Responding to a tweet from Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, rock star Gene Simmons said he plans to make Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) more easily accessible. “It’s easier to buy Bitcoin and Ether if you are already in the old system,” Winklevoss said in a Sept. 15 tweet, summing up a rather long thread addressing racial bias, crypto and decentralized finance. “If you don’t have a bank account, it’s hard to get funds into crypto,” he noted, adding: “We need to change this.” Retweeting the post…
Day: September 15, 2020
Ethereum’s Moving Averages Point to “Bullish Continuation” With a $1,000+ Target
Ethereum has seen some slight weakness throughout the past couple of days. This has come about despite the intense strength that Bitcoin has displayed, signaling that the resistance ETH faces between $380 and $400 may be insurmountable. Although ETH has yet to post any sort of technical breakout, it remains a strong likelihood that the digital asset sees further upside in the mid and long-term. One trend seen while looking towards ETH’s daily moving averages is incredibly bullish and is strikingly similar to one seen in 2016. If history repeats…
Why Jim Cramer will invest 1% of net worth in Bitcoin
Recently, Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, says he might invest 1% of his net worth in Bitcoin (BTC). The famed investor drew comparisons between BTC and gold and cited the importance of hedging against inflation. During a podcast with Anthony Pompliano, Cramer said he would “take a shot at that with 1%.” Since the lead up to Bitcoin’s 2017 bull run, CNBC, Bloomberg and institutional analysts have been extremely critical of the digital asset. Most claimed that cryptocurrencies were ponzi schemes, scams, or unsustainable, but this narrative…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hits $10.9K; Total BTC Locked in DeFi Passes 100K
Bitcoin is making gains not seen since early September; the amount of BTC locked in DeFi hits six figures. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,778 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 0.70% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,252-$10,950 BTC above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since September 13. Source: TradingView Bitcoin was able to reach as high as $10,950 on spot exchanges such as Coinbase Tuesday before losing some steam, settling around $10,778 as of…
Tassat Regains CFTC ‘No-Action’ Relief Ahead of Eventual Bitcoin Swaps Contract Listing
Tassat blamed COVID-19 and leadership changes for its long-delayed bitcoin derivatives contract listing. Original
Tassat will be able to launch Bitcoin swaps after all, says CFTC
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission will still be allowing New York-based fintech firm Tassat to proceed with its Bitcoin swap contracts after failing to meet regulatory requirements. According to a Sept. 15 statement from the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight (DMO), the regulatory body will not stop Tassat from launching a swap execution facility (SEF) in Q4 2020, even after the firm failed to renew its registration following 12 consecutive months without trading. “DMO will not recommend the CFTC commence an enforcement action against Tassat for failing to…
Germany-based gaming company releases RPG on the Litecoin blockchain
In an online event prepared by the Litecoin Foundation on Sept. 15, Litecoin (LTC) creator Charlie Lee and CipSoft CEO Stephan Vogler announced the release of LiteBringer, a role-playing fantasy game which runs on top of the Litecoin blockchain. “It’s the first major game that utilizes the Litecoin blockchain for all of its interactions,” Lee said. Vogler stated the game is fully decentralized, meaning all users have to be running a Litecoin node to play. He also noted that access is completely dependent on players having at least some Litecoin…
DLCs Are Making Smart Contracts Private on Bitcoin
“Republican_win”; “Democratic_win.” These are the parameters (and call functions) for the first smart contract escrowed bet placed on Bitcoin’s mainnet. On Sept. 8, BTCPay Server founder Nicolas Dorier and Suredbits founder Chris Stewart entered the bet on the 2020 U.S. presidential election outcome using a discrete log contract (DSL), a form of smart contract that became feasible on Bitcoin just this year, thanks to independent Bitcoin developer Lloyd Fournier’s technical advancements in the realm of so-called “scriptless-scripts” on Bitcoin’s blockchain. As for who took which side of the bet, Dorier…
eToro, BlockFi & Nexo capitalize on Brave ads for ‘unmatched engagement’
According to Brave browser, businesses like eToro, BlockFi, and Nexo have achieved unprecedented results by advertising to the platform’s users. Considering the popularity of Brave within the crypto community, this does not come as a surprise. For instance, the crypto-lending platform BlockFi was able to reduce its customer acquisition costs by 75% with Brave ads. The campaign was also twice as effective as a Google campaign in terms of the percent of respondents who opened accounts. BlockFi’s marketing manager Nick Ries was quoted as saying: “Brave has proven to be one…
Bitcoin CEO: MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor Explains His $425M Bet on BTC
MicroStrategy is prepared to HODL its bitcoin for at least a century. Or so said the business intelligence firm’s founder and CEO, Michael Saylor, in an interview with CoinDesk on Tuesday, shortly after he announced on Twitter that MicroStrategy was doubling down on the godfather cryptocurrency with the purchase of $175 million more BTC. “I want something that I could put $425 million into for 100 years,” Saylor told CoinDesk. In the last two months Saylor has transformed his company’s once sleepy cash surplus into a nearly half-billion-dollar bet on…