Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) price has been stuck in a falling wedge pattern for the past two months and during this time it has tested the $37,600 support on multiple instances. Adding to this “bearish” price action, BTC is down 16% year-to-date, which is in line...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has signed an executive order aimed at harmonizing a regulatory framework for blockchain between the federal government and the U.S. state as well as spurring innovation in the space. In a Wednesday announcem...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed mostly steady at $39,000 on May 4 as the U.S. Federal Reserve conformed to expectations of a 0.5% key interest rate hike.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin eerily calm on Fed statementData from Coi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded two days of meetings Wednesday with a widely anticipated announcement of an interest rate hike of 50 base points, or 0.5%. It is the second of an expected seven rate adjustments this ye...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Investors across the world are waiting for the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on May 4. Although markets expect a 50 basis point rate hike and an announcement by the Fed to start shrinking its balance sheet from June, it is diff...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority, or VARA, has purchased land in the virtual reality world The Sandbox (SAND) as part of its plans to set up a metaverse headquarters.In a Tuesday announcement from Emirates news agency WAM, VARA said the m...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Axie Infinity turned its game into a billion-dollar economy that helped thousands of players in the Philippines and other low-income countries to weather the fallout from pandemic mitigation measures. The main ingredient for success: strong property...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Europe’s Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) watchdog, MONEYVAL, has listed monitoring the crypto sector along with “gatekeeper” professionals, such as lawyers and accountants, as priorities in European nations'...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Although cryptocurrency may still be misunderstood on Capitol Hill, crypto is becoming more political as its influence gains traction. For instance, lobbying by those involved in the cryptocurrency industry has reached new heights. A report from the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century.With the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Blockchain technology is familiar to cryptocurrency users and national banks, and awareness of it is spreading fast to gamers. Applications in industry, particularly supply chain management, have been appearing as well. Through them, blockchain techn...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Blockchain platform Polkadot has launched a new cross-chain communications protocol, saying it will do away with cumbersome bridging mechanisms that have cost the crypto industry billions in cyber attacks. The newly launched XCM messaging system is i...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) is poised for a mini bull run above $3,000 primarily due to a classic bullish reversal pattern on its shorter-timeframe chart, and a huge spike in ETH outflows from Coinbase.ETH price forming falling wedgeETH’s pri...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Fresh from bidding to Purchase Twitter, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO and founder of Tesla, sparked a stir on the social media this morning when he changed his profile photo to a collage picture featuring multiple Bored Apes nonfungible tokens (NFTs...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Next to the fears of government overreach that the European Union’s ambitious digital euro project stirred, the main concern of the public is the prospective currency’s privacy framework. It appears that this worry might not be overblown after all, a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
LGT Group, a top family-owned private banking and asset management group, is moving into cryptocurrency by launching Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) investments at LGT Bank in Liechtenstein.Managing over $292 billion of assets, LGT Bank is preparing to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
LGT Group, a top family-owned private banking and asset management group, is moving into cryptocurrency by launching Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) investments at LGT Bank in Liechtenstein.Managing over $292 billion of assets, LGT Bank has debuted dig...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) saw classic “choppy” price action on May 4 with hours to go before fresh Federal Reserve cues.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBulls pin hopes on historyData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView follo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Popular podcaster Joe Rogan just gets Bitcoin (BTC). In his most recent podcast with Khalil Rountree, a renowned mixed martial (MMA) fighter, Rogan explained that BTC is something that the “government didn’t see coming.”“I think of Bitcoin the same w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Northern Virginia county of Fairfax has already invested a part of its pension funds in crypto and blockchain startups. Now, it’s mulling over deeper involvement with decentralized finance (DeFi) yield farming.The Fairfax County Police Pension Sy...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Northern Virginia county of Fairfax has already invested a part of its pension funds in crypto and blockchain startups. Now, it’s mulling over deeper involvement with decentralized finance (DeFi) yield farming.The Fairfax County Police Pension Sy...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Cybersecurity experts identified and disclosed the rising popularity of airdrop phishing among crypto and nonfungible token (NFT) scammers.Airdrops serve as an essential marketing tool for crypto projects, which involves sending free cryptocurrency t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
JD Vance has won the Ohio Republican Senate primary election, making him the GOP’s candidate in the highly anticipated Senate race against Democrat Tim Ryan. Both parties are trotting out crypto-friendly candidates.The Guardian reported that Vance ma...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Researchers at Australia National University have teamed up with blockchain oracle provider AP13 to launch the first Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG).The joint effort will allow Web3 entities to access a completely unpredictable random number g...