Day: May 6, 2021

Precious metals (PM) markets have been trading a bit higher in recent days, while cryptocurrency markets have been seeing gains as well. Spot gold prices have jumped to $1,805 per ounce, up more than 1.3% during the last 24 hours, while silver prices have increased by 2.5%. As PMs have gathered strength this week, crypto-asset markets are still inching closer toward gold’s and silver’s market valuations. In fact, bitcoin’s market capitalization is just below silver’s $1.47 trillion market. Precious Metals Rise, But Investors See Digital Gold Eclipsing These Markets Ever…

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Investment bank Goldman Sachs has reportedly begun offering a bitcoin investment product to clients. The firm has opened up trading with non-deliverable forwards, a bitcoin derivatives product. To hedge against the cryptocurrency’s volatility, Goldman Sachs will trade bitcoin futures on CME Group. Goldman Sachs Begins Offering Bitcoin Product to Clients Investment bank Goldman Sachs “has opened up trading with non-deliverable forwards, a derivative tied to bitcoin’s price that pays out in cash,” Bloomberg reported Thursday. The firm is protecting itself from bitcoin’s volatility by buying and selling bitcoin futures in…

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PRESS RELEASE. (Puerto Rico, USA – May 6, 2021) To celebrate its numerous recent successes, one of the world’s foremost decentralized social networks, Pocketnet.app, has launched a trading contest on its newest exchange, Bilaxy.com. Competition ends on May 13th, the rewards for active PKOIN traders on Bilaxy just doubled to total 20k PKOIN! PKOIN already gained over 960% since its recent start of trading on the Bilaxy exchange. What Is Pocketnet? Decentralized, Blockchain-Based Social Network Pocketnet – think Facebook / Twitter / YouTube minus the censorship, all built on Bitcoin-like…

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On May 5, the cryptocurrency data and analytics provider Coin Metrics announced the firm has raised $15 million in Series B financing round. The funding was led by Goldman Sachs and a number of other venture firms, as digital currency data has become a hot commodity in recent times. Digital Currency Data and Analytics Firm Coin Metrics Raises $15 Million The Boston-based Coin Metrics has revealed the company has raised $15 million in a Series B financing round that was led by the American multinational investment bank and financial services…

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South African venture capitalist, Michael Jordaan, recently suggested that a single decentralized cryptocurrency may be the solution that brings great benefits to inter-regional trade and investment in Africa. According to Jordaan, who is also the former CEO of one of South Africa’s leading banks, FNB, such a single African currency “would go a long way to make borders matter less.” A Decentralized Currency for Africa However, in his tweet on April 27, Jordaan offers his take on why he sees crypto (and not fiat) as the solution that unlocks the…

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On May 6, 2021, the total locked value (TVL) held by decentralized finance (defi) is more than $77 billion. Much of this money is used by decentralized exchange (dex) platforms and liquidity pools. With dex platforms capturing over $2 billion in trade volume daily and $18 billion during the last seven days, a project called the Dechart DAO aims to provide traders with the ability to make “the most informed, efficient trades.” Dechart – Decentralizing Defi Data The cryptocurrency ecosystem has swelled this year and defi platforms and Web3 applications…

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Payments giant Visa and financial services provider Tala have partnered to boost cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets. The collaboration aims to “make it easier for underbanked consumers to convert, store, and use cryptocurrencies.” Visa and Tala Boosting Crypto Adoption in Emerging Markets Visa and Tala have formed a new partnership “to help underbanked populations participate in the crypto economy,” Tala announced Wednesday. Tala is “a financial technology company on a mission to enable and accelerate financial health for all,” its website details. The company’s Android app “offers instant credit and…

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has obtained court authorization to serve a John Doe summons on cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. The tax agency is seeking data of users with $20,000 or more in cryptocurrency transactions during the years 2016 to 2020. IRS Wants User Information From Crypto Exchanges The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that a federal court in the Northern District of California has authorized the IRS “to serve a John Doe summons on Payward Ventures Inc., and subsidiaries d/b/a Kraken.” The IRS is “seeking information about U.S.…

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PRESS RELEASE. The global shopping platform Buyaladdin announces a huge collaboration with ABBC Foundation in an event called the 100x100x100 ABBC Event. In this event, the Buyaladdin team will pick 100 winners of 100 dollars every day for 100 days. More specifically, the team gives their supporters an opportunity to win and shop with products worth 100 USD with only 1 ABBC. The event will start on May 3, 2021 and end after 100 days. According to the team, they will hold the event every day from 00:00 to 23.59…

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Reserve, a fintech and cryptocurrency-related exchange and payment processing app, sent an email yesterday to its customers asking for their help in processing payments by leveraging their personal Zelle accounts to do so. This raised certain alarms in the community, that are now wary of a third-party company using their accounts to do its payments on its behalf. Reserve Proposes Customers to Use Their Zelle Accounts for Payment Processing Yesterday, lots of customers were surprised by an email sent by Reserve (a fintech/ cryptocurrency exchange and payment processing company backed…

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