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Record-Low Electricity Prices in Sweden Make It ‘a Lucrative Place’ to Mine Bitcoin, Says Report
Bitcoin miners are finding the Nordic lands a profitable opportunity to boost their revenues due to a plunge in electricity prices at the...
NYT Study: Coinbase Underpaid Female and Black Employees at Much Larger Rates Than Those in the Technology Industry
An analysis performed by the New York Times of internal pay data at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase unveiled disparities in salaries,...
South African Court Grants Order to Liquidate Mirror Trading International After Investors Fail to Withdraw Their BTC
A South African High Court recently granted a provisional liquidation order against Mirror Trading International (MTI) following an...
Darknet Giant White House Market Drops Bitcoin, Supports Monero Payments Only
The prominent darknet marketplace, White House Market, has dropped bitcoin payments and now accepts monero only. The darknet marketplace...
Chinese Miners Migrate to Nordic Regions, Mining Exec Says Hashrate Migration One of the ‘Biggest Developments’
China has the largest concentration of bitcoin miners worldwide with estimates noting the country captures anywhere between 50-65% of the...
Vaneck Files New Bitcoin ETF Proposal With SEC Under New Administration
After successfully launched a bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, Vaneck has now filed a new proposal for a bitcoin exchange-traded...
Low Circulation and High Demand at Opening of SCU Trading
PRESS RELEASE. Securypto trade will open on Bilaxy on 1 January, 2021 and all indicators say that it will start off strong given the high...
Bitfinex CTO: Tether Is Registered and Regulated Under FinCEN- USDT Not Next Target of the US SEC
The CTO at Bitfinex Paolo Ardoino has pushed back against rumours that the company’s Tether stablecoin may be the next target of the...
Ethereum sees 31-month high amid increased whale activity
ETH/USD could break above $800 and target the $1,000 psychological level The price of Ethereum (ETH) has reached a 24-hour high of $759,...
Gold Bug Peter Schiff’s Understanding of Money is Flawed, Says His Pro-Bitcoin Son
Gold bug Peter Schiff has been publicly confronted by his 18-year-old son, a bitcoin proponent, on the topic of value. Calling his...
Price Analysis: BTC flashes sell signal as bulls seek $30K
Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new all-time high around $29,321 but could fall sharply in a blow-off top pattern BTC/USD remains in an uptrend...
CyberGhost VPN Will Shield Your Bitcoin Transactions With a Special 83% off New Year’s Offer
The crypto world is full of malicious hackers and other serious threats to your digital assets. CyberGhost VPN, which is trusted by over...
Production of $2.7 Million-per-Episode: South Korean Crypto-Related TV Drama Series Is Set to Start in 2021
A major South Korean TV series with crypto and blockchain-related topics is set to launch its production stage at the beginning of 2021,...
