Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
The Bank of Russia reported that the number of pyramid schemes and illegal lending providers in Russia rose to over 5,700 in 2023, an increase of 15.5% over the number detected in 2022. Specifically, the number of pyramid schemes detected increased b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted rules to require firms that act like dealers to register with the Commission. A lawyer explained that the securities regulator took a shot at decentralized finance (Defi) with the rules, w...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
The crypto industry has responded to criticism from Hillary Clinton, who said that cryptocurrency can undermine the role of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz argued that the only thing that can...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Personal finance expert and best-selling author Dave Ramsey’s firm Ramsey Solutions has maintained that crypto is not a good investment. “We’re not saying cryptocurrency is going to go away. And we’re not saying it’s horrible …...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
On Monday, the Web3 blockchain interoperability platform Analog announced the team has raised $16 million in a funding round from a wide array of venture capitalists and firms including Balaji Srinivasan, Tribe Capital, and Wintermute. Furthermore, A...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the cryptocurrency project Ethereum, has raised an alert on using deepfakes, videos created using artificial intelligence (AI) to try to impersonate human beings, to persuade others about making financial transactions...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
According to the latest data, the countdown to the Bitcoin network’s halving event shows fewer than 10,000 blocks from becoming a reality. Further analysis suggests that the halving is anticipated to take place between April 19 and April 21, 2...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Bitcoin’s spot market value leaped over the $49K threshold on Monday, breaking free from its initial trading confines of the day. The leading digital currency by market cap swiftly reached $50,000, marking a 3.7% increase over the past day and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
In the past week, bitcoin has risen over 10% and ethereum has seen a growth of more than 7%. Meanwhile, several cryptocurrency assets have posted significant double-digit increases. Notably, beam (BEAM) experienced a surge of over 49%, and kaspa (KAS...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
With its price positioned at $2,485, ethereum’s daily fluctuations have ranged from $2,309 to $2,541, highlighting a market that is both dynamic and erratic. The current market capitalization of ether is approximately $299.25 billion, and in t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
As of Feb. 12, 2024, bitcoin displays a robust upward momentum across several charts, underscored by its sharp ascent from $47,593 to $48,814 on Sunday. On the subsequent Monday, bitcoin’s market value reached $939 billion, with a trading volu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Nigeria must fully regulate crypto activities if it wants to curb financial crimes associated with digital assets, a forensic expert has said. The co-founder of A&D Forensics also called on Nigeria to enact laws that would mandate banks to vet se...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Nayib Bukele wins the presidential elections in El Salvador, the Brazilian tax authority finds over 25,000 i...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Disney, one of the biggest entertainment companies, has decided to acquire a $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, makers of the known persistent metaverse platform Fortnite. The companies will collaborate to develop a metaverse featuring Disney-owned in...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Ethereum has shed a significant part of its supply since the London upgrade, applied in August 2021. According to ultrasound.money, a portal that records several statistics associated with the ETH burn, over 4 million ether (3.2%) have been removed f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Since the conclusion of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading sessions on Feb. 9, 2024, the nine freshly launched ETFs have amassed 6,009.49 bitcoin, valued at approximately $288 million. Concurrently, Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Playdapp, a Web3 gaming platform, recently confirmed that it was a victim of a hacking incident which saw criminals mint tokens worth approximately $31 million. Playdapp said it has offered to reward the hackers if they agree to return the stolen ass...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
In recent years, discussions have flourished around the visionary predictions of famed architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, who is said to have anticipated a concept akin to Bitcoin. Similarly, industrial magnate Henry Ford is credited...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
FTX Trading Ltd. and its affiliates have announced a plan to sell a subsidiary it acquired for $10 million to Coinlist for $500,000, court documents filed on Feb. 9, 2024 show. The latest motion, filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Di...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Following a wave of cryptocurrency ads securing airtime for promotions during the 2022 Super Bowl, the subsequent year witnessed an absence of crypto entities airing commercials in the event. The trend is set to continue into 2024, as highlighted by...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
24 days ago, Bitcoin.com News delved into Polymarket’s decentralized prediction market odds for the 2024 U.S. elections, with former President Donald Trump at the forefront, closely trailed by the sitting President Joe Biden, and the ex-U.S. Ambassad...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
On Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024, bitcoin’s price soared beyond the $48K mark, reaching heights unseen since prior to Dec. 28, 2021. On Sunday, the leading digital currency maintained its robust momentum, consistently staying above the newly establi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
The “Wolf Of All Streets,” predicts that the upcoming Bitcoin halving could escalate its price. Monero faced a 32% market decline after Binance announced its delisting due to non-compliance issues. El Salvador reaffirmed its ded...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recently prevailed in its case against Block Earner after a court ruled that the crypto startup’s product offering violated the country’s Corporations Act. The judge ruled that t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
The Hong Kong-listed OSL Digital Securities has participated in the Swiss banking giant UBS’s “investment-grade tokenised warrant and simulated product life cycle.” Patrick Pan said the partnership with UBS not only represents a mil...