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Bitcoin ‘enters value zone’ as BTC price floor metric goes green again
Bitcoin (BTC) has just reentered a key price zone which has signalled the beginning of the end for bear phases, data confirms. In a tweet...
Fantom Becomes Third-Largest DeFi Protocol by Value Locked
Fantom overtook Binance Smart Chain (BSC) over the weekend to become the third-largest decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem by total...
Bank of Korea Says First Phase of CBDC Test Completed Successfully
The Bank of Korea wrapped up the first phase of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) simulation project in December 2021, according to a...
Best places to buy AELF, the complete business solution token
Aelf is an open-source blockchain network designed as a complete business solution. Its token ELF is currently trading for $0.34 and has...
Bitcoin Whales Stay Away Even as Technical Indicator Flashes Oversold
While bitcoin's price slide appears overdone on technical charts, demand from whales or large crypto investors remains elusive, signaling...
You can now buy MCO2, the native token of Moss Carbon Credit: Here’s where
The token of Moss Carbon Credit is trading for $14 and added more than 66% to its value in the last 24 hours. If you want to know what...
Velo is skyrocketing today, up 70%: here’s where to buy Velo
The live Velo price today is $0.075 with a 24-hour trading volume of just under $31 million. Velo is up 70.70% in the last 24 hours. If...
No Developed Nation Bans Cryptocurrencies, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Warns Russia
Pavel Durov, founder of the messaging app Telegram, has criticized Bank of Russia’s proposal to impose a blanket ban on a range of...
Cosmos' Token Surges 8% Amid Airdrops, Polkadot Bridge
ATOM, the token of blockchain Cosmos, rose as much as 8% in the past 24 hours as investors bet on further upside for the high-speed...
Mercadolibre Gets Closer to Crypto With Investments in Paxos and Mercado Bitcoin
Mercadolibre, one of the biggest Latam-based unicorns, has announced strategic investments in two cryptocurrency exchanges: Paxos and...
UBS Warns of Crypto Winter Amid Expectation of Fed Rate Hikes and Regulation
UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, has warned about a crypto winter where prices crash and may not recover for years. The...
Biden Administration to Release Executive Order on Crypto as Early as February: Report
The White House is readying an executive order for release as early as next month that will outline a comprehensive government strategy on...
Biden Administration Preparing to Release Government-Wide Crypto Strategy: Report
The Biden administration is reportedly drafting a government-wide cryptocurrency strategy as an executive order. The directive is expected...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin, Ether Regain Ground Sunday After Early Weekend Battering
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Market moves: Bitcoin was trading at over $36,000 on Sunday after continuing its recent decline...
Blockchain metaverse ecosystems gain traction as brands create digital experiences
Billion-dollar companies are taking the Metaverse by storm as consumers have shown heightened interest in virtual, interactive,...
Bitmain Reveals Hydro Bitcoin Miner With 198 Terahash, Produces Almost Double the Power of Today’s Top Machines
One of the largest bitcoin mining rig manufacturers in the world, Bitmain announced the launch of a new bitcoin miner that boasts speeds...
Bitcoin Heads for Worst Week in 8 Months as Traders Lament 'Pikachu Pattern'
Bitcoin appeared to stabilize on Sunday after an unusually harsh sell-off, but the largest cryptocurrency was still on track for its worst...
Bitcoin’s Price Drop and the Network’s Higher Difficulty Squeezes BTC Mining Profits
After Bitcoin’s mining difficulty jumped to the highest value ever at 26.64 trillion, the overall hashrate slumped a hair due to...
How to pick or analyze altcoins?
What are altcoins? The word “altcoin” is derived from “alternative” and “coin.” Altcoins refer to all alternatives to Bitcoin. Altcoins...
When and why did the word ‘altcoin’ lose its relevance?
All cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin (BTC) were first described as altcoins for a single reason: There was a rise of projects that...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, LUNA, ATOM, ACH*, FTM
Bitcoin (BTC) fell close to $34,000 on Jan. 21, which reflects a 50% decline from the $69,000 all-time high made on Nov. 10, 2021....
First Practices Aren’t Best Practices
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.As 2022 kicks into gear many of us are wondering what's in store for bitcoin and the broader...
Low Volumes Across Crypto Spot Markets and Derivatives Indicate Bearish Conditions
Digital currency markets have slipped significantly in value during the last two weeks and the lower prices have not sparked higher trade...
