Cryptocurrencies have already cconquered many people’s trust. However, there are those who still have doubts about their future. To show just how much bitcoin is promising, the Think Outside the Blox website has listed 39 facts that prove how much worth investing in this market.
The 39 reasons
- The NYSE is creating the Bakkt Cryptocurrency trading platform in collaboration with Microsoft and Starbucks with physically supported bitcoin futures contracts.
- Fidelity offers bitcoin to its customers and has mined it since 2015.
- Steve Wozniak is the co-founder of a crypto investment company.
- Katy Perry posted a picture on the Instagram with nails painted with cryptocurrencies
- Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and Mozilla, launched the Brave Browser with an integrated ad blocker and Basic Attention Token (BAT) to reward creators.
- Amazon Web Services partnered with QTUM.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is using the Ripple protocol to help pay services for the poorest and without access to banking services.
- IBM has partnered with Stellar Lumens (XLM) for cross-border payment solutions.
- Jamie Dimon tells everyone that bitcoin is a “fraud” and that if he gets any employee who owns it, he will fire him. However, the JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley funds plunged into the purchase of bitcoin ETNs.
- The MLB is launching a blockchain based game using the ERC-721 standard for non-fungible tokens.
- George Soros initially criticized cryptocurrencies, to later buy bitcoin at US$ 6,000.
- Alibaba and IBM are the companies that most hold blockchain patents in the world.
- Yale’s endowment fund invested US$ 400 million in crypto assets.
- The Winklevoss twins received US$ 11 million of their money from Facebook and put it on bitcoin in 2013. At the time, each BTC was worth US$ 120.
- John McAfee bet his masculinity that bitcoin is going to the moon.
- Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, thinks bitcoin is the currency of the future.
- Richard Branson thinks that bitcoin will bring about an economic revolution.
- Goldman-Sachs backed Circle has launched a crypto firm.
- Square’s Cash App allowed users to buy and sell bitcoins.
- Coinbase is valued at US$ 8 billion.
- The founder of YouTube and the founder of Twitch are recommending Theta Token (THETA).
- Bitmain is on track for US$ 10 billion in revenue this year, after about US$ 4 billion last year.
- Binance profited more in the second quarter of 2018 than Deutsche Bank.
- Reddit’s co-founder (and husband of Serena Williams), Alexis Ohanian, is betting on bitcoin as a hedge for economic crisis.
- Blockchains, LLC has purchased 60,000 acres for its company, which will incubate and innovate blockchain-based ventures based on Ethereum.
- The co-founder of Wikipedia is now working on its decentralized exchange, Everipedia (IQ).
- Akon is launching its own crypto-currency, Akoin, to help bring security to the monetary system in Africa.
- Ashton Kutcher donated US$ 4 million in XRP to Ellen DeGeneres charity. He made the transfer in a matter of seconds.
- Chamath Palihapitiya, co-owner of the Golden State Warriors basketball team, has invested in bitcoin early and thinks the asset will be worth US$ 1 million.
- Plastic Bank is helping developing countries win crypto coins, while also solving the problem of plastic ocean pollution.
- The Robinhood investment app offers free crypto purchase.
- Steve Bannon, former Trump strategist, is betting on bitcoin. In addition, it is launching its own crypto-currency.
- Bill Clinton spoke at the Swell Conference in support of Ripple and blockchain technology.
- Trump’s former adviser and Gary Cohn of Goldman Sachs is joining a blockchain startup.
- The NFL bought a stake in the startup blockchain SportsCastr.
- The NBA is increasingly crypto as the Sacramento Kings mines ether, Bitmain sponsors the Houston Rockets. In addition, former Commissioner David Stern supports FanChain.
- Rockefeller’s venture capital firm Venrock is also investing in crypto-coins.
- Overstock.com goes completely crypto.
- And finally: Crypto-Coins can help end poverty and give financial freedom to those with financial needs.
