Although the first wave of crypto adopters tried their best to use Bitcoin (BTC) as cryptocurrency in their daily shopping, it seems the fate of Bitcoin is that of digital gold.

Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire investor turned Bitcoin evangelist, today said that the “path forward from here is north” for the crypto.

CoinShares chair Danny Masters told CNBC the financial landscape has changed to the point where not having exposure to bitcoin could be a riskier move for portfolio managers than investing in it.

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Niall Ferguson, economic historian, said Biden’s administration should consider bitcoin as an alternative to a “Chinese-style digital dollar.”

Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) and the UAE's central bank jointly published a report to show the key benefits of a central bank-digital currency.

According to one of the persons, the first stablecoin would be dollar-backed, while other planned single-currency and multi-currency stablecoins would be launched later.

The institutional fund in particular appears to capture high-rollers’ spiking interest in bitcoin.

Christine Sadler, a Fidelity executive, said factors such as COVID and more productive regulation have made 2020 a defining year for bitcoin adoption.

Japanese financial giant SBI is launching a crypto lending service via its subsidiary SBI VC trade. The service will allow users to earn interest on their crypto.

The firm compared the cryptocurrency to the companies on the S&P 500 and found Bitcoin was less volatile than 112 of them in a 90 day period.