The interest rate outlook has gotten appreciably softer over the past couple of weeks.
BTC hits three-month as Nasdaq futures point to continued risk aversion in stocks and the anti-risk Japanese yen strengthens against the U.S. dollar.
The South African alternative investment firm has bought one bitcoin.
The new lending product allows Bitcoin holders to access liquidity without selling their assets.
Rootstock’s aim is to end Bitcoin’s “isolation” from other chains due to its lack of native smart contracts.
Bitcoin entered the final stretch of its weekly cycle and could bottom soon, a well-followed trader said.
Institutional investors bought $38.7 billion worth of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the fourth quarter, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed.
Ales Michl had previously proposed the Czech National Bank consider bitcoin as a reserve asset.
Recent U.S. regulatory filings are show a broadening in the base of buyers for bitcoin ETFs.
Mining economics came under pressure as the network hashrate rose while the bitcoin price fell, the report said.