Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A new product offering recently launched by Stitch, a South African payment service provider, now enables customers to settle transactions with crypto. According to Stitch, this new functionality makes it possible for customers to pay with bitcoin (B...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Cyber security firm Dwallet Labs said on Nov. 21 that vulnerabilities it found on several Infstones (a validator company) validators a few months ago “meant over $1B of staked assets were compromised.” Infstones has acknowledged the exist...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. London, November 23rd 2023 – Verasity, a leading advertising ecosystem built on open-ledger principles and creators of internationally patented Proof of View technology for preventing ad fraud, today announces the launch of VeraA...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Bank of Ghana recently pointed the finger at eight money transfer organizations which are allegedly operating in Ghana’s remittances and forex market without its approval. The central bank also warned the public and regulated financial inst...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized $9 million in tether (USDT) allegedly linked to “pig butchering” crypto scams. The Justice Department explained that U.S. Secret Service agents and analysts tracked the laundering...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A U.S. lawmaker has urged Congress to pass his bill that would fire U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler. This call followed the securities regulator filing a second lawsuit against crypto exchange Kraken this year afte...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A U.S. lawmaker has called on Congress to focus its efforts on bringing more crypto activity and opportunities to the United States in order to “bolster U.S. national security.” Citing the Department of Justice’s action against crypto exchange Binanc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
KPMG in Canada and Chainalysis have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening efforts against crypto asset fraud. This alliance, marking KPMG’s entry into the Chainalysis Solution Provider program, is focused on providing enha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Following the settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by trading volume, has experienced a significant withdrawal of approximately $1.7 billion in digital assets, as reported by Nansen...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Tuesday, charges against crypto exchange titan Binance Holdings Limited were revealed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which reached a significant $4.316 billion settlement with the world’s largest crypto exchange for noncompliance with an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
In a recent legal move, Digital Currency Group’s (DCG) subsidiary Genesis Global Capital LLC has filed a complaint against the crypto exchange platform and custodian Gemini. Genesis hopes to claw back $689 million from the centralized crypto trading...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. Bit.Store, a pioneer in the Web3 revolution, is delighted to introduce its freshly redesigned website and the official release of the Bit.Store Virtual Crypto Card. With an unwavering commitment to facilitating seamless crypto transact...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Numerous sources have reported that the Heco Bridge, a cross-chain conduit linking Ethereum with the Heco blockchain, has suffered a security breach, resulting in a loss of $86 million. Subsequent to the heist, the stolen funds were redirected to var...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The price of bitcoin is coasting along under the $37K range following the recent settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Binance. At the same time, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s minutes were released on Tuesday showing no sign...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Yellow Card, the Africa-focused crypto exchange, recently won the African financial industry’s 2023 “Disrupter of the Year” award. The crypto exchange’s CEO described the award as a recognition of Yellow Card’s role in &...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
David Marcus, co-founder and CEO of Lightspark, an institutional Lightning Network (LN) payment solutions provider, referred to the state of custodial and non-custodial transactions on the network. While Marcus believes that custodial LN for institut...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Anton Siluanov, the finance minister of Russia, has announced that the Central Bank of Russia will expand the pilot phase of the digital ruble next year to include the execution of still undefined targeted budget expenditures. Digital Ruble to Be Lev...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
According to Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, Argentina’s president-elect Javier Milei is “no anarcho-capitalist.” The former finance minister said Milei’s plan to fight inflation with dollarization &#...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Mastercard is collaborating with Feedzai to “increase crypto fraud protection for hundreds of millions of consumers.” In pairing the technologies offered by the two companies, “Feedzai’s customers, who collectively protect over 900...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has identified 16 crypto tokens as securities in its lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. Some of the alleged crypto securities were the same as those highlighted in the SEC’s lawsui...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has urged investors to prepare for hyperinflation, emphasizing that bitcoin is “your best protection.” He perceives the cryptocurrency as “people’s money,” the value of which cannot be contro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A recent analysis by 0xB10C, a developer and onchain analyst, has uncovered intriguing findings in the Bitcoin network. The study, which focuses on the mining pools’ transaction selection processes, revealed that certain transactions from U.S....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has revealed a landmark settlement involving Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume. Under the agreement, Binance will pay $4.3 billion to settle with the law enforcement aut...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
An Africa-focused remittances firm, Zazuu, has become the latest fintech startup to close shop after it failed to raise extra funding. Zazuu and other African fintechs’ funding problems are said to be linked to the collapse of Silicon Valley Ba...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin’s value has surged by 23% against the U.S. dollar in the past month, but a vast array of altcoins have seen even more substantial gains, outpacing BTC’s monthly rise. Such trends in smaller market cap coins have sparked proclama...
