Metaplanet Discloses $1.6M BTC Purchase; Shares Jump 10%

Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has disclosed an additional bitcoin {{BTC}} purchase worth 250 million yen ($1.58 million), taking its total holdings up to 141 BTC ($9.4 million).

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Bitcoin (BTC) $42,800 Crucial Level Could Wipe Out Over $400 Million in Longs

Analyst Crypto Rover signals potential BTC liquidation of over $400 million in long positions

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Bitcoin investors have reasons to celebrate because the metrics reveal...

BTC’s price was close to BTC's 1 million to 3 million realized price - UTXO Age Bands. The king coin increased by 1. 7% in the last 24 hours and was trading at $27,331. 54, at press time.

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Square Is Up 100% on Its $50 Million Bitcoin Purchase

Following MicroStrategy, the Bitcoin-friendly fintech company Square shocked the space earlier this year when it revealed it would be deploying capital into BTC. The large Silicon Valley firm spent $50 million from its balance sheet, around 1% of its assets, on BTC.

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Bitcoin Pumps on Square’s $50 Million BTC Purchase

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Bitcoin Miners Prepare For 18 Millionth Coin As Just 14% Of Supply Remains

Bitcoin miners will mine the 18 millionth BTC this week, leaving just 3 million left to release before mining stops in the distant year 2140. 3 Million BTC, 120 Years Data from monitoring resource Blockchain confirmed that the total Bitcoin supply had reached 17.

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Bitcoin Whale Transfers $900 Million Worth of BTC in a Single Move

ByteTree has tracked a huge transaction. According to the profile, which is specialized in finding large transactions, a whale moved 107,848 BTC (around $900 million USD) with a single transaction recently.

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Century and a Half Year Old UK Church Is On Sale for $1.5 Million with Bitcoin Payment Options

Rightmove, a major United Kingdom-based real estate website, is selling a 150-year-old church in the country for around $1. 5 million USD (or $1. 2 million GBP) and the vendor is accepting Bitcoin (BTC) as a method of payment.

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Bitcoin Whale Moves $5 Million in BTC From Coinbase — Time to Accumulate?

Another day, another Bitcoin whale briefly surfacing to move exorbitant sums. In the most recent display of financial superiority, a large BTC transaction has moved well over $5 million into a private wallet.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Whale Just Moved $900M in Single Transaction

The Bitcoin network once again carried a stunning amount of value in a single transaction. Recent tracking showed the movement of more than 107,848 BTC, worth nearly $900 million at the time of tracking.

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Bitcoin Price Drop to $6,500 Still in the Picture; BTC Trading Volume Is Low

After a positive last week, Bitcoin opened Monday on a negative note. Still, the Bitcoin price is stuck around $8,300. At the time of writing, the leading cryptocurrency has been trading at $8,269 with 24 hours loss of 1.

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Bitcoin Price is Up By 838 Million Percent In Last 10 Years; Where Next?

No other asset in history has made the same progress as bitcoin in terms of gains in value. Its digital scarcity mechanism has clearly worked and passed the market test as prices continue to increase albeit with a lot of volatility.

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Over 12,000 Unique Bitcoin (BTC) Addresses Hold Over $1 Million USD in Value

A report by CoinMetrics, a cryptoanalysis firm, shows the number of million-dollar Bitcoin (BTC) wallets is increasing in tandem with the value of the coin. The number of wallets with at least $1 million USD (~120 BTC, at $8,400 as at time of writing) currently stands at only 12,000 addresses. As the cryptocurrency industry grows […]

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Bitcoin App That Allows Transferring BTC Through Social Medias Gets $2M More Investment

The Newcastle Tech company Block Matrix received 2 million investment for app development, which allows sending Bitcoin through accounts in social networks

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Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Trading Up 3,100% Since First Day

The Bakkt platform is starting to build momentum after a disappointingly uneventful launch. On Thursday 10 October, the exchange reported 224 BTC contracts had been traded, which equates to around $1.

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Bitcoin Futures trading volume on Binance surpasses spot trading with $582 million

Binance opened its Bitcoin Futures trading on 11 September, making both the contested platforms A and B available for its users. Ever since the launch, Bitcoin Futures have been a hit among BTC traders, reporting a trading volume of almost $170 million in 24 hours, with max leverage.

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Ethereum may have bottomed against Bitcoin says renowned technical analyst

One of the most prominent cryptocurrency technical analysts, Peter Brandt, thinks that Ethereum may have bottomed against Bitcoin. Bottoming against BTC Ethereum has been on a steady decline for over the last two years after peaking at nearly 15.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Supply Could ‘Expand Over 21 Million’

The Bitcoin (BTC) maximum supply is capped at 21 million coins, of which more than 18 million are already mined. But the actual supply of coins within the economy may be higher, due to various forms of fractional reserves practices.

