When some of the most respected people on Wall Street make comments like that, it “takes a huge element of mainstream out of the market,” says Innes. Essentially, these heavy hitters were telling their minions that bitcoin wasn’t worth their time.
The funding was intended as the first step towards a future IPO, which Binance still claims is on the cards. Notably, Brooks lost out on the Coinbase IPO when he left to join the OCC. When he took on the OCC role in April 2020, he received $4.6 million for canceling his Coinbase options contract. Just a year later, the stock owned by Paul Grewal, his Coinbase replacement, was worth $300 million when Coinbase was listed.

The electric carmaker said in May that it would no longer accept the cryptocurrency for purchases. It's been a wild ride for bitcoin the last three years. The digital currency made its big Wall Street debut in December 2017, when the major futures exchanges rolled out Bitcoin futures. The attention drove Bitcoin to roughly $19,300, a then-unheard of price for the currency. btc $65693 -4.23% eth $4774.08 -1.74% bnb $632.28 -3.9% usdt $1.01 +0.44% sol $242.28 -0.37% ada $2.12 -6.28% xrp $1.23 -7.36% dot $48.77 -4.89% doge $0.263971 -3.87% usdc $1 -0.07% shib $5.615E-5 +8.91% luna $51.36 -0.26% AVAX $88.34 -1.96% ltc $269.85 -6.67% link $36.02 -4.49% Rank Name Price Market cap Volume Supply 24h Change Last 7 Days Updated less than an 5 minutes ago 1 BEINNEWS ACADEMY LTD © STREET: SUITE 1701 – 02A, 17/F, 625 KING’S ROAD, NORTH POINT. HONG KONG.
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