No, Tech Stocks Aren’t Driving Crypto Prices
Crypto prices were crushed this past week and when such events happen, many seek out a culprit.We’ve been noting that demand for bitcoin...
Value Locked in Defi Slides 21% in 2 Weeks, $200B TVL Still 10x Larger Than This Time Last Year
The value locked in decentralized finance (defi) has dropped 21.22% since January 4, 2022. At the time, the total value locked (TVL) in...
Crypto and NFTs meet regulation as Turkey takes on the digital future
In her monthly Expert Take column, Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney and CPA, covers the intersection between emerging...
Lawyer Accuses Huobi of Operating a Cryptocurrency Exchange That’s ‘Held Accountable Nowhere’
Houbi Global, which is based in Seychelles, has been accused by lawyer Jonathan Levy of operating without accountability to any...
What Facebook’s Patents Tell Us About the Fight for the Soul of the Metaverse
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeOn this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads David Z. Morris’...
Professor Gensler Gets an F on Crypto
Crypto insiders lauded Gary Gensler’s nomination to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last February. They thought the...
Zimbabwe Signs Agreement Enabling Collection of Taxes From Crypto and E-Commerce Entities
The Government of Zimbabwe has confirmed signing an agreement with Daedalus World Limited which enables the latter to collect taxes from...
Bastyon Inventor Daniel Satchkov Explains the Importance of Using an Open Source Social Media Platform
Bastyon.com is a social platform built on the Bitcoin foundation. It is decentralized with no central serve. Bastyon’s codebase is...
Decommissioned Power Plant in Armenia to Host Crypto Mining Farms
Armenia is going to invite cryptocurrency miners to install their coin minting hardware in an old thermal power plant. The TPP will be...
Russia May Allow Crypto Mining and Gold-Backed Stablecoins, Lawmaker Says
Russia can legalize cryptocurrency mining and stablecoins backed by gold under government control, a high-ranking member of the Russian...
Bitcoin records all-time high network difficulty amid price fluctuations
The Bitcoin (BTC) network has recorded a new all-time high mining difficulty of 26.643 trillion with an average hash rate of 190.71...
World’s Largest Asset Manager Blackrock Files for Blockchain Tech ETF
The New York-based multinational investment management corporation Blackrock has filed an application with the Securities and Exchange...
Union Bank of Philippines to Offer Crypto Trading and Custodial Services
One of the largest banks in the Philippines, Unionbank, is reportedly launching cryptocurrency trading and custodial services....
Decentralized and traditional finance tried to destroy each other but failed
The year 2022 is here, and banks and the traditional banking system remain alive despite decades of threatening predictions made by crypto...
Elon Musk Criticizes Twitter — Gets Blasted for Using Tesla to Promote Crypto, Dogecoin
Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk has criticized Twitter for using its engineering resources to provide a non-fungible token (NFT) profile...
Bearish chart pattern hints at $70 Solana (SOL) price before a possible oversold bounce
Solana (SOL) price may fall to $70 a token in the coming weeks as a head and shoulders setup emerged on the daily timeframe and possibly...
El Salvador Buys 410 Bitcoins as BTC Plunges to Lowest Level in Months
El Salvador bought the dip as the price of bitcoin plunged to a record low. President Nayib Bukele said Friday that his country has...
3 possible reasons why Polkadot is playing second fiddle in the L1 race
2021 was a sort of “coming-of-age” for many layer-one (L1) blockchain protocols because the growth of decentralized finance...
Animoca Brands doubles valuation to $5B, OpenSea tops $3.5B in January volume, Microsoft eyes Metaverse gaming: Hodler’s Digest, Jan. 16-22
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
While BTC’s Price Slid Lower, a Miner Spent an 11-Year-Old Block Reward from 2010 Worth $1.8M
Following the large string of block rewards from 2010 spent in November 2021, no block rewards from that year were discovered in December...
KICK․IO Launchpad: The New Haven of Cardano “Venture Capitalists”
Crypto gains are not as good as they once were. The much-anticipated journey towards a more mature crypto space has been accompanied by a...
Finance Redefined: Secret’s $400M fund, and 1inch expanding, Jan. 14–21
Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter. Following a bearish decline for many of the leading...
