Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine currently based in Kyiv, has signed a law establishing a legal framework for the country to operate a regulated crypto market. In a Wednesday announcement, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation sai...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Wednesday, Coinbase launched a new feature, dubbed "Coinbase Pay," that enables its clients to fund their Coinbase Wallets directly from a Chrome browser extension. According to its staff, Coinbase Pay intends to make it intuitive for anyone to p...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) is witnessing a see-saw battle near $40,000 with both the bulls and the bears trying to gain the upper hand. The volatility could remain high as the markets await the United States Federal Reserve’s policy decision due on March 16.Analy...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Monday, March 14, the European Blockchain Observatory announced a call for tenders to contract a consortium, the mission of which would be to facilitate and operate a pan-European regulatory sandbox for distributed ledger technologies, or DLT, and...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
NFTs are blamed for everything from tacky art to economic inequality and environmental destruction. But, the arguments by critics don‘t add up, writes Something Interesting‘s Knifefight.“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave has announced the launch of Aave v3, marking a significant evolution on the existing model of liquidity pools by promising to improve financial efficiency, bolster current safety and security measures, foste...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) returned above $41,000 prior to the Wall Street open on March 16 as good news from Asia and Russia buoyed stocks.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBTC on track to close week higherData from Cointelegraph Markets...
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 and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century.Economic warfar...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), could reach back to $3,000 in March, backed by a mix of short-term technical, fundamental and on-chain catalysts.ETH’s price paints “symmetrical triangle”The first interim bullish outlook for Ether ironically com...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
United States President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets on March 9. The order had been expected for several months, giving some in the industry ample time to build up trepidation. Once the ex...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Nearly 150 million people use the franc of the Financial Community of Africa (CFA) on a daily basis, from Senegal in the extreme west to Gabon in the center of the continent.Used in 14 countries, the CFA franc is pegged to the euro, printed in France...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A fast-moving Bitcoiner has run through seven of 40 countries on his Bitcoin-powered marathon around the world.Paco the Runner, also known as Paco de la India, set off on Sept. 17, 2021, paying for his entire running trip thanks to all the Bitcoiners...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
When Bitcoin (BTC) traders pass away, their BTC may forever be lost within the blockchain if they haven’t given anyone else access to their wallets. However, an exchange project wants to give crypto traders another option. Back in 2020, a study showe...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
IoTeX, a blockchain platform focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced the launch of a $100 million sustainable ecosystem fund.The new fund will back over 1,000 decentralized machine economy startups developing use cases for connecting m...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The startup ecosystem has historically played a vital role in shaping the crypto community into an almost $2 trillion industry. However, numerous players bank on this notion to consistently overpromise and underdeliver the big WAGMI dream.Back in Dec...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) tested traders‘ neves yet again on March 16 as a fresh spike over $40,000 ended in minutes.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewShorts feel the burn after abrupt trip to $41,700Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have received a lot of media attention, but experts agree that their impact will go beyond selling digital artwork or tweets and alter how people communicate ideas forever.Despite its promise of shattering the mold, the worl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A former blackhat hacker who goes by the name Gummo online claims to have amassed around $7 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC). Despite a flood of positive comments and posts relating to his interviews with the Soft White Underbelly YouTube channel — whi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A hacker has made off with approximately $11 million in wrapped ETH (wETH), wrapped BTC (wBTC), Chainlink (LINK), USD Coin (USDC), Gnosis (GNO) and wrapped XDAI (wxDAI) after using a “re-entrancy” attack on decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protoc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The community behind decentralized stablecoin platform MakerDAO is mulling over a major tokenomics shift that could replace its governance token, Maker (MKR).A proposal was made on the MakerDAO forum by community leader monet-supply on Monday, outlin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Former Meta employees and key players behind the firm’s defunct stablecoin project Diem have raised $200 million to expand a new project dubbed Aptos.Aptos was cofounded by former Novi — Meta’s crypto unit — strategic partnerships lead Mo Shaikh and...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that its video and photo-sharing application, Instagram, is preparing to add nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to the platform.“We’re working on bringing NFTs to Instagram in the near term,” Zuckerberg reportedly stated...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Tuesday, Ethereum developer Tim Beiko tweeted that Kiln successfully passed the Ethereum Merge, with validators producing post-merge blocks containing transactions. Kiln will be the last Merge testnet — formerly Ethereum 2.0 — before existing publ...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
United States Securities and Exchange Commissioner Allison Herren Lee announced that she would be stepping down from her post at the end of her term in June. In a Tuesday announcement, Lee said that she will remain in the role until her successor has...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Former Federal Reserve Board governor Sarah Bloom Raskin has withdrawn her name for consideration as the central bank’s vice chair for supervision in an attempt to allow other nominations to move forward.According to a Tuesday tweet from Washington P...