BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Feb 12, 2021
  • Bitcoin hits new high as total market cap breaks $1.45 trillion
  • Indian crypto trading ban will allow investor time to exit holdings
  • Major tech companies not likely to follow Tesla and MicroStrategy by adding bitcoin to balance sheet
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

The Headlines

BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Indian Crypto Investment Ban Seems Imminent

www.bloombergquint.com
Bloomberg is reporting that an unnamed senior Finance Ministry official says the Indian government plans to go ahead with a complete ban on crypto investments allowing current investors a transition period three-to-six month to exit their holdings.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Nigerian SEC Supports Central Bank's Crypto Ban

www.dailypost.ng
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission has joined the Central Bank in banning crypto trading and announced it will no longer admit crypto related entities into its Regulatory Incubation Framework for Fintech firms.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Provincial Governor Submits Proposal for Argentinan Digital Peso

www.decrypt.co
The governor of Argentina’s northwestern province of Catamarca has submitted a proposal the President Alberto Fernandez urging him to create a national digital peso to help mobilize Argentina’s battered economy and take advantage of the benefits provided by blockchain technology.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Miami City Commission Supports Mayor's Plan to Allow Bitcoin Payments and Salaries

www.twitter.com
🐦 📺Miami city commissions have supported Mayor Francis Suarez’s resolution “to procure a vendor to be able to offer city employees to get a percentage of their salaries in bitcoin” and allows residence to pay for fees and taxes in bitcoin. The resolution also supports efforts to make bitcoin an “acceptable currency” for the city to invest in in the future.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Top Canadian Universities Present CBDC Proposals to Government

www.cointelegraph.com
Four schools: the University of Calgary, McGill University, the University of Toronto and York University have submitted potential designs to the Bank of Canada for digital loonie using blockchain technology.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

BNY Mellon Entering Crypto Arena

www.bnymellon.com
Bank of New York Mellon has become the first global bank to provide integrated digital currency services for its clients with an announced plan to transfer, hold and issue select digital currencies.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Canada Approves First Bitcoin ETF

www.sedar.com
Canadian regulators have approved Accelerate Financials Bitcoin ETF making it the first officially approved bitcoin ETF in North America.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Ebang Prices Follow-on Offering

www.ir.ebang.com.cn
📈Ebang International (NASDAQ: EBON) announced pricing of a 16 million unit follow-on offering at a price of $5 per unit (one share and a warrant for a half share with a two warrant exercise price of $5.25); shares in the Chinese mining company fell 8% on the news closing at $5.42.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

PayPal Unlikely to Invest in Cryptocurrencies

www.cnbc.com
📈PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) Chief Financial Officer John Rainey says the payments company is not likely to add digital currencies to its balance sheet but will continue to support digital assets by expanding services being offered to its customers.
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Uber Open to Accepting Crypto Payments

www.twitter.com
🐦📈Uber (NYSE: UBER) CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says his company is considering to allow passengers to pay in digital currencies, but the mobility company is not going to invest in bitcoin with Khosrowshahi explaining that Uber is “not in the speculation business” and will allow the company’s business model to drive upside returns (not bitcoin).
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Jack and Jay Z Establish Endowment for Bitcoin Development

www.twitter.com
🐦Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper, entrepreneur Jay Z have announced a 500 bitcoin ($23.7 million) donation to endow a trust to find bitcoin development initially focusing on teams in Africa and India.

Mergers & Acquisitions

BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Bitso Acquires Derivative Trading Platform

www.cryptoninjas.net
Latin American crypto exchange Bitso has acquired Quedex, a regulated, Europe-based crypto derivatives trading platform, to provide clients with addition services with futures and options trading.

Market Data

BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

New Report on Crypto Mining Capacity Expansion

www.elwoodam.com
📝 👍Elwood Asset Management has issued a research report on 9 publicly traded North American and European cryptocurrency miners analyzing the potential “overinvestment trap’ and defining which companies are best executing on their strategies.

Thoughts on the Ecosystem

BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

Bitcoin is at ‘Nosebleed Levels’

www.bloomberg.com
😱Shelia Bair, the former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), says investors should avoid bitcoin due its volatility and says the leading digital currency is trading “at nosebleed levels.”
BitDigest February 12 · Issue #841

European Payments Firm Not Seeing Crypto Interest from Merchants

www.cnbc.com
The CEO of Adyen, the European e-commerce planform used by Facebook, Netflix and Uber, says merchant are not requesting crypto payment features and considers bitcoin to be “more or an asset that a payment method” due to its volatility.

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