How should DeFi be regulated? A European approach to decentralization
Decentralized finance, known as DeFi, is a new use of blockchain technology that is growing rapidly, with over $237 billion in value...
El Salvador Plans to Offer Crypto Loans to Small-Scale Entrepreneurs
The government of El Salvador will offer cryptocurrency-based loans to small companies. Conamype, the National Commission for Micro and...
New Payment System Seeking to Bolster Intra-African Trade Goes Live
A new continent-wide payment system that seeks to strengthen African fiat currencies, as well as to boost intra-Africa trade, recently...
5 Reasons why you should buy NEAR
The volatility of the crypto space has made gaining wealth in the 21st century easy. All you need to simply do is invest at a low...
Despite the Drop in Crypto Prices, Weekly NFT Sales Reach $4.7 Billion, Increasing 81%
While crypto markets shed billions during the last seven days, non-fungible token asset sales are still up 81% since last week. Statistics...
NFTs: Forget apes and penguins — Let’s talk diapers, hardware and museums
Though the likes of Bored Apes and Pudgy Penguins take the headlines, and the potential for decentralized finance (DeFi) and play-to-earn...
Crypto-centric stocks plummet as Bitcoin falls below $35K
Crypto stocks tumbled on Friday as risk-off sentiment swept through the markets. While US markets were recording a fifth straight negative...
5 Reasons you should buy Bitcoin
If you're looking to invest in cryptocurrencies. In that case, you have a lot of options at your fingertips, so much that it can be hard...
10 Best Privacy Coins in 2022
Some privacy coins made great buys in 2021, but are they still your best bet in 2022? In this article, you will discover which privacy...
Bitcoin Price Slips Below $36K, BTC Dominance Increases, Billions Leave Crypto Economy
The price of bitcoin tapped a new low this year hitting $34K per unit at just after 5 a.m. (EST) on Saturday morning. Bitcoin is now down...
What Happened at Congress’ Bitcoin Energy Hearing?
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeThis week on the “Weekly Recap,” NLW breaks down the House hearing...
Introducing Next Earth: The User-Governed Metaverse
2022 is ramping up to a buzzing year for the metaverse. Upcoming projects like Next Earth aim to usher in a new era of user-governed...
BTC price falls to $34K as Bitcoin RSI reaches most ‘oversold’ since March 2020 crash
Bitcoin (BTC) refused to stem recent losses during Jan. 22 as predictions of a flight to $33,000 and lower looked increasingly likely to...
Russian Banks Begin Testing Digital Ruble Payments
Banks in Russia are preparing to dive into the pilot phase of the digital ruble project and some are already testing transactions with the...
Technical analyst says Bitcoin risks another 22% rout after snapping key level
The analyst says another leg down for Bitcoin could bring the $30,000 support level into play. Bitcoin price fell to lows of $34,800 on...
How to use UniSwap: A step-by-step beginner’s guide
The Uniswap decentralized exchange (DEX) is the most popular DEX built on the Ethereum blockchain. For users wondering, “What is...
New BHUNT Malware Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets via Software Installs
Bitdefender, a cybersecurity and antivirus company, has detected BHUNT, a new kind of malware that targets cryptocurrency wallets via...
Here is why API3 token is rallying as the majority of cryptocurrencies fall
The API3 price has surged by more than 42% as the majority of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum nosedive. At the time of...
Iran to Pilot ‘National Cryptocurrency,’ Considers Blockchain Tech for Stock Market
The Central Bank of Iran soon plans to launch the pilot phase of its digital currency project, an official unveiled. The Islamic Republic...
El Salvador buys its cheapest 410 Bitcoin as prices reach $36k
The Central American country of El Salvador has added 410 Bitcoin (BTC) to its central reserve as BTC prices trade below $37,000, a price...
Botswana Cryptocurrency Regulation: Government Set to Present Virtual Asset Bill to Parliament
The Botswana government is set to present a “Virtual Asset Bill” to the country’s parliament, a move that could see...
Blockchain and the evolution of business models in the game industry
The first computer games were developed in the late 20th century with the sole purpose of entertaining their audience. One of the first...
Robinhood Begins Rolling Out Crypto Wallets to Select Customers
Trading platform Robinhood has begun rolling out crypto wallets to 1,000 customers. Users can send and receive their cryptocurrencies from...
