Changpeng Zhao, the head of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges BINANCE, expressed the opinion that cryptocurrencies will become a shared future and urged everyone to accept digital assets.

"If you don't want to be left out in the future, you will have to embrace it," Zhao said at the 10th Asian Leadership Conference 2019 in South Korea.

Well-known cryptocurrency enthusiast Tom Lee expressed the opinion that the return of Bitcoin to $ 8,000 after falling to $ 6,400 is a clear sign of the end of a "cryptocurrency winter".

Tom Lee immediately presented 13 reasons for the end of the bear market, and one of the main reasons he called the return of Bitcoin to $ 8,000. According to the co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, this confirms the bullish trend in the cryptocurrency market.

According to the new index of the analytical web platform Indexica, the current growth rate of Bitcoin is due to its development and maturity as an asset.

Analysts have identified three main factors of the growth rate of Bitcoin: popularity in the network, reducing concerns about fraud, as well as a change in the attitude of people to the first cryptocurrency. At the same time, researchers noted that more and more financial experts and scientists are discussing Bitcoin, and traditional financial institutions are starting to take this asset more seriously.

The Governor of the French Central Bank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that the stablecoins have more potential than Bitcoin.

According to Bloomberg, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, in addition, believes that cryptocurrencies tied to fiat money, will benefit the global financial apparatus. 

Joseph Lubin said that the blockchain scalability of Ethereum would grow 1,000 times in the next two years.

Co-founder of Ethereum expressed his opinion in an interview with Cointelegraph last weekend. Lubin specified that such a significant increase in scalability will be ensured by the next iteration of the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain network. He explained that the development divided into four stages and that eight groups are already creating clients for the new chain. 

The famous cryptocurrency enthusiast and head of Galaxy Digital, Michael Novogratz, said that Bitcoin is only a means of storing wealth, and the world will change Web 3.0.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued a startup that promised crowdfunding participants a smart backpack, but instead spent money to buy BTC and pay for credit cards.

The lawsuit states that Douglas Monahan and his company iBackPack of Texas raised $ 800,000 to "develop several products," including a smart backpack with batteries for charging phones and laptops. However, instead of releasing the iBackpack, as the FTC claims, Monahan was spending money "on personal goals." The commission also claims that Monahan threatened displeased customers on the Internet.

After hacking of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, which resulted in 7,000 BTC stolen, founder of Tron Justin San announced his intention to make a deposit on Binance in the amount of USD 40 million.

"To support Binance, I will personally deposit 7000 BTC worth USDT (40 million USDT) into Binance to buy BNB, BTC, TRX, & BTT if CZ agrees. No need to FUD! Funds are #SAFU," he wrote on Twitter.

One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, reported a burglary, as a result of which hackers were able to obtain some user data and withdraw 7,000 BTC from the hot wallet of the exchange.

The official report says that the attackers managed to get hold of a significant number of API-keys of users, as well as codes of two-factor authentication. Perhaps they were able to obtain other user data.

Mati Greenspan, a senior analyst at eToro, expressed the opinion that for Bitcoin growth, it is not necessary that the Bitcoin ETF is approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

"The idea of the SEC approving a Bitcoin ETF is basically saying that the government is going to approve something that the banks made. I don't think Bitcoin cares very much about that," Greenspan said.

Amber Baldet, former CEO of JP Morgan, said that decentralized applications should be easy to use, and users do not need to know about the underlying technology.

According to Amber Baldet, users do not need to know exactly how the application works. For them, the ease of use and the functions provided by the application are important, not the blockchain on which it was created.

Japan Minister of Finances and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso called on journalists to stop using the term "virtual currencies" and opt for "crypto assets".

Taro Aso gave a speech at a press conference after the government meeting. The full transcript of questions and answers dated March 26 was published by the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) on April 25th, along with an English translation.

The founder of Morgan Creek Digital, Anthony Pompliano, believes that Bitcoin can show parabolic growth for five years.

"Bitcoin is the only $95 billion market cap asset I have ever seen that has a realistic chance of a 20-50x increase in value over a 5 year period," Pompliano wrote on the social network Twitter.

Professor INSEAD and co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) Don Tapscott said that the Yuan - the official Chinese currency - will become a cryptocurrency.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Tapscott said that he recently met with the vice-chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. The official stressed that the Secretary General of China, Xi Jinping, sees great potential in the blockchain technology and believes that it can play one of the most important roles in the future of the state.

The head of Bakkt, the platform for institutional clients, Kelly Loeffler: "race day" is nearing, the platform is waiting only for approval of an application from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Initially, it was expected that the Bakkt platform would be launched at the beginning of this year, but the start was postponed due to the lack of approval by the company from US regulators. However, the company's management still believes in the launch of the platform already this year.

Clem Chambers, general manager of the ADVFN financial market website, believes that the cryptocurrency winter is over and the price of Bitcoin will rise to $ 10,000 by the end of the year.

"All last year I said that Bitcoin would fall to $ 2.500. As a result, his quotes stopped at $ 3.000. Now he started to grow and I think his first goal is $ 6.000, and then $ 10.000," he said in interview to Forbes. "At the moment, we can safely say that the cryptocurrency winter is over. Here is my forecast."

The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, supported Bitcoin SV delisting occurring on several exchanges.

Vitalik replied to a Twitter user post with the nickname @Nic__Carter, who wrote:

"If fraud from the chief promoters is sufficient reason for a delisting from Binance... almost everything should be delisted"

The head of Xapo expressed the opinion that every responsible investor should invest at least 1% of his investment portfolio in Bitcoin, because the first cryptocurrency can affect the world more than the Internet.

Wences Casares stressed that if you invest in Bitcoin, for example, 1% of the $ 10 million portfolio, this investment can bring up to $ 25 million in 7-10 years. According to the head of Xapo, the rate of the first cryptocurrency may well reach $ 1 million in a specified period of time. If Bitcoin disappears, then the loss will be only $ 100,000.