Financial Industry News
The billionaires had a Zoom meeting yesterday, and it’s all crypto Twitter talks about today. Bitcoin should embrace ESG concerns, thinks Cathie Wood. Jack Dorsey hopes Bitcoin will bring world peace. Elon Musk doubled down on his sketchy views about the subject and wasn’t confronted. Just another day in the neighborhood. In Bitcoinist’s first-impression-candid review […]
Continue ReadingThe battle of the billionaires was a bit of a letdown. In “The B Word” conference, Elon Musk repeated the views he’s expressed on Twitter. Jack Dorsey didn’t confront him in any way. The addition of Cathie Wood didn’t bring much to the table in that regard. For something that was initially billed as “THE […]
Continue ReadingLet the games begin! The battle of the billionaire CEOs has a time and a place. In the blue corner, the Bitcoin maximalist, Jack Dorsey, Square and Twitter’s CEO. In the red corner, Bitcoin critic and Doge promoter, Elon Musk, Tesla and Space X’s CEO. They promise to have “THE talk,” as part of “The […]
Continue ReadingTesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted earlier this Sunday that the electric carmaker would resume its Bitcoin transactions once verified crypto mining operations utilise more renewable energy. “When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50 percent) clean energy usage by miners with [a] positive future trend, Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions,” he wrote. This is inaccurate. Tesla […]
Continue ReadingThe masses cheered as Tesla CEO Elon Musk added the Bitcoin hashtag to his Twitter bio, and later revealed his company would accept BTC for purchases. Since then, however, the moon man himself has done enormous damage to the crypto bull market structure, and to investor’s bottom lines. Worst of all, Musk is weakening the […]
Continue ReadingThe jury is still out on whether that meeting between the two gazillionaires and “the leading Bitcoin miners in North America” was positive or nefarious. Part of the Bitcoin community interpreted it as a shrewd PR move and supported the Bitcoin Mining Council. The others smell centralization, are suspicious of closed-door meetings and rejected it. […]
Continue ReadingDid you hear about Elon Musk’s concerns about Bitcoin mining, green energy, and the environment? Of course you did. Did it seem suspicious to you that Tesla apparently invested billions of Dollars in BTC before researching this very surface topic? Of course it did. Because it doesn’t make any sense. Well, former NewsBTC and current […]
Continue ReadingElon Musk was once synonymous with Bitcoin price increase as each time his company’s involvement with crypto was made public, coins pumped. But a single tweet from the Tesla CEO sent crypto prices tumbling yesterday in an instant. His reverse stance might have caused a reversal in the cryptocurrency market trend which could be damaging […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this year, in what appeared to be a massive win for the crypto space, Tesla began accepting payments in Bitcoin. The move was heralded for legitimizing Bitcoin’s transactional utility beyond just a speculative asset class. But now, Tesla is backtracking its monumental decision. Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to announce that his […]
Continue ReadingOn a financial results report dated May 5th, e-commerce giant MercadoLibre dropped the bomb. The company is the latest institution to add Bitcoin to its balance sheet. It follows MicroStrategy, Square, and Tesla’s highly covered buys. Bitcoin’s institutional adoption is in its infancy, but advancing non-stop. In the financial highlights for 2021’s First Quarter, the […]
Continue Reading