Orlando Bravo, co-founder and managing partner of private equity firm Thoma Bravo, expressed his unwavering endorsement of the cryptocurrency market in an interview at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha 2021 conference on Wednesday, revealing that he is “very bullish” on his personal investment in Bitcoin (BTC). The billionaire businessman owns one of the world’s largest private equity firms, which boasts assets under management (AUM) of $83 billion as of June 30, 2021. Questioned on the potential of digital assets, Bravo spoke with delight on the emergence of the space: “How could you not love crypto? [...] Crypto is just a great system. …

Customers of leading United States crypto exchange Coinbase have spent the weekend panicking after the exchange mistakenly sent emails to users stating that their two-factor authentication (2FA) settings had been changed. On Friday, Coinbase accidentally sent the email to 125,000 of its customers, resulting in widespread public backlash. Coinbase took to Twitter on Sunday to apologize for the mishap, stating, “We’re laser-focused on building trust and security into the crypto community so that the open financial system we all want is a reality. We recognize that issues like this can hurt that trust.” I got the reply and panicked someone …

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, has recommended buying Coinbase stock and suggested that 5% of investment portfolios should be allocated to cryptocurrency. Cramer made the comments in the Lightning Round on Wednesday in response to a caller who asked whether buying Coinbase stock was a good way to get crypto exposure. The 66-year-old finance personality stated that while Coinbase’s listing went “very poorly,” he views it as a big player in crypto: “I think Coinbase is inexpensive. I don’t really care for management because I think they let out a lot of stock when they started. I …

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, announced he has liquidated nearly all of his Bitcoin (BTC) holdings. Speaking on June 21 during an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on the Street, Cramer asserted that BTC is ”not going up because of structural reasons,” highlighting China’s renewed regulatory clampdown. Cramer stated that China’s central government understands Bitcoin to be a “direct threat” to the regime and its capacity to control monetary flows within the country, describing the cryptocurrency as “as a system that’s outside of their control.” The escalating Chinese crypto mining ban has sent Bitcoin’s hash rate tumbling …

Amid the price of Ether reaching an all-time high this week, businessman Kevin O'Leary still believes Bitcoin will stay on top of the token. Speaking to CNBC yesterday, the Shark Tank star said Ether (ETH) was "always going to be number two" to Bitcoin (BTC) despite the token reaching an all-time high price of more than $2,600 at the time of the interview, and more than $2,700 at the time of publication. The price of Bitcoin, on the other hand, has been volatile in April, rising to a new all-time high of more than $64,000 while later falling under $50,000. …

Untied to any single government or country, Bitcoin is often labeled a store-of-value asset and a hedge against other areas of finance. HoweverNassim Taleb, a former risk analyst and author, thinks otherwise, however. In an interview with CNBC on Friday, after noting Bitcoin’s (BTC) similarity to a Ponzi scheme, Taleb said: “There’s no connection between inflation and the coin. None.” He added: “I mean, you can have hyperinflation and Bitcoin going to zero. There’s no link between them.” This is not the first time Taleb has expressed skepticism toward Bitcoin. Earlier this year, he mentioned selling off his BTC holdings, …

Business TV personality and converted Bitcoin proponent Jim Cramer has sold half of what he calls his “phoney money” Bitcoin portfolio to pay off his mortgage. .@jimcramer discloses that he bought a lot of bitcoin when it was around $12K. He says he sold half of it to pay off his mortgage yesterday. "It was like phony money paying for real money... I think I won." https://t.co/L909N1g6x0 pic.twitter.com/hfkzTmIdWl — CNBC (@CNBC) April 15, 2021 During Thursday’s broadcast of “Squawk on the Street,” co-anchor Jim Cramer revealed that he’s “decided to become an apostate,” by selling off half of his Bitcoin …

CNBC host Jim Cramer has revealed he made "a ton of money" on Bitcoin (BTC) but gold "let him down." In an episode of the Pomp Podcast released March 22, Cramer thanked host Anthony Pompliano for inspiring him to invest $500,000 in BTC. Cramer after Bitcoin buy: "Thank you" "Here's what's going on: you made me a ton of money," he began. Cramer is well known as a mainstream media finance pundit, and is also familiar to Bitcoiners after a previous Pomp Podcast appearance in September 2020. His latest outing, however, puts him in pole position among CNBC presenters when …

With GameStop's stock more than doubling in price over the last two days, CNBC’s Jim Cramer is proposing the brick-and-mortar company change its business model to be more inclusive of cryptocurrencies. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box today, the Mad Money host suggested that he had a plan to "justify the stock price" of GameStop. At the time of publication, the price of GME is $131.17 — an increase of more than 175% in the last 24 hours after weeks of sideways action. In addition to following the example of Tesla, which purchased $1.5 billion Bitcoin (BTC), Cramer proposed GameStop mimic …

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, said he is still “playing with the house’s money” after selling off some of his crypto before the recent price crash. In an interview with TheStreet, Jim Cramer said he still believed in Bitcoin (BTC) despite a $10,000 price correction over the past three days. However, he added he was unlikely to buy more unless the price goes under $20,000. “My goal was to get my cash out so I don’t have to think about it,” said Cramer. “If it goes back under $20,000, I’m a buyer again. But I got my …

Three months after seemingly changing course on crypto, the outspoken host of CNBC’s Mad Money is claiming he made a well-timed Bitcoin investment on Friday. In an interview with TheStreet, Jim Cramer says he purchased Bitcoin (BTC) Friday morning when the price dipped under $18,000. The Mad Money host added he was treating the crypto asset as any other investment in a diverse portfolio. “I will buy — like I usually do — as something comes down," said Cramer. "I'll get bigger and bigger and bigger. I just think that you want to diversify into all sorts of asset classes. …

CoinShares chair and former JP Morgan commodity trader Danny Masters told CNBC that the financial landscape has changed to the point where not having exposure to Bitcoin could be a riskier move for portfolio managers than investing in it. Interviewed on Power Lunch, the head of the digital asset management firm referred to the fact that in the past it was seen as risky for asset managers working in institutions to put money into Bitcoin. But he claimed that the “perceived career-risk for having Bitcoin in your institutional portfolio, as a portfolio manager, is fast migrating into a career-risk for …