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US Lawmaker Warns Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair Not to Ignore Bitcoin or America Will Fall Behind
Congressman Kevin McCarthy has urged Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell not to ignore bitcoin like...
Peak fear? Bitcoin funding rates crash to lowest levels in 7 months
The funding rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped to levels not seen since September 2020 as the price of Bitcoin plummeted below $52,000 on...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, VET, SOL, EOS, FTT
Bitcoin (BTC) price witnessed a sharp dump to $50,900 on April 18, which some analysts attribute to a drop in hash rate and rumors of...
Hedge Fund Investment Firm Brevan Howard to Start Investing in Cryptocurrencies
Brevan Howard, one of Europe’s largest hedge funds with $13.7 billion in assets under management, is reportedly set to start buying...
OFAC Escalates Russian Sanctions Listing Bitcoin Addresses, US Treasury Crypto Crackdown Rumors Spread
Rumors concerning the U.S. Treasury cracking down on several financial institutions over money laundering has been spreading like wildfire...
P2P Bitcoin Traders in Nigeria Think Outside the Box in the Wake of CBN Restrictions
After the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a directive targeting the country’s cryptocurrency industry, bitcoin and altcoin trade...
JulSwap Listing on AscendEX
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans,...
Bitcoin Hashrate Drops Over 45%, Xinjiang Grid Blackouts Blamed, BTC Price Slides 10%
Since April 15, the Bitcoin network hashrate has dropped more than 49% after touching an all-time high at 218 exahash per second. Regional...
Bitcoin price drops to $52K, liquidating almost $10B
Bitcoin (BTC) fell to sudden lows of $52,000 on April 18 in a timely reminder of how price action often follows hash rate. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Leading Bitcoin Payments Processor Bitpay Joins Crypto Patent Alliance COPA
The world’s largest provider of cryptocurrency payment services, Bitpay has announced the company is joining the Square-founded...
Player Bags Big Win on ‘Elvis Frog in Vegas’ Slot at Bitcoin.com Games, Encashes $110,000 in BTC
Bitcoin.com Games brings $110,000 worth of smiles and happiness to this player! Massive Win on ‘Elvis Frog in Vegas’ Earlier...
Court Summons Mirror Trading International Executives Over BTC Global Scam Allegations
Two executives of Mirror Trading International (MTI) have been summoned by a high court in connection with another cryptocurrency...
Silicon Valley ‘Super Angel’ Investor Ron Conway Says Crypto Economy Is the Next Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity
Famed Silicon Valley “super angel” investor Ron Conway sees the crypto economy as the next multitrillion-dollar opportunity in...
After a remarkable run, social media sentiment sours on DOGE
It was a Shiba Inu shooting across the sky: Dogecoin’s run over the past week will be one for the history books. However, for all the...
Coinbase frenzy, DOGE dazzles, Bitcoin breaks records, Jim Cramer sells: Hodler’s Digest, April 11–17
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Venus (XVS) price aims for $100 amid rising TVL and surge in DeFi users
Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has rapidly risen to prominence in 2021 as high transaction costs and congestion on the Ethereum (ETH) network...
Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran Advocates Getting Rich by Investing in Real Estate, Not Cryptocurrencies
Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran, the entrepreneur who turned a $1,000 loan into a billion-dollar real estate empire, says she will get...
Is Bitcoin becoming the ‘Google’ of crypto as BTC market cap nears new milestone?
Holger Zschaepitz, a market analyst at Welt, emphasized that Bitcoin (BTC) is nearing the valuation of Google, as it heads toward $1.5...
Bitcoin dips under $60,000 — What’s pulling down BTC price?
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) declined below $60,000 on April 17 after a strong rally throughout the past week in anticipation of the...
Canada Approves Three Ethereum ETFs, Ether Funds Set to Launch on TSX Next Week
Canada has been approving crypto exchange-traded funds (ETF) more quickly than the United States and after three successful bitcoin ETFs,...
When will Bitcoin price rally end? Here is what’s backing the BTC bull run
Speculation about the duration of the current run is endless, with Bitcoin now a stable news item even in the mainstream press. But what’s...
VORTECS Report: Markets Pro sounds the alert as RUNE, DOGE and XRP skyrocket
It’s been a spectacular week for the Cointelegraph Markets Pro VORTECS Score, which alerted subscribers to several of the top crypto asset...
Blockcap Mined $33M in BTC in First Quarter, Q1 Bitcoin Revenue Outshines US Competitors
The Texas-based Blockcap Incorporated revealed the blockchain and mining firm has mined approximately 544 bitcoins during the first...
