Category: Investing

MassMutual Buys $100 Million Worth Of Bitcoin

The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has jumped on the Bitcoin hype train with the announcement of its purchase of $100 million in BTC for its general insurance account, which totaled almost $235 billion as of September, according to the Wall Street Journal. This continues an ongoing trend of companies and institutions diving headfirst into…

December 10, 2020
MassMutual Buys $100 Million Worth Of Bitcoin

The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has jumped on the Bitcoin hype train with the announcement of its purchase of $100 million in BTC for its general insurance account, which totaled almost $235 billion as of September, according to the Wall Street Journal. This continues an ongoing trend of companies and institutions diving headfirst into…

December 10, 2020
First Mover: Why Wells Fargo Won’t Recommend Bitcoin to Clients

A Wells Fargo unit doesn’t recommend bitcoin to clients because they can’t yet hold cryptocurrency in their accounts. What if that changed?

December 9, 2020
Video: Debunking Seven Misconceptions About Bitcoin With Lyn Alden

Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sat down with macro economic analyst and high-level thinker Lyn Alden to discuss her recent piece titled “7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin.” In the piece, Alden breaks down what she considers to be the most common…

December 8, 2020
Crypto Demand Surges on Indiegogo Founder’s Alternative Investments Platform

Vincent, the investment platform founded by Slava Rubin, is seeing an 80% growth in searches for digital assets.

December 8, 2020
MicroStrategy Offers $400 Million Of Convertible Notes To Buy More Bitcoin

Software intelligence firm MicroStrategy announced in a press release its intent to privately offer $400 million in convertible senior notes so that it could buy more bitcoin. “MicroStrategy intends to invest the net proceeds from the sale of the notes in bitcoin in accordance with its Treasury Reserve Policy pending the identification of working capital…

December 7, 2020
The road not taken: Jealous brother claims twin earned $10M in Bitcoin

“His wealth in Bitcoin alone is more than 100 times greater than my entire net worth,” the “dumb” twin claims.

December 2, 2020
The Bitcoin Magazine FOMOmeter

As bitcoin the asset eclipses all-time price and market cap highs, and Bitcoin the decentralized network continues to prove its value proposition as an alternative to fundamental issues within the legacy system, waves of investors are feeling the FOMO (or, “fear of missing out”). Metrics like the price of BTC, unique addresses used or confirmed…

December 2, 2020
Video: Debating Technology-Driven Deflation

Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast In this off-the-cuff episode of Fed Watch, Christian and I dove more deeply into the technology-driven deflation debate we started last week with our guest Jeff Booth. We brought up the “chicken or the egg?” conversation that did not get resolved fully last time: Is the…

December 2, 2020
Pomp talks Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary into buying ‘a little more’ Bitcoin

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary said he was “not against Bitcoin” but would invest far more into the crypto asset if it were backed by regulators.

December 1, 2020