Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
When r/Bitcoin moderators began censoring content and banning users they disagreed with, r/btc became a community for free and open crypto discussion. This happened long before the creation of Bitcoin Cash. Today, r/btc users can discuss any Bitcoin-...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
American billionaire and CEO of crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried announced that his company acquired Japanese crypto firm Liquid Group and its subsidiaries. As a part of the deal, FTX will acquire Quoine Corporation, a Financial Services Agency...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has partnered with FTX US to launch a series of nonfungible token (NFT) collectibles that include tokenized lifetime access passes to its annual music festivals.The iconic music festival is held over two...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
When r/Bitcoin moderators began censoring content and banning users they disagreed with, r/btc became a community for free and open crypto discussion. This happened long before the creation of Bitcoin Cash. Today, r/btc users can discuss any Bitcoin-...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Tezos network has seen impressive growth over the past 12 months in smart contract addresses and general adoption, primarily driven by nonfungible tokens (NFT).Activity within the proof-of-stake ecosystem has had a spurt of growth recently as it...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Willy Woo, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and co-founder of software firm Hypersheet, believes that on-chain metrics show that BTC is not in a bear market despite observing “peak fear” levels. Speaking on the What Bitcoin Did podcast hosted by Peter McCorma...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said that Meta’s failed cryptocurrency project, Diem, was “wasted effort and time” and that it should have focused its efforts on “making Bitcoin more accessible for everyone.”MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor interviewed D...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs), gaming protocols and the dawn of the Metaverse were all trending topics in 2021 and they are shaping up to be even bigger in 2022. NFTs and Metaverse-related projects are also bouncing back quickly from the market-wide down...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Decentralized finance (DeFi) and the control it gives users over their assets is one of the most applicable sectors of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, but the general public is still hesitant to interact with most DeFi products due to the steep learnin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Bitcoin (BTC) daily price chart seems to be making a steady recovery pattern, but some concerning indicators are coming from derivatives markets. At the moment, the futures and options markets are showing a lack of confidence from Bitcoin pro tra...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Hester Peirce, a commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and known by many in the space as Crypto Mom, is warning that a proposed rule from the agency could potentially affect the regulation of firms involved with decentral...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The New York Digital Investment Group, or NYDIG, has launched a benefit program allowing employees of participating companies to convert a portion of their paychecks into Bitcoin.In a Tuesday announcement, the NYDIG said several firms involved with s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Monday, the first cross-chain governance proposal passed on decentralized finance, or DeFi, borrowing and lending platform Aave (AAVE). According to DeFi Llama, the amount of total value locked on Aave is approximately $12 billion. As told by its...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
ConsenSys announced Tuesday that it had acquired MyCrypto, the Ethereum wallet interface provider, adding it to the software company's product suite. Its intent is to merge MyCrypto with the ConsenSys-owned MetaMask wallet, to "improve the security o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
With roughly nine months until major federal and state elections, New York State gubernatorial candidate Jumaane Williams is making crypto mining an issue in his campaign, criticizing the lack of regulatory clarity.Speaking to climate activists and p...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In 2020, newly launched NFTs projects experienced costly gas wars that are gas priority auctions where buyers battle to secure their spot on the next block, potentially losing Ether (ETH) to failed transactions. In 2021, digital scarcity and utility...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now! In this week’s show, Cointelegraph's resident experts discuss which play-to-earn (P2E) games have the potential to dethrone Axie Infinity.But first, market expert Marcel Pechman carefully exam...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
According to blockchain data from Nansen Analytics on Tuesday, over $1.096 billion worth of Ethereum (ETH) has been burned in the past month. With the introduction of the EIP-1559 last August, a portion of fees is taken out of circulation for every t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As people all over the globe have become increasingly aware of their privacy rights and how they are constantly being violated by various prominent social media platforms, the need for tangible, decentralized alternatives has continued to grow rapidl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Major Bitcoin (BTC) investor MicroStrategy has announced another major BTC purchase during a market dip to collect a total of 125,051 BTC as of Monday.According to an official form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fil...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) looks ready to continue its ongoing rebound move toward $4,000, according to a technical setup shared by independent market analyst Wolf.Classic bullish reversal pattern in the works? The pseudonymous chart analyst...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Solana Pay is a peer-to-peer payments infrastructure designed to enable the global market of online merchants and point-of-sale providers the ability to accept and settle payment transactions in a panoply of digital assets.A joint collaboration betwe...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Russian citizens reportedly own 16.5 trillion rubles ($214 billion) worth of cryptocurrencies, according to government estimates.A Bloomberg report noted that Russians own about 12% of the total global crypto holdings. The crypto holdings estimates w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has revealed that it is researching the issuance of a digital currency. The central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be linked to the Jordanian dinar and have legal standing.Adel Al Sharkas, the governor of CBJ, has...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Big investors are betting big on Bitcoin price strength, but the same cannot be said for the average exchange user. Bitcoin (BTC) jumping to $39,000 has already activa...