Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) prices could drop by 20% in the next few months, but that has not deterred its richest investors from stacking.The amount of Bitcoin held by "unique entities" with a balance of at least 1,000 BTC, or so-called "whales," has increased to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Cointelegraph's Jackson DuMont tackles smart contracts in the latest episode of Cryptopedia. He explains how smart contracts work from the basics and provides examples of how they can be utilized in real-world scenarios. DuMont describes smart contra...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On April 28, discount-brokerage platform Robinhood published its financial results for the first quarter of 2022. Year-over-year, the firm's net revenue declined by 43% to $299 million. Specifically, revenue from cryptocurrency trading fell by 39% to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) fell into the Wall Street open on April 29 as United States markets opened to volatility, including an 11% drop in Amazon stock.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewAll change at the FedData from Cointelegraph Mark...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Turkey is experiencing a resurgence in cryptocurrency interest as major crypto exchanges set foot in the transcontinental country. From demographics to offline marketing to currency depreciation, there is plenty of motivation for the 84 million Turki...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Music is a tricky business. The industry has its fair share of controversies, from monopolies to the limited earning potential for up-and-coming artists. While Web2 brought many positive changes, the industry still has a long way. Because of this, pr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
At least three market catalysts show that Dogecoin (DOGE) could climb by at least 50% by the end of Q3 2022.Falling wedge breakout in playDogecoin has been painting a “falling wedge” pattern on its longer-timeframe charts since May 2021, hinting at t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The ETH 2.0 deposit contract can only be unblocked after the PoS transition, postponed to the latter half of the year. The deposit contract for staking Ethereum (ETH) on the Beacon Chain reached a balance of 12 million ETH on Friday. The total locked...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Binance cryptocurrency exchange is adopting more measures to prevent the Russian government from mitigating the impact of sanctions through the use of crypto.Binance has shut down several accounts tied to relatives of senior Kremlin officials ove...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed rangebound on April 29 as a welcome retracement saw the United States dollar come down from 20-year highs.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewTrader eyes $40,600 as “crucial” breakerData from Cointelegraph...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Roger Ver, an early investor and ardent promoter of Bitcoin (BTC), which earned him the moniker “Bitcoin Jesus,” has resurfaced on Twitter after a year and backed Dogecoin (DOGE) in an interview, preferring it for payments over the world’s first cryp...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Residents in three major Chinese cities have begun paying tax, stamp duty and social security premiums using the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) — the digital yuan (e-CNY). According to a domestic news report, a number of government ag...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Supply chain blockchain project VeChain has announced a new partnership with crypto payment services Alchemy Pay that will allow people to use its VET token as payment in over two million stores throughout 70 different countries.The news came alongsi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington, D.C., introduced an updated bill on Thursday to regulate cryptocurrency developers, dealers, exchanges and stablecoin providers, bringing them under the regulatory control of the United States Commodity...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Australian Senator Andrew Bragg has met with United States Senator Cynthia Lummis to discuss potential collaboration on cryptocurrency regulation between the two countries. Senator Bragg is a crypto-friendly politician from the ruling Liberal Party,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Goldman Sachs has offered its first Bitcoin- (BTC)-backed loan, in a major step forward for institutional cryptocurrency adoption on Wall Street. A spokeswoman from Goldman told Bloomberg that the multinational investment bank had lent cash collatera...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
ORIGYN, a Swiss foundation that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and authenticate objects of value, has partnered with luxury watch marketplace WatchBox. The pair will co-produce certificates of authenticity in the form of NFTs to enable...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As Singapore continues to play an active role in boosting crypto adoption across the Asia-Pacific region, the country’s first licensed crypto exchange Independent Reserve conducted a retail-focused survey to better understand the underlying potential...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Axie Infinity was a pioneer of the play-to-earn movement and the project inspired new Web3 applications that aspire to apply the earning model to their respective ecosystems. The latest project to join the move-to-earn movement is STEPN, a Solana-bas...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Although nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have been a part of the cryptocurrency market since 2014, interest and adoption has risen rapidly over the last two years. At their height in August 2021, the total trading volume of NFTs rose to over $5 billion, ki...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In a letter published on Thursday, the New York State Department of Financial Services, or NYDFS, recommended that all digital currency companies operating under New York banking law adopt blockchain analytics to trace transactions. In supporting the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, tweeted that the Ukrainian government will accept war effort contributions in the form of nonfungible token (NFT) donations and purchases. Via the off...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Mishi Choudhary, the legal director of the Software Freedom Law Center, supported the efforts of some United States lawmakers to develop an electronic version of the U.S. dollar.In written testimony for a Thursday hearing of the House Financial Servi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As told via a Twitter post on Tuesday, instant-messaging app Telegram has rolled out crypto payments via Toncoin (TON).To access the feature, users first need to opt in via Telegram’s official Wallet Bot, which allows them to purchase cryptocurrency...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Chris Giancarlo, known by some as Crypto Dad during his tenure from 2017 to 2019, spoke on the topic of U.S. crypto regulation at the Crypto Bahamas conference on Thursday. He called the cur...