Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Hexens, a cybersecurity boutique and blockchain startup, announced the closure of a $4.2 million seed round led by IOSG Ventures, the leading Web3 Venture Capital.
Other investors include Delta Blockchain Fund, ChapterOne VC, Hash Capi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
After it slipped to a rate of about 12:1, the Ghanaian cedi became the latest African currency to touch a new low versus the U.S. dollar, albeit on the unofficial foreign exchange market. Having started 2022 trading around 6.25 per dollar, the cedi h...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The city of Curitiba, in Brazil, is now studying the possibility of accepting cryptocurrency payments for taxes. Noemia Rocha, a city councilor for Curitiba, presented this project to the executive to study the method by which the municipality could...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
South Korean prosecutors investigating a $7.22 billion money laundering case are reportedly seeking to acquire virtual currency tracking software to be used in monitoring crypto transactions. South Korean financial authorities also believe there is a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Macau, one of China’s special administrative regions, recently concluded discussing a bill that seeks to make digital currencies legal tender, a report has said. The report also suggested that individuals who reject or refuse to accept legal t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Conference Board has found that 98% of chief executives surveyed are preparing for a U.S. recession while 99% of CEOs are preparing for an EU recession. “CEO confidence sunk further to start Q4 and is at its lowest level since the Great Rec...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, expects the price of bitcoin to go up when the Stablecoin Transparency Act passes, which he believes could be soon after the November midterm elections. O’Leary emphasized that crypto cann...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Gold bug and economist Peter Schiff says there are two possible outcomes of the Federal Reserve’s action on the U.S. economy. One outcome leads to “a massive financial crisis and severe recession” as stocks, bonds, and real estate c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Spacex CEO Elon Musk says that his company will “keep funding” the government of Ukraine for free even though Starlink is losing money, noting that it has cost Spacex $80 million so far to provide internet terminals and services to Ukrain...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
It’s been five months since the Terra ecosystem collapsed as tens of billions of dollars in value disappeared from the crypto economy in a matter of days after May 7. Terra’s new Phoenix blockchain managed to restart the ecosystem to so...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has set out to support crypto miners through a lending program established by its mining pool. Presenting the initiative this week, the coin trading platform also unveiled that Binance Pool intends to launch cloud mini...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is still struggling for its metaverse app Horizon Worlds to find its intended audience. The company, that presented a video of full new avatars, including feet this week, was criticized due to the prepare...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
While the euro has found support between 0.96 to 0.97 nominal U.S. dollars per unit, foreign exchange (FX) strategists from Citi believe the euro could tap a low of around $0.86 against the greenback. While the dollar slumped on October 13, the fiat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Girles Token is a decentralized NFT GameFi token created on the Ethereum platform that also has a Proof-of-Staking protocol. The Girles Token is the main product in the Girles Metaverse, which has applications in over 15 different products. Girles To...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Following the largest difficulty increase the Bitcoin network has seen in 2022, the network’s hashrate has not been affected by the 13.55% increase. In fact, five days ago at block height 758,138, the network’s computational power surpa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In this edition of the Bitcoin.com News week in Review: never-before-seen notations discovered from Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, an update on progress toward the next Bitcoin halving event, Mad Money’s Jim Cramer challenging crypto investo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to a Consensys blog post published on October 11, the Ethereum-based wallet Metamask has added instant bank-to-crypto transfers via the automated clearing house (ACH) settlement merchant Sardine.
Metamask Users Can Swap Fiat for Over 30 Cry...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Japanese yen’s exchange rate versus the U.S. dollar recently plunged to its lowest rate in 32 years β 147.66 JPY per dollar. The yen’s latest fall comes less than a month after its slip in September prompted authorities to enter forei...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Complying with the latest EU sanctions targeting Russia, well-known cryptocurrency platforms like Localbitcoins, Blockchain.com, and Crypto.com have started to restrict or terminate services for Russian accounts. The moves follow the adoption of new...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bank of America has found that younger wealthy Americans are 7.5 times more likely to hold crypto in their portfolios than investors aged 43 and older. “If the youngest cohort isnβt confident in stocks, where do they see opportunities for inves...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack has confirmed that he still owns bitcoin. While admitting that it is hard for him to understand why crypto has value, the former executive believes that 50 years from now, crypto could be “a huge way that mon...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A U.S. senator has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue crypto regulations now “through a transparent notice-and-comment regulatory process.” He stressed that “some digital assets are securities, others ma...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Experts from an economic institute in China have circulated the idea of creating a blockchain-powered digital currency that could lower Asiaβs reliance on the greenback. The initiative comes against the backdrop of an expanding digital yuan pilot, an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to a report from a pro-democracy group in Hong Kong, Paypal HK has reportedly stopped processing payments for the League of Social Democrats (LSD). The pro-democracy group said that they were “stunned” to hear the news...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Well over a decade ago, on January 3, 2009, the size of the Bitcoin blockchain was 0.285 kilobytes (kB) or around 285 bytes. Today, however, the blockchain’s ledger is nearly half a terabyte, or roughly 432 gigabytes.
Bitcoin’s Blockcha...