Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has revealed the company has entered a partnership with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as the firm’s global fight kit partner. Reports stemming from people familiar with the matter say the partnershi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
In mid-May, a report stemming from residents in Shenzhen, China explained that the digital yuan wasn’t seeing widespread participation, which the Chinese government has alluded to in many press releases. Now a handful of China’s state-own...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, has recently found himself the target of Twitter critics as year-old tweets that highlighted projections for the network’s adoption are failing to match community expectations.
Slower Rollouts and Slug...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
South Korean banks are taking steps to bring cybersecurity to a new level as they try to keep up with fintechs and address new threats arising from their interaction with the crypto space. A number of institutions are adopting unprecedented measures...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On Wednesday, the full-service entertainment company founded by influential hip-hop artist Jay-Z, Roc Nation, revealed the firm has purchased tokens from the Sensorium Corporation. The tokens Roc Nation bought are called senso (SENSO), the in-platfor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The eccentric 75-year-old cybersecurity tycoon John McAfee’s death has spurred a lot of controversy and speculation since he passed. Now McAfee’s widow Janice McAfee is speaking out and she doesn’t believe the mainstream media&rsquo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
2021 continues to bear witness to the continual rise in non-fungible token (NFT) prevalence and innovation. Following on from 2020 &- where the NFT market was claimed to have tripled in total transaction value &- NFT sales in just the first q...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The Spanish Congress has approved the antifraud law that was amended last month by the senate. Spanish citizens must now inform about their crypto holdings even outside the country. The new law further establishes severe fines for citizens who fail t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Financial technology companies (fintechs) are now among the biggest threats to the overall profitability of Nigerian banks, analysts from the country’s Coronation Merchant Bank (CMB) have warned.
The Efficiency of Fintech
As a report carried b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The British Virgin Islands-based Bybit Fintech Limited has announced the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange is introducing an updated know-your-customer (KYC) policy on July 12. Bybit notes that it already had certain KYC requirements implemented, b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Monobank, a mobile bank operating in Ukraine, has announced new products and services that will allow users to trade cryptocurrencies and stocks. One of the offerings includes a bitcoin card which the online banking platform is going to launch as ear...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The Switzerland-based bank Sygnum revealed on Tuesday that the firm now allows Ethereum 2.0 staking. The FINMA-approved company’s customers can access the Ethereum-based staking services via Sygnum’s banking platform.
Sygnum’s Banki...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the country’s central bank, has shut down a software firm over suspected involvement in cryptocurrency transactions. The central bank also warned organizations not to “provide premises, commercial...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Troubles at cryptocurrency exchange Binance continue as the platform is now suspending euro deposits via SEPA bank transfers. Binance says the suspension is temporary and it is due to events beyond its control.
Binance’s Troubles Extend to SEPA...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Payment service provider Allied Payment Network has partnered with New York Digital Investment Group, the bitcoin subsidiary of $10 billion asset manager Stone Ridge. Financial institutions using Allied’s platform will be able to offer their cu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On June 12, the crypto community celebrated the fact that the Bitcoin network locked in Taproot support in order to activate the largest upgrade the protocol has seen in four years. 24 days later, Taproot support via Bitcoin nodes has only reached 27...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Free TON, a decentralized proof of stake blockchain powered by its community and STASIS, a EU compliant EURS stablecoin project, partnered to make DeFi more functional and affordable for everyone.
The STASIS team will be deploying their protocol to t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Claudio Oliveira, owner of the Bitcoin Bank in Brazil and known as the ‘King of Bitcoin,’ was arrested yesterday for his alleged participation in a fraud scheme involving $300 million. According to inquiries from federal authorities, Oliv...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
After a long break, monthly purchasing data shows that central banks are buying gold again. The World Gold Council says throughout March and April, the organization recorded a higher level of central bank monthly gold purchases and the latest data fr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Hedge fund firm Marshall Wace, with $55 billion in assets, is reportedly gearing up to launch a portfolio investing in the crypto sector.
London-headquartered hedge fund firm Marshall Wace is planning investments in the crypto sector, the Financial...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Elon Musk went after Bitcoin hater Warren Buffett recently, sharing what looked like a bullish crypto quote attributed to the billionaire investor. The tech entrepreneur, whose comments on social media have been moving crypto markets this year, later...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
India’s finance minister has provided a status update on the country’s cryptocurrency bill that the government has been working on. “We have done a lot of work on it. We have taken stakeholders’ inputs,” she was quoted a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On the surface, it looks like Nigeria’s suspension of Twitter operations on June 4 may have been triggered by the microblogging company’s decision to take down a controversial tweet — from President Mohammed Buhari. However, as some...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
While the U.S. ramps up discussions of a digital dollar and China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) draws near, Japan’s CBDC, otherwise known as the digital yen, is getting closer to its realization as well. Japan’s ruling Libe...