Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Motivations for buying Bitcoin (BTC) are numerous: hedging against inflation, financial independence or even hopes for a Lamborghini and life in the sun. For “Mr. ERB,” a blogger and Bitcoin enthusiast, it’s all about retiring early. ERB keeps a deta...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Decentralized exchange (DEX) protocols have become a key part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem where liquidity and liquidity providers play a pivotal role in keeping the vastly growing space moving.While DEX protocols have seen billions...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Goldman Sachs is reportedly pursuing an alliance with one of the top cryptocurrency exchanges FTX.The CEO of Goldman Sachs David Solomon reportedly met with Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX in a closed-door meeting in March to discuss various pr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Proof-of-stake blockchain protocol Algorand will implement a smart contract that will automate the offsetting of the network’s carbon emissions.In a recent announcement, Algorand revealed that a new smart contract would take a portion of each transac...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Things are looking up for the United States’ largest institutional Bitcoin (BTC) product by asset holdings.Data from on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass confirms that as of April 21, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) is rebounding toward 2022 hig...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is adopting major restrictions on users in Russia following the European Union’s fifth package of sanctions against Russia.Binance officially announced Thursday new limitations for Russi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto investors from the United States realized crypto gains nearly six times higher in total than the UK, the second highest country in terms of realized gains. According to a report by Chainalysis, crypto investors in the US accrued a record $46.9...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto investors from the United States realized crypto gains nearly six times higher in total than the United Kingdom, the second-highest country in terms of realized gains. According to a report by Chainalysis, crypto investors in the U.S. accrued...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
One of the largest banking institutions in Germany has confirmed that it applied for a local crypto license earlier this year, marking the first time a major bank has made a move toward cryptocurrencies in the country.A spokesperson from Commerzbank...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Australian financial compliance enforcement agency AUSTRAC has released two new guides to help entities spot when customers are using crypto for illicit means or when they are being forced to pay the creators of ransomware.But, it warned that debanki...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The nonfungible token (NFT) of the first-ever tweet made on Twitter by founder Jack Dorsey is currently struggling to attract a bid even 1% of its sale price last year.The iconic genesis tweet was sold for 1,630 Ether (ETH), valued at $2.9 million ab...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Ethereum Layer 2-based crypto derivatives trading platform dYdX has vowed to become “100% decentralized by EOY” via the protocol's V4 update. dYdX primarily offers perpetual contracts, which are derivatives products that borrow elements from both spo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin Suisse has begun offering decentralized finance (DeFi) services to its clients with the addition of the Liquity protocol to its product lineup. It allows customers to post Ether (ETH) collateral in the protocol to mint and borrow the Liquity...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A study claiming that psychopaths and others with ‘Dark Tetrad’ personality traits are drawn to crypto has been criticized as "meaningless" for showing very weak correlativity by a psychology expert from The University of Otago.Researchers with backg...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Asset manager Simplify has filed a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list shares of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) linked to Bitcoin (BTC) futures, Treasury securities, and options.In a Wednesday...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Traders’ struggle to build sustainable bullish momentum persisted across the cryptocurrency market on April 20 after prices slid lower during the afternoon trading session, and ApeCoin (APE) appears to be one of the few tokens that are defying the cu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States Treasury Department has added Russia-based crypto mining services provider BitRiver and several subsidiaries as firms facilitating the evasion of sanctions. In a Wednesday announcement, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign As...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
One of the main narratives of hope for cryptocurrency investors is that there will be a major shift in public perception that sparks a new wave of capital from retail and institutional traders. Unfortunately for these hopeful bulls, data indicates th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In a statement posted by Shiba Inu (SHIB) Metaverse developers late Tuesday, it appears that a user's wallet address has been blacklisted for drawing a swastika using the project's Metaverse land. The team at Shiba Inu wrote:"SHIB: The Metaverse will...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The U.S. dollar currency index (DXY) turned down sharply after rising above 101 on April 20 but this weakness in the dollar has not helped Bitcoin (BTC), possibly because the S&P 500 is struggling to build upon its strong rally on April 19. This...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrency individual retirement accounts (IRA) provider iTrustCapital revealed Wednesday that the total transaction volume on its platform had surpassed $5 billion, marking a 60% increase in nine months.As told by iTrustCapital, many of its user...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Victoria McLoughlin, who has worked more than 11 years at the Financial Conduct Authority, is temporarily heading the digital assets department of the United Kingdom’s financial watchdog.According to a Tuesday post on LinkedIn, McLoughlin assumed the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Market tracker DappRadar and the Blockchain Game Alliance, or BGA, published the Blockchain Games Report for Q1 2022 on Wednesday. After citing that $720 million was invested into blockchain games and infrastructures in February in a previous report,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A sharp rebound move witnessed in the Aave (AAVE) market in the last three days has raised its potential to rise further in May, a technical indicator suggests.AAVE price rebounds from key supportDubbed a "rising wedge," the pattern appears when the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
During the recent Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Cointelegraph’s Joseph Hall sat down with Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network, to talk about several topics, including where the Bitcoin and Ether markets are going. According to Mashinsky, Bitcoin (...