Simón Bolivar International Airport, which is Venezuela’s largest airport and also known as Maiquetía, will add bitcoin, Dash and Petro as payment options for clients buying tickets, CryptoPotato reported. Petro is a Venezuelan government-issued digital asset. Airport Director Freddy Borges said in the report that...
Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead said the cryptocurrency market is doing well, although a possible new bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) could jeopardize the progress, Decrypt reported. ETFs are publicly-traded investment tools to track the price of an asset, and a bitcoin ETF has been a...
Bitcoin surged 3% on Monday (Oct. 11) following a two-week price rally that now pegs the cryptocurrency at more than $57,000, the highest level in over five months, according to reports. Ether gained 2%, topping $3,500. A 12% gain would put Bitcoin at its high...
Bitcoin has been enjoying high prices, although it isn’t in favor with Hugh Johnson, chief financial officer of PepsiCo, NewsBTC reported. Johnson said America’s corporate society would not be positively affected by digital currency and would not put it on their balance sheets, according to...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for companies holding large amounts of bitcoin, Decrypt reported. The portfolio will include Tesla, PayPal and around 28 other companies. The approval comes as the crypto world has been waiting for a pure...
The AMC Theatres movie chain has begun allowing dogecoin as a form of payment, Gadgets 360 reported. The transactions will be facilitated through BitPay, a bitcoin payment service provider, and consumers will now be able to use dogecoin to buy gift cards with a $200...
Bitcoin’s price jumped almost 10% Wednesday (Oct. 6) to nearly $55,000 per coin after reports surfaced about billionaire George Soros’ investment firm, Soros Fund Management, buying some of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency, according to a CNN report. “I’m not sure bitcoin is viewed only...
Bank of America (BoA) has published a report saying cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are likely here to stay, Cointelegraph reported. The BoA report said crypto’s $2.15 trillion market capitalization is too big to ignore and that the currency has evolved far beyond only bitcoin,...
Edward Snowden said he thinks China’s crypto ban has been a boon for bitcoin, Decrypt reported. Snowden said he thinks bitcoin needed to become “private by design,” per the report. In March 2020, he posted that it was the “first time in a while” he’d...