Investors’ on-chain activity hints at Bitcoin price cycle top above $166,000
After breaking out of the two-months ascending triangle, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) is firmly staying above $60,000. Current on-chain...
Kenyan Fintech Startup to Use Stablecoins to Transfer Universal Basic Income Payments to African Refugees
Kotani Pay, a Kenya based digital currency on and off-ramp service provider, has entered into an agreement wherein it will enable the...
Bank of Brazil Becomes the First State-Backed Bank to Allow Customers Exposure to a Crypto ETF
Brazil’s first crypto ETF debut is postponed, but not because plans have failed whatsoever. The Bank of Brazil (Banco do Brasil) is...
‘Ossification Is Stupid:’ Bitcoin Development Controversy Strikes ‘Speedy Trial’ Taproot Activation
The well known software developer Luke Dashjr is in the midst of controversy over how to upgrade the Bitcoin network in order to add the...
Nigeria’s SEC in Talks With Central Bank of Nigeria Over Crypto Regulation— 2020 Crypto Guidelines Still Suspended
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed that talks with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regarding the...
Price analysis 4/16: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, DOGE, ADA, DOT, LTC, UNI, LINK
Dogecoin’s (DOGE) massive rally to $0.45 propelled it to a market capitalization of over $54 billion to make it the fifth most valuable...
Protocol upgrades and Google Cloud integration lift EOS price 245% in 2021
On April 16 EOS price soared to a new high at $8.49 and the current market structure for the altcoin suggests there is room for further...
Miami-Dade Officials Hope to Launch a Crypto Task Force, Residents Could Pay Taxes in Bitcoin Soon
Back in mid-February, Bitcoin.com News reported on Miami’s Mayor Francis Suarez supporting the idea of the city holding bitcoin in...
Wallstreetbets Reinstates Ban on Cryptocurrency Discussions, Citing Bloomberg Coverage
The moderators of the famous Reddit forum Wallstreetbets, known for putting Gamestop (GME) stock prices on the map as a worldwide trending...
SafeEarth Donates $100,000 to TheOceanCleanUp Kicking Off Blockchain Eco Project
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain eco project SafeEarth has donated over $100,000 to TheOceanCleanUp charity with more donations planned for other...
Is DeFi yield appetite rising again? Enso raises $5M as YFI hits new highs
The appetite for DeFi is rising again as blue chips are rallying and yield-earning strategy-sharing platforms, like Enso, are on the rise....
Ethereum bulls hedge their bets ahead of next week’s $250M ETH options expiry
Ether (ETH) paved the way for lower transaction costs with the Berlin upgrade on April 15. However, traders already know that the Ethereum...
What the forks? Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic see triple-digit rallies
It’s undeniable that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are currently the two most dominant cryptocurrencies and as a result they receive...
Dogecoin Markets Soar as Token Nears a Half Dollar, DOGE Price Climbs 18,299% in 12 Months
The popular meme-based crypto-asset dogecoin has seen phenomenal gains during the last few days. On August 16, 2021, the digital currency...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Says Cryptocurrencies Are ‘Vehicles for Speculation’
The Federal Reserve chairman believes that cryptocurrencies are “really vehicles for speculation” and “No one is using...
Bitcoin hash rate hits record 200 EH/s in fresh BTC price bull flag
Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a classic indicator of a coming bull run pass a historic milestone as miners commit more and more resources to its...
Record $600M BNB burn suggests Binance made $750M in profit in Q1
Binance Coin (BNB) saw its 15th burn to date on Friday. According to on-chain data, Binance burned nearly $600 million worth of BNB...
Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Use for Payments as Local Currency Plunges
The Central bank of the Republic of Turkey has issued a cryptocurrency regulation prohibiting the use of cryptocurrencies for payments of...
Crypto Markets Lose Hot Air, DOGE and BCH Skyrocket, 46% Chance ETH Hits $2,600 by May
Digital currency markets have seen some slight losses on Friday morning, as a great number of cryptocurrencies saw significant gains the...
Dogecoin doubles in a day as YTD gains hit 5,000% while Bitcoin price dips
Dogecoin (DOGE), the meme-based altcoin which has become a favorite talking point of Elon Musk, has doubled in 24 hours to hit all-time...
Expert Believes Nuclear-Powered Crypto Mining Could Help Ukraine to Solve Energy Spending Problems
Bitcoin mining could be a proper asset to solve one of the significant issues in the Ukrainian energy sector: spending. A financial expert...
Dogecoin skyrockets over 300% to reach $0.29 — Will DOGE pump further?