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The Economist Talks Banning of Crypto Derivatives by Global Financial Regulators

On September 24th the price of Bitcoin tanked from near highs of $10,000 USD to below $9,000 USD in a couple of minutes. The huge drop in BTC led to over $600 million USD in long positions on BitMex exchanges being liquidated.

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Crypto Analyst: $100K Bitcoin ATH By EOY 2021 Is A Realistic Scenario

Bitcoin price may be crashing currently, but the first-ever cryptocurrency is expected to someday reach prices of $100,000 to as much as $1 million per BTC. According to one crypto analyst, the first of those two numbers is a very “realistic” scenario that could occur as early as the end of the year in 2021.

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Venezuela Has Traded $250M BTC in 2019 (And Other Bitcoin Utility Data)

Data compiled by usefultulips.org shows that Venezuelans have purchases $250 million worth of BTC and that bitcoin is working as Satoshi intended. The post Venezuela Has Traded $250M BTC in 2019 (And Other Bitcoin Utility Data) appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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LocalBitcoins sees huge spikes in usage during Hong Kong’s political unrest

Interest in Bitcoin, the censorship resistant cryptocurrency, often spikes during times of political or economic unrest. It’s no accident that Satoshi Nakamoto embedded a reference to the financial crisis in Bitcoin‘s genesis block.

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Nancy Pelosi Challenger Bacelar Funds Campaign With Crypto

27-year-old Agatha Bacelar is a Brazilian-American immigrant from a STEM background, and she’s targeting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s seat in the California Congress (CA-12) in the next election cycle.

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Shots Fired as Nancy Pelosi Challenger Bacelar Funds Campaign With Crypto

27-year-old Agatha Bacelar is a Brazilian-American immigrant from a STEM background, and she’s targeting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s seat in the California Congress (CA-12) in the next election cycle.

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Crypto Analyst Not Convinced That Bitcoin Has Bottomed Yet

$7k still a possibility until bulls prove themselves Forge $1 million, BTC will be worth $10 million, so don’t worry even if goes down to $3,000 again Bitcoin price is still riding the green wave that started yesterday.

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Ignore the Ongoing Drop, Bitcoin is Going to $1 Million: Reaffirms John McAfee

Bitcoin started a new week with high volatility as price went down to $7,714, today’s lowest point that was last hit in early June of this year. The highest point, meanwhile, has been $8,325. Today being the last day of the quarter, Bitcoin is on track to post the first quarterly loss of 2019. BTC […]

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Bakkt Raked in Only $5.8 Million BTC Trading Volume in First Week

The highly anticipated launch of Bakkt’s physically-backed bitcoin futures has been disappointing, to say the least, posting only $5. 8M of BTC trading volume in the first week. Many people in the community saw Bakkt as the catalyst to get institutional investors to enter the market.

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Dubious ‘Royal House’ Letter to Raise Bitcoin to Save British Economy in Post-Brexit Era Circulates

Scammers have allegedly asked for $2.5 Million BTC from the British residents. They claimed that the funds would be used in taking care of the financial system after Brexit. Emails Vs Letters These fraudsters dispatched out to the British bodily letters pretending to be the non-public secretary of Queen Elizabeth II. This is according to […]

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CoinOne Exchange Ordered to Reimburse Investor’s 25 Million Won in Hacked Assets Case

A South Korean court has ordered CoinOne exchange to cover the losses for an investor whose funds were stolen from the exchange, reported a local daily. A hacker got hands on the investor's login details for the platform and withdrew all his holdings in BTC.

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Fake Royal Letter Asks $2.5M in BTC to Save UK’s Economy After Brexit

Fraudsters pose as a royal secretary asking for $2.5 million in BTC from the British to save economy after Brexit

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Torrent Platform The Pirate Bay Accumulates Over $1 Million Bitcoin from Donations: TrustNodes

Pirate Bay, one of the main torrenting portals has received more $1 million worth of Bitcoin from donations dating back to May 2013 when they started accepting cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Donations Reports from TrustNodes claim that the website has accumulated more than $1.

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Bitcoin Gloom to Worsen after Key Indicator Flags Red, Warns Analyst

In the past seven days, the bitcoin price (BTC) plunged from $10,100 to $7,736 in a steep overnight pullback that liquidated close to $800 million worth of long contracts on cryptocurrency margin trading platforms.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Crash Triggers $600 Million BitMex Liquidations

Sudden volatility shook down the derivatives markets, causing massive losses across exchanges.

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$500 Million in Bitcoin Longs Liquidated as BTC Price Taps $8,000

Hello, volatility! While it has been only two hours since our last Bitcoin price market update, the cryptocurrency market has taken a further beating. A beating that likely caught bulls with their pants down.

