Category: Finance
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Paypal to Earn $2 Billion in Revenue From Its Bitcoin Business, Says Analyst
Mizuho Securities analyst Don Dolev has forecast that Paypal will earn up to $2 billion in revenue from its bitcoin business by 2023. This year, he expects that the payment giant’s overall revenue will climb 20%. Dolev says there has been a “dramatic increase in engagement due to crypto,” with 50% of Paypal crypto users…
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Bahamas-Based Deltec Bank Holds a ‘Large’ Bitcoin Position
Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust said during a recent video review that it’s holding a “large position” in bitcoin. The information was given by their chief investment officer, Hugo Rogers. Deltec Executive Discusses Bitcoin Position According to the video uploaded to the bank’s Youtube channel, Deltec’s large position in bitcoin (BTC) has brought “a lot…
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Crypto Advocates Think Joe Biden’s $3 Trillion Stimulus Plan Will Bolster Bitcoin
According to various reports, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning to create another $3 trillion for Covid-19 relief and infrastructure. The massive stimulus plan and the backers behind the Biden administration have made crypto proponents believe that bitcoin will prosper greatly. Biden Proposes to Finance Covid-19 Relief and Infrastructure With $3 Trillion Ever since the…
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Fund Manager Bill Miller Lauds BTC- Says ‘Bitcoin Could Be Rat Poison, and the Rat Could Be Cash’
Fund Manager and founder of Miller Value Partners, Bill Miller says holding bitcoin is better than holding cash because the digital asset is immune to the bad policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Writing in the 2020 Q4 Market Letter, Miller explains that some companies are already converting to bitcoin in order to avoid incurring…
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Regulated Bitcoin ETPs Skyrocket, Coinshares Cites ‘Unprecedented Interest from Institutional Investors’
The Sweden-based XBT provider Coinshares saw roughly $202 million in XBT certificates swap hands on the market’s first day of trading in 2021. Meanwhile, on the same day, the bitcoin exchange-traded product BTCE saw $100 million in trade volume. Coinshares Group is a European firm dedicated to crypto-finance and exchange-traded products. The bitcoin exchange-traded note…
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Financial analyst agrees Bitcoin could be ‘rat poison,’ but not in the way you think
Even crypto industry experts might agree with Warren Buffett’s description of Bitcoin, under this interpretation.
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Onboarding Institutional Crypto Investors- Coinbase Helps Execute ‘One of the Largest Digital Asset Trades in History’
Over the last year, institutional investors have been flocking toward crypto assets like bitcoin and after Microstrategy’s initial bitcoin purchase, the trending institutional demand for crypto started swelling. On Tuesday, the San Francisco trading platform Coinbase published a study that details how the company helped the firm One River Asset Management make “one of the…
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9 Trillion vs. 100 Trillion: Billionaire Mike Novogratz Asks Which Cryptocurrency Will Win the Payments Race
On December 31, billionaire investor Mike Novogratz asked his Twitter followers which blockchain coin has the best chance of winning the payments race and offered four choices. Novogratz said there are lots of “contenders” and listed off Facebook’s diem, tether, bitcoin cash, and Circle’s popular stablecoin. This week Mike Novogratz asked his Twitter followers out…
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9 Trillion vs. 100 Trillion: Billionaire Mike Novogratz Asks Which Cryptocurrency Will Win the Payments Race
On December 31, billionaire investor Mike Novogratz asked his Twitter followers which blockchain coin has the best chance of winning the payments race and offered four choices. Novogratz said there are lots of “contenders” and listed off Facebook’s diem, tether, bitcoin cash, and Circle’s popular stablecoin. This week Mike Novogratz asked his Twitter followers out…
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‘Noxious Poison’ – Bitcoin’s Market Cap Surpasses Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Valuation
For many years, the business tycoon Warren Buffet has condemned bitcoin as an investment telling people that the crypto asset is nothing but gambling. Two years ago, just before a Berkshire Hathaway 2018 annual shareholder meeting, Buffet said bitcoin is “probably rat poison squared.” Despite the investor’s criticism, the crypto asset’s market capitalization has surpassed…