DOGE is currently trading with a bullish picture as price holds above an ascending trend line Dogecoin stole the show among the top...
Liquity Protocol’s TVL reaches $1 billion
Liquity, the Ethereum-based interest-free borrowing protocol, announced yesterday its total value locked (TVL) figure surpassed $1 billion...
Price Analysis: Bitcoin, IOTA, Stellar
Stellar (XLM) and IOTA (MIOTA) recently reached new highs as Bitcoin rallied to prices above $64k Bitcoin rallied to an all-time high of...
Blockchain is hard for developers and everyday users. Is it getting any easier?
For several years, one of the biggest hurdles to blockchain adoption has concerned the fact that it’s a rather technical space....
Co-Founder of South Africa’s Crypto Index Fund Reveals the Plan to Launch Country’s First Bitcoin ETF
Earle Loxton, the cofounder of EC10 (formerly DCX Capital) the institution behind the South African crypto index fund, says plans are...
NFT Roundup: Tom Brady’s Autograph Initiative, Topps Digital Baseball Cards, Annoying Orange’s 4K NFT Clip
The past week has been busier than usual for the NFT ecosystem. Rap stars Jeezy and Riff Raff entered the NFT realm, Hoard introduced its...
Shift toward full decentralization pushes Maker (MKR) price above $4K
Stablecoins have become a significant foundational piece for the cryptocurrency sector because they serve as a deeply liquid base pair for...
Email server breach sees Celsians targeted by phishing attacks
Crypto asset lending platform, Celsius Network, has revealed an email server breach that resulted in malicious phishing links being sent...
‘Weird Coins Like DOGE and XRP Spike’- Galaxy Digital’s Mike Novogratz Warns of a Crypto Market ‘Washout’
Bitcoin bull and billionaire investor Mike Novogratz has warned about cryptocurrency market volatility in a recent interview stemming from...
Dogecoin (DOGE) and Maker (MKR) soar as the altcoin market cap tops $1T
Now that the Coinbase (COIN) stock listing is out of the way, the focus of traders has shifted back to the crypto market as Bitcoin (BTC)...
World’s Largest Asset Manager Blackrock: Cryptocurrency Could Become a ‘Great Asset Class’
The CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, says that he is fascinated by cryptocurrency, believing that it could...
South Korean City Threatens to Seize Cryptos From Tax Evaders
Crypto tax evasion is becoming a hot potato for the authorities in some Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea. A South Korean...
Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Hedget (HGET) soar as altcoins lift off
Three of Cathie Wood’s ARK exchange-traded funds bought nearly $246 million worth of Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN) shares on its listing...
Edward Snowden Plans to Auction an NFT, Proceeds Will Go to Freedom of the Press Foundation
The whistleblower and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor Edward Snowden has revealed he is stepping into...
Balancer (BAL) price soars to new all-time high: What’s driving the rally?
BAL, the native cryptocurrency of Balancer — a popular automated market maker (AMM) utilized by many decentralized finance (DeFi) users to...
Rising DeFi TVL and Binance staking back 88% rally in IOST price
While the past year has been marked by the rise of decentralized finance, centralized entities like Coinbase and Binance continue to be...
Maximizing TPS: Smartbch Developer Explains Project’s Potential, Metamask Capabilities Seen in the Wild
During the first week of April, Bitcoin.com News reported on the sidechain project Smart Bitcoin Cash Project (Smartbch), as the community...
Insurance Giant AXA Allows Swiss Clients to Pay for Services With Bitcoin
The French multinational insurance firm AXA is now allowing clients in Switzerland to pay for services in bitcoin. The newly added support...
MIT Crypto Professor Gary Gensler Confirmed as New SEC Chairman
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) now has a new chairman, Gary Gensler. President Joe Biden’s pick, the MIT...
3 reasons Dogecoin is up 123% this week, hitting $0.10 for the first time
The price of Dogecoin (DOGE) has rallied by more than 123% this week, hitting a new all-time high of $0.13 on strong technical momentum....
Bitcoin at $62K ‘great buy’ before next surge, says fund manager
Bitcoin (BTC) looked set to retest previous all-time highs on Thursday as a fund manager called it a “great opportunity to buy.” BTC/USD...
Crypto-First Trading App SimpleFX to Introduce Staking
PRESS RELEASE. SimpleFX, one of the world’s leading trading apps with both crypto and fiat accounts is going to invite traders to...
You can make money playing in virtual worlds: Gabby Dizon
Altitude Games CEO Gabby Dizon thinks the science fiction-inspired virtual reality Metaverse is being created all around us at increasing...
