• Aug 01, 2024

Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Plunge on Recession Fears as Liquidations Spike

The crypto market is bleeding red as of late Friday afternoon, with major assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum plunging by 5% or more following a rough U.S. jobs report that also spooked the stock market—and prompted fears of an impending recession. The price of Bitcoin fell well under $62,000 on Friday, dipping as low as $61,308 per data from CoinGecko. It's back up to just above $62,000 as of this writing, but is still down about 5% on the day from a 24-hour peak of $65,505. Meanwhile, Ethereum fe...

• Aug 01, 2024

GameStop Kills 33-Year-Old Gaming Magazine as Stock Price Sinks

GameStop’s stock has weathered a rough week, and things only got worse on Friday as the broader stock market felt the pain from a series of rough economic reports that suggested the United States might be headed for recession. And it came on the same day as the video game retailer killed off an iconic industry brand. On Friday, the long-running video game industry magazine Game Informer announced that it had immediately shuttered after 33 years, with both the print and web versions of the public...

• Aug 01, 2024

Why Bitcoin Could Benefit as a Potential Recession Looms

A series of disastrous economic results published on Friday has onlookers believing the United States economy is quickly spiraling into recession. But while the news initially coincided with a dip in the price of crypto assets, analysts say that a weaker U.S. dollar could ultimately benefit Bitcoin over the long term. The stock market tumbled Friday following the poor reports, with Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies following suit. Bitcoin’s price briefly jumped to $65,400 but then fell sh...

• Aug 01, 2024

US Could ‘Pay Off Our Debt With Bitcoin’, Says Donald Trump

Donald Trump just doubled down on his big presidential Bitcoin campaign, potentially planning to do more with the asset than he told the crowd at the Bitcoin conference. Beyond establishing a “strategic Bitcoin stockpile,” the candidate suggested using the leading digital asset to make America solvent again. “Who knows, maybe we’ll pay off our $35 trillion [in debt],” Trump said during an interview with Maria Bartiromo of FOX Business on Thursday. “Hand ‘em a little crypto check, right? We’ll ha...

• Aug 01, 2024

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Peaks as BTC Price Falls

Bitcoin’s price might have taken a hit as of late, but there is one metric that is still impressive: mining difficulty. Data from BTC.com shows that Bitcoin difficulty hit a new all-time high on Wednesday at 90.67 trillion hashes. Hashing is a mathematical function performed by Bitcoin miners as part of the process of securing the blockchain. The higher the difficulty, the more computing power—and energy—needed to do the work. The record-high difficulty has “significantly reduced margins for pub...

• Aug 01, 2024

Morgan Stanley Advisors Given Go-Ahead to Pitch Bitcoin ETFs to Investors

Investment behemoth Morgan Stanley on Friday said it will soon permit its financial advisors to actively promote Bitcoin ETFs to eligible clients, marking the first time a major Wall Street bank has taken such a step. Starting next Wednesday, the firm's vast network of approximately 15,000 financial advisors will be authorized to pitch shares in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust and Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund to suitable investors. CNBC first reported the news. A source familiar with th...

• Aug 01, 2024

Is the SEC Backing Off Solana? It's Complicated

Earlier this week, crypto advocates received what appeared to be a sigh of defeat from one of the industry’s chief antagonizers: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) amended a complaint in its high-profile lawsuit against Binance to shelve allegations that Solana, Cardano, and Ethereum scaling network Polygon are unregistered securities. Could it be that the SEC, which earlier this year caved on the security status of Ethereum, might be giving up on Solana as well? Could Solana ETFs...

• Aug 01, 2024

Bitcoin Price Dips After Weak US Jobs Report Sparks Wall Street Panic

The price of Bitcoin wavered Friday as a stock market selloff intensified on Wall Street, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq slid into a market correction after a weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report. As of this writing, the Nasdaq was set to close 10% below its record peak last month, falling 2.9% on the day. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped more than 2% each, setting stocks up for one of their worst trading days since 2022. Meanwhile, the Nikkei 225 had fallen 5.8%,...

• Aug 01, 2024

Bitcoin 'Digital Gold' Status Tested as Real Gold Sets New All-Time High

Gold has never been more expensive. On Friday, the spot price of gold went above $2,500 for the first time in history. And now the cryptocurrency market finds itself at a critical juncture, with Bitcoin's claim as "digital gold" facing its most significant challenge yet. The precious metal's rally has reignited debates about safe-haven assets in the digital age, forcing investors and analysts to reassess Bitcoin's role in portfolio diversification and wealth preservation. This surge in tradition...

• Aug 01, 2024

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust BTC Holdings Dropped 55% in First Half of 2024

Grayscale Investments disclosed Friday that its flagship Bitcoin fund has shed more than 348,000 Bitcoin in its past two quarters as investors bail for other funds. That's a sum valued at around $22.4 billion based on today’s prices. Not long before the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) converted into a spot Bitcoin ETF in January, the fund held close to 620,000 Bitcoin. In a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Grayscale stated that figure has since fallen below 276...