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Top Blockchain University: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has been lauded as the top art and design university in Australia by the QS rankings,...
SHIB Slips in Coinbase Volume Rankings After Topping the List for 2 Weeks
Recent speculative excesses in meme token shiba inu (SHIB), which raised concerns about the broader market health, appear to be cooling,...
Fund Managers Increasingly Prefer Bitcoin Over Gold — Say It’s a Better Store of Value
A growing number of fund managers and institutional investors now prefer bitcoin over gold. They see the cryptocurrency as a better store...
IRS Expects to Seize Billions of Dollars in Cryptocurrency Next Year — More Than $3.5 Billion in Crypto Seized This Year
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has revealed that $3.5 billion in crypto was seized during the fiscal year 2021. This represents 93% of...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Continues Its Drift Below $60K as Investors Eye Shoppers’ Response to Inflationary Pressures, Biden Pick for Fed Chair
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening this morning:Market moves: Bitcoin continues to drift below $60,000 as Biden tees up his pick for...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, AVAX, MATIC, EGLD, MANA
Bitcoin (BTC) is witnessing a tough tussle near the $58,000 mark but that has not stopped select altcoins from hitting a new all-time...
Crypto FOMO: Australia’s Largest Bank Sees ‘Bigger Risks in Not Participating’ in Crypto
The CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the country’s largest bank, sees big risks in not participating in cryptocurrency....
Bitcoin Black Friday: Bitpay Reveals List of Merchants Offering Discounts and Special Promotions
While cryptocurrencies have seen their values rise significantly during the last three months many digital asset holders will be spending...
El Salvador to Issue $1 Billion Bitcoin Bond to Fund ‘Bitcoin City’
President Nayib Bukele, of El Salvador, announced yesterday he would issue a $1 billion “Bitcoin Bond” to build the first...
El Salvador to inaugurate Bitcoin City backed by $1B BTC bonds
El Salvador continues to lead the Bitcoin (BTC) adoption drive as President Nayib Bukele announces the launch of Bitcoin City, which will...
Avalanche pushes out Dogecoin from top-10 after AVAX price soars 100% in November
Avalanche (AVAX) is now the tenth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after more than doubling in price since the start of...
Just buy it: Nike wants to bring sneakerheads into the Metaverse
Look at your feet. A lot of you (raises hand) are wearing Nikes right now. For the fiscal year ending May 31, 2021, Nike reported its...
Microstrategy CEO says Bitcoin is winning, gold is losing
Michael Saylor says Bitcoin is unstoppable and will flip gold as the better safe-haven asset BTC will grow 100 times more to become a $100...
Funganomics Completes Its First Seed Investment Round to Accelerate Development of the NFT and Gaming Ecosystem
PRESS RELEASE. The Ethereum-based solution will be a premier, bespoke online community, bringing together NFT investors, partners,...
Leverage Demand, Not Leverage Itself, Down in Bitcoin
Bananarama may have sung about a cruel summer, but November is turning out to be no great shakes for cryptocurrency investors, either....
How liquid staking disrupts parachain auctions on Polkadot
A crowd loan is a Polkadot (DOT) crowdsourcing event in Polkadot that allows the community to support project bids in upcoming parachain...
Bitcoin avoids recent lows as BTC price eyes $60K into the weekly close
Bitcoin (BTC) hovered near $59,000 as Nov. 21 came to a close after avoiding a retest of its recent lows. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Avalanche Value Surges Reaching an All-Time High, AVAX Joins the Top Ten Crypto Markets
Cryptocurrency markets have started to recuperate from last week’s losses as bitcoin, ethereum, and a slew of digital assets have...
Nigerian Remittances Rebound as Country Tops Sub Sahara Africa — Sending Costs Still High
Nigeria is once again Sub Sahara Africa’s biggest recipient of remittances into the region where the money transfers went up by 6.2...
Are Stablecoins the Path to Continued Dollar Dominance?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeIn today’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW goes back to read excerpts from two Nic Carter...
UN’s COP26 climate change goals include emerging tech and carbon taxes
In her monthly Expert Take column, Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney and CPA, covers the intersection between emerging...
Russians to Pay Fees on Digital Ruble Transactions, Central Bank Says
Users of Russia’s central bank digital currency are going to pay a fee for each transaction, a high-ranking representative of Bank...
3air Leverages Blockchain Technology to Deliver Extensive Broadband Connectivity in Africa
The broadband internet connectivity platform, 3air, aims to bring seamless broadband connectivity within Africa. The recently announced...
