Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Circle, a cryptocurrency fintech services company, announced it intends to become a full-reserve national commercial bank. This would bring a set of responsibilities and duties to the company equal to those of other mainstream banks: having to report...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Chainalysis, one of the leading blockchain intelligence companies in the world, has announced it will now cover the Dogecoin network in its reports. The company argues that dogecoin became one of the most known cryptocurrencies in the world after bei...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. BENQI, an algorithmic liquidity market protocol, and the Avalanche Foundation are collaborating on a joint liquidity mining program to celebrate the launch of the BENQI protocol on the 19th of August and the next phase of growth within...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Afek Zard, a resident of Israel, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzling a large sum of cryptocurrency that belonged to a friend of his. The man, who refused to cooperate with the investigation, will have to pay a hefty fine as wel...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
A commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has criticized the securities watchdog for focusing on enforcement actions in its oversight of the crypto industry.
SEC Commissioner Slams Agency for Focusing on Enforcement Action...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The U.S. Senate has passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill with a crypto reporting requirement provision that has been described as “unworkable.” Senator Ted Cruz warned: “This infrastructure bill has in it a portion that is d...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Venmo, a Paypal service, has introduced the “Cash Back to Crypto” feature to allow credit card customers to automatically buy four types of cryptocurrencies with their cash back without incurring transaction fees.
Cash Back to Crypto on V...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. EQIFI, a regulated and licensed decentralized platform for pooled lending, borrowing and investing Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and select fiat currencies, has announced that its native token, EQX, has been enlisted on...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been steadily climbing after dropping to 69 exahash per second (EH/s) on June 28, as it reached a high of 117 EH/s on Tuesday morning (EDT). The rise in hashpower will likely lead to the highest difficulty expansion in 89...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The South African businessman and CEO at Barrick Gold Corporation, Mark Bristow, recently explained in an interview that “no one believes in fiat currencies anymore.” Bristow says the world is currently “battling” on how to &l...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Duniapay, a digital banking platform created by three students from Burkina Faso, has added a personal savings feature to its banking application that already provides residents from some 14 West African countries with a flexible digital platform to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., plans to accept bitcoin by the end of 2021 according to CEO Adam Aron on an earnings call on Monday. Aron said the movie theater chain will start accepting the leading crypto asset once the company has information te...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Sukhavati Network is to host its startup sale on Gate.io’s platform as part of the “Startup Project Free Airdrop Program”. The “Startup Project Free Airdrop Programme” was launched by Gate.io to provide users with early...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, is now looking to hire someone who understands digital currencies. According to the job posting, the role requires extensive expertise in the field of financial technologies.
Mossad Recruiting Expert With Fi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Uganda’s blockchain community welcomes the recent call on authorities to create a cryptocurrency regulatory framework, a board member of the Blockchain Association of Uganda (BAU) has said. The member, Suleiman Murunga, explains that such a fra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Tether Limited has released an assurance report reviewed by Moore Cayman, an auditor of investment funds and digital assets. The report provides a breakdown of the company’s assets and reserves which Moore Cayman claims are around $62.7 billion...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
In July 2021, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children in Rwanda announced it partnered with the Cardano Foundation on a project that allows well-wishers to make donations in the form of cryptocurrencies.
Save the Children Meets ADA...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Refinable, a leading NFT marketplace, today announced the Refinable Gaming Initiative, an industry-specific program aimed at deepening its collaboration with the gaming developer community, supporting NFT communities with a community push to Play-To-...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Bitcoin Cash Argentina, a nonprofit foundation destined to increase the knowledge and adoption of the cryptocurrency in the country, has achieved its second milestone by crowdfunding a new circular economy campaign using Flipstarter. This new campaig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Regional authorities in one of the key states of the country, Carabobo, suspended the power supply of all registered miners, effectively shutting down their operations in the industrial state. While there have been no official explanations for this m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published the Survey of Consumer Expectations report on Monday, which shows U.S. consumers are expecting short-term inflation levels to be higher than usual. Meanwhile, the report also shows American consumers&rsq...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The price of an ounce of gold dropped dramatically this week, slipping under the $1,700 handle to $1,688 per ounce on August 8. On Monday, gold regained some of the losses jumping 2.36% back above the $1.7K region to $1,727 per ounce of fine gold.
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Five U.S. senators have been working with the Treasury Department and have come up with a compromise crypto amendment to the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. “We’ve worked with the Treasury Department to clarify the underlying text and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Poloniex with operating an unregistered cryptocurrency exchange. Poloniex has agreed to a cease-and-desist order and to pay $10.34 million.
SEC Hits Poloniex With Cease-and-Desist Order, P...