Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Rising prices are grabbing headlines all over the world. Across the pond in the United States, inflation recently broke a 40-year record. The situation is severe in Europe, with prices rising over 5% across the Eurozone and 4.9% in the United Kingdom...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Okcoin, along with the Stacks Accelerator and Stacks Foundation, announced on Thursday the start of the “Bitcoin Odyssey,” a one-year commitment among investment firms to invest $165 million in inventive solutions to help driv...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The HBAR Foundation, a philanthropic and independent subsidiary of distributed ledger firm Hedera Hashgraph, has announced the launch of the environmentally-conscious Sustainable Impact Fund (SIF), conceived to foster the development of climate-consc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Centre, an open-source technology project developed by Coinbase and Circle, has onboarded crypto exchange FTX and Alkemi Network as its latest partners to collaborate on Verite. Verite is a set of shared decentralized identity protocols — developed b...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Since the start of 2022, Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a decline in price by more than 40% from its all-time high (ATH) of $69,044.77 on Nov 10, 2021.This price volatility hasn’t affected the network's ability to increase miners’ difficulty to obtain Bitcoi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS, has granted stablecoin issuer Paxos regulatory approval to offer crypto services to local companies.In a Thursday announcement, Paxos said it had received a license from Singapore’s financial regulator all...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
While interest in the metaverse seems to be slowing down, a pioneer in the space is still hard at work, advocating the open metaverse, a decentralized and interoperable multiverse.In an interview with Cointelegraph Brasil, Sebastien Borget, founder o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Amid the ongoing discussion between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the nation’s Finance Ministry on the future of crypto, a State Duma (the lower chamber of Parliament) working group has voiced their support for regulating rather than banning d...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Michael Schmid first made contact with Bitcoin (BTC) in 2013; he installed Bitcoin core, mined a few BTC then bought some Bitcoin from MtGox. Schmid told Cointelegraph that shortly after the infamous Mt. Gox hack, in which Schmid lost his Bitcoin, he...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Limewire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing website from the early 2000s that went defunct in 2010, is making a reentry in the market with a digital collectible marketplace at the hands of its new owners.In an official announcement on Wednesday, th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The National Bank of Romania has greenlighted an acquisition in the blockchain industry, authorizing the blockchain startup Elrond to acquire a payment processing platform.Elrond, a blockchain firm focused on distributed applications, received approv...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin is for everyone. That includes teenagers, children, toddlers and even newborns.When these kids grow up, they’ll use the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol, so it “makes sense to start to integrate Bitcoin into learning as early as possible.” At least, th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer at Tether, believes that the growing developments around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) globally wouldn’t really impact the role of private stablecoins.Ardoino shared his two cents in a Twitter thr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) reversed in classic fashion on March 10 after bulls failed once again to hold higher levels.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBart‘s back on the Bitcoin chartData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Gas fees for transactions on the Ethereum blockchain have dropped to the lowest levels since August. But, they’re still not cheap.According to data sourced from Coin Metrics and shared by CryptoRank Platform, the seven-day moving average cost of an E...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol has officially been elected as South Korea’s next president.The election was one of the closest in South Korean history, according to BBC coverage. Yoon, representing the conservative People Power Par...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The price of the native asset for cross-chain decentralized exchange THORChain (RUNE) has spiked by 34% in a day following the activating of synthetic assets on the network.At the time of writing, the price had settled back to a 21% gain over the pas...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The stock prices of crypto-related companies have jumped as the broader market reacted positively to United States President Joe Biden’s long-awaited executive order. This will require U.S. federal agencies to create a regulatory framework for digita...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Some in the nonfungible token, or NFT, community fear the market top may be in after Tai Lopez, the controversial entrepreneur and social media star famous for his oddball marketing tactics, launched his own NFT project.
The NFT project is dubbed the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Binance is looking to diversify its business interests by acquiring companies outside the scope of cryptocurrency, according to a report from the Financial Times. “We want to identify and invest in one or two targets in every economic sector and try...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls jumped in to defend the $40,000 level after a devastating retest of the $38,000 support on March 7. The confidence and momentum that was building up earlier in the month was suddenly shattered after BTC failed to break $44,500 for...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
"Volatility" is the word of the month, and that is exactly what cryptocurrency investors saw today when Bitcoin (BTC) rallied after concerns over the Biden administration's executive order on crypto turned out to be a "nothingburger."Data from Cointe...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
There’s been a sharp decline in interest for the “metaverse” keyword in Google search. However, while the hype may be waning, it seems that companies are still very keen on dipping their toes into the virtual world.In March alone, companies have eith...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Joe Biden has signed his 82nd executive order since being sworn into office in January 2021, directly addressing a regulatory framework for digital assets in a rare moment for the U.S. president.In a Wednesday announcement, the White House said Presi...