Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
One of the largest banks in Germany by total assets, DZ Bank, has launched a crypto custody platform. Additionally, the bank disclosed that alongside its solution for institutional customers, it is working on “an offer that allows private custo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s former head of internet enforcement has predicted a “big win” for the SEC in the lawsuit involving Terraform Labs. The ex-SEC official also expects District Judge Jed Rakoff t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Financial services giant Fidelity has addressed nine common Bitcoin criticisms and misconceptions, emphasizing that some of them are “either unfounded or unlikely to be a serious concern.” They include volatility, suitability as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on all charges in the Department of Justice’s fraud case against the ex-FTX chief, but his legal woes are far from over. He is also under pressure from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
This week, Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by trading volume, announced the introduction of a tether (USDT) earning program with up to a 13% annual percentage yield (APR). Binance’s USDT earn product joins a slew of other d...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Regional reports from Kazakhstan indicate that Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges globally, has been blocked as it reportedly “violates paragraph 5 of Article 11 of the Digital Assets Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan.” Essentially,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin has surged over 24% against the U.S. dollar this month, and on November 7, 2023, an intriguing event took place: two dormant bitcoin addresses from 2010 were activated and transferred roughly 100 BTC, valued at $3.4 million according to the c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Stablecoins, the crypto assets crafted to mirror the stability of fiat currency, have encountered over 600 significant instances of price instability in 2023, as per Moody’s Analytics. A ‘depeg’ or ‘depegging’ event...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Tuesday, the BRC20 token, dubbed ordinals (ORDI), soared over 40% against the U.S. dollar, fueled by news from Binance about its impending inclusion on the exchange’s roster of traded currencies. ORDI rocketed from an early 24-hour low of $...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
South Africa’s Old Mutual Wealth and financial services provider Inves Capital recently revealed plans to inject liquidity into the ZARP stablecoin network. Inves Capital’s managing director said “crypto is entering a new phase̶...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. Zug, Switzerland – SwissGold Crypto AG, a Swiss-regulated crypto issuer, introduces a novel solution to the wealth preservation challenge in times of inflation and uncertainty: gold-backed non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Gold’s enduring st...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
In a groundbreaking development for the world of finance and investment, the Cogwise AI team has unveiled a cutting-edge feature that is poised to change the way traders make decisions. The innovative “AI News Aggregator” integrates advan...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is considering using the digital yuan to settle services and commodities trades with Hong Kong. According to Di Gang, deputy director-general of the Digital Currency Institute of the PBOC, this would help compa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The decentralized finance (defi) protocol Aave’s so-called guardian said on Nov. 4 it had paused the Aave V2 Ethereum Market and frozen “certain assets on Aave V3 on Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism.” At the time when the upda...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Hut 8, a public Bitcoin mining company, announced it has been cleared to issue a “stalking horse” bid for several natural gas power plants and a Bitcoin mining site. The Canada-based miner hopes to integrate these services to expand its b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up the Coinbase case concerning whether the crypto exchange can force users to settle disputes through private arbitration, rather than in court. The case stems from a dogecoin (DOGE) sweepstakes in which use...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
After a quiet period post-September 15, Bitcoin transaction backlogs are surging anew, with a noticeable resurgence of Ordinal inscriptions starting October 24. The number of pending bitcoin transactions in the mempool has surpassed 157,000, promptin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of Ark Investment Management, has an optimistic outlook on bitcoin’s future and she recently shared her enthusiasm on Bloomberg’s “Merryn Talks Money” podcast. In the conversation,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Statistical forecasts suggest that the final bitcoin is expected to be mined by the year 2140, over a century from now, with an estimated 1,465,093.73 BTC still awaiting discovery. This finite supply is set to render bitcoin exceedingly rare. Meanwhi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Sunday’s anticipated Halloween special, The Simpsons unveiled its thirty-fourth “Treehouse of Horror” episode, showcasing Bart’s transformation into a non-fungible token (NFT) by Homer. In a twist of events, Mar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin’s stability appears to be holding as the price consolidates around $35,140, showing a modest 24-hour trading range. Despite recent fluctuations, market sentiment remains cautiously optimistic, with key technical indicators providing a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
As the year 2023 winds down with just 55 days remaining, bitcoin mining has surged in profitability, with a return of $76 in daily earnings for every petahash per second (PH/s) as of November 5. A mining device capable of 200 terahash per second (TH/...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is reportedly planning to expand the purview of its supervision of virtual assets to include entities that issue stablecoins. The Hong Kong regulator said it also wants to create a framework that governs banks’ provis...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. A group of attorneys and blockchain engineers are building a new Bitcoin fork blockchain using an emerging legal enforcement protocol that bridges the blockchain to state and federal courts. Called Jurat, the protocol enables capabilit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
According to onchain analyst Zachxbt, hackers got away with more than $768,000 after sneaking a counterfeit Ledger Live application into the Microsoft App Store. Out of the stolen stash, the attack netted over 16.8 bitcoins worth $588,000. Hackers St...
