Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
If you’re into cryptocurrency or blockchain, there’s a good chance I don’t have to spell out the benefits of decentralization. You’re a first-generation user of a technology that will increasingly define the future of the internet, and you have front...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Monero (XMR) price dropped by nearly 10% three days after establishing a week-to-date high of around $290 on April 24. Nonetheless, several technical indicators suggest that the XMR/USD pair is poised to resume its uptrend over the next few months.Fa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In her monthly Expert Take column, Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney and CPA, covers the intersection between emerging technologies and sustainability, and provides the latest developments around taxes, AML/CFT regulations and legal issues...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Metaverses and blue-chip nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are the driving forces behind the dramatic growth in the NFT market. Projects like the Bored Apes, Crypto Punks, Azuki, Clone X and Doodles collections have steadily attracted collectors' interest in...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
4. Ethereum is shifting from a proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) governance mechanism in the foreseeable future, resulting in a faster and more efficient blockchain. The Ethereum Network has experienced a considerable spike in transa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
"Blue-chip nonfungible tokens (NFTs)" is a popular buzzphrase one will find strewn across Twitter and various crypto media. The term, “blue chip,” is borrowed from traditional finance where stocks considered to be the well-established extension of co...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) consolidated under $40,000 on April 23 as market expectations favored further losses.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed a bearish BTC/USD after the pai...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Things required to use a Bitcoin ATMThere are a few things you’ll need to prepare before you can get started on using a Bitcoin ATM:A crypto walletThe first thing you'll need before using a Bitcoin ATM is a crypto wallet. More specifically, you'll ne...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The concept of nonfungible tokens (NFT) came into existence in 2015, and it first got some traction in 2017 when many prominent digital collectibles such as CryptoPunks and EtherRock were created. NFTs got early traction among premier sports clubs bu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland catalyzed a commitment to carbon neutrality, achieving net-zero carbon emissions, requiring reducing emissions as much as possible, and balancing the remaining emissio...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
What is the Metaverse?The Metaverse is a term coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash to describe a future virtual reality-based online world. Some have gone as far as pronouncing Stephenson’s novel a prediction of the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As France braces for the April 24 presidential election in a runoff, political pundits around the globe are making their bets. The choice is between the centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and right-wing populist Marine Le Pen. Much of the political d...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Metaverse skeptics fear the prospect of unprotected data and large-scale user surveillance on a scale never seen before. Ironically, the largest company pushing the Metaverse, Meta (previously known as Facebook), has faced its own fair share of priva...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As the 2021-2022 United Kingdom tax year finished on April 5, 2022, Her Majesty's Treasury announced they were paving the way for the U.K. to become a global crypto asset technology hub. This could mean that the previously not particularly crypto-fri...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The cryptocurrency market is known for its high volatility and the wild-west nature of the space is, in part, due to many of the assets having small market caps and the 24/7 operational hours of centralized and decentralized exchanges (DEXs).In addit...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States Treasury Department has added three Ethereum wallet addresses to sanctions allegedly linked to the hacker group responsible for the theft of more than $600 million in crypto from nonfungible token game Axie Infinity’s Ronin sidechai...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Memecoins briefly took the cryptocurrency market by storm in 2021 after steady attention and shilling from big-name influencers like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban helped propel coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) to 100x gains. As one should expect, in the crypto...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem was filled with ups and downs —mostly the latter— this week, with two very distinct hack attempts and a heartbreaking departure of a DeFi veteran. In this week’s newsletter, we will also look at derivative e...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) turned down sharply on April 21, maintaining its tight correlation with the U.S. equity markets, which reversed direction after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted that a 50 basis point rate hike was “on the table” in May. T...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Major crypto exchange Binance challenged the accuracy of a report, which stated one of its regional heads agreed to supply Russia's financial intelligence unit with customer data potentially related to donations for anti-corruption and anti-Putin act...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Since the wake of the nonfungible token (NFT) boom, creators have been leaving their Web2 entities in droves and are carving their own lanes in the Web3 world. It’s not just technologists and artsy-creators who are pivoting toward Web3. For example,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
4. New blockchain development offerings are making it simple for Web 3.0 applications to implement push notifications. A practical solution to these UX issues would need to be simple to implement and enable applications to monitor any address fo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
“Web3” used to be an empty industry buzzword that described the next iteration of the internet. In 2022, Web3 is still an annoying buzzword, but at least the blockchain community is trying to assign it real-world utility. This week’s Crypto Biz newsl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Via a Twitter post on Friday, Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, said that the cryptocurrency exchange recovered $5.8 million spread over 86 accounts in digital assets moved to the exchange by Lazarus Group. Last month, the North Korean cyber-criminal g...