Roughly every four years, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) mining companies eagerly anticipate the halving event. According to the latest estimates, the nearest one may take place in April 2024 and will put pressure on the margins of mining companies as the miners’ rewards will be cut twice. This can also lead to a drop in the value of the main cryptocurrency, which in turn can negatively affect crypto stocks to sell before bitcoin halvi...

“Bitcoin and any cryptocurrency at this point has not really established itself as a credible institutional investment,” Minerd said Wednesday during a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Everything is suspect.”

Minerd said his firm bought Bitcoin at $20,000 and sold w...

Bitcoin began sliding amid hawkish comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday, which also brought down traditional markets

Bitcoin fell below $35,000 on Sunday morning after declining almost 4% over the past 24 hours and nearly 9% over the last seven days. The market cap of the largest cryptocurrency tumbled to $658 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. On March 28, that figure stood at more than $900 billion.

The downward pressure began after the Federal Reserve announced it would...

Iconic fashion brand Gucci will begin accepting cryptocurrency in some of its U.S. locations later this month, with plans to roll out the program to other North American stores this summer.

According to Vogue Business, in-store payments will be made using a QR code that customers can scan with their crypto wallet, sent by Gucci via email. The stores will accept various digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu.

The first locations to accept...

SHIB, an Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)-based project, was created anonymously by a person or persons who call themselves Ryoshi. The coin came to the fore in August 2020 and was listed by a number of major cryptocurrency exchanges in the following year.

On May 10, 2021, SHIB was listed by Binance. On the same day, FTX f...

“We’re gonna see a lot of that throughout tax season, where folks just didn’t understand what they did. And there’s a lot of millennials that really did a lot of trading without knowing what the implications are,” Goodarzi said in an inter...

Shares of several Chinese stocks, including Nio Inc - ADR (NYSE: NIO), are trading higher after the Chinese government vowed to focus on consumption recovery and reduce some income tax rates.

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Shares of several Chinese stocks have otherwise been under pressure amid continued COVID-19 omicron variant concerns, which have prompted travel restrictions in some nations and added to lockdown fears. Omicron concerns have also caused uncertainty amid the ...

Bitcoin and ethereum are two of the most popular and biggest cryptocurrencies by market size. 

Bitcoin, which came into existence in 2008, was created by someone using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. 

Russian-Canadian programmer Vitalik Buterin created ethereum in 2015.

Despite being both digital currencies, there are few fundamental differences between them.

Bitcoin was created to be a decentralized digital currency, which means nobody controls it--neither the government nor central bank.

Howe...

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Ethereum was leading the crypto moon race while Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) attempted to break up bullishly from a descending channel, but was still trading about 7% below its Oct. 20 all-time high of $66,999.

If Ethereum is able to get bullish follow through on the break it could be a big weekend...

Jamie Dimon bashes bitcoin while profiting from bitcoin … the case for bitcoin at $500K … a potential price catalyst to keep on your radar … is gold about to turn north?

Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan.

He’s also a master marketer.

Earlier this week, he called bitcoin “worthless.” It’s far from the first time he’s slammed the cryptocurrency. Here’s a quick trip down memory lane featuring some of Dimon’s greatest hits:

2014: “terrible store of value”

2015: “will not sur...

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The crypto markets have also begun to trade in correlation with the overall markets this year due to Bitcoin and a number of altcoins being adopted by companies such as Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) and PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL).

See Also: Why Bitcoin And Ethereum Are Trading Lower Today

• Within a decade, quantum computing is expected to be able to hack into cell phones, bank accounts, email addresses and bitcoin wallets.
• "The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has been working on a new standard for encryption for the future that's quantum proof," said Fred Thiel, CEO of cryptocurrency mining specialist Marathon Digital Holdings. 

© Provided by CNBC Intel's 17-qubit quantum test chip.

Stefan Thomas really could have used a quantum computer this year.

The German-b...