Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Leading crypto exchange Coinbase launched its non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace in its beta phase. According to an official post, any user can visit the marketplace to explore its Ethereum-based collections, but only a handful of testers will be a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
A senior spokesperson of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) highlighted India’s preference to regulate crypto assets and ranked this issue as a medium-term priority.
Tobias Adrian, the Financial Counselor and Director of IMF’s Monetary and Capit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Bitcoin mining profitability is subject to a number of things and recently these factors have been affecting mining profitability, hence putting it under pressure. The amount of money miners are making from carrying out their activities are low, cont...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Robinhood announced Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Ziglu, a fintech startup based in London that enables users to trade bitcoin and a variety of other cryptocurrencies.
Robinhood’s stock increased nearly 6% Tuesday following the announce...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Australia isn’t stepping on the brakes this time as it took a huge step of enlisting their first ever ETF to invest in Bitcoin and Ethereum. And it’s going live on April 27.
21Shares and ETF Securities have recently teamed up to launch two funds that...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
As it turns out, the “60 Minutes” report on Bitcoin Beach that we recently covered had a hidden segment. The title is “The tech behind the Bitcoin Beach Wallet,” and the “60 Minutes” website describes it as “A small town in El Salvador is fostering a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
It’s time to close our Bitcoin 2022 coverage with the most fun people of all, the general public. How did they experience bitcoin’s biggest event of the year? What insights did they get? What panels do they recommend? This article is going to be jam-...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
While the country of Ukraine hasn’t yet received approval for its long-held dream to join the European Union just yet, QMALL, the country’s best-known crypto exchange, was recently given the all-clear by EU regulators to trade within the EU and the w...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Is crypto already putting down CBDCs? The European Central Bank (ECB) has been researching and discussing a CBDC project called the Digital Euro for a while. They launched a public consultation to understand common needs & expectations for a Digi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
While the Decentralized Finance or DeFi space, as colloquially called, has experienced a massive surge in interest and valuation, thanks to the influx of multiple projects, a few problems still plague this billion-dollar market. These sticking points...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Tokenization is the process of creating digital versions of physical assets, and it’s tipped to be the next big wave of crypto. Tokenization is changing the way we think about and purchase assets – and it’s making its way into a wide range of industr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The Ethereum Foundation has been around for a while and is in charge of funds that get distributed to projects on the Ethereum network. In its treasury, there is a large amount of ETH among other crypto investments that help to fund projects. Recentl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The crypto and legacy markets are increasing their correlation levels. The new asset class has been trading like a big tech stock for a while as the global markets seem to brace for the beginning of a tightening cycle.
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
In a crackdown against illicit transactions of digital assets linked to cybercrimes, the U.S. Secret Service has seized more than $102 million worth of digital assets, reported CNBC.
Per the stats provided by the security agency, the seized crypto we...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Data shows the Bitcoin mining hashrate seems to have hit a plateau since the beginning of March, after observing a steady rise for many months.
Bitcoin Mining Hashrate Has Mostly Moved Sideways In The Past Month
According to the latest weekly report...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Several U.S. federal agencies issued a joint warning about an increase in crypto-related hackings. Posted as an alert by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Treasury Departme...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Terra (LUNA) might not be new to the crypto space but its recent rise to the top has no doubt taken the market by surprise. Not only has this growth seen the value of its token soar but it has also put its market cap on an accelerated growth rate. Th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Game of Silks, the first-ever play-to-earn (P2E) metaverse featuring derivative NFTs (non-fungible tokens), has announced the successful completion of its fundraising campaign. According to the official statement, the team behind this highly anticipa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s finance minister, presented a compelling argument Tuesday for the global regulation of crypto in order to limit the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Her remarks came as she addressed a seminar at the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Russian Ministry of Finance now “advises” using cryptocurrencies as legal tender? That sounds like an old story.
Crypto journalists have reported that the Russian Ministry of Finance pushes for tokens to be treated as legal tender. However, thereR...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Online gaming and cryptocurrencies are the best combinations. The digital assets, powered by blockchain technology, provide crypto casinos with the tools to be independent of legacy financial institutions and bring more efficiency to their operations...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Every day, it seems, a new play-to-earn project raises millions in capital, launches to considerable fanfare, or sets fresh transaction volume benchmarks. The booming gamified finance (gamefi) sector represents a valuable new use case for blockchain...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren thinks the American people could be getting ripped off in a large-scale scam.
Warren and two other U.S. lawmakers accused Intuit – the developer of the most widely used tax software in the country – of recrui...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The Brazilian crypto market has seen a lot of growth in recent months, and it looks like an ambitious private member’s bill could help regulate this booming business by the end of this June. MP’s will be voting next week Tuesday for whether or...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Ryde, the ride-sharing app, is ramping up its crypto payments capability with Request Finance, allowing it to expand the options for its users to top up their in-app Ryde wallets. Besides, it is also launching an NFT project.
Launched in 2014, this S...