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Bullish sentiment noted among Bitcoin miners; steams from scheduled halving next year

Bitcoin [BTC] hash rate recorded another landmark as it reached 102 quintillion hashes. Previously, Bitcoin’s hash rate made headlines after hitting a high of 74. 5 million TH/s. At press time, king coin was priced at $9,965.

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Breaking: Bitcoin Price Drops to Nearly $9,900 Yet Again

Bitcoin is back in the red zone. Starting the day around $10,175, Bitcoin continues its downward move, going down to as low as $9,913. Currently, BTC is trading at $9,993 with 24 hours loss of about 2 percent, as per Coincodex.

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Why Bitfinex No Longer Rules Over Bitcoin (BTC)

Trading volumes for Bitcoin (BTC) on the Bitfinex exchange seem to vanish into thin air. Analysts noted that about a year ago, Bitfinex served as the primary exchange for BTC price discovery – but that situation changed, and now the market carries only about 3% of its former volumes.

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Bitcoin whales move $90 million over different transactions as king coin holds steady

With Bitcoin [BTC] maintaining its value above the $10,000 mark, altcoins also joined the BTC bulls. Amid the recent glitch that happened in the price of the king coin over CoinMarketCap, crypto-traders were left scratching their heads and started discussing the sudden change in the price of the digital gold.

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BTC worth $78 million moved amid altcoin price surge

Amidst the rise of the altcoins’ price, online cryptocurrency transaction tracker, Whale Alert revealed that 7,800 BTCs worth $78 million were on the move. Whale Alert shared the update with the community through its official Twitter handle.

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Custom Jewelry Maker Ben Baller Regrets Selling His Bitcoins At $1,000 Per

Ben Baller recently took to Instagram and told his 1.4 Million and said that selling Bitcoin at $1,000 was one of the biggest regrets of his life. View this post on Instagram People often ask me and DM me about what my biggest financial regret is… I tell them I had 300 BTC when it […]

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Biggest BTC ATM Network Coinme Raises $1.5 Million From Ripple’s Xpring

Coinspeaker Biggest BTC ATM Network Coinme Raises $1. 5 Million From Ripple’s XpringCoinme, a global leader in cryptocurrency ATMs, secured $1. 5 million in funding from Ripple’s Xpring and the Blockchain Finance Fund to develop its cryptocurrency ATM network in the U.

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Bitcoin used to purchase British painter’s art collection

According to reports, British painter Lincoln Townley has sold 19 paintings for a staggering 490 BTC ($4.97 million) to an undisclosed Singaporean art investor. According to Townley, all the works in his Greed collection were bought through an agent based in Gstaad, Switzerland, a month before they were to go on display at a Saatchi […] The post Bitcoin used to purchase British painter’s art collection appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin Billionaires Predict Price Spikes in 2020

Bitcoin billionaire Zhao Dong expects the BTC price to surge in the near future, while John McAfee has predicted BTC will be worth $1 million by the end of 2020. The post Bitcoin Billionaires Predict Price Spikes in 2020 appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Tether Churns Printers Again; Mints 20 Million USDT

Tether, the issuer of the USDT dollar-pegged coin, is running the money printer again, increasing the supply to 4. 088 billion USDT. After Bitcoin (BTC) price once again threatened to drop below $10,000, a USDT liquidity injection may boost prices.

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Invite-only Binance Bitcoin futures see 150 million USDT volume in 24 hours

Despite being invitation-only, Binance’s newly launched testnet futures platform saw 24-hour trading volumes of over $150 million in BTC/USDT contracts. Binance futures testnet platform Announced at the beginning of July, the launch Binance’s futures trading platform has been one of the most anticipated events this summer.

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Binance Open Interest on Futures Testnet Hits $150M USDT in 24hrs

Binance has launched its futures markets in a closed invitation-only mode. Following a testing period on its two futures platforms, the leading exchange marked significant interest. Trading volumes reached $150 million, denominated in Tether (USDT).

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Bakkt Announces Insurance for Bitcoin (BTC) Custody

The BTC potentially held in the wallets of Bakkt Warehouse will be insured for $125 million.

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Bakkt launches institutional Bitcoin custody service with $125 million in insurance

Bakkt launched its Bitcoin custody warehouse, its institutional BTC custody solution, protected by a $125 million insurance policy. The launch is part of the physically-settled Bitcoin futures it plans to launch on Sept.

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As Bakkt Prepares Bitcoin Futures To Go Live, All BTC Deposits To Be Backed By $125M In Insurance

After months of keeping the crypto community curious, Bakkt has finally announced that Bakkt Warehouse is now active. In its official Twitter account the company announced: The company also announced that all the Bitcoin that will be deposited in Bakkt Warehouse will be covered by a $125 million insurance cover. On September 6, Bakkt announced […]

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