The last few days have been busy to the digital assets market. The bitcoin bull market, the green light for the Bakkt and the launch of a wallet by the Japanese Amazon were some of the week’s highlights. See how was the reaction on Twitter.
Bakkt has won approval from US regulators to trade physically-settled bitcoin futures, a move many believe would legitimize the cryptocurrency industry before institutional investors. https://t.co/GYTF0SljFI
— Bitcoinist.com (@bitcoinist) August 16, 2019
The founder of cyber security company John McAfee, responded a tweet from President Donald Trump about his popularity. In an ironic tone, the libertarian celebrated his freedom and announced an air drop of 500 bitcoins and 5000 ethers.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2019
The user Vivek, in response to Anthony Pompliano, finds it very unlikely that the bitcoin loses the dominance of the digital assets market.
Bitcoin is the largest market cap cryptocurrency today. It is unlikely that will change any time soon. The network effects are too strong. The brand awareness is too strong. And since money is a belief system, too many people believe Bitcoin will be the winner.💯💯@APompliano
— Vivek (@Vivek4real_) August 19, 2019
Rakuten, Japan1’s largest e-commerce company, has launched a wallet that allows its users to exchange bitcoins.
Japan’s largest e-commerce company just launched a cryptocurrency wallet for users to trade bitcoin.
Rakuten is referred to as “the Amazon of Japan”. They have over a billion users, now with access to buy bitcoin! — Rhythm (@Rhythmtrader) August 19, 2019
Binance would be preparing the Venus project, to rival the Facebook Libra and develop stablecoins located worldwide.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗜𝗚!
Binance is ready to dominate the world with by launching Project “𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘴” and Rival Facebook’s Libra, by developing localized stablecoins worldwide! Don’t bet against Bitcoin, and don’t bet against B… – @cz_binance 🔥🔥$BNB #Crypto $BTC $ETH pic.twitter.com/3dHarkfJDO — CryptosBatman ⚡ (@CryptosBatman) August 19, 2019
The previous bull market lasted 152 weeks. The current has only 20 weeks of life and the bitcoin has reached US$ 13,900.
The previous bull market lasted 152 weeks
That’s 1064 days Almost 3 years We are only 20 weeks into the new bull market And already #Bitcoin reached $13,900 And Altcoins haven’t even started their new cycle yet$BTC #Crypto — Rekt Capital (@rektcapital) August 19, 2019