Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Amid El Salvador reporting on cases of the positive impact of the country’s Bitcoin (BTC) adoption, a government official in Mexico has once again urged that the country should follow El Salvador’s example on Bitcoin.Indira Kempis, a senator represen...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The tide is turning on the way in which law enforcers discuss cryptocurrencies and treat crypto users. The United States Secret Service has launched a cryptocurrency awareness hub featuring a cheesy public service announcement video. The educational...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) began to see much-welcomed volatility to the upside on Feb. 23 as European markets opened with modest upside.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView$39,600 set to spark “heavy resistance”Data from Cointelegraph Marke...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Advertising Stands Council of India (ASCI) released a set of 12 guidelines for promotions and advertisement of virtual digital assets (VDA), including cryptocurrencies, on Wednesday.The chief advertising watchdog has developed the new guideline a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Canada’s war on Bitcoin (BTC) appears to be backfiring as the country’s flagship exchange-traded fund (ETF) adds thousands of BTC.Data from on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass shows that over the two weeks to Feb. 23, the Purpose Bitcoin ETF has i...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A former executive from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission believes the regulator has a good chance of losing its $1.3billion lawsuit against Ripple “on the merits” of the case.Attorney Joseph Hall has also voiced concerns over what...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Amid a marketwide downturn across major crypto assets over the past week, institutional traders tipped almost $89 million into Bitcoin (BTC) funds. However, the money men failed to back Ethereum (ETH) investment products, which saw outflows totaling...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Switzerland-based fund manager Compass Financial Technologies has launched an index for 10 decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens dubbed the “Compass Crypto Basket Fundamental DeFi Index” (CCBFDEFI).The firm was founded in 2017 and offers indices and se...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that victims of the Bitconnect Ponzi scheme can proceed with a class action suit by reversing a previous ruling that prohibited such a case.Bitconnect is the endlessly memed initial coin offering from 2017...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin's sell-off appears to be taking a pause even though the United States rolled out new sanctions against Russia on Feb 22.Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to hover slightly belo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has announced a strategic investment in private digital securities marketplace and crypto asset liquidity platform tZero.ICE, which owns and operates 12 global exchanges including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
USDT stablecoin issuer Tether cut its reserves allocation to commercial paper by more than one fifth between September and December last year, dropping from around $30.5 billion to $24.16 billion. Tether is legally required to disclose its reserves e...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Brazilian Senate is set to vote on a bill which would make the country the biggest in Latin America to regulate cryptocurrency. The crypto bill was unanimously approved by the Senate’s Economic Affairs Committee on Feb. 22, potentially increasing...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The cryptocurrency market has had a less-than-stellar start to the year, and it appears that the downtrend that began after the November 2021 market peak has been extended thanks to a multitude of negative developments, including the expectation of r...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Laura Shin, a cryptocurrency journalist and host of the Unchained Podcast, claimed to have discovered the identity of the individual behind an exploit which drained more than 3.6 million Ether from Germany-based startup Slock.it’s The DAO in 2016.Acc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Puma is the latest in a growing list of major brands to purchase a decentralized URL and reveal their nonfungible token, or NFT, by changing their Twitter handle to Puma.eth. The German sportswear brand registered the domain name with the Ethereum Na...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Music-based nonfungible tokens are an emerging frontier in the crypto and NFT space, but the first questions that come to mind are: What are they? And what are their utility?Music NFTs are relatively new to the scene and cannot be pinned down by one...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The nonprofit organization focused on the open-source stablecoin network behind Terra USD, Luna Foundation Guard, has closed on a $1 billion raise through the sale of LUNA tokens.In a Tuesday tweet, Terra said Jump Crypto and Three Arrows Capital led...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to be the dominant news story on Feb. 22 as Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider global financial tremble under the pressure as the world awaits some form of resolution to the matter. Data from Cointele...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Tuesday, the London Stock Exchange Group, or LSEG, announced the acquisition of U.S.-based cloud technology provider Tora for $325 million; the deal is expected to close in the second half of the year. Tora offers software trading solutions for cu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering whether to approve or deny asset manager Grayscale’s application for a Bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF), the firm has called on American investors to submit comments to the regulato...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Coinbase Wallet, an in-house wallet service offered by prominent crypto exchange Coinbase, has rolled out browser extension support for Ledger hardware wallets.The Coinbase Wallet extension, available in the Chrome Web Store, is a noncustodial wallet...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
After the Taliban took full control of Afghanistan in August last year, many international non-governmental organizations and services stopped operating in the country. Among them were payment services like Western Union and Swift.Many Afghans subseq...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss which memecoins can get you the most return on investment in 2022.But first, market expert Marcel Pechman carefully examines the B...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Coinbase ad, which aired during the Superbowl last week, appears to be causing quite a stir on social media in light of new information on its origins. When scanned, the 60-second tv spot featured a color-changing, bouncing QR code that brought u...