Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin retreated from a brief spell above $27,000 on Saturday, as uncertainty in the market remained high to start the weekend. The global cryptocurrency market was marginally higher to start the weekend, trading 0.42% higher as of writing. Ethereum...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Fluent Finance, a US-based startup that aims to bridge banking and Web3, has announced that it will partner with the Ministry of Economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop deposit token-based tech. The company, which takes advantage of the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A new documentary delving into 3D firearm printing and Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson is set to release. Directed by Jessica Solce and produced by Encode Productions and the Samourai Wallet team, the film will digitally debut on October 21,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On October 3, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres denied the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) interlocutory appeal of her July 13 decision. Judge Torres’ decision marked another public defeat for the SEC, and if you havenȁ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Moscow Exchange, the largest exchange in Russia, has announced plans to issue real estate digital assets in 2024. According to Sergei Kharinov, director of digital assets for the platform, this will lower the entry barrier for qualified and unqua...
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged the former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital with fraud. The regulator accused Stephen Ehrlich and the company of luring investors with promises of high-yield returns wh...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has initiated a pilot for a second use case of its wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC), focusing on the call money market. The Indian central bank reportedly plans to expand its...
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Mastercard says its new solution that enables central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to be tokenized or wrapped onto different blockchains provides consumers with “a new option to participate in commerce across multiple blockchains with increa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Shenzhen has become home to an industrial park established to promote China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC). Several financial companies are already settling there, the Chinese megacity announced while unveiling almost a dozen initiatives to b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On October 6, 2023, Thorswap halted its services temporarily. However, the platform recently declared its return to full operation with some notable modifications. An array of approximately twelve countries are now barred from utilizing Thorswap, whi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The stablecoin landscape has been stagnant for the last two months, barely exceeding $123 billion as we approach the third week of October. Even though fiat-pegged token trading saw a spike this week, on October 13, stablecoin transactions made up 22...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, known as GBTC, has witnessed a significant shift in its market dynamics. In January 2023, GBTC traded at a significant 48.31% discount to its net asset value (NAV). Today, that gap has narrowed to 16.59%, indicating...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Dogecoin was a notable mover on Friday, as the meme coin rebounded from a key support point. The move came after two consecutive days of declines, pushing price near a two-month low. Solana also ended a losing streak in today’s session. Dogecoin (DO...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
This week, the iris-scanning Worldcoin project introduced a state bridge into its framework. This feature enables users to create and link their own bridge with the global identity, World ID, and any blockchain that’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin ended a five-day losing streak on Friday, as the cryptocurrency appears to have found an interim price floor. This comes as traders continued to react to yesterday’s U.S. inflation report, which remained unchanged at 3.7%. Ethereum als...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A Nigerian court recently convicted and fined a peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto trader accused of running a pig butchering scam. According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the crypto trader’s activities were “contrary to and pun...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A recent report published by River, a Bitcoin technology and financial services company, has revealed that the Lightning Network, a scaling layer for Bitcoin, has grown by 1,212% in two years. River’s estimation comes from examining operators o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. Imagine a world where technology not only meets financial innovation but also crafts a future where transactions are not merely conducted but are optimized for user benefit and technological advancement. This is not a distant dream but...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Decentralized finance (defi) brings risks for investors but is yet to pose “meaningful risks” to financial stability, according to Europe’s securities watchdog. The agency believes, however, the phenomenon deserves attention in light of the EU’s new...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and current CEO of Square Inc., is contributing $1 million to support the launch of a pilot program for guaranteed basic income in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. According to the city, applicants will be selec...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Banking giant JPMorgan Chase has debuted its blockchain-based collateral settlement system. Blackrock became the first client to use JPMorgan’s Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN). The world’s largest asset manager used the system to convert sha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Seven U.S. senators have called on the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to “implement the proposed crypto broker reporting rule as rapidly as possible.” The lawmakers stressed: “We are alarmed by the self-inflicted two-year...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Coinbase’s chief legal officer has called on U.S. Congress to pass sensible crypto legislation following reports that Hamas has amassed millions in cryptocurrency amid the escalating Middle East conflict. “We need this industry flourishing in n...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Grocery chain Trader Joe’s filed a lawsuit this month against the decentralized exchange (dex) platform Trader Joe for trademark infringement. The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, alleges that Trader Joe illegally copied the Trader Joe’s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
In a recent courtroom showdown, Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, provided key insights into the operations of FTX and its alleged improprieties. Her revelations, documented by Inner City Press correspondent Matthew Russell Lee, c...
