Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Major cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea have delisted Litecoin (LTC) weeks after flagging its privacy-focused MimbleWimble (MWEB) upgrade.In a public announcement on Wednesday, Upbit cited the Act on the Reporting and Use of Specific Financial...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
An International Monetary Fund study on energy consumption has reveale the importance of design choices within the crypto ecosystem to build an environmentally friendly mainstream payment system.In the study, titled “Digital Currencies and Energy Con...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
This week, the crypto community’s attention was captured by an anonymous person who claimed that they will expose the misdeeds of prominent crypto influencers and top projects within the crypto space. The alleged whistleblower, going by the username...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Australian crypto exchange Swyftx wants to eventually offer seamless trading between traditional and crypto-asset classes, with its first step being the completion of its $1.5 billion merger deal with online investing platform Superhero. The deal to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) left both long and short traders behind in May and June, but data suggests trading it may be “easier” than many imagine.According to on-chain analytics resource Whalemap, Bitcoin whales have all but dictated market performance in recent...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Solana Ventures and the Solana Foundation have formed a $100-million fund to help support the growth of nonfungible token (NFT), blockchain gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects in South Korea.In addition to supporting projects built on So...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Human rights activists from 20 countries have submitted an open letter to the United States Congress in support of a “responsible crypto policy” and praising Bitcoin (BTC) and stablecoins as essential tools aiding democracy and freedom for tens of mi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Popular beer manufacturer Budweiser has teamed up with Zed Run to deploy tokenized Clydesdale draft horses in its virtual NFT-based horse racing and wagering game. The latest move from Budweiser adds to the $120,000 it spent on nonfungible token fan...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Metaverse tokens are vastly outperforming every other crypto category in the current bearish condition, up by nearly 400% year on year.Leading the gains are Decentraland’s MANA (up 41%), The Sandbox’s SAND (up 470%), Axie Infinity’s Axie Infinity Sha...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Wyoming based digital asset bank Custodia is suing the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, claiming an “unlawful delay” in processing an application for its master account.Custodia, formerly known as Avanti...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has yet to publicly commit to signing a controversial bill that would ban proof-of-work (PoW) crypto mining, instead noting that her team will be looking “very closely” at the proposal over the next few months.If she si...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Grayscale Investments has hired a former U.S. Solicitor General in preparation for a potential legal spat with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), should the regulator reject its application for a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fun...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Open-world blockchain game Illuvium managed to keep the average transaction fee for its nonfungible token (NFT) Land at about $20 by holding a Dutch auction on the Illuvium X layer-2 scaling solution.The price to mint the NFTs was a fraction of the c...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Passive income opportunities are one of the biggest draws in the cryptocurrency ecosystem because it gives investors an easy opportunity to grow their portfolio size regardless of the day-to-day price action.The latest token to get a bump in its pric...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The collection and processing of information was a major theme at the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) hearing titled, “Rising Threats: Ransomware Attacks and Ransom Payments Enabled by Cryptocurren...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin's (BTC) short-term price action has been dominated by whipsaws that trigger around the $31,000 to $32,000 level and the June 6 reversal at this point triggered a quick sell-off that pushed the price down to $29,200. Surprisingly, on June 7, t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Unsecured lending protocol TrueFi has become the latest project to launch on Optimism, Ethereum’s popular layer-2 scaling solution, in a move that’s expected to boost demand from non-institutional lenders. By launching on Optimism, TrueFi’s lender co...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The long-awaited Responsible Financial Innovation Act to create a regulatory framework for digital assets was introduced in the United States Senate on Tuesday. The official text of the 69-page document was also released. The bipartisan bill, sponsor...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
After rolling out the ability to buy and sell crypto on its platform in October 2020, PayPal is finally allowing users the ability to natively transfer, send and receive digital assets between PayPal and other wallets and exchanges. As of Tuesday, th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
At least two technical indicators show Solana (SOL) could undergo a sharp price recovery in June, even after the SOL/USD pair's 78.5% year-to-date decline.SOL price nears bullish wedge breakoutFirst, Solana has been painting a "falling wedge" since M...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) bridging and scaling solution Aurora announced it had paid out a $6 million bounty to ethical security hacker pwning.eth, who discovered a critical vulnerability in the Aurora Engine. The exploit allegedly placed over $200...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Crypto exchange Binance published a lengthy response to an article published by Reuters that claims that the exchange has been a “hub for hackers, fraudsters and drug traffickers,” saying that there’s at least “$2.35 billion in illicit funds” launder...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts give you the details about Ethereum 2.0, its main competitors, and how they differ from each other.To kick things off, we break down the l...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) held steady at the June 7 Wall Street open after a night of losses cost bulls heavily.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewCoinbase sees conspicuous outflowsData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView follo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Canadian restaurant franchise Tahini’s serves Middle East-inspired food with a Bitcoin-inspired twist. Since August 2020, when the price of Bitcoin (BTC) was under $20,000, the group has operated on a Bitcoin standard, with any profits it makes s...