One River Digital has already invested 600 million US dollars in Bitcoin and Ethereum. The 1 billion mark is to be broken from 2021. There is support from hedge fund manager Alan Howard.

In a study, Genesis Mining investigates the bullishness of Bitcoin investors. But the results suggest that the majority of those surveyed tend to have conservative to bearish price prospects.

Genesis Mining is actually known for gigantic mining farms in Scandinavia as well as its cloud mining services. However, the company founded by the German Marco Streng has now turned to mapping the Bitcoin sector. In a recently published study, the company examines market sentiment among 1,000 Bitcoin investors. Mind you, the study participants were all Bitcoin investors with different allocations in BTC. A quarter has invested more than half of their assets in BTC, another 25 percent between 10 percent and 50 percent, 25 percent between one and ten percent and the rest less than one percent.

JPMorgan’s investment strategists see a growing demand for cryptocurrencies in the US insurer MassMutual’s recent $ 100 million investment in Bitcoin.

100 million US dollars – This is how much US insurer MassMututal invested in Bitcoin on December 11th. As Bloomberg reports, investment strategists from JPMorgan spoke up on the same day. In an investor announcement, they commented that the insurance company’s entry shows that Bitcoin acceptance will now expand from family businesses and wealthy investors to larger investors such as insurance companies and pension funds.

A British asset manager is switching from gold to Bitcoin and speaks of a defensive maneuver. The Chinese state television has also determined that Bitcoin has outperformed gold – Max Keizer sees a bullish signal in this.

Bitcoin price starts a new attack on the $ 19,500 mark. Most recently, the bulls failed on the evening of December 15, at least temporarily. After all: The correction this time was less dramatic than the day before. At the time of writing, BTC is trading at $ 19,700, just slightly above its all-time high that was only posted on December 1st.

After a temporary price correction, the bulls attack again and let the Bitcoin price rise again to the all-time high. The dominance of the reserve currency can also benefit from this positive price development and rise to a key resistance. A decision on the medium-term price development can be expected in the coming trading days.

President Donald Trump is considering pardoning Ross Ulbricht. The founder of the darknet trading platform Silk Road has been serving two life sentences with no prospect of parole since 2015.

The CMS provider WordPress has integrated an Ethereum plugin, which allows users to place automated advertising. The income automatically flows into your own Ethereum wallet.

The computer game expert Atari continues to move towards blockchain gaming. Now there are NFTs for the popular soccer game Kick Off. In addition, the new Atari VCS console is getting blockchain integration.

The game developer Atari has announced a collaboration with the blockchain game specialist Enjin. As part of this cooperation, the legendary reputation of Atari will find its way into the gaming universe of Enjin.

Perhaps you have already noticed that Bitcoin is staying a lot lately. In addition, you have probably already asked yourself what you can do if the courses have to accept setbacks. Fortunately, there is a method with which you can make profits with your cryptocurrencies even in volatile times.

Investors can get a passive income with Bitcoin and Co. even if the prices fall – how does that work?

The Bitcoin crash is also tearing down the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Nevertheless, there were some exciting developments this week and a DeFi token could even increase by more than 500 percent in the last 14 days.

Ethereum Classic Labs and the UNICEF Innovation Fund are working together to develop blockchain-based solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Here’s a look at the first three projects selected to receive funding and other support – and how they aim to improve people’s lives.

The staging as a businessman has a long tradition in hip hop and in times of the corona pandemic, alternative sources of income for musicians are all the more important. So it seems only logical that artists from this genre should try their hand at the token economy.

Few events from the crypto space have caused so much response in the mainstream media recently: The first batch of $ YACHTY, the new token of rapper Lil Yachty, was sold out on December 10th in just 21 minutes and 41 seconds.

thereum has become the blockchain of choice for many developers of decentralized applications (dApp). Ethereum has by far the largest developer community, even surpassing Bitcoin’s. Still, there have been more and more serious projects recently that could erode Ethereum. The three most promising Ethereum competitors under the microscope.

After several years of development, the first phase of Ethereum 2.0 has started. The major upgrade has been in the planning stage since 2015 and the fact that it is far more difficult to change the engine in a moving vehicle than to build from scratch speaks for itself. That is why many former ETH developers took the opportunity and developed their own blockchain. Will Ethereum lose its first mover advantage?

The central banks of Canada and Singapore announce this week an unprecedented milestone. As the world’s first state-owned financial institutions, they are celebrating the joint premiere of their blockchain-based payment system for cross-border transactions. They also publish the joint cooperation of their respective blockchain systems Jasper and Ubin in a joint report. This should promote the further development of the technologies, especially by central banks and monetary authorities.

Constantly fluctuating exchange rates, different administrative systems worldwide, a flood of regulations and regulations – there are many hurdles to settling payments across national borders. The result: Often such transactions not only require extremely long processing times. In addition, payments from one country to another are often extremely expensive.

The central banks of Canada and Singapore, the Bank of Canada (BoC) and the Monetary Authority Singapore (MAS), have jointly declared the problem of this problem. Since 2016, they have been developing Blockchain solutions to make cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more secure.

Asset Backed Securities, ABS for short, were responsible for the financial crisis. As early as the beginning of 2000, American banks began bundling real estate-backed bonds with high probability of default with other bonds and bundling them into intransparent packages. The result is well known. Well, in 2019, the first ABS will start on a token basis. Will there be a bursting of a mortgage bubble this time as well?

Just like the few of us today still buy a CD, but download the music in a purely digital form as an MP3 file or listen directly to Spotify, also changes the medium of securities. Physical documents become digital tokens, ergo security tokens. Accordingly, each security that is currently held in the form of a deed at central securities depositories will in future be kept in custody via a blockchain. The more efficient medium to securitise and exchange property replaces a less efficient medium.

The London-based fintech company Zeux wants to make future payments with the cryptocurrency NEO. The goal is to give customers the opportunity to pay with cryptocurrencies in the business.

As the start-up Zeux recently announced on Medium, users of the Zeux App will in future have the opportunity to pay for goods via Apple or Samsung Pay. The company integrates all services on one platform. The Zeux app provides each user with a digital bank account and digital wallet addresses. This is to enable customers to make payments in all transactions and to purchase a range of investment products from various financial institutions. It also claims that the Company does not charge any fees for opening an account, transferring funds, charges, withdrawals or payment fees. The London FinTech is authorized by the British Financial Market Authority.