Proshares Bitcoin Strategy ETF was officially launched on Tuesday, October 19th, and it started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The ticker of the first Bitcoin-linked ETF in the U.S. on NYSE is BITO: Source: Twitter This long-awaited event has marked the beginning of the Bitcoin ETFs era. VanEck, a global investment manager, has ...
In the middle of last week, speculations about the potential launch of Bitcoin ETFs spread in the crypto community. First, most crypto-related forums and social media platforms published a copy of the pre-approval notice of Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF by Nasdaq: Source: Twitter Second, asset manager ProShares filed an updated prospectus of it...
On Monday, October 4th, Facebook, the most popular social network globally, went down. The outage continued for hours, and millions of users remained without access to the Facebook services. Source: Twitter The crypto community took advantage of Facebook's weakness and praised Bitcoin by underlining that Bitcoin is never down: Source: Twitter ...
This past week the positive news dominated the crypto market. On Tuesday, September 28th, the president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele mentioned that the country was preparing to launch the first Bitcoin mining facility using volcanic energy: Source: Twitter Three days later, on October 1st, Bukele tweeted that they had already started mining Bit...
Last week the cryptocurrency market started on a positive footing backed by positive news. For example, on September 23rd, Twitter announced it would integrate Bitcoin tips through the use of a Bitcoin address or Lightning Network-enabled wallet: Source: Twitter The crypto community welcomed the news, claiming that Twitter will facilitate the m...
A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, anonymous creator of Bitcoin, was unveiled in a technological park in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday, September 16th: Source: Twitter Interestingly, the face of the bronze statue is heavily polished. Therefore, it achieves the effect of a mirror, meaning everyone can see themselves when standing in front of it. In ...
On Tuesday, September 7th, Bitcoin became an official legal tender in El Salvador. Therefore, El Salvador has become the first country in the world to introduce a cryptocurrency as a national currency: Source: Twitter The crypto community loudly applauded this event and marked this day as “Bitcoin Day” – a day that will remain forever in human ...
Last week a Bitcoin protest took place in El Salvador. On Wednesday, September 1st, some El Salvadorans went to the streets to protest against the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in the country. However, El Salvadoran Bitcoin activists highlighted that just a handful of people participated in the protests, and the media outlets were trying t...
On Monday, August 23rd, the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced that the country is getting ready to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender later in September. The preparation process includes the roll-out of 200 Bitcoin ATMs and the arrangement of 50 banks across the country to integrate the cryptocurrency: Source: Twitter Interestingly, ...
This past week the crypto market recorded high demand for the tokens of the platforms for smart contracts such as Ethereum, Cardano, Polkadot, Solana, Avalanche, etc. The best performers were Solana and Cardano. Cardano has even become the third biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, recently surpassing Binance Coin. Cardano's price success can b...