Milk Road has acquired Bitcoin Price! Milk Road is the #1 crypto newsletter that is free and will make you smarter about crypto! | | | 📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary | Current Bitcoin Price: $22,047 | Bitcoin price has bounced back to the $22,000 level to begin Tuesday, following the release of the latest consumer price index numbers. | Top-20 altcoins have recovered slightly over the last 24 hours, as Ether gains 4%, BNB also rises 4% and Cardano leads with a 9% bounce. | Top Stories for February 14, 2022 🔥 | | Bitcoin has reached a new all-time high of 44 million non-zero addresses, thanks to the launch of Ordinals – non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on the Bitcoin blockchain – according to data from Glassnode. | This surge has led to an uptick in Bitcoin network usage and a growth in the user base beyond investment and monetary transfer use cases. | While Ordinals is competing for block space demand, it has not led to a significant increase in Bitcoin transaction fees. The technology behind Ordinals was enabled by the Taproot soft fork of November 2021, and there have been over 78,400 NFT-like images and videos inscribed so far. | | Germany's third-largest publicly traded company, Siemens, has issued its first digital bond worth €60 million ($64 million) on the Polygon blockchain, with a maturity of one year. | The bond can be sold directly to investors without requiring a bank intermediary, reducing paperwork and reaching out to potential purchasers directly. | The Electronic Securities Act, which allows for the sale of blockchain-based debt, came into force in Germany in June 2021. The move toward blockchain-based securities is expected to help execute transactions faster and more efficiently. | | NFT marketplace Blur is set to close a funding round with a billion-dollar valuation, according to sources. Initially, Blur had been seeking to raise $15-30 million with a $700 million valuation, but the raise quickly became oversubscribed, driving the price higher. | The news of the funding round coincides with the launch of Blur's native token, but the company has not commented on the matter. In March 2022, the company raised $11 million in seed funding from Paradigm, eGirl Capital, 0xMaki and LedgerStatus. | | Milk Road covers Armstrong’s 4 reasons why staking isn’t a security, all eyez on BUSD, Coinbase’s QR cose Super Bowl legacy and Hackers go phishing for MetaMask users. |
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