Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Circle, a peer-to-peer financial services firm, has agreed to acquire Cybavo, a digital asset infrastructure platform. The deal will allow Circle to provide "infrastructure as a service" for firms wanting to develop on Web3.Developers will be able to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Global financial markets once again find themselves trending lower on June 10 after the Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in at a blistering 8.6% year-over-year increase, the highest print since 1981. The hotter-than-expected CPI print resulted in a co...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Cross-border transfer service MoneyGram officially launched its stablecoin-powered payment channel on Friday, giving users the ability to send USD Coin (USDC) payments worldwide that can be withdrawn as cash by recipients. The service is being rolled...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The United States equities markets tumbled on June 10 after the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report showed inflation soaring 8.6% from a year ago, the highest increase since 1981. The latest figures show that talks of inflation having peaked were prema...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Republic of Palau announced Friday that it will issue identification cards to its digital residents in the form of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Binance’s BNB Chain blockchain. Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) was on hand in the Pacific...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Digital asset exchange Huobi Global has spun out a new investment arm focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 projects, further highlighting venture capital interest in the blockchain economy. Dubbed Ivy Blocks, the new investment arm has ov...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) resumed its decline against Bitcoin (BTC) two days after a successful rehearsal of its proof-of-stake (PoS) algorithm on its longest-running testnet "Ropsten."The ETH/BTC fell by 2.5% to 0.0586 on June 10. The pair...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Latest Articles US SEC investigates Binance’s ICO, metaverse crypto assets up 400% YoY, and STEPN faces DDoS attacks: Hodler’s Digest, June 5-11The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
While the most common way to earn money in the nonfungible token (NFT) space is by flipping the tokens for profit, there are other opportunities to earn money with NFTs as the market continues to develop. In a Cointelegraph interview, Bill Starkov, t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Another day, another environmental attack on proof-of-work (PoW) mining. A report shared by the Swedish central bank argued that energy-intensive Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency mining should be banned. The Swedish central bank, known as the Riksban...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) fell sharply on June 10 after surprisingly high inflation data from the United States rattled markets before the Wall Street open.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewTrader: Bitcoin will be "painful" if $29,300 fa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
To put things into perspective, since November 2021, the total market capitalization of the digital asset industry has plummeted from it’s all-time high of $3 trillion to its current levels of approx. $1.27 trillion, thus showcasing a loss ratio of o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
There’s cause for celebration from the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The Lightning Network hit the 4,000 Bitcoin (BTC) public capacity milestone, meaning $120 million in value is ready for peer-to-peer payments.The Lightning Network first broke the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The ever-raging debate around Bitcoin’s energy consumption has been re-ignited, with founding member of Ethereum Anthony Donofrio claiming that Bitcoin is using “way too much” energy. According to figures from Digiconomist, Bitcoin (BTC) currently us...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Hong Kong-based Samsung Asset Management (SAMHK), a local subsidiary of Samsung’s investment arm, is moving forward with a blockchain-themed exchange-traded fund (ETF).The firm expects to launch its Samsung Blockchain Technologies ETF on the Hong Kon...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Crypto custody firm Anchorage Digital has recently formed an exchange custody network with five digital asset trading platforms to segregate institutional client funds from exchanges into regulated asset vaults. In an announcement, the custodian ment...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Cointelegraph introduces “Crypto Street,” a series of spontaneous conversations with strangers on the street to educate, entertain and take a temperature check on the world’s relationship with crypto.The first episode comes from the gates of the Worl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) is squeezing its miners this month as suppressed prices threaten to impact profitability.The latest data shows both narrowing profit margins and miners waiting longer to recoup their initial investment.Miner production cost faces off wi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Secretary of the United States Treasury, Janet Yellen, weighed in on including cryptocurrencies in retirement plans, calling them a very risky investment that should be regulated by Congress. During an event organized by the New York Times in Was...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The total number of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), the number of governance proposals put forward and the number of votes cast have all seen astounding 8-times growth over the past 12 months.Data compiled by Snapshot Labs and shared by...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) could occur more rapidly than the adoption of past disruptive technologies such as automobiles and electric power, with global take-up likely to hit 10% by 2030 according to a new report.In its Wednesday report, Blockwar...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Major toy brand Mattel has signed a multi-year partnership with forthcoming toy-focused nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace Cryptoys to exclusively feature its brands on the platform.Cryptoys is expected to launch in late summer 2022 on the Flow bloc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Financial and technical information platform Bloomberg has vastly expanded its coverage of crypto markets after a decision to include data on the top 50 crypto assets in the Bloomberg Terminal.Product manager for cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg Alex We...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The cloud business unit of Chinese marketplace giant Alibaba Group Holdings launched a new nonfungible token (NFT) solution and then promptly deleted all mention of it online. According to a now-deleted Twitter post announcing the launch on Wednesday...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Two Bitcoin miners have told Cointelegraph that if the bill banning proof-of-work (PoW) mining for two years in New York becomes law, it would end up triggering an exodus of mining companies from the state and do little to address the intended goals...