200-Year-Old American Wine Shop Now Accepts Cryptocurrencies
Nearly every day now a new company is announcing the acceptance of cryptocurrencies in some form or another. Now one of the world’s...
Binance Coin price consolidates near $550 before next leg up
BNB has been trading lower since rallying to an all-time high of $639 on 12 April Binance Coin (BNB) is trading around $551 as of writing,...
ETH Price Forecast: Breakout above $2,500 possible as Berlin upgrade rolls in
Ethereum has reached a new high of $2,486, with the Berlin hard fork just hours away The price of Ethereum could break above $2,500 and...
New ‘inverse’ Bitcoin ETF now lets investors short BTC price
Bitcoin (BTC) investors in Canada have two more outlets for BTC exposure this week — and can now even bet on a price crash. In a press...
Nearly 75% of professional investors see Bitcoin as bubble: survey
Bank of America released a new survey that found that the majority of professional investors are not very optimistic about the world’s...
Nigerian Blockchain Educator Says Uncertain Regulations and Scams Slow Adoption of Cryptocurrencies
With a population of over 200 million, Nigeria is widely regarded as one the biggest crypto markets in the world. Some in the crypto world...
EQUOS: Industry Heavyweights Join Forces to Debate the Future of Digital Money
PRESS RELEASE. April 15, 2021, Singapore: EQUOS, the institutional cryptocurrency exchange owned by Diginex (Nasdaq: EQOS), will host an...
DOGE Taps a Lifetime Price High, Mark Cuban Says Dallas Mavs Shop Won’t Sell Its Dogecoin
This week a number of digital assets saw significant gains, but the meme-themed digital asset dogecoin has seen a significant rise during...
Former South Korean Social Media Giant in Talks ‘With Major Gaming Companies’ to Implement Its Crypto
A former South Korean social media giant is still keeping alive its promise to relaunch its business with the help of the cryptocurrency...
$420M in leveraged long traders liquidated after XRP rallies to $1.96
XRP holders couldn’t have asked for a better year as the cryptocurrency rallied almost 800% and flirted with a $2 level in the early...
Investors File Class Action Lawsuit Before the National Court of Spain Over an Alleged $298M Crypto Scam
A group of Spaniards filed the first crypto-related class-action lawsuit before the National Court of Spain on an alleged million-dollar...
Bitcoin price drops to near $61K shortly after COIN lists on Nasdaq
Following months of build-up and speculation, Coinbase (COIN) listed on the Nasdaq and in true cryptocurrency fashion, opening day trading...
Over 10,000 blacklisted BTC from 2016 Bitfinex hack on the move
A tranche of long-dormant Bitcoin seized in the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange are on the move today, an over $620...
Price analysis 4/14: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOT, UNI, LTC, DOGE, LINK
Coinbase (COIN) listing on Nasdaq could eventually boost cryptocurrency adoption and attract droves of institutional investors. However,...
US President Biden Pushes for More Stimulus, One Million ‘Plus-up’ Payments Go out This Week
U.S. politicians are talking about stimulus again in order to bolster American jobs and President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan....
BENQI Closes $6M Round to Create Algorithmic Liquidity Market on Avalanche
PRESS RELEASE. BENQI, a liquidity market operating on the Avalanche network, has completed a private funding round. A total of $6 million...
Over $750 Million in Bitcoin from the 2016 Bitfinex Hack Moved Today
On Wednesday, after bitcoin prices touched a new all-time high, thousands of bitcoins from the August 2, 2016, Bitfinex hack were...
$5,000 Ethereum by the end of May? On-chain data suggests so
On April 14, the price of Ether (ETH) just hit an all-time high at $2,400 and although the price has increased more than three-fold since...
3 reasons why Elrond (EGLD) price soared above $245
As mainstream cryptocurrency adoption increases and more users start transacting on blockchain networks, the need for fast, scalable...
Brazil’s Central Bank President Expects to Have News on a CBDC ‘Soon’
The largest country in Latin America could have its central bank digital currency (CBDC) soon, as the Brazilian central bank is taking...
What will happen to Bitcoin price as Coinbase goes public?
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) have continually surged toward record highs, causing the futures market of Bitcoin to see a substantial...
Popular Nightclub E11even Miami Reveals Cryptocurrency Payment Acceptance
While crypto assets have seen monumental gains this week, the popular nightclub in Florida, E11even Miami will accept bitcoin and a slew...
Top platforms where you can buy Coinbase stock (COIN) today
With the announcement that Coibase will be today going public on the Nasdaq, traders may be wondering where they can buy With the news of...