuesday, the highest point since 3 March.Bitcoin’s price is, broadly, moving in line with …

Crypto service providers may be an “accomplice to” circumventing sanctions against Russia, and crypto assets have been and remain a threat, said Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB).Lagarde said the amount of Russian rubles going into crypto and stablecoins have been on the rise, speaking at the …

There have been a lot of moving events during the past week, most notably the monetary policy decisions of the Fed and the Bank of England. Those decisions, which reflected a clear shift in the direction of monetary policy, led to a change in the price movement. The US Federal …

Bitcoin “may be primed” for a quantum leap in its development thanks to inflation this year. In a tweet on March 17, Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, released a fresh bullish take on Bitcoin’s (BTC) future under the current macro conditions.Well known for his belief in Bitcoin …

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been given a crypto-asset service provider licence by Bahrain’s central bank, its first such licence in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the company and the bank said on Tuesday. “The licence from Bahrain is a milestone in our journey to being fully licensed …

Once again, Dogecoin spike can be attributed to nobody other than Elon Musk. Just after midnight on Monday morning, in a Twitter thread about inflation, the Tesla CEO tweeted that he “Would Not” be selling his crypto holdings, which includes unknown quantities of Dogecoin, Bitcoin, and Ether. Minutes later, Dogecoin …