Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The U.S. thinktank Atlantic Council released a report Wednesday on cybersecurity issues related to central bank digital currencies (CBDC). The authors provide a generalized discussion of CBDC security, but with a clear focus on the United States and...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Global financial markets were squarely focused on the U.S. Federal Reserve and its decision to raise interest rates by 75 basis points on June 15, the largest increase in 28 years as the central bank fights to tamp down the highest inflation rates in...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Cointelegraph's editor-in-chief Kristina Cornèr interviewed Bybit founder Ben Zhou at the Formula 1 Grand Prix at Monaco, discussing topics like educating newcomers in crypto, the effects of the Terra (LUNA) — now known as Luna Classic (LUNC) — debac...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
On Wednesday, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced that it would continue to hire over 500 roles in various departments amid a market downturn. The company's hiring efforts are in stark contrast to a week of severe layoff announcements from major...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, reportedly plans to “bulk up” its capability to monitor crypto — a move that could include scooping up employees recently terminated from crypto companies.According to a Tuesday Reu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) spared hodlers the pain of losing $20,000 on June 15 after BTC/USD came dangerously close to last cycle's high.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin "bottom" fools nobodyData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) has integrated its service called Chainlink Price Feeds to Moonbeam, a smart contract parachain on Polkadot (DOT), to provide data to developers in the platform. In a release sent to Cointelegraph, Chainl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
“I like to call myself a future, or aspiring, cult leader,” Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer of CoinShares — a publicly listed investment firm managing around $5 billion in assets — told Cointelegraph. Demirors, who first entered the Bitcoin (...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Russian banking giant Sber — formerly known as Sberbank — is preparing to complete its first digital currency deal involving the bank’s proprietary digital asset platform soon.The bank will conduct its first transaction involving digital financial as...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Tech billionaire, and currently the world’s fourth-richest person, Bill Gates, spoke at the TechCrunch Climate Change conference Tuesday about the progress society has made in supporting the climate movement, his assessment of current global economic...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The price of Nexo (NEXO) continued to fall on June 15 as crypto lending firms continue to be shaken by the falling cryptocurrency market.Meanwhile, Nexo has denied rumors of exposure to Three Arrows Capital (3AC), a Dubai-based crypto fund facing ins...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The price of Nexo (NEXO) continued to fall on June 15 as crypto lending firms continue to be shaken by the falling cryptocurrency market.Meanwhile, Nexo has denied rumors of exposure to Three Arrows Capital (3AC), a Dubai-based crypto fund facing ins...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
A bill that had been introduced a week ago to the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russian Parliament, made a swift passing through first reading. Should it become a law, it would prohibit using “digital financial actives” (DFA) to pay for goods or s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
In light of the recent fragility in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, Bitcoin (BTC) maximalist and MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor feels that Bitcoin and the Lightning network can come to the rescue of the DeFi market.With two enormous protoc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Crypto lending platform Celsius Network (CEL) has onboarded restructuring lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to find potential solutions to the firm's financial woes. The firm is reportedly looking for other strategic alternatives, such...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Not only is the number of nonfungible token (NFT) collections growing at a phenomenal rate, but so are the NFT marketplaces. Previously, NFT marketplaces were mainly decentralized applications (dApps) on various blockchains, but nowadays, crypto exch...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ari Paul, founder of blockchain investment firm Blocktower Capital, weighed in on the bear market, comparing the situation to the tech crash back in the year 2000. Paul likens Bitcoin (BTC) to Amazon, which is one of the companies that survived the m...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The major stablecoin company Tether is looking to eventually get rid of commercial paper backing for its United States dollar-based stablecoin Tether (USDT).Tether issued an official statement on Wednesday to deny reports alleging that Tether’s comme...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price tanked to a 52-week low of $20,800 earlier on Wednesday, down by over 70% from its all-time high of $68,788. Although the price has since recovered above $21,000, key market indicators point toward bears having a significant hol...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the United States Department of Justice conducted an extensive audit of the cryptocurrencies seized by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) — revealing the dire need for the federal agency to revamp its exist...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) could be on the verge of a retail major sell-off as exchange inflows spike to almost three-and-a-half-year highs.Data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant shows users of 21 major exchanges sending coins to their wallets en masse...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
A potential legal battle has been prevented between the Merit Circle decentralized autonomous organization’s (DAO) backing company Merit Circle Ltd and Yield Guild Games (YGG) after the organizations reached a deal after the DAO originally voted to r...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
A proposed addition to an existing Brazilian law would grant Brazilians the right to use cryptocurrency as a means of payment while protecting their private keys from being taken by the courts.Federal Deputy Paulo Martins issued the proposal to the c...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Su Zhu, co-founder of Singapore-based crypto venture capital firm Three Arrows Capital (3AC), has put out a cryptic statement on Twitter in response to swirling rumors that the company is battling against insolvency. Online chatter about 3AC being un...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler said he’s worried that a proposed bill to create a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies could weaken investor protections in the traditional financial market.Speaking at T...