Crypto Morning News - April 30th
Bitcoin broke $54,000
Bitcoin broke $54,000 and has now fallen back to $53967.77 , a decrease of 0.32% in 24H.
Bangkok real estate developer Ananda Development accepts Bitcoin as payment
Bangkok real estate developer Ananda Development announced that its houses and apartments will accept cryptocurrency payments. CEO Chanond Ruangkritya said that Bitcoin has soared in the past year, reaching a peak of $64,000, which made him interested in the investment trend. The developer has partnered with Thai cryptocurrency exchange Bitkub to allow customers to use BTC, ETH and USDT to purchase properties, including Ideo and Ashton apartments, Unio townhouses and Airi residences.
Intercontinental Exchange has sold all its shares in Coinbase, with a pre-tax profit of $1.23 billion
Intercontinental Exchange said on April 29th that it had sold all its shares in Coinbase (approximately 1.8%) for $1.2 billion. ICE Chief Financial Officer Scott Hill said in the earnings call that total revenue in the first quarter was $18 Billion, an increase of 4% year-on-year. Among them, the first quarter revenue of exchange business was 974 million U.S. dollars and transaction revenue was $653 million. A large proportion of the revenue was composed of energy, interest rate and cash stock business.
BNY Mellon fund laments it should have bought Bitcoin, not gold
According to Cointelegraph, BNY Mellon's ETF has performed poorly recently. The Bank of New York Mellon attributed it to insufficient exposure to companies that invest in Bitcoin, and the decision not to invest in MicroStrategy stocks also affected Its ETF performance. Therefore, the bank stated that Bitcoin should be purchased, not gold.
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Covalent Network announced the launch of the mainnet and launched the block explorer CQTScan
Covalent Network officially announced the launch of the mainnet. Covalent is similar to a virtual blockchain data global cooperation organization, managed by CQT. The network will use Moonbeam Network as the settlement layer. As a governance token, CQT will allow holders to propose proposals, participate in voting, and modify network parameters. At the same time, the official also launched the Covalent Network block explorer CQTScan.
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ARK Fund bought Tesla and Coinbase
According to Jinshi reports, ARK Fund bought Tesla, Coinbase, Pinduoduo, and Tencent stocks.
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Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre allows Bitcoin to buy real estate
According to the official announcement of the Latin American e-commerce platform Mercado Libre, it has opened a cryptocurrency function area to accept customers to buy real estate with Bitcoin. At present, the platform provides 75 properties sold by seven real estate agencies, including houses, apartments, and land in major cities in Argentina and Uruguay. These seven real estate agencies only accept Bitcoin as the only payment method. For details, please click on the original link to view.
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Over 110,000 ETH were transferred from Bitfinex
Whale Alert data shows that at 3:12 on April 30th, 111377.31 ETH were transferred from Bitfinex to an unknown wallet, worth about $305 million, and the transaction hash was 39709603711b7402fcff14bb6599010c2fe2e624a92416ca464a4d7543d806bf.
Coinbase allows U.S. users to use PayPal to buy cryptocurrencies
Coinbase now allows customers in the United States to use PayPal to purchase cryptocurrencies. Coinbase said it is now possible to buy cryptocurrency on Coinbase using debit cards and bank accounts linked to PayPal. Coinbase stated that credit cards and e-checks linked to PayPal cannot be used. According to the exchange's settings page, Coinbase US users can now use Paypal to buy up to $25,000 in cryptocurrency every day, and they will pay nearly 4% of the PayPal dedicated fee for this.
MicroStrategy Q1 Financial Report: Purchased 20,857 Bitcoins for $1.086 billion, with an average cost of US$52087
On April 30th, the US listed company MicroStrategy announced its first quarter 2021 financial report. The financial report shows that in the first quarter of 2021, it purchased a total of approximately 20,857 bitcoins for $1.086 billion, with an average purchase price of $52087 per BTC.
Korea Financial Regulatory Authority will approve a crypto asset fund on May 2nd
According to U.today reports, the Korean Financial Supervisory Authority intends to approve the financial fund launched by Hanwha Asset Management, allowing investors to access crypto assets. The fund will be approved on May 2 and it has not yet revealed which cryptocurrencies investors can use.
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Coinbase Custody has supported Ampleforth Governance Token (FORTH) deposits and withdrawals
On April 29th, Coinbase Custody announced that it now supports Ampleforth Governance token (FORTH) deposits and withdrawals.
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