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Cryptocurrencies Were Never Good for Anybody But the Rich
The value of cryptocurrencies across the board skyrocketed last year due to speculative investing, and it feels as though early attempts to position digital money as a populist and democratic alternative to traditional finance are falling apart at the seams. But cryptocurrency has always been about the rich getting richer.
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Why an Investor Is Predicting Bitcoin Could Hit $700,000
The annual Sohn Investment Conference in New York is usually a place where Wall Street’s best hedge fund managers and investors present their top stock picks—from Amazon to Valeant Pharmaceuticals. And for the first time in the event’s 23-year history, one of those investors used the Sohn conference stage Monday to recommend a certain digital investment: Bitcoin.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel-backed Venture Fund Invests in Bitcoin Broker For Institutional Investors
Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is set to invest in Tagomi Systems Inc., a new bitcoin trading firm. This news was revealed by a couple of unnamed sources with insider information regarding the investment. Tagomi is a bitcoin trading platform with lofty ambitions. The startup wants to be the leading bitcoin broker-dealer for the institutional bitcoin investment class. The company is co-founded by Greg Tusar who is a former Goldman Sachs executive. No official word has been given as to the size of fund’s investment in the startup company, but Tagomi has reportedly raised over $15 million in funding.
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How To Win In Crypto Without Investing Money
How To Win In Crypto Without Investing Money
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Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency
Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are warming up to Bitcoin, a virtual currency that for nearly a decade has been consigned to the unregulated fringes of the financial world. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange has been working on an online trading platform that would allow large investors to buy and hold Bitcoin, according to emails and documents viewed by The New York Times and four people briefed on the effort who asked to remain anonymous because the plans were still confidential.
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Bill Gates Joins Buffett, Munger in Bitcoin Brush-Off
Bill Gates, the second wealthiest person in the world as per Forbes, is not impressed by the concept of Bitcoin as it does not produce anything. On Monday, he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” he would short the cryptocurrency if he could.
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Why Now Is The Best Time To Invest In Cryptocurrencies
Whether one should invest in cryptocurrencies or not has been a hot topic as of late. Being such a young asset, the market tends to be extremely volatile, filled with stories of extreme success or massive failure. The question is really about making an informed decision consisting of probability, timing, and if the investment profile fits the investor. For those who have been living under a rock for the last year, just Google “bitcoin success story” and you can read about the kid who made a deal with his parents...
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Bitcoin price analysis: BTC/USD settles above $8,600; Wall Street slowly adopting crypto reality
Bitcoin catapulted to $8,717 on Monday, to trade at $8,670 at the time of writing. The digital currency No.1 has been volatile lately influenced by a variety of factors from Mt.Gox selling Bitcoins rumors to the launch of NASDAQ-powered crypto exchange. Obviously, that positive momentum was triggered by the news that NASDAQ is opening centralized cryptocurrency exchange next month, making Wall Street one more step closer to full adoption of new crypto reality.
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0:00 / 0:00 Bitcoin to hit $50,000 by year-end, says CEO of largest bitcoin exchange
CNBC's Seema Mody reports on the world's largest bitcoin conference. And Arthur Hayes, BitMEX CEO, discusses his outlook for the cryptocurrency. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Pete Najarian, Tim Seymour, Dan Nathan and Guy Adami.
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10 Charts Which Show This is Just The Beginning of Crypto
The cryptocurrency market has been hailed as a nascent market that continues to experience exponential growth. Though not comprehensive, attempts have been made to define this growth using parameters such as the number of cryptocurrencies listed on the CoinMarketCap, which currently stands at 1,595.
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Why I Left Goldman Sachs and Wall Street Glory for Crypto
Back in 2008, I had it all, first as a statistical arbitrage trader with Goldman Sachs and then as a senior trader at two of Asia’s top hedge funds, managing upwards of $1.5 billion. I traded equities, foreign exchange, equity derivatives and convertible bonds. I even started my own fund, which raised $20 million in assets in its first year.
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Gold Price – Investors Haven’t Noticed, But Trump Is Creating Bullish Gold Price Conditions
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Buying Bitcoin and altcoins – comprehensive guide for absolute beginners
Have you always wanted to buy some bitcoin, but did not know how? Well, this guide is just for you. I will show you how to buy bitcoin in under 15 minutes and also how to buy alternative cryptocurrencies, so called altcoins.
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Billionaire investor Tim Draper explains why Bitcoin will hit $250,000 in 2022
Few billionaire investors have been so vocal and bullish on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency price appreciation as Tim Draper, the founder of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. TheStreet sat down with Draper in early May at the Collision tech conference and later chatted after Draper spoke at the Federal Reserve in San Francisco in mid-May, where he told the people at the organization in charge of U.S. monetary policy that it might be time for them...
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Bitcoin Price Hits Yearly Low at $5,825, Where Will it Bottom Out?
The bitcoin price has dipped below the $5,900 mark, after initially dipping below the $6,000 mark on June 23. Subsequent to four consecutive sell-offs as shown in the 1-hour bitcoin price chart below, BTC officially fell to a yearly low. On February, the bitcoin price recorded a major drop from around $8,000 to the lower end of $6,000, bottoming out at around $6,050. However, on June 24, the drop of BTC continued to the higher end of the $5,000 region, entering $5,000 for the first time since early November.
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How ETFs can bring Bitcoin over $35K
What are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and why do they matter? According to Investopedia, an ETF is a marketable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets like an index fund. ETFs typically own the underlying assets (such as Bitcoin) and turn that ownership into shares. The great thing about ETFs is the simplicity of access via the public stock exchanges. Buying and selling ETFs is just as simple as buying and selling stocks.
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Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as bitcoin is 70 percent off its record high
Cryptocurrency projects have been popping up left, right and center in the past 18 months, but over 800 of those are now dead, adding to comparisons between the current digital coin market and the dotcom bubble in 2000. New digital tokens are created via a process known as an initial coin offering (ICO) where a start-up can issue a new coin which investors can buy. The investor doesn't get an equity stake in the company, but the cryptocurrency that they buy can be used on the company's product. People usually buy into an ICO because the coins are cheap and could offer big returns in the future.
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Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as bitcoin is 70 percent off its record high
Hundreds of coins created through initial coin offerings (ICO) have become worthless.
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Cryptocurrencies 'Are Absolutely a Good Thing' (Despite Huge Risks), Says Chief Security Scientist
Despite the risks involved with investing in the still nascent cryptocurrency market, one chief security scientist believes that cryptocurrencies are still “absolutely a good thing” — they’ve just got some work to do.
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BlackRock begins exploration of bitcoin
BlackRock has set up a working group to investigate ways the world’s largest asset manager can take advantage of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market despite its chief executive lambasting the bitcoin sector. The $6.3tn investment powerhouse has created a team from different parts of the business to investigate cryptocurrencies and their underlying infrastructure, blockchain, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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