Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The world’s most popular sport suffered an own-goal as European clubs canceled their partnerships with Bitci, a Turkish crypto exchange. However, plenty of substitute crypto companies are on the bench, ready to bring crypto to the mainstream through...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Major Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten has announced the launch of its own nonfungible token (NFT) trading platform dubbed Rakuten NFT.The firm initially revealed its plans to launch a proprietary NFT marketplace in 2021 amid the growing popularity o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
BNY Mellon, a major investment bank, is developing a digital asset custody platform that will allow institutional customers to gain crypto exposure.According to a report from City A.M., customers will be able to store the world’s most popular cryptoc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The week-long period that OpenSea gave users to migrate their nonfungible token (NFT) listings ended on Friday. Following the deadline, the platform announced that some features on the site may be unavailable temporarily due to the migration.On Satur...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Senator Ted Cruz during his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech on Friday advocated for Bitcoin (BTC) again while lauding its decentralization.Cruz said he is very bullish on Bitcoin because it is highly decentralized and cannot be...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto-friendly digital payments tech firm Block, Inc. (formerly known as Square) posted $1.18 billion worth of gross profit in Q4, representing a growth of 47% over the same period in 2020. The firm, led by Bitcoin maxi Jack Dorsey, has multiple bus...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Neal Stevenson’s Snow Crash, a techno-dystopian science-fiction novel that has become a legend among Silicon Valley tech bros, predicted the rise of a future Metaverse all the way back in 1992. Despite Stephenson saying that he was “just making sh*t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The founders of crypto exchange BitMEX have pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act after a lengthy litigation process with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).American Arthur Hayes and British Hong Konger Benjamin Delo admitted to “willfully...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto and nonfungible token (NFT) ecosystem analytics firm BitsCrunch has secured $3.6 million in a funding round led by Animoca Brands, Coinbase Ventures, Crypto.com Capital and others.BitsCrunch uses AI-based analytical tools to determine the fair...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Crypto Council for Innovation, or CCI, has announced that Gemini will be joining its list of crypto-friendly firms aimed at supporting lawmakers on related regulation.In a Thursday announcement, the CCI said that effective as of this week, Gemini...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Russian Bitcoin (BTC) miners are reportedly running as usual despite the government’s invasion of Ukraine this week. According to estimates from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, miners in Russia accounted for around 11.2% of the g...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Coinbase’s Q4 financial report vastly exceeded market expectations Thursday, after the firm posted $2.5 billion in net revenue for the quarter, beating analyst predictions by 27%. FactSet consensus had forecasted Coinbase to generate approximately $1...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto mining operations based in the United States are committed to increasing their hash power with more hardware despite Bitcoin’s (BTC) three-month downturn.The Marathon Digital Holdings and GEM Mining companies in the U.S. told Cointelegraph thi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The sanctions announced by United States President Joe Biden in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine did not include cutting the country off from payments on the SWIFT system or cryptocurrency transfers.In a Thursday announcement from the White Hou...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Global financial markets and crypto markets were pummeled over the past 24-hours as the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces sent investors scrambling and sell-offs took place across most asset classes.Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and Trading...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
CryptoPunks enthusiasts and hopeful bidders gathered Wednesday night at Sotheby's auction house in New York City for what turned out to be a non-event after the consignor of 104 CryptoPunks decided to hodl.In the wake of this announcement, however, a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Against the backdrop of an ongoing Russian invasion, the price of Tether's USDT stablecoin soared to as high as 36.97 Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH) ($1.23) on Ukraine's Kuna exchange on Thursday. The total trading volume of all cryptos on the exchange amou...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Athletes have been known to invest in a range of assets and businesses, but now they're also getting into cryptocurrency and blockchain.Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are a relatively new form of tokens that allows for the exchange, trade and ownership of...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Anton Bukov, the co-founder of 1inch Network, thinks that Ethereum will likely become the main settlement layer for a multi-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. “There is like a high chance that most of the chains will try to commit their st...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Despite a number of attempted vampire attacks, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to have a strong run on OpenSea, with the number of unique users and transactions increasing. However, the NFT market’s overall volume is falling behind last month’s fi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As the market dips over escalating tensions in Eastern Europe, Dr. Raullen Chai, the co-founder and CEO of blockchain network IoTeX, is urging crypto investors to hold on to their crypto.The Russian army recently started its advance on Ukraine, firin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
According to recent filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Monster Energy has four pending trademark applications related to the nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and metaverse realms. The first trademark application consists of...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In 2018, the two main ways video game players could earn a living were through e-sports and live streaming — or perhaps a successful YouTube channel. But, thanks to the rise of blockchain technology, the financial aspect has never been more interwove...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The transmissibility of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 seems to have affected many attendees at the ETHDenver developer conference, who reported symptoms and positive test results following the event.Many social media posts from ETHDenver attendees...