Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Skill sets gained from working on trading strategies, technology, data science and a personal passion for motorcycle racing made Scott Robinson launch a sports analytics platform. With a bit of blockchain added to the mix, the founder of Apex146 foun...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) saw its first dive below $38,000 in over two weeks on Feb. 20 as macro triggers rattled low-volume weekend markets.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewTrader on BTC: “Nothing to get excited about”Data from Cointel...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Aarika Rhodes, an elementary school teacher-turned congressional candidate, recently featured in the Bitcoin Day Sacramento 2022 event to discuss the impact of Bitcoin (BTC) in local politics. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Rhodes highlighted the difficu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Aarika Rhodes, an elementary school teacher-turned congressional candidate, recently featured in the Bitcoin Day Sacramento 2022 event to discuss the impact of Bitcoin (BTC) in local politics. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Rhodes highlighted the difficu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Just between July 2020 and June 2021, ransomware activity soared by a whopping 1,070%, according to a recent Fortinet report, with other researchers confirming the proliferation of this mode of extortion. Mimicking the prevalent business model of the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Major nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has reportedly fallen victim to an ongoing phishing attack within hours after announcing a week-long planned upgrade to delist inactive NFTs on the platform. Just yesterday, OpenSea announced a smart...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
2021 has been a significant year for crypto with no fungible token (NFT) being awarded word of the year, decentralized finance (DeFi) trending in the mainstream media and crypto companies making headlines for a variety of announcements. This is, no d...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
One of the main themes among the crypto community in 2021 was China’s aggressive policy toward mining, which led to a complete ban on such activities in September. While mining as a type of financial activity has not gone away and is unlikely to disa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Feb. 18, the Russian Ministry of Finance kicked off public consultations on the rules of cryptocurrency issuance and transactions. While a welcome development, it is less than the country’s crypto space had expected to get. Earlier in the week, th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Friday, blockchain platform Harmony — whose mainnet runs on the Ethereum network, claiming to have two-second transaction finality and fees 1,000 times lower than Ethereum — announced the launch of its Bored Ape Yacht Club Passport. The Passport e...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
If you’re not keen on joining Mark Zuckerberg in the Metaverse, I have bad news for you: You’re already there. You don’t need a virtual reality headset to enter a virtual world. Humans have been representing reality since our distant ancestors first...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
After a month-long fight against an ongoing exploit, cross-chain router protocol Multichain announced the recovery of nearly 50% of the total stolen funds, worth nearly $2.6 million of cryptocurrencies. The team has also released a compensation plan...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
What is Near protocol blockchain?Near Protocol is a decentralized application (DApp) platform that focuses on usability among developers and users. As a competitor of Ethereum, NearProtocol is also smart-contract capable and a proof-of-stake (PoS) bl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
OpenSea, one of the most popular nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, has rolled out an upgrade to its smart contract, a proactive measure to weed out inactive listings on the platform.As a part of the planned upgrade, all OpenSea users will need to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
From video game enthusiasts monetizing their passions as shout casters to fashion influencers supercharging their careers into livestreamers on e-commerce platforms, the creator economy flourished, evolved and matured in the past year. Largely cataly...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) price are still being hard hit by the current wave of volatility and this is leading traders to go back to the drawing board and readjust their short-term expectations. On Feb.17, Bitcoin price briefly dipped below $40,0...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Late Friday afternoon, decentralized finance, or DeFi, investigator @zachxbt published a series of tweets accusing fraudster Omar Zaki of hiding behind the facade of 0xbrainjar, the anonymous head of product at Composable Finance.From last November t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Late Friday afternoon, decentralized finance, or DeFi, investigator @zachxbt published a series of tweets accusing Omar Zaki of hiding behind the facade of 0xbrainjar, the anonymous head of product at Composable Finance.From last November to this Feb...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
NFTs continue to make an impact on multiple sectors, and this mainstreaming is opening up new opportunities and revealing new trends for blockchain technology. Recently, the real estate sector has shown interest in blockchain technology because it op...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Five members of the Georgia House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would exempt local crypto miners from paying sales and use tax.On Monday, Georgia Representatives Don Parsons, Todd Jones, Katie Dempsey, Heath Clark, and Kasey Carpente...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Lael Brainard, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, encouraged the United States to be a leader in research and policy regarding central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, due to potential international developments.In remarks prepar...