In an interview for Reuters, Mike Novogratz, the current CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners and the former macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group, talked about his opinion on bitcoin and why the digital currency is the new "gold". According to the Wall Street manager, bitcoin is undoubtedly a store of value. It has the…
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Man Group, the world's largest publicly traded hedge fund company, reporting $103.5 billion in funds under management as of September 2017, announced its readiness to add Bitcoin to its portfolio. The CEO of Man Group, Luke Ellis, expressed his positive opinion on Bitcoin and its potential addition to the products the hedge fund manages, especially if…
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As bitcoin is now exploding and imploding on a daily basis, going to $8,000 to current lows of $6,300, the "people's currency" thrives in the state of Zimbabwe. Bitcoin seems to offer "rare protection from the onset of hyperinflation and financial implosion", says The Hindu Business Line. Zimbabweans are afraid of their currency losing value…
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The price chart of Bitcoin now resembles a "hockey stick". A constantly increasing price with time, with only small corrections here and there. Bitcoin is now trading at around the $7,300 level, hitting new all-time highs almost every week for the past month. With 889% growth this year, according to Coinbase, Bitcoin has helped the…
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With Bitcoin coming up at $7,400 this past week, more prominent public figures are expressing negative opinions on the actual viability of the digital currency. After JP Morgan Chase's CEO, Jamie Dimon, and the Chairman and Founder of Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio, called bitcoin a "fraud" and a "pyramid scheme", the next CEO who put…
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Bitcoin price hit a new all-time high on Friday, 3rd November, surpassing $7,400. Thus, the current total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies is around $200 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. The current total market cap of Bitcoin itself is around $123 billion, representing 62% of the total capitalization of all digital currencies. The "people's currency" was up with…
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After the numerous failed attempts for SEC to approve a series of applications for Bitcoin ETFs, investment management company, Reality Shares filed an application to the SEC for Bitcoin ETF on Thursday, 2nd November, as reported by TheStreet. The application says that the ETF is called the Reality Shares Nasdaq Blockchain Economy exchange-traded fund. According to…
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One of the largest companies in the world, Amazon is said to be launching its own cryptocurrency. Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) registered three cryptocurrency domain names on Oct. 31, 2017: AmazonEthereum.com, AmazonCryptocurrency.com, and AmazonCryptocurrencies.com, according to MoneyMorning. The retail giant has not started accepting any form of Bitcoin or Ethereum, but the rumors about Amazon…
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After much speculation about the direction of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency hit a new all-time high, hitting almost $7,400, as could be seen in the graph below. There may be several reasons for that. First, there was a lot of interest in Bitcoin from traders in Japan and South Korea. Second, when CME, the largest options…
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One of the greatest investors of all time, Warren Buffet, has now mentioned several times that Bitcoin is a "bubble", an asset that does not produce any long-term value. The "Oracle of Omaha" does not seem to be very optimistic about the future and intrinsic value of Bitcoin. Buffet has warned multiple times that the…
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