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Crypto Market Tops $1 Trillion As Bitcoin Smashes Records

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Bitcoin hit more than $37,700, a new record high that helped drive the cryptocurrency market beyond $1 trillion, CNBC reported on Thursday (Jan. Singapore time, bitcoin was up 5 percent over the day before. Some bitcoin bulls have called bitcoin “digital gold,” CNBC said, with J.P. At about 2:42 p.m.

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Time to buy bitcoin?

Chris Skinner

As usual, during this period of pandemic, there’s been a rollercoaster of events for those of us involved in financial markets. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Bitcoin Breaks Through $20,000 Mark, Hits Record Highs

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Bitcoin continued its ongoing surge in price Wednesday (Dec. The price of a bitcoin traded higher by 5.6 This is the domino effect as asset managers tumble their portfolios into bitcoin,” Charles Hayter, CEO of market data provider CryptoCompare, told CNBC. percent, hitting around $20,600. What’s up looking ahead?

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Cryptocurrency Market Tumbles; Bitcoin Falls 12 Percent

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The price of bitcoin kept going up and up and up for months — to a high of more than $40,000. 11), the market came crashing down. CNBC reported that bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell over 12 percent from a day earlier, to as low as $30,863. Then, on Monday (Jan. Last week (Jan.

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Bitcoin Daily: Japan's SBI VC Trade Debuts Crypto Lending; Bitcoin Closes In On All-Time High

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Bitcoin continued its price climb today (Nov. While that price apex was followed by a bubble burst and bitcoin fell to $3,122 in 2018, analysts and crypto fans predict this wave is different. “We The platform, VC Trade Lending, will support just bitcoin initially, but has plans to add Ether and XRP support.

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French Court Says Bitcoin Is Money

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A French court has decided that bitcoin is money, the first time a court in France has issued such a ruling, according to a report from Les Echos Sunday (March 8). The decision came about following a clash between the Bitcoin marketplace Paymium and the crypto investment company BitSpread. An argument in the U.S.

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What happened to the bitcoin bubble?

Chris Skinner

I was interviewed by UBS’s wealth management team a month ago, when the bitcoin bubble was in full bloom. Barry Corbett: So far this year, 85 new cryptocurrencies have been launched, bitcoin has traded within a whisper of $3,000, and the market capital of cryptocurrencies has surged to more than $100 bn, from $15 bn.

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