Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
The year has been challenging for Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, and its U.S. counterpart, Binance.US. Both have considerably reduced their market shares due to increased regulatory scrutiny across various global jurisdic...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
XRP, the native token of the XRPL protocol, has decreased its total supply. Over the past 30 days, roughly 247,016 XRP tokens have been permanently burned, reducing the total circulating supply.
This trend was first highlighted by an anonymous Twitt...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
In June, spot trading volume on centralized crypto exchanges rose by over 16% to $575 billion. This increase represents its first increase in three months, according to a CCData review.
This surge in trading activity across spot markets has been link...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Following the SEC stating that recent filings were inadequate, all spot Bitcoin ETF proposals have been submitted.
With the ball back in the SEC’s court, will the latest updates to lead to a slam dunk approval with the chief US regulator, or another...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
According to a recent Bloomberg report, Valkyrie has refiled an application for a Bitcoin (BTC) Spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would invest directly in Bitcoin. The firm has named Coinbase as the market surveillance provider for the ETF.
The U...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
The United States arm of the crypto exchange Binance has been targeted by regulators over the last month. As a result, the Binance.US exchange has been seeing its market share declining rapidly, and now, the crypto exchange’s market share in the coun...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Binance Academy, the academy arm of Binance, has announced that it is teaming up with Coursera to launch a blockchain education program to spread knowledge about this transformative technology. With more than 124 million registered users across vario...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Metis, an Ethereum layer-2 platform, warns users not to buy METIS on the BNB Blockchain days after the PolyNetwork was hacked and $5.5 million of assets stolen. In a tweet shared on July 5, Metis said they took a snapshot of all addresses holding MET...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
BlackRock’s newest incursion into the Bitcoin (BTC) market has attracted attention. The world’s largest asset manager filed to launch the first spot BTC Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which awaits approval or rejection from the U.S. Securities and Excha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) has ordered Saxo Bank to dispose of its inventory of crypto assets, following a decision that the bank’s trading in these assets at its own expense is found to be outside the “legal scope...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
The Pi Network, launched in 2019, gained significant traction in Vietnam in 2021 by enabling users to earn the tokens through their mobile phones, removing the requirement for costly mining equipment. Nonetheless, skeptics contend that the network...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
In a bid to assert dominance in the blockchain sector and drive the development of a digital Hong Kong dollar, a group of scholars led by Cai Wensheng, Vice President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has proposed the creation of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
On-chain data shows that the amount of Bitcoin held by investors for more than one year has hit a new all-time high.
Bitcoin Investors Have Continued To Show HODLing Behavior
According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Glassnode, the 1+ years...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
UK legislators have moved to consider changes in the previously introduced Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. The legislation, aimed at empowering authorities to seize crypto assets linked to criminal activities, underwent a third readin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Binance’s chief security officer, Jimmy Su had an interview with an online news site alerting crypto users against hackers who target people with poor security hygiene. The CSO said a group of organized dark web hackers lurk in the shadows, loo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
According to a CNBC report, US Hamilton police have arrested and charged two 17-year-old boys after allegedly stealing $4.2 million worth of cryptocurrency from an American man. The police said the two teens, who used the aliases “Felon”...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur behind SpaceX and Tesla, has long been a force to be reckoned with in the realms of technology and innovation. But now, it seems his influence might extend even further, into the political arena.
According to Bi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
New data shows that crypto scam and hack losses in the first half of 2023 were down a whopping 75% from the same period last year. A recently released report by Beosin, a blockchain security firm, revealed that the total value of cryptocurrencies los...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
In a stunning turn of events, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) stormed the offices of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, as part of an ongoing investigation into the company’s defunct local de...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Ethereum is once again at the forefront of innovation within the rapidly expanding realm of decentralized finance (DeFi). A group of passionate Ethereum community members has recently put forth a groundbreaking proposal aimed at bolstering the securi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
In a significant development for XRP investors, federal judge Phyllis J. Hamilton from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has certified a class of investors in the class-action lawsuit Zakinov vs. Ripple Labs Inc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
Earlier this year, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a broadened partnership to integrate Bing Search into ChatGPT. Through this collaboration, they hope to use Bing’s robust search capabilities to get around the chatbot’s boundaries.
By add...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
AzukiDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that’s behind the Azuki non-fungible token (NFT) project, is voting to retrieve 20,000 ETH from the team and wishes to hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit against the collection’s anonymous founde...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 months ago
A 22-year developer behind Encryption A.l, a cryptocurrency project, has rug-pulled users of roughly $2 million ahead of the platform’s liquidity migration. In a screenshot shared on July 3 and posted on Twitter, the developer apologized, sayin...