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(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin and most other top cryptocurrencies fell on Sunday on concerns that there may be a further crackdown on the industry in China and as a report from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. served as a reminder that institutional adoption may be a long process. Bitcoin and many others in the top 30 cryptocurrencies excluding stablecoins declined in the past 24 hours as of 12:20 p.m. in London on Sunday, according to pricing data from CoinGecko, though No. 2 Ether was slightly higher…. Source link

After the price of bitcoin fell Friday following Elon Musk’s “breakup tweet,” Alex Machinsky, CEO of Celsius Network, discounted the Tesla (TSLA) CEO’s role in cryptocurrency at the Bitcoin Conference 2021 in Miami. “Elon [Musk] is a tourist in crypto,” Mashinsky told Yahoo Finance Live. “He’s here to collect followers. I don’t think he’s here to make the world a better place, and we can go to where we’re going with Elon or without Elon.” Bitcoin’s (BTC-USD) price fell nearly 7… Source link

Bloomberg Kevin Ulrich Scored a $2 Billion MGM Win. It Only Took a Decade (Bloomberg) — Hedge funds often measure their investments in minutes, not decades; but for Anchorage Capital Group, its long-held stake in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. is proving that patience can also be profitable.The New York-based money manager stands to make roughly $2 billion on its investment in the film and TV producer, one that began almost 11 years ago with MGM in bankruptcy court. Amazon.com Inc. agreed… Source link

Bloomberg Secretive Hedge Fund Ends Long Silence to Take On Japan Icon (Bloomberg) — It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.’s extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didn’t give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholders’ rights should never be infringed.He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only… Source link

The Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs said in a Q&A published in the firm’s May 21 Global Macro Research newsletter that the growing cryptocurrency space, particularly related to “hot storage,” was “only one big fraud away from a very negative impact on the market.” Addressing a question about risks to the industry, Mathew McDermott, who was expressing his own views and not those of the research team, also noted that “inconsistent regulatory actions” worldwide could… Source link

Cryptocurrency has been going through some inner-battles as of late. Joining the “ETF Report” with hosts Alexis Christoforous and Kristin Myerson Yahoo Finance, ETF Trends’ CIO and Director of Research, Dave Nadig, discusses what kind of options there are for those investors who want to get into the crypto space. As Nadig explains, volatility in this area should not be much of a surprise. Crypto, in general, generally has a level of context that needs to be applied, so in this current… Source link

Some banks and financial institutions offer — or are considering offering — cryptocurrency to their investing clients, a move that strengthens the bitcoin bull case despite recent volatility. Just this week, Wells Fargo (WFC) announced that it would begin to offer cryptocurrency to some clients as interest spikes once again. But the embrace of bitcoin on Wall Street is far from guaranteed. In a note Wednesday from UBS global wealth management, CIO Mark Haefele poured cold water on… Source link

Bloomberg Bitcoin’s Obstacles Mount Amid China Cryptocurrency Warning (Bloomberg) — Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies slumped after the People’s Bank of China conveyed a statement reiterating that digital tokens can’t be used as a form of payment.The largest token fell below $40,000 for the first time since early February, dropping as much as 10% to $38,973 on Wednesday and continuing a weeklong slide sparked by Elon Musk’s back-and-forth comments on Tesla Inc.’s holdings of… Source link

LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin tumbled below the $40,000 mark on Wednesday to a 3-1/2 month low and dragged down the prices of other digital coins after China imposed fresh curbs on transactions involving cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, the biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, had already been under pressure from a series of tweets from Tesla boss Elon Musk, but the news from China sent it as low as $38,514, for a 9% fall. By 0855 GMT, it had recovered to $40,627, still down 5% on the session. The… Source link

Cryptos recovered some of their earlier losses which had been triggered by Tesla’s Elon Musk. Photo: Reuters Cryptocurrencies ticked up on Tuesday morning, recovering the losses from the weekend after Tesla (TSLA) chief Elon Musk sparked a sell-off.  Meanwhile, a new cryptocurrency called Stopelon has been launched purely to limit Musk’s influence over the volatile market. Bitcoin was up (BTC-USD) 1%, trading at $45,005.418 (£31,708.12). Ethereum (ETH-USD) the second-biggest crypto by market… Source link