Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Emart24, South Korea’s fastest-growing convenience store chain, has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb to introduce a “bitcoin meal box” in a promotional campaign. Priced at 5,900 Korean won ($4.30) each, the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Erik Voorhees, founder of Shapeshift, has announced the debut of Venice, an artificial intelligence (AI) application that promises enhanced privacy and unrestricted free speech. Unlike mainstream AI services, Venice is designed to operate without the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The detainment of two Chinese and one Argentine national involved in a $1.25 million crypto investment scam led to the discovery of a $100 million operation in Argentina. According to local reports, the investigation resulted in the raid of a superma...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. The XR Foundation in partnership with Saltwater Games is proud to announce the launch of its gaming-dedicated blockchain, XR One. After receiving grant funding from the Arbitrum Foundation, the Saltwater.Labs team has co-developed the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Grayscale Investments maintained stable revenue in the first quarter despite substantial outflows from the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), its converted spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The firm reported $156 million in revenue, little change...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Olaoluwa Osuntokun, co-founder and CTO of Lightning Labs, recently executed the first successful mainnet multi-hop asset payment using Taproot Asset channels, marking a new development in asset transfer capabilities over the Lightning Network. Asset...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) witnessed an outflow of $11.3 million during Thursday’s trading sessions, following an inflow of $11.5 million on Wednesday. Although the majority of funds experienced inflows on Thursday, sig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A new meme coin, Dogeverse (DOGEVERSE), has crypto traders buzzing in May. Having raised over $13 million in its initial coin offering (ICO), Dogeverse has traders wondering whether it could be the next Dogecoin-style token to take the market by stor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Zambia’s worsening shortage of foreign exchange as well as one of its worst droughts in recent memory saw the local currency drop to a record low of K27.3 to the dollar. As explained in the report, the kwacha has lost as much as 17% in the past...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The now-defunct crypto lender Blockfi is officially shutting down the firm’s web portal this month according to an update from the firm. Blockfi said that it has partnered with Coinbase to help facilitate the execution of withdrawals to eligible Bloc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
As of May 10, 2024, bitcoin exhibits a promising recovery trajectory, albeit amidst mixed market signals across various technical frameworks. Following an intraday fluctuation ranging from $60,954 to $63,388, at present, bitcoin is coasting along val...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Nigerian government has dismissed allegations from Binance CEO Richard Teng that representatives of the cryptocurrency exchange were solicited for a $150 million bribe by members of the House Committee on Financial Crimes (HCFC). A special assist...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The business account for the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now referred to as ‘X,’ announced a new artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced feature for advertisers called “AI Audience.” This feature enables adv...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to Joe Downie, the chief marketing officer at Nicehash, bitcoin miners struggling to stay afloat after the halving are unlikely to support or become involved with artificial intelligence (AI). This is because their application-specific inte...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
SBI VC Trade Co., Ltd., a Japanese crypto-asset trading platform, has announced the commencement of its operation as a validator node on the XRP Ledger blockchain. This move aims to earn recognition for reliable performance from the XRP Ledger commun...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Eclipse Labs founder and CEO Neel Somani has decided to reduce his public role within the company temporarily amid allegations of sexual misconduct, asserting his innocence and readiness to defend his reputation on the social media platform X, former...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Dash community has revealed on social media that the coin will be included in the trading options on Revolut X, the new cryptocurrency exchange platform by Revolut. This development expands Dash’s reach to Revolut’s rapidly growing us...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A businessman from Hong Kong, linked to four individuals implicated in the kidnapping of a cryptocurrency investor, was recently taken into custody after surrendering to law enforcement. Authorities allege that the vehicle used in the investor’s abdu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey predicts that the price of Bitcoin could hit at least $1 million by 2030, suggesting its value may grow even further thereafter. In an interview, he expressed his enthusiasm not just about Bitcoin’s potential for...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Pantera Capital has made a significant investment in Telegram’s The Open Network (TON) blockchain, highlighting the platform’s large user base and potential for fostering cryptocurrency adoption and innovation in decentralized finance. Th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Canaan Inc. has launched the Avalon A15 series, with the new product being the A1566 model. This upgraded bitcoin mining machine incorporates Canaan’s most advanced technology. The A1566 model sets a new performance benchmark with an industry-leading...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Tether strongly criticized a Deutsche Bank report that raised concerns about the stability of stablecoins, including Tether’s dollar-pegged token, predicting a potential crisis similar to the 2022 collapse of Terrausd, which erased billions fro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Mercado Libre, one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in Latam, has disclosed it holds over $40 million in cryptocurrency, according to its Q1 2024 filings. The company disclosed that it held 412.7 bitcoin (BTC) and 3,041.6 ethereum (ETH), by March...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In a recent funding initiative, the Solana-based Agridex project secured $5 million in a pre-seed round aimed at enhancing the tokenization of agricultural commodities. The funding, led by Endeavour Ventures, included contributions from African Crops...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Michelle Murphy, 58, from Bedford, Texas, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for attempting to hire a hitman using bitcoin to kill her boyfriend’s lover. Charged in September 2023 and pleading guilty in December, Murphy used th...