Amazon Prime memberships are over 100 million in the US alone. According to the third quarter revenue call, the company is aggressively expanding Prime to Canada, Mexico, and China. Amazon Prime means multiple things: faster shipping of products bought on Amazon, access to video-on-demand, and some other benefits.
The primary...
Digital Currency Group’s Travis Scher (Twitter)
Bitcoin tanked in 2018, but the future of cryptocurrencies remains bright because you can’t stop progress. That’s the assessment of Travis Scher, a vice president at crypto investment firm Digital Currency Group.
“2019 will be volatile, entertaining, and full of surprises,” Scher wrote in a Medium post. “But I...
Analyst Mark Dow, the trader who closed his short position after bitcoin fell 80 percent last year, doubts whether Bitcoin will ever attain a broader adoption.
Bitcoin-Short Trader Bearish on Future of Crypto Adoption
Mark Dow, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist, said in a tweet that the world’s leading digital currency “lacks a...
Venture capitalist Lou Kerner says bitcoin is well on its way to replacing gold as the dominant store of value, noting that its market cap has already surpassed that of silver.
“What has evolved into is a store of value,” Kerner told Bloomberg. “Today, the main store of value is gold....
The bitcoin price got hammered in 2018 amid the prolonged Crypto Winter, but many investment experts expect the volatility to subside in 2019, as institutional investors start entering the market.
Some analysts believe bitcoin will re-emerge — like the proverbial Phoenix rising from the ashes — on back of momentum created by institutional...
Over the last 48 hours, following a large loss on Christmas, the Bitcoin price has recovered back to around $4,000.
The dominant cryptocurrency, which still holds a market valuation of over $64 billion, has demonstrated wild volatility in a wide price range from $3,100 to $4,300 throughout December, struggling to recover to...
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Is New York University professor Nouriel Roubini the biggest bitcoin grinch of all time? It sure seems that way, based on an epic Twitter rant he launched just days before Christmas.
In a...
A digital asset strategist for New York-based veteran investment management firm VanEck is pretty irate that there is still no exchange traded fund for Bitcoin.
In response to a tweet by Matt Odell, who was saying how Coinbase is risking its “regulatory moat” by addition of several altcoins over the...
Former Bitcoin Cash advocate Calvin Ayre predicts that the flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, will plunge to zero in 2019 because it’s worthless. But never fear, he said, because Bitcoin Cash Satoshi Vision (BSV) will be there to save the day.
Interestingly, Ayre insists that the Bitcoin price is being deliberately deflated right now in...
