Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen is not big on bitcoin, a point she reiterated recently when she called the digital currency speculative and “inefficient.” That doesn’t mean Yellen and the department she leads — which includes the Internal Revenue Service — don’t care about the cryptocurrency. Now that it’s income …
Read More »The Tell: Tesla bitcoin gambit already made $1 billion, more than 2020 profit from car sales, estimates analyst
Much has been made about the hefty sum that Tesla Inc. has invested in bitcoin, a speculative asset that has only been around since 2009. Read: Why did Tesla buy bitcoin? However, early estimates from prominent technology analyst Dan Ives sees the investment by the electric-vehicle maker, headed by outspoken …
Read More »Cryptos: Is bitcoin headed to $100,000 in 2021 or is its price ‘unsustainable’?
Bitcoin prices were carving out fresh records Wednesday but where the cryptocurrency heads from here is an open question. A single bitcoin BTCUSD, +5.39% hit a record high at $ 51,735.38 earlier in the day, according to CoinDesk and predictions see the world’s No. 1 crypto doubling before year-end, while …
Read More »Market Extra: Is Tesla’s $1.5 billion bitcoin buy smart corporate finance? Experts weigh in
Tesla Inc. on Monday said that it bought $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin, a purchase that comes after CEO Elon Musk has promoted the world’s No. 1 digital asset, along with other cryptos, in recent weeks. Bitcoin’s price BTCUSD, +1.82%, already on a stratospheric rise, garnered an additional fillip from the announcement, …
Read More »Market Extra: Musk’s Tesla says it invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin, sending the cryptocurrency to record levels near $44,000
Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. said that it has acquired $ 1.5 billion in bitcoins in January and that it could accept the world’s No. 1 digital asset for payment in the future. Tesla TSLA, +1.77% revealed the purchase in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, …
Read More »Outside the Box: This investor in both gold and bitcoin says only one offers real long-term safety
Spoiler alert: I own both gold and Bitcoin in my portfolio. As a longtime participant and observer of the shifting currents of monetary policy and financial markets, I believe both can play vital roles as repositories of value, especially in a world plagued by economic and political uncertainty. But although …
Read More »Cryptos: Bitcoin ETF? A crypto Holy Grail. But don’t expect to see one soon, say experts
Bitcoin prices are on the rise, notwithstanding a recent bout of weakness, but experts interviewed by MarketWatch caution that although it may feel inevitable, an exchange-traded fund backed by a digital-currency may not be seen as quickly as enthusiasts might hope. “The SEC appears to have a very high bar …
Read More »How do Bitcoin Debit and Credit Card work?
In 2017 bitcoin got popular as at the starting of September 2016 the value of bitcoin is $ 600per coin and at the starting of September 2017, it was $ 4700 per coin. With an investment return of 6x in one year, traders from all backgrounds began to take note. …
Read More »Bitcoin is a Bitcoin wallet and Its Major Variants?
A Bitcoin wallet is a kind of program that stores the Bitcoins in. Bitcoins cannot be held just anywhere. The bitcoins have a specific secret number for each and every Bitcoin address that is kept in the Bitcoin wallet. A bitcoin wallet is used to send or receive Bitcoins. One …
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