Socialite and Model Alexis Ren Doesn’t Trust the Dollar Economy, Says Crypto Is a Viable Alternative
The American social media personality and model, Alexis Ren believes the fiat economy is “collapsing” and recently she told...
Canada Detains Teen for Alleged $36 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
A teenager has been arrested in Canada after committing what law enforcement officials in Ontario have described as the largest crypto...
El Salvador to inaugurate Bitcoin City backed by $1B Bitcoin bonds
El Salvador continues to lead the Bitcoin (BTC) adoption drive as President Nayib Bukele announces the launch of Bitcoin City, which will...
El Salvador to Create ‘Bitcoin City,’ Use $500M of Planned $1B Bond Offering to Buy More Crypto
El Salvador, the only country in which bitcoin is a legal tender, is going to build an entire city based on the largest cryptocurrency,...
US Sentences Man to 3 Years in Prison for Operating Unlicensed Bitcoin Exchange Business
A California man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison “for operating an unlicensed business that exchanged at least...
Hillary Clinton Warns Cryptocurrency Could Destabilize Nations, Undermine Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has urged nation-states to “start paying greater attention to the rise of...
Microstrategy CEO Discusses Bitcoin Becoming $100 Trillion Asset Class — Says BTC Will Grow 100X
The CEO of Microstrategy says that bitcoin will emerge as a $100 trillion asset class and will grow 100X from where it is today. He said...
Alabama Securities Regulator Shuts Down 97 Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Trading Websites
The securities regulator of the U.S. state of Alabama has issued a cease and desist order against Acoin Trading and 96 other...
Decentralized exchanges aren’t ready for derivatives
If the words “derivatives trading” conjures up images of men in suits with disheveled white sleeves rolled up to the elbows and...
Opposed to Bitcoin Payments, Bank of Russia Says State Should Not Stimulate Spread of Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies are anonymous and the government shouldn’t encourage their spread, the head of Bank of Russia has insisted. The...
‘Inflation in the News Driven by Rich People’ — Media Pundits Claim ‘Inflation Is Good’ as Americans Struggle With Less Purchasing Power
Inflation in the U.S. has a large number of Americans worried about the future of their purchasing power as the cost of goods and services...
ZEC price jumps 20% in one day as Zcash devs unveil transition to Proof-of-Stake
Zcash (ZEC) surged by nearly 20% in the past 24 hours, helped by the euphoria surrounding its core protocol’s decisive transition...
The three traits of Web 3.0 that fix what went wrong with today’s internet
Blockchain tech has come a long way. It wasn’t that long ago that crypto remained at the fringes, evangelized by a vocal minority. The...
VanEck’s Bitcoin spot ETF shunt solidifies SEC’s outlook on crypto
Bitcoin (BTC) has been on an impressive price run since the announcement of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s...
Seeing red? FUD that! Here’s what you should have bought instead of Bitcoin last week
We’ve argued many times in the past that the correlation between Bitcoin’s price and the market capitalization of hundreds of altcoins...
10 Congress Members Ask Nancy Pelosi to Help Revise Crypto Provision in Infrastructure Bill
Ten members of the U.S. House of Representatives have called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to address the problem with the crypto...
While BTC’s Hashrate Climbs Higher, Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Nears All-Time High
During the last 90 days, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been climbing higher and has been slowly nearing the all-time high (ATH) the...
What Billions of Dollars in Crypto Fundraising Says About the Bull Market
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeFrom $400 million to a crypto exchange to $2.5 billion for the biggest crypto fund...
Music Marketplace Nina Wants to Be a Bandcamp for Web 3.0
For years, crypto believers have been trying to put music “on the blockchain.” And while start-ups and investors say there’s potential,...
Digital Ruble Poses Risks to Financial Sector and Security, Russian Lawmakers Warn
Russian parliamentarians have cautioned against risks associated with the introduction of a digital ruble. Among them are the likely...
Gemini Raises $400 Million in Growth Equity Funding Round; Metaverse Clash Incoming
Gemini, the regulated cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss Twins, has raised $400 million in its most recent growth equity...
Quentin Tarantino Sued for an Upcoming Auction of Pulp Fiction NFTs
Quentin Tarantino, the acclaimed film director, is being sued by Miramax, a Hollywood film producer and distributing company, due to the...