The life cycle of smart contracts in the blockchain ecosystem
The formation of a smart contract, freezing of the smart contract, execution of the smart contract and finalization of the smart contract...
Altcoin Roundup: 3 emerging P2E gaming trends to keep an eye on in 2022
Blockchain-based play-to-earn (P2E) gaming had a breakout year in 2021, and as the cryptocurrency ecosystem evolves in 2022, the P2E...
Bitcoin falls to $36K, traders say bulls need a ‘Hail Mary’ to avoid a bear market
Bitcoin (BTC) price continues to sell-off and the knock-on effect is an even sharper correction in altcoins and DeFi tokens. At the time...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Converts First Paycheck to Bitcoin and Ether via Coinbase
The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has received his first paycheck in bitcoin and ether via Coinbase. “Promise made, promise...
El Salvador Purchases 410 More Bitcoins Amid Market Drop
El Salvadaor bought 410 bitcoin for $15 million Friday, the country’s President Nayib Bukele said on Twitter.“Some guys are selling really...
Axie Infinity (AXS) Continues to meltdown – Should you buy it?
Metaverse and gaming tokens haven’t had the smoothest of rides in the market over the last few weeks. Axie Infinity (AXS) is not any...
Polygon’s (MATIC) bloodbath continues as altcoin declines past crucial support- Price prediction and analysis
Polygon (MATIC) has been seeing a massive sell-off over the last few days. Although the general trend for the altcoin is still positive,...
Indonesian Religious Organization Issues Decree Forbidding Use of Crypto by Country’s Muslim Population
Indonesia’s Tarjih Council and the Central Executive Tajdid of Muhammadiyah have issued a fatwa (decree) stipulating the illegality...
NFTs and compliance: Why we need to be having this conversation
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” — Plato The above quote...
A Possible Russian Crypto Ban and Vitalik’s Synthetic Womb: This Is 2022
This week on “Opinionated,” the gang dives deep into some big news out of Russia, looks at the issue of rampant intellectual property...
Sustainable Bitcoin Miner, Merkle Standard Buys 13,500 BITMAIN Mining Rigs for Eastern Washington Flagship Site
PRESS RELEASE. Irvine, California, January 21, 2022: Merkle Standard, a sustainable digital asset mining platform, announced a new miner...
MetisDAO TVL surges by 99,800% as the layer-2 race heats up
Attracting liquidity has become a de facto arms race in the growing decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape. Projects constantly battle to...
SEC Objects to MicroStrategy’s Accounting Adjustment for Its Bitcoin Holdings
Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy won’t be able to remove swings in the value of its enormous bitcoin holdings from its unofficial accounting...
Ethereum Could Hold Lead as Dominant Smart-Contract Blockchain: Coinbase Analysts
Don't write off Ethereum just yet.The second-largest blockchain network by market capitalization after Bitcoin has become the dominant...
Market Wrap: Cryptocurrencies Tumble as Global Investors Reduce Risk
The crypto market was in a sea of red on Friday as bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, tumbled more than...
Twitter Seeks Senior Crypto Role on Heels of NFT Verification Announcement
“Want to help shape the future of crypto at Twitter?” Such is the ask from Tess Rinearson, Twitter’s crypto engineering lead, in a Friday...
Report: A16z to Raise $4.5 Billion for Crypto Investments
A16z, a leading VC company in crypto, is reportedly ramping up its investments in the field this year. The company is said to be looking...
Crypto will have a hard time rallying until stocks find a base, says Mike Novogratz
Crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz says markets are now in bear territory after recent sell-offs. In December last year, Galaxy Digital CEO...
Crypto Trader Tantra to Liquidate After 'GBTC Discount' Widens to Record
Tantra Labs, a cryptocurrency-focused trading firm that offered an interest-bearing investment product, is being wound down after...
The Federal Reserve Shares Its Thinking About a US CBDC
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeFor more than a year, the Federal Reserve has...
Here’s Why Bitcoin Tumbled 11% in 24 Hours
The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization began to drop Thursday around 19:00 UTC (2 p.m. ET), following the lead of the...
Crypto Market Cap Falls Below $2T Amid Selloff
Cryptocurrencies are getting rekt.Crypto bluechips bitcoin and ether breached key $40,000 and $3,000 support levels late Thursday evening,...