Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Mama Bitcoin is the pseudonym claimed by a young Senegalese Bitcoiner called Bineta. Her business, Bleu comme la mer, was the first retailer in Senegal (and possibly West Africa) to accept crypto as payment. She’s also the first generation of her fam...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Sygnum Singapore, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based cryptocurrency bank Sygnum, is expanding services after securing new regulatory approval from local authorities.The company announced Tuesday that Sygnum Singapore received in-principle approval fro...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
VanEck, an investment firm with almost $82 billion in assets under management, has submitted an application to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the launch of a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that invests in gold mining a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) recovered from one-week lows on March 8 after a lack of progress in Russia-Ukraine talks that sent markets tumbling.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewCommodities “trading like meme stocks”Data from Cointelegraph...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Publicly traded crypto mining company Hive Blockchain Technology has signed a deal to buy ASIC chips from semiconductor manufacturer Intel that will be used in their new custom mining devices.Hive arranged for the new devices to be made by a third-pa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The popular gaming guild Yield Guide Games (YGG) has reached a milestone in terms of new scholars for the Axie Infinity platform and various other play-to-earn (P2E) games.Yield Guild Games reported 20,700 unique scholars in February, an increase of...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin inflows across all exchanges have been net negative since last July, but four major exchanges have been running contrary to this trend with nearly an equal amount of net positive inflows.There have been total net outflows of 46,000 BTC (worth...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin inflows across all exchanges have been net negative since last July, but four major exchanges have been running contrary to this trend with nearly an equal amount of net positive inflows.There have been total net outflows of 46,000 BTC (worth...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Volatility and choppy price action continued to dominate the cryptocurrency market on March 7 as news that United States President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order later this week. This outline for the government‘s strategy for cryptocurren...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, a bureau of the Treasury Department, has warned financial institutions to consider crypto as a possible means Russia may attempt to use to evade sanctions related to the country’s mil...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Behance, the creative showcase platform owned by Adobe, announced on Monday that users can now connect their Phantom wallet to their Behance accounts and showcase Solana (SOL) nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on their profiles. Phantom is a Solana wallet bu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Australian NFT trading platform Immutable announced a $200 million Series C funding round led primarily by Singaporean state-owned investment firm Temasek and with participation from Animoca Brands and Tencent. Additional investment from ParaFi Capit...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The cryptocurrency ecosystem as a whole has taken a back seat to events in the larger world but this is not stopping developers from building.One project that has recently begun to gain traction thanks to its focus on creating a high throughput, low-...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Inflows into cryptocurrency investment funds rose sharply last week, offering cautious optimism that investors are broadening their exposure to digital assets despite geopolitical uncertainty and monetary tightening from central banks.Digital asset i...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The parliament of the European Union has scheduled a vote on a framework aimed at regulating cryptocurrencies after addressing concerns over proof-of-work mining.In a Monday Twitter thread, European Parliament Committee on Economics and Monetary Affa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In the latest Cryptopedia episode, viewers can get a succinct and informative overview of decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. Cointelegraph's Jackson DuMont believes DAOs have the power to "completely transform how work and social collab...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine has resulted in investors seeking safe-haven assets. Contrary to expectations by crypto investors, Bitcoin (BTC) has failed to rise along with gold and it remains closely correlated with the U.S. st...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
CargoX, a blockchain company specializing in document transfer solutions, announced a long-term extension to its agreement with the Egyptian government to digitize the nation’s trade flows. Last year, through its 80%-owned entity Misr Technology Serv...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, has issued a notification on Binance Markets in response to Binance’s payment company Bifinity and investment firm Eqonex entering a strategic partnership.In a Monday statement, the FCA reiter...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
February saw a noticeable shift between inflation and U.S. Federal Reserve news, followed by news of a conflict in Eastern Europe that completely overshadowed the earlier concerns of economic health. What’s transpiring in Ukraine is causing an immedi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A war rages on Europe’s eastern rim, having already left thousands of people dead and injured and millions more displaced. Digital assets have become so woven into the global financial system that a major political and economic crisis like the one un...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Despite extreme volatility in the price of crypto assets, venture funds continue to make strategic investments in the industry. In recent weeks, the focus has shifted to infrastructure developers in Web3, play-to-earn and GameFi — nascent industries...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Ethereum's native token, Ether (ETH), will likely fall below $2,000, according to one popular market analyst.Ether paints a classic bearish continuation setupPseudonymous market analyst Wolf shared the downside outlook on March 7 as Ether's price reb...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A council formed by traditional finance conglomerates American Express, Discover, Visa and Mastercard welcomes a decentralized finance (DeFi) banking firm to a forum of participating organizations that help toimprove payment data security worldwide.S...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volumes, is moving to boost its fiat-to-crypto payments technology by launching its own crypto payment provider.The crypto exchange officially announced on Monday the launch of Bifinity,...