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January 22, 2021

BlackRock – The world’s largest asset manager joins the Crypto Universe

The bull run of cryptocurrencies has stopped for the time being. After Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) reached new all-time highs of more than $41,000 and $1,400 within a few weeks, prices have been correcting for two weeks. One thing is certain, however. The entry of institutional investors into crypto has been broad-based - from PayPal to the world's largest asset manager BlackRock; the FIAT elite has definitely made first foodprints the crypto universe. This promises a durable crypto-asset future.

Crypto-Trading

January 18, 2021

Osprey Bitcoin Fund – A low-cost bitcoin trust about to be listed at OTCQX

The BTC is currently oscillating around $37,000 with a resulting market cap of around $680B. ETH is holding at over $1,200 with a market cap of around $140B. No surprise that new crypto-related financial instruments are emerging, such as Greg King's Osprey Bitcoin Trust (www.ospreyfunds.io), whose shares started to trade on the OTC market in New York a few days ago. This has given competition to Barry Silbert's Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and may drive additional demand for BTC.

Crypto-Trading

January 15, 2021

Exchange-traded crypto securities on the rise

More and more traditional investors, and especially institutional investors, want to diversify into crypto assets without getting involved in crypto exchanges or OTC themselves. They invest in exchange-traded securities that have a direct crypto connection. In the U.S., the market leader is Grayscale Investments with several crypto-related products, and in Europe, Germany's ETC Group is one of the market leaders. Trading in crypto-related products exploded in early 2021.

Crypto-Trading

January 11, 2021

The End of the Crypto Bull Run – Regulators and institutional investors urge to be cautious

Bitcoin (BTC) and with it, most other cryptocurrencies took a massive hit tonight. Some of the lost over 20%. Currently, prices are recovering somewhat, but this does not look too stable. Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners, who got massively into Bitcoin, has pointed out that the technical upside of $35,000 has been exceeded, and it is time for a correction. He is partially exiting. The UK FCA warns consumers against a naïve crypto investment approach.

January 2, 2021

SEC Complaint against Ripple may cause the first financial collapse in crypto universe

The last days of 2020 saw the U.S. SEC complaint against Ripple Labs Inc. alleging that its XRP is actually a security. A regulatory attack on the entire crypto scene, some analysts argue. Once the 3rd-largest crypto, XRP's market cap plummeted from more than $26 billion to less than $10 billion. Some crypto exchanges such as Coinbase, OKCoin, or Crypto.com have suspended trading in XRP. Is it the end of days for XRP and the crypto bull-run?

January 2, 2021

Crypto Year 2021 – Crypto pioneer Grayscale Investments of Barry Silbert celebrates records

The crypto bull-run happened amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Bitcoin (BTC) finished 2020 just shy of $30,000 with a market cap of around $530 billion. A year ago, the price had been $7,100. 2020 was the year of institutional investors and PayPal's entry. With the crypto explosion, the digital Assets Under Management (AUM) of Barry Silbert's pioneering Grayscale Investments crypto trusts have surpassed the $20 billion mark. That's quite something, isn't it?

Crypto-Trading

November 20, 2020

$500 Billion Market Cap – Welcome to the COVID-19 Crypto Bull Run

The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has surpassed the $500 billion mark for the first time since February 2018 as the price of several altcoins is moving up, while BTC’s price is hovering around the $18,000 mark. At the time of writing the BTC price oscillated around $18,300 at CryptoCompare. Most crypto experts expect the BTC to break the previous all-time high of almost $20,000 from December 2017 in this bull run.

August 31, 2020

Instagram hashtag broker tsunami – Red-listed EagleFX and its influencers

The world has changed massively for investors in recent years with social media. As in politics, decisions about investments are increasingly being influenced by Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or WhatsApp, and Telegram. The old-fashioned bank or investment advisor has been replaced by apps and by the new guild of influencers which often work as affiliates of financial services providers such as EagleFX. Influencers are a new profession and social role model. Hashtags are the most important sales instrument for financial providers and their influencers.

July 31, 2020

Crypto Manipulation: Chinese authorities arrested 27 individuals involved in huge PlusToken crypto scheme

The gigantic Chinese PlusToken crypto scheme has kept the crypto markets massively busy in the last two years. PlusToken with $5.7B raised from some 800,000 members is said to have been a driving force behind manipulations in the crypto markets. In a Chinese law enforcement action, 27 key individuals involved in the PlusToken crypto scheme have been arrested. Several Chinese news outlets reported that another 82 members of the scheme have been arrested.

July 28, 2020

Investor Alert – Potential crypto bull run leads to aggressive scam attacks

The lead crypto Bitcoin (BTC) has broken through the $10,000 resistance level after weeks of futile attempts and even took the $11,000 mark in the last 24 hours before bouncing back. The Ether (ETH) had already made an impressive bull run before and managed to break through the $330 mark. It is currently not clear whether this is really the long-awaited crypto bull run, technical market adjustments, or whale movements. Stay alert, don't fall for scammers and investment schemes.

July 14, 2020

US Regulators close down crypto trading app Abra

The U.S. regulators SEC and the CFTC have cracked down on the innovative crypto trading platform Abra, which enables its users to trade tokenized versions of stocks. According to the SEC press release, the agency charged California-based Abra for offering and selling security-based swaps to retail investors without registration and for failing to transact those swaps on a registered national exchange.

Crypto-Trading

May 6, 2020

Investor Alert – The forecasted Bitcoin Bull Run to $300,000 will also trigger a scam boom!

In the last few days, Bitcoin (BTC) has risen massively again and is now holding above the $9,000 mark. At the latest since the cryptocurrency..