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Crypto mining hardware is in high demand in Russia despite high prices

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RIYADH: Russian online retailers have registered a growing demand for new and used cryptocurrency mining machines, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported. This year, the demand for application-specific integrated circuit machines has doubled dramatically while video cards have been in short supply which has driven prices up. Searches for hardware designed to mine Bitcoin or ASICs on … Read more

Crypto prices lose control on Coinbase, CoinMarketCap.co

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RIYADH: The price of cryptocurrencies listed on Coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange, and popular data provider CoinMarketCap.com fell briefly on Tuesday, Arab News reported. Several tokens showed astronomical gains that sent users rushing about huge windfalls, Bloomberg reported. CoinMarketCap.com said in a statement that the issue has been resolved, and Coinbase said the same on Twitter, … Read more

Switzerland’s largest online bank to launch its crypto trading platform

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RIYADH: Switzerland’s largest online bank, Swissquote, is preparing to launch its own cryptocurrency trading platform, Arab News reported. The company plans to open its crypto exchange before the end of the first half of 2022, Jan De Schepper, chief sales and marketing officer at Swissquote, was quoted as saying by Finews.asia publication. Swissquote wants to become “the … Read more

Bitcoin continues to decline from its high in November

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RIYADH: Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, plunged around 30 per cent from the year’s high of $69,000 on November 10, Arab News reported. It; however, traded higher on Sunday, rising by 2.82 per cent to $48,972 at 5:14pm Riyadh time. Ether, the second most popular cryptocurrency, traded at $4,140, up 4.16 per cent, according to data from CoinDesk. … Read more

Bitcoin predicted to be the new gold

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RIYADH: Bitcoin will emerge as a $100 trillion asset class and grow 100 times more than it is today, Michael Saylor, CEO of Microstrategy, said about the future outlook for Bitcoin in an interview with CNBC. “At the end of the decade, it will have flipped gold, and then it will flip monetary indexes, a little … Read more

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, Binance.US Might Go Public in three Years

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, CEO of one of the world’s biggest exchanges, Binance, stated its U.S. associate is observing a primary public offering in three years.

Zhao stated “Binance.US is just going to do what Coinbase did” by ensuing in the tracks of Brian Armstrong’s exchange.

The change to go public would be a bonus for the plagued Binance brand, with numerous states having publicized inquiries into or issued warnings against Binance.

A representative for Binance confirmed with CoinDesk that Zhao had exposed an expected timeline through an interview with the publication and highlighted his reply as being reliant on market factors.

Zhao stated, “So if the business can grow consistently over the next three years, then three years should be sufficient for an IPO,”

He further said, “If there’s a prolonged bear market for, I don’t know, maybe three or five years, then it may be a little bit longer.”

Binance.US is watching the achievement of a big private funding round in the next two months that would see the exchange’s CEO decrease control of the U.S. affiliate’s board, according to the report.

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JPMorgan (JPM) Starts In-House Btc Fund for High-Net-Worth Clients

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JPMorgan JPM offers an in-house passively managed bitcoin fund to its Private Bank wealth management clients. CoinDesk reported that the sale is being conducted in collaboration with bitcoin powerhouse New York Digital Investment Group (“NYDIG”), citing two sources familiar with the subject.

Stone Ridge’s alternative asset manager, NYDIG, is a business. It offers stable custody, execution, asset management, and other institutional-grade infrastructure.

CoinDesk first reported on the new fund in late April. According to sources, the fund has still to receive any customer investments, and JPMorgan only recently held a launch call with advisers.

According to sources aware of the situation, advisers will pitch the fund to clients as the safest and lowest bitcoin investment instrument available on the private markets. The fund “would also act as an easy port over to a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).”

JPMorgan’s decision to delve deeper into the world of cryptocurrency is notable because its CEO, Jamie Dimon, has always been anti-crypto.

Dimon has expressed his reservations about digital assets and the cryptocurrency industry. He claimed in May that, “I am not a Bitcoin supporter, I don’t really care about Bitcoin. On the other hand, clients are interested and I don’t tell clients what to do.”

Despite Dimon’s persistent criticism of the cryptocurrency sector, JPMorgan is becoming more open to the cryptocurrency world.

According to Business Insider, the bank provided its wealth management clients access to bitcoin and other cryptocurrency money last month. Through advisors, it has offered its clients access to buy and sell five cryptocurrency products.

JPMorgan’s stock has gained 19% this year, compared to the industry’s 24.5 percent gain.

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