{"id":46590,"date":"2025-09-09T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=46590"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:31:44","slug":"easygroup-launches-bitcoin-app-for-u-s-retail-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=46590","title":{"rendered":"easyGroup Launches Bitcoin App for U.S. Retail Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>easyGroup, the company behind easyJet and easyHotel, is entering crypto with the launch of easyBitcoin.app, a mobile platform built with Uphold to make buying and holding bitcoin (BTC) simpler for retail users, the company said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/easygroup-launches-easybitcoin-app-for-everyday-users-302549343.html\">press release<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as bitcoin trades near record highs and surveys show rising confidence in the asset. The world&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency was trading around $112,650 at publication time.<\/p>\n<p>A study commissioned by Uphold found 88% of U.S. respondents trust bitcoin to grow their wealth over the next decade, with 39% ranking it among their top three investments, ahead of gold and just behind real estate. Despite this, nearly half said trading remains too complex.<\/p>\n<p>easyBitcoin aims to lower barriers with incentives including a 1% welcome bonus on recurring buys, 2% annual rewards for long-term holders and 4.5% APY on USD balances paid out in bitcoin, backed by $2.5 million in FDIC insurance, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting in bitcoin has felt like an exclusive club, out of reach for the general public with very high transaction costs,&#8221; said easyGroup founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, in the release. \u201cWith easyBitcoin, we want to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uphold commissioned a survey of 1,001 U.S. respondents, aged between 25\u201350, all holding at least a university degree, and earning a minimum of $80,000 per annum, between June and July this year.<\/p>\n<p>A U.K. version of the app is planned for later this year, easyGroup said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>easyGroup, the company behind easyJet and easyHotel, is entering crypto with the launch of easyBitcoin.app, a mobile platform built with Uphold to make buying and holding bitcoin (BTC) simpler for retail users, the company said in a press release Tuesday. The move comes as bitcoin trades near record highs and surveys show rising confidence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-46590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}