3 reasons why Bitcoin’s drop to $56.5K may have been the local bottom
The first rule of Bitcoin (BTC) trading should be “expect the unexpected.” In just the past year alone, there have been five instances of...
Building multichain is a new necessity for DeFi products
At present, your DeFi product needs to be multichain to be competitive — this is the hard (and exciting) truth of 2021. Whether you’re...
Floki Inu Cryptocurrency Ads Under Investigation in UK
The U.K.’s advertising authority has launched an investigation into advertisements for the cryptocurrency floki inu (FLOKI). The...
Weekly Report: India looking to transform its crypto sector, potential CBDC trial run on the way
The top cryptocurrencies grabbed headlines this week following a market-wide market tumble that saw over $250 billion wiped off the sector...
Digital Currency Group wraps up $600 million debt capital raise
Grayscale’s parent firm Digital Currency Group has completed yet another financing, this time involving $600 million On...
Israeli Police Arrest Beitar Jerusalem Owner and 7 Suspects in Multimillion-Dollar Crypto Fraud
Israeli police have arrested eight suspects in connection with a cryptocurrency fraud scheme after raiding their homes and seizing...
3 reasons why Keep3rV1 (KP3R) price hit a new all-time high this month
Keep3rV1 (KP3R) was one of the few altcoins that emerged unscathed from this week’s bearish turn in the crypto market. While many digital...
FC Barcelona Cancels Marketing Agreement With NFT Marketplace Ownix
FC Barcelona cancelled a marketing deal with non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Ownix on Thursday. The decision comes less than five...
Back to back all-time highs from AVAX, ENJ and EGLD suggest it’s ‘altseason’
Its been a rollercoaster week in the cryptocurrency market after volatility returned to shake up Bitcoin (BTC) price, pushing the digital...
Kleiman v. Wright: Defense’s Autism Expert Explains His Diagnosis of Craig Wright
MIAMI – On Friday, the federal civil trial pitting Craig Wright against Ira Kleiman continued, with the day dominated by testimony of an...
While Speculators Believe Bitcoin’s Third-Largest Wallet Is a Mystery Whale, Onchain Data Suggests It’s an Exchange
The price of bitcoin has dipped below the $60K zone, a number of people have been talking about the third-largest bitcoin address called...
Sports Illustrated Awards Sweepstakes Sponsored by FTX to Give Away 1 Bitcoin
The annual Sports Illustrated (SI) Awards have just revealed the line-up for the firm’s 2021 awards show that will broadcast live...
LTNM Now Available on FMFW.io
PRESS RELEASE. LTNM – another cryptocurrency that takes us to the next level! LTNM is an insured, asset-backed currency based on...
Finance Redefined: Acala wins Polkadot parachain, and Iota set to launch Shimmer, Nov. 12–19
Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter. Read on to discover why almost half of the liquidity...
Bloktopia co-founder aspires to build a metaverse with ‘hundreds of the best crypto projects’
Bloktopia is a virtual skyscraper in the Metaverse comprised of 21 levels, designed to pay homage to the 21 million total maximum supply...
Metaverse and blockchain gaming altcoins rally while Bitcoin looks for support
Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent foray back below $56,000 sparked a wide-ranging sell-off across the cryptocurrency ecosystem and talks of the price...
Square Releases White Paper Detailing Protocol for a Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange
Payments giant Square released a white paper on Friday detailing a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Underperforms Altcoins as Sell-Off Pauses
Bitcoin held steady around $57,000 on Friday after a near-10% decline over the past week. The cryptocurrency is roughly flat over the past...
After Being Foiled by a Billionaire, ConstitutionDAO Faces Lingering Questions
As the dust settles on one of the most ambitious crypto experiments in recent memory, a host of questions remain unanswered – starting...
Price analysis 11/19: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, ADA, XRP, DOT, DOGE, SHIB, AVAX
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $56,000 on Nov. 19, completing a near 20% correction from the all-time high. The Crypto Fear & Greed...
Did ConstitutionDAO Shift the Overton Window on What DAOs Can Accomplish?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeLast night the crypto community waited with bated breath to see who had won the...
Las criptomonedas podrían desestabilizar países y debilitar al dólar como reserva de valor, según Hillary Clinton
La ex secretaria de Estado de los Estados Unidos y candidata presidencial demócrata, Hillary Clinton, arremetió el viernes contra las...
