Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Friday, March 29, 2024, an early bitcoin enthusiast who acquired their holdings in 2012 transferred 100 bitcoins, valued at approximately $6.98 million, at block height 836,813. Roughly 42 blocks later, at block height 836,855, another individual,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
This week, the value of gold soared to an unprecedented peak, hitting $2,233 per troy ounce as of March 29. In contrast, silver has not exhibited the same level of brilliance, with its value standing at $24.97 per troy ounce, a significant 91% declin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Friday, the Avalanche-based options protocol, Arrow Markets, unveiled its successful $4 million Series A fundraising initiative. The global project aiming to “revolutionize crypto options trading” garners support from prominent backers including F...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Ethena, the protocol for the synthetic crypto native dollar, has announced an airdrop of its governance token, ENA, for participants in its shard campaign. The platform has stated that after a 6-week shard operation, 750 million ENA (which is 5% of t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A report issued by TRM Labs indicated that Tether’s USDT, the largest stablecoin in the cryptocurrency industry, was the preferred stablecoin used for illicit transactions during 2023. TRM Labs alleges that 1.6% of USDT’s volume was lin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz has proposed several measures to prevent a U.S. debt spiral. The executive explained that the U.S. debt crisis makes it “so easy to convince people to buy bitcoin and other hard assets.” He emph...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Michael Patryn, co-founder of the now-defunct Quadrigacx cryptocurrency exchange, has been compelled by Canadian officers to explain the origin of his wealth. Patryn must explain how he acquired a stash of 45 gold bars, more than $180,000 in cash, an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In a recent deep dive into Ethereum’s future scalability and infrastructure, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin discusses the latest introduction of blobs and their significant role in the evolution of layer two (L2) rollups. This pivotal deve...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Friday, the producer of bitcoin-specific application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining equipment, Bitmain, unveiled the latest Antminer S21 Pro model during the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS). This new device features a hashrate of app...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Friday, March 29, 2024, the combined open interest in bitcoin futures reached a new all-time peak of $37.55 billion. This uptick occurs amid buoyant bitcoin markets and a growing attraction from institutional investors. Bitcoin Futures Open Intere...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Bucharest, Romania, 29th March 2024: Atlas Navi, a trailblazer in AI-powered navigation, has unveiled Drive2Earn 2.0 — enhancing rewards for drivers as it sets its sights on overtaking Tesla as a market leader in capturing and analyzin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
After Judge James Mellor in the U.K. rendered his decision in the notable lawsuit initiated by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) against Craig Wright, he concluded that Wright did not embody the persona of the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Subs...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
This week, 21.co’s onchain data analyst Tom Wan presented figures revealing that tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds on public blockchains have surpassed the $1 billion mark. The analyst highlighted that Blackrock’s BUIDL experienced significan...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On March 29, 2024, with a trading price of $70,075, and oscillating within a 24-hour range of $68,362 to $71,754, bitcoin’s current market behavior reveals significant consolidation and neutrality. Bitcoin Bitcoin’s 1-hour chart reveals...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
With the dust settling from Thursday’s upsets, attention shifts to an equally promising lineup of games in the South and Midwest Regions, where teams like Marquette, NC State, Houston, and Duke vie for dominance in their quest for the Final Fou...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The U.K. and the U.S. are reviewing tether transactions, valued at $20 billion, processed by the sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. Digital currency transactions and crude oil sales are believed to be a significant source of foreign currenc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Sovryn’s and BOB are offering early users a piece of the new Bitcoin economy. With the Bitcoin Halving less than a month from now, Bitcoin will get two significant technological additions: Rollups, which will allow an increase in user adoption...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to Ricardo Da Ros, CEO of the crypto platform Patex, many crypto users in Latin America (LATAM) seem to prefer using centralized exchanges (CEXs) over decentralized ones. He attributes this preference to a culture in the region that “...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Google has enhanced its search engine to allow users to check their cryptocurrency wallet balances directly by entering the wallet’s address, supporting various blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Polygon, and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The recent surge in Ethereum gas fees can be attributed to the rise in decentralized finance (defi) activity and the growing popularity of layer 2 (L2) chains such as Arbitrum and Optimism, Ken Timsit, managing director of Cronos Labs, has said. Tims...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
SWIFT, the network that provides the messaging system for cross-border banking settlements, has announced plans to launch a CBDC equivalent of its current network in the next two years. The organization recently completed a 6-month test to assess the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is experiencing a surge in trading activity and open interest ahead of its second halving event set for April 4, with open interest in futures perpetual contracts reaching a record high of $708 million, an increase from the previou...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Tether, one of the largest cryptocurrency-based companies, has announced a formal expansion into AI, looking to develop open-source models and setting standards in this new industry. For this task, Tether is opening a global recruitment for “to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The world of esports remains an ever-growing industry, where competitive gaming takes center stage. Gaimin Gladiators ( www.gaimingladiators.gg ), GAIMIN’s (www.gaimin.io) esports team, is making waves with a game-changing move, this time beyond the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Web3 gaming app, Munchables, announced on March 27 that an individual who exploited the system agreed to return the stolen funds without a ransom demand. This announcement came just hours after a former developer siphoned off more than 17,400 ethereu...