Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The leading crypto exchange Coinbase has said it will expand access to its products to 20 African countries. Coinbase also claimed that its partnership arrangement with the Africa-focused crypto exchange Yellow Card can help increase financial freedo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Starkware faces a leadership transition as CEO Uri Kolodny resigns over pressing family health issues. While stepping down, Kolodny leaves the company in the hands of co-founder and friend Eli Ben-Sasson.
Starkware Sees CEO Change as Uri Kolodny Resi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to local sources, one of the first state-backed cryptocurrency assets, the Venezuelan Petro, would be facing an imminent liquidation. Asonacrip, a national cryptocurrency association, reported having information about the upcoming liquidati...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce has slammed her agency for the delay in approving spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “Our arbitrary and capricious treatment of applications in this area will cont...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Several investment firms, including Vanguard, reportedly block customers from trading spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “Our perspective is that these products do not align with our offer focused on asset classes such as equities, bond...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Recent blockchain analytics reveal that 4,000 bitcoins, valued at approximately $175 million, have been transferred from addresses believed to be controlled by Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, commonly referred to as GBTC. Records indicate that thes...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood has doubled down on her bullish bitcoin forecasts, now seeing a higher probability of the price of bitcoin soaring to $1.5 million per coin. She emphasized that the approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for approving spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). She stressed that the securities regulator is “wrong on the law and wrong on the policy with re...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Amidst escalating transaction fees, Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin has suggested a substantial gas limit increase, potentially boosting network capacity and reducing user expenses.
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Advocates for Higher Gas Li...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Isabel Schnabel, member of the European Central Bank (ECB) executive board, has blasted bitcoin’s characteristics, stressing that it is a speculative asset unlike central bank digital currencies (CBDC) like the proposed digital euro. Schnabel s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Friday, Coinshares International Limited, announced that the firm has acquired Valkyrie Funds LLC, the U.S.-based digital asset manager. The Saint Helier company said the decision comes after a direct result of Valkyrie’s spot bitcoin exchange-tra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In three days, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting will convene on Jan. 15-19, and much of the world’s elite will be in Davos for the event. Before the meeting, the WEF published the 19th annual edition of the Global Risks Report, which hig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), Genesis Global Trading has agreed to a settlement fine of $8 million and will forfeit its New York state Bitlicense as part of the agreement over compliance failures. Adrienne Ha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In November 2023, six unique AI-driven chatbots were queried to forecast the value of bitcoin by year-end, with their projections spanning from $15,000 to $45,000 per bitcoin. As of the initial week of January 2024, bitcoin’s trading value rea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The legal battle between the SEC and Ripple Labs continues, with the SEC seeking court intervention to obtain Ripple’s financial statements and data on institutional XRP sales.
SEC’s Legal Pursuit of Ripple Continues With Request t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The leading cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has remained within a limited price range since yesterday. This followed yesterday’s quick surge to the $49K level, which then declined in the early trading hours of Thursday. Although there was a transient...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
An independent nonprofit organization said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds has enabled the “mass marketing of a known worthless, volatile, and fraud-filled financial produ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Mehmet Simsek, the Turkish Finance Minister, recently revealed that a draft of his country’s crypto regulations is now in the final stage. Simsek said that once they come into force, the new regulations will help minimize the risks that are ass...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Base, the Coinbase incubated rollup, has updated its roadmap and goals for 2024. In a blog post, Base informed that it will not only focus on building a development platform but on fostering the decentralization of such an environment, building on-ch...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw voices her dissent against the commission’s approval of spot bitcoin ETFs, highlighting the risks of market manipulation, the concentration of bitcoin ownership, and the inadequacy of current regulatory mea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The SEC’s approval of spot bitcoin ETFs marks a major milestone in cryptocurrency regulation, yet it’s ethereum that captures the market’s attention with a price rally, as investors and analysts now turn their eyes towards potent...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Warren Davidson, Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Inclusion of the House Financial Services Committee, has rejected the policy suggestions made by the U.S. Treasury on crypto assets, stating these seek to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. lawmakers are demanding answers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Chair Gary Gensler regarding the regulator’s X account breach that led to a fake tweet on the social media platform announcing the approval of spot...