Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 hours ago
Bitcoin rebounded strongly on Wednesday, as U.S. indices continued to fall ahead of a potential government shutdown. The U.S. government could run out of money later this week, if a deal is not reached to increase funding. Ethereum also rebounded hig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 hours ago
The Bank of Tanzania said on Sept. 25 that it has kickstarted an initiative that seeks to boost the country’s foreign exchange reserves by buying gold with local currency. The bank said its objective is to acquire six tonnes of gold from miners...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 hours ago
PRESS RELEASE. SLOVENIA – Sep 27th, 2023 – NAKA introduces a new decentralized approach to finances, built upon a pioneering blockchain-based payment scheme and a payment card that links to the wallet managed by MetaMask and can be read b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 hours ago
Amazon, the worldwide tech behemoth, has announced that it will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm that has developed Claude, a generative AI assistant. As part of this strategic partnership, Anthropic will tra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 8 hours ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is now accepting new registrations of Belgian users following an interruption caused by regulatory actions against it. In June, the trading platform was ordered to cease providing crypto exchange and custody services i...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 10 hours ago
Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried are making another attempt to have the disgraced FTX founder temporarily released from jail before his October trial, claiming he needs better access to prepare his defense properly.
Lawyers Cite Bankman-Fried’s I...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 12 hours ago
Despite the role it has played in narrowing the financial inclusion gap, the e-naira central bank digital currency still poses a risk to financial stability. In addition to bolstering the financial inclusion rate, the central bank claimed that the CB...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 14 hours ago
Worldcoin, the biometric wallet and ID project, has reported that it has signed up more than 1% of the population of Chile. According to the organization, more than 200,000 Chileans are already using Worldcoin, a popularity uptick shared with other S...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 15 hours ago
A federal judge has issued rulings limiting some arguments the defense can make at Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud trial next month. However, the judge will allow Bankman-Fried’s lawyers to question witnesses about past recreational dr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 17 hours ago
Bitcoin and crypto asset funds currently represent a niche market with an estimated worth of $50 billion, as highlighted by Bernstein Research. Yet, under the leadership of Gautam Chhugani, Bernstein’s team of analysts anticipates these funds m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 19 hours ago
Moneygram, a leading money transfer company, announced plans to launch its own non-custodial digital wallet in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation. The wallet will enable users to convert between fiat and digital currencies when sendi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 21 hours ago
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned an Ethereum wallet used by the Sinaloa Cartel to launder money from fentanyl sales in the U.S. Mario Alberto Jimenez Castro, an accused money launderer for the ca...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 23 hours ago
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s U.K. division, Chase UK, is putting the brakes on cryptocurrency-related payments. Come October 16, any Chase UK customers attempting to make a bank transfer or card payment linked to crypto will find themselves thwar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Bitcoin cash rose by as much as 5% on Tuesday, as bulls extended recent gains following last week’s consolidation. The token rose for a second consecutive session, moving closer to a resistance level of $225 in the process. BNB also climbed, p...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Casey Rodarmor, creator of Bitcoin Ordinal inscriptions, introduced a new fungible token protocol named Runes in a blog post September 25, 2023. Although uncertain if it’s a “good idea,” Rodarmor believes a robust fungible token pro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Bitcoin rebounded from a multi-week low on Tuesday, as markets awaited the latest consumer confidence report in the United States. The latest figures from the Conference Board are expected to show a slight decline, with a reading of 105.9 in Septembe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Crypto influencer Ben ‘Bitboy’ Armstrong has been reportedly arrested while livestreaming his attempt to confront a former business partner. Excerpts from the Youtube video released on social media show him explaining to police the reasons for his de...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
The U.S. Better Business Bureau (BBB) has issued a warning about a surge in “money-flipping” crypto investment scams on Tiktok. “They may ask for fees several times,” the BBB cautioned, adding that if you question them, “...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
The Hong Kong securities regulator has said it now publishes a list of firms seeking to operate crypto trading platforms in the region. Julia Leung Fung-yee, the CEO of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), said divulging the names of applican...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company, has warned about the future of the U.S. economy and the consequences of the Federal Reserve’s current monetary policy. Thiel noted the possibility of an upcom...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
A controversy surrounding Alex Welch, an alleged spokeswoman of Tether, the company behind USDT, erupted last week as an article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) quoted her as a source for information on the company’s loans. However, Tether CT...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
U.S. presidential candidate Nikki Haley has warned that China is preparing for war and Chinese President Xi Jinping intends to win. “China is an existential threat. It has spent half a century plotting to defeat us,” she stressed, cautioning that Chi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s former head of internet enforcement has called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute more crypto firms. “The stark reality is that the SEC is merely a civil enforcement agency. And un...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
San Francisco-based law firm Fenwick & West LLP is denying allegations from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried that the firm provided legal advice enabling the alleged fraud that led to the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse. In a recent court f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
In just five days, liquid staking platforms saw a surge of 370,000 ether in their ethereum holdings, breaching the 12 million ETH mark—rising from 11.94 million to a notable 12.31 million. Interestingly, Binance’s liquid staking token,...