The combined market cap of publicly listed crypto firms has roughly quadrupled this year while the number of public digital asset firms has increased by 28% over the same period. A new report from CoinShares estimates that public “cryptocurrency pure play companies” were worth roughly $25 billion at the start of the year, with mining firms and financial service providers representing the lion’s share of value. While the report notes that 16 digital asset firms have gone public this year, increasing the number of public crypto companies to 57 public companies, the combined capitalization of said firms has skyrocketed to …

American payments giant PayPal is reportedly exploring ways to offer stock trading after launching cryptocurrency trading services last year. PayPal is looking to buy or partner with a broker-dealer to introduce its own stock trading service to compete with rivals such as crypto-friendly stock trading app Robinhood, CNBC reported on Monday. Citing anonymous sources, the report notes that PayPal has conducted relevant discussions with potential industry players but is unlikely to launch the new investment service this year. According to CNBC, PayPal’s potential approval as a brokerage firm by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority could take more than eight months. …

The heavy selling in the U.S. dollar market at the end of last week assisted Bitcoin (BTC) to climb above $49,000. However, BTC struggled to extend its climb above $50,000, a psychological resistance level, as investors remained cautious about the Federal Reserve's taper timing. In detail, the Fed chairman Jerome Powell delivered a mildly dovish outlook during his speech on Friday at the annual Jackson Hole symposium. At one point, he refrained from providing hints regarding when the Fed would start unwinding its $120 billion a month asset purchasing program. Powell noted that they would begin tapering sometime by the …

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 …

Bitcoin (BTC) prices briefly fell below $44,000 on Thursday as the United States Dollar strengthened after the U.S. Federal Reserve policy minutes revealed its intentions to limit its bond-purchasing program this year. Bitcoin risks $45,000 becoming new resistance The spot BTC/USD rate dropped 1.71% to a new week-to-date low of $43,955. The pair’s plunge appeared as a part of a technical correction that started after it had reached a three-month high of $48,176 on Saturday, following a 64.42% price rally. Bitcoin’s latest price decline also surfaced in line with a similar market bias on Wall Street. For instance, the benchmark …

London-based financial services firm ETC Group will list its entire portfolio of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) offering exposure to Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC) on Austria’s national stock market. In a Wednesday announcement, the ETC Group said the Wiener Börse, or Vienna Stock Exchange, would be listing three of its crypto exchange-traded products that are “100% physically backed and central counterparty cleared.” These include the firm’s carbon-neutral Bitcoin product, a Litecoin-based product and its Ether ETP. The ETC Group has already made similar listings on stock exchanges in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich and Frankfurt. The ETPs are aimed …

The year 2009 was marked by both the genesis of Bitcoin and the United States stock market starting an unprecedented bull market — one that’s continued almost uninterrupted since. However, murmurings of a crash are always present, and the noise has recently been getting louder. Against the backdrop of COVID-19 refusing to go away, stocks keep pushing higher, backed by an unprecedented amount of government support. But now that quantitative easing policies are no longer being implemented, is the talk of a stock market crash justified? If so, this could bring unfortunate news for Bitcoin (BTC): It could be argued …

Coinbase stock rebounded during the early U.S. trading hours on Aug.11 after it beat Wall Street forecasts for sales and revenues in the second quarter. The cost to purchase one COIN share surged 4.7% to $282.34 at the New York opening bell. Later, bids for COIN rose to as high as $294 before pulling back to the current price at $279.72. Strong Q2 earnings for Coinbase Coinbase reported better-than-expected earnings in the second quarter of 2021and a net revenue of $2.3 billion. That came out to be 27% higher than the previous quarter and 1,042% up on a year-over-year basis. …

American cinema operator AMC Entertainment is aiming to accept Bitcoin (BTC) payments for movie tickets by 2022. Speaking during a Monday conference call regarding the firm’s Q2 results announced earlier the same day, AMC chairman and CEO Adam Aron revealed that the cinema chain intends to have the infrastructure ready to accept BTC payments for online movie tickets by the end of 2021. While details regarding AMC’s plan to accept Bitcoin are scant, Aron reported strong demand for buying movie tickets with crypto from the firm’s customers. AMC’s Q2 results showed significant improvements compared to last year, reporting $444 million …

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) soared to a three-month high at $46,293 after bulls confirmed that they intended to take full control of the market. While crypto traders may have returned to the green and pro traders are looking to add larger leveraged positions, not every class of investors has obtained direct exposure to Bitcoin. For institutional investors, a fund administrator sets the rules for what percentage of a portfolio is invested in various asset classes, and different companies have varying appetites for risk. The reasons that investors may be piling into these assets versus simply holding BTC include the …

Bitcoin (BTC) is delighting bulls as it heads into a new week after closing a weekly candle in which it gained another $4,000 — can it hold? After spending much of the previous seven days hitting but then descending from local highs, sentiment was mixed going into the weekend. In the event, Saturday and Sunday turned out to be just what bulls had been waiting for, with Bitcoin passing multiple resistance lines and going on to top $45,000. With a sense that there is everything to play for, bulls are now confident but mindful of the fact that in Bitcoin, …

Ethereum has achieved another milestone this week apart from the London hard fork, with a 90-year-old New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)-listed company changing its ticker to avoid confusion with Ether (ETH). Home decor and furniture chain Ethan Allen, which has more than 300 stores across the United States, announced on Wednesday that it had changed its NYSE ticker from “ETH” to “ETD.” The firm said that it has incorporated “D” to reflect “design” and changed its ticker to avoid investor confusion and solidify its online keyword searches: “We also believe this change will better differentiate Ethan Allen news from Ethereum …