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The same day business intelligence firm MicroStrategy announced it would use $488 million from the proceeds of a private offering sale to buy Bitcoin, the company said it may also sell up to $1 billion of its stock for the.

The crypto market is experiencing another phase of excitement following the positive decision by El Salvador’s parliament to include Bitcoin in the country’s official options of payment. It is hard to underestimate this precedent on a global scale, which is.

Some bitcoin options traders are making outlandish wagers, betting on a rally to a six-figure price by year end even as the cryptocurrency continues to struggle following last month’s 35% drop. According to data provided by Laevitas, the dominant cryptocurrency.

On June 25, Ether (ETH) will face its largest options expiry in 2021 as $1.5 billion worth of open interest will be settled. This figure is 30% larger than March’s 26 expiry, which took place as Ether price plunged 17%.

When the FBI successfully breached a crypto wallet held by the Colonial Pipeline hackers by following the money trail on bitcoin’s blockchain, it was a wake-up call for any cyber criminals who thought transacting in cryptocurrency automatically protected them from.

Bitcoin’s price surged Sunday evening stateside after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric vehicle maker could accept bitcoin transactions again in future. As of 11:09 p.m. ET Sunday, Bitcoin surged 10.2% to $38,903.23, according to data from Coindesk. Since.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) spokesman Gerry Rice said the organization is following developments in El Salvador “closely” ahead of a meeting with the nation’s officials on Thursday. The IMF believes El Salvador’s move to adopt bitcoin as legal tender raises.

The cryptocurrency market received unexpected but welcomed support from the government of El Salvador, which approved Bitcoin as an official means of payment. Although this is a precedent in world practice, this decision was made by a very small country.

Bitcoin’s price jumped Wednesday by the most in two weeks amid mounting inflation concerns and hopes for mass adoption after El Salvador’s parliament approved the cryptocurrency as legal tender. The cryptocurrency was changing hands near $36,500 at press time, having.

China’s Qinghai province has announced a new ban on virtual currency mining operations, a government document announced Wednesday. Qinghai is the latest coal-based crypto mining hub that is set to completely eliminate the industry. The news came on the heels.

Despite the whole world preparing for a return of inflation, market participants in Europe are actually expecting the European Central Bank to keep its foot on the stimulus pedal this week. Talk of a “taper” of pandemic-era bond purchases has.

In his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, Ethereum co-creator, Vitalik Buterin, revealed he profited more than $4 million from a $25,000 investment that he made into Dogecoin during 2016. But true to form, he gave it all away.