New Money and Contemporary Capitalism With Brett King and Patrick Murck
With the advent of cryptocurrency and related technologies, and with the failure of the existing banking-centric monetary architecture to...
Ross Ulbricht’s NFT Collection to Be Auctioned via Superrare at Art Basel Miami
On December 2nd at Art Basel Miami, the very first Ross Ulbricht non-fungible token (NFT) collection will be showcased at the event and...
Bitcoin Long-Term Uptrend Intact; Support Around $53K-$56K
Bitcoin (BTC) is stabilizing after a near 10% decline over the past week. The cryptocurrency is holding initial support above $56,000,...
‘We are the number two crypto miner in the world, and we see practically no financial return,’ says Kazakhstan President Tokayev
During a meeting with representatives of the financial sector on Friday in Almaty, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kazakhstan,...
Onecoin Victims Petition Bulgaria for Seizure of Assets and Compensation
A lawyer representing investors defrauded by the notorious crypto scam Onecoin has urged authorities in Bulgaria to act on the case,...
Turkey Makes the Case for Bitcoin as Erdogan Runs the Autocrat’s Inflation Playbook
Bitcoin trading volumes are rising in Turkey as the increasingly authoritarian government there goes diligently about the work of setting...
Popular DAO Voting Platform Snapshot Labs Raises $4M
Snapshot, a key piece of tooling for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has taken a step forward today, raising $4 million to...
Why Barbados’ Metaverse Embassy Matters
CoinDesk’s scoop that Barbados had become the first government to acquire virtual land and create a “metaverse embassy” was met with great...
US Senator Introduces Legislation to Repeal Infrastructure Bill’s Attack on Crypto Industry
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has introduced a bill to repeal the $1 trillion infrastructure package’s crypto provision, which he said is a...
Inflationary winds from around the world spell a sea change for Bitcoin
Is the global economy in uncharted territory now vis-a-vis Bitcoin (BTC) and inflation? During most of the cryptocurrency’s brief life,...
Bitcoin Miner Cleanspark Buys New Machines to Take Advantage of Spot Market Prices
Cleanspark (CLSK), the sustainable bitcoin mining company, said it has purchased 2,597 more Antminer S19 computers in order to capitalize...
Crypto News Roundup for Nov. 19, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Attempts Price Recovery After a...
Shiba Inu in danger of ‘topping signal’ as SHIB price loses 50% in 3 weeks
Meme-cryptocurrency Shiba Inu (SHIB) has lost more than 50% of its market valuation in three weeks since its all-time highs in late...
‘Fear’ returns to Bitcoin, while long-term holders own just 3% of BTC unrealized losses
Bitcoin (BTC) diving nearly 20% from all-time highs has finally taken its toll on market sentiment — investors are now “afraid.” According...
Analyst: Chainlink’s ecosystem growth suggests LINK is currently “undervalued”
Crypto analyst Aaron Arnold says Chainlink is among projects with huge potential going forward. Total value secured in the protocol has...
India Considers Allowing Only Preapproved Cryptocurrencies — Crypto Regulation Expected by Year-End: Report
India is reportedly considering allowing only preapproved cryptocurrencies to be listed and traded on exchanges. In addition, the...
Liquid Craft to Launch 1500 Liquor Backed NFTs on ETH and BSC 23rd Nov
PRESS RELEASE. Liquid Craft – is bringing a new concept to the NFT space by using collectible handcrafted bottles of Liquor to add...
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Gets In on NFT Craze With Collectible Balloons
The iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is marching its way to the blockchain.The department store is releasing a series of...
NFT-Collateralizing South African Startup Raises $5 Million in Latest Seed Round
A South African startup, NFTfi, is reported to have recently raised $5 million which the company intends to use for boosting its business...
OCBC Bank Mulls Setting Up Crypto Exchange: CEO
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC Bank) is mulling creating a crypto exchange, the bank’s CEO Helen Wong said in an interview with...
Bitcoin Attempts Price Recovery After a Derivatives-Led Slide to Sub-$56K
Bitcoin is looking to regain its footing, having reached five-week lows early Friday in a move market participants said was driven by...
Kucoin Labs Launches $100 Million Metaverse Investment Fund
Kucoin Labs, the investigative and investment arm of Kucoin, a cryptocurrency exchange, has launched a $100 million fund to incubate early...
SoFi share prices down 2% after Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya sold 15% of his position in SoFi
Bitcoin billionaire Palihapitiya will be using his earnings to fund other investments in technologies that will shape our future....