(Bloomberg) — It’s a vicious circle long familiar to those in traditional finance: trades made with borrowed money coming apart when the value of their collateral put up against the loans drops, forcing liquidations that in turn push prices down further. That pattern, driven by so-called margin calls, has come to cryptocurrency markets in a […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — A broad-based selloff in digital assets and the collapse of high-profile tokens TerraUSD and Luna have caused ripple effects across the crypto industry. A wave of liquidations triggered fear of contagion risks. Major lenders Celsius Network and Babel Finance have frozen withdrawals, and Three Arrows Capital, a major crypto hedge fund, is facing […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin resumed a fall on Wednesday, moving in tandem with weakening stocks amid mounting concerns about a global recession. The largest cryptocurrency declined as much as 2.9% to $20,244, holding right above the key $20,000 level. Ether fell by a maximum 3.3% to $1,084.80. Shiba Inu, the 14th-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, rallied […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — It was one of the most dramatic weeks in the short history of the cryptocurrency market, bookended by the type of announcements investors fear the most from a counterparty: We’re sorry, but we just can’t return your money right now. In between, a nascent technocratic industry with grand ambitions to reinvent the financial […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — MicroStrategy Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Saylor’s big bet on Bitcoin has backfired in a major way as the paper loss for his firm’s holdings of the largest digital asset has reached roughly $1 billion. Over the last two years the software-maker has shelled out $3.97 billion as it amassed nearly […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin miners are beginning to sell tokens they’ve hoarded to cover burgeoning costs with the prospects for industry growth slowing and the price of the largest cryptocurrency showing few signs of rebounding following the recent collapse from record highs. Miners transferred about 195,663 coins to exchanges in May, the biggest monthly increase since […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Crypto had another bad week — and it may only get weirder. Bitcoin led a decline in digital assets across the whole crypto spectrum, with the world’s largest token set for an eighth straight weekly loss in its longest such slump since August 2011. Bitcoin fell 2.4% on Friday to about $28,700 as […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The first US Bitcoin-futures backed exchange-traded fund is turning into a target for crypto bears. Short interest in the $748 million ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (ticker BITO) as a percentage of shares outstanding is nearly 11%, close to the highest since the fund’s October 2021 inception, IHS Markit Ltd. data show. Meanwhile, the […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said crypto-currencies are “based on nothing” and should be regulated to steer people away from speculating on them with their life savings. Lagarde told Dutch television that she’s concerned about people “who have no understanding of the risks, who will lose it all and who will be […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Speculation that the collapse of one of the biggest experiments in decentralized finance could bring about the death of crypto appears to have been overblown. If Terra’s implosion had happened after a few more months of growth, the resultant market impact might have created a DeFi version of 2008 — instead, high-profile algorithmic […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin staged a modest recovery to trade at around $30,000, extending a period of relative market calm after the collapse of a closely watched stablecoin roiled digital assets in the past week. The largest cryptocurrency advanced 3.4% n Sunday to $30,350 as of 4 p.m. in New York. Ether, the second-biggest token, rose […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Coinbase Global Inc., like the rest of the cryptocurrency market, is having a really tough week. Not filing-for-bankruptcy bad, but the biggest US crypto exchange did just mention the B-word in a regulatory filing, giving its customers a painful reminder of how bad things could get for them if Coinbase ever does get […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — It’s been a long few weeks since the crypto crowd was partying in Miami. Coinbase Global Inc. founder Brian Armstrong had a personal fortune of $13.7 billion as recently as November and about $8 billion at the end of March. That’s now just $2.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after a […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Few companies are tethered as closely to Bitcoin as MicroStrategy Inc., a software company that’s plowed its profits and borrowed money into the cryptocurrency. Shares of the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company have tumbled alongside Bitcoin, dropping more than 50% since the end of March to around $230. Yet options activity shows some investors […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Coinbase Global Inc. shares tumbled after first-quarter revenue missed estimates and the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange warned that total trading volume in the current quarter will be lower than in the first. The company’s shares fell about 14% after the close of regular trading. Monthly transacting users fell to 9.2 million, below an […]
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