Month: August 2022

Paraguay’s Electricity Authority Requests Higher Rates for Crypto Miners, Partial Veto of Mining Legislation

CryptoX – Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal “On that point we believe that [the cap] has to respond to a cost structure so that it is viable for the installation of electric power supply,” Sosa said, adding that he wants mining companies to pay their tariffs in advance in U.S. dollars, with an annual readjustment in that currency. Source The post Paraguay’s Electricity Authority Requests Higher Rates for Crypto Miners, Partial Veto of Mining Legislation appeared first on CryptoX. CryptoX Portal

Bitcoin Loses Critical Level Below $23,000, Bears Prepare For Assault?

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Bitcoin has been slowly trending to the downside over this week. The first cryptocurrency by market cap seems to have lost momentum as uncertainty spills into the crypto market from legacy markets. At the time of writing, Bitcoin trades at $22,600 with a 4% loss in the last 24 hours and a 1.2% loss over the past seven days. BTC’s price moving sideways on the 4-hour chart. Source: BTCUSDT Tradingview The cryptocurrency has lost its 200 days simple moving average (SMA) at $22,800. In the short term, recapturing this level…

Crypto Lender Voyager Digital Has Received Several Purchase Offers Higher Than FTX’s: Report

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Macro Analyst Lyn Alden Says Bitcoin (BTC) on Track to Becoming a Medium of Exchange – Here’s Why

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Macro strategist Lyn Alden believes that it’s only a matter of time before the volatility of Bitcoin (BTC) falls thereby enabling it to be a practical medium of exchange. Alden says in a What Bitcoin Did podcast that currently, however, the flagship crypto asset fails as an “ideal medium of exchange.” “In the really early phases, unless you specifically need censorship resistance or unless you’re in an unbanked environment, for a lot of people in developed countries Bitcoin is not the ideal medium of exchange. Unless they are de-platformed or…

Coinbase Partners With World’s Largest Asset Manager Blackrock to Give Aladdin Clients Access to Cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin News

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On August 4, the head of Coinbase Institutional, Brett Tejpaul, and the vice president of institutional product, Greg Tusar, announced that Coinbase has been selected by the financial giant Blackrock to provide the firm’s Aladdin platform access to cryptocurrencies. Blackrock Chooses Coinbase to Connect Aladdin Clients to Crypto Coinbase’s institutional arm will help the world’s largest asset manager, Blackrock (NYSE: BLK), provide Aladdin’s institutional clients with access to digital currencies. The company noted that Blackrock chose Coinbase due to the firm’s “scale, experience, and integrated product offering.” The publicly traded…

Binance and Mastercard will launch prepaid crypto cards in Argentina

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Major crypto exchange Binance has partnered with Mastercard to launch a prepaid card for the residents of Argentina. In a Thursday announcement, Binance said the card will allow its clients in Argentina to use Bitcoin (BTC), BNB and other cryptocurrencies to make purchases as well as ATM withdrawals in fiat wherever Mastercard is accepted — roughly 90 million merchants globally and online. Argentine cardholders can also earn up to 8% back in cryptocurrency from certain purchases. According to Binance, the introduction of the card — expected to be “widely available in…