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Grayscale’s Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Funds Available for Public Trading

The digital asset management firm Grayscale Investments announced on Aug 17 that its Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts are now publicly tradable. Shares of the two trusts will be traded on OTC markets under the tickers BCHG and LTCN. Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin have joined the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), Ethereum Trust (ETHE), Ethereum Classic Trust (ETCG), and Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC) as being publicly tradeable. US securities investors will be able to trade Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin without having to buy and store the assets themselves. Prior to

Record Ethereum Network Use and Gas Fees Pose Risk to DeFi Expansion

The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six months to stand at 1.23 million per day. Ethereum 7-day average daily transactions. Source: CoinMetricsThis situation might seem very bullish at first, but one must remember both EOS and Tron (TRX) started as ERC-20 tokens before launching their own mainnet and running fully independent blockchains.A similar chain migration is happening on Tether’s USDT, a stablecoin

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Saw Surge in Investor Interest After March

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, an investment tool that aims to provide an indirect exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) for investors in traditional markets, reported a significant increase in how many shares it issued between Q2 and Q1 of 2020.According to an Aug. 7 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the trust issued more than 87 million shares in Q2 2020, compared to the total of 133 million shares issued for all of 2020.The trust issued almost 90% more shares in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the first. This

With Value Approach, Off The Chain Capital Is Changing The Bitcoin Investment Narrative

When viewed from a traditional investing lens, bitcoin may seem like a risky bet. The technology is still relatively new, the price is notoriously volatile and it’s not uncommon to hear investors caution newcomers not to invest more than they can afford to lose in BTC.But the performance of Off The Chain Capital, a digital currency investment firm that focuses on value investing in bitcoin, tells a different story. As one of the best-performing funds in the space, it has shown that reliable performance and BTC can go hand in

Why Grayscale’s New Digital Currency Ad Could Bring Crypto Investing To Millions

This morning Grayscale, the world’s largest provider of cryptocurrency investment vehicles, temporarily turned its attention away from hoovering up the supply of Bitcoin to focus on arguably the most intractable problem in all of crypto: getting your stubborn friends and family on board.  Last Friday Grayscale founder and CEO Barry Silbert teased a massive ad buy on Twitter with the intention to “brrring crypto to the masses” — and this morning he delivered, with spots on CNBC, MSNBC, FOX, and FOX Business, among others. The Grayscale blog, meanwhile, pitches the

California Attorney General’s Office Issues Crypto Scam Warning

Xavier Becerra, Attorney General (AG) for the State of California, released a warning for investors and consumers on Friday, highlighting the rise in digital asset scams. The warning provides guidance and caution, given the substantial number and variety of scams that have plagued the cryptocurrency market. The apparent impetus for the announcement may be linked to the most recent scam perpetrated by hackers on Twitter. Several high-profile accounts were breached, promising double returns on whatever was sent. However, the scam was just another in a long line of hoaxes. Per

Bitcoin And Stocks Rally Despite Declining Correlation

Sure, it was loosely correlated for a while there, but by now, bitcoin and the crypto markets are once again able to claim independence from the traditional markets. In short, and even though measuring correlation can be quite complex, I think this graph pretty much sums it up. What we’re seeing here is the 90-day Pearson correlation between bitcoin and the S&P 500 since 2011. We can clearly see earlier this year, where the correlation spiked up to 0.6 due to the multi-asset early-pandemic sell-off. By now, however, we’re once

mStable DeFi Guide: Ultimate Stablecoin Solution

mStable is a newly launched DeFi protocol aimed at streamlining the application of stablecoins in a unified ecosystem it aims to create. There are many projects that seek to increase the adoption of cryptos by linking them to traditional financial systems. Stablecoins, for one, have been created to do just that. Using blockchain and smart contracts, the crypto community has devised a way to make digital asset representation of fiat currencies. But even behind the recent developments surrounding stablecoins, a concern still remains: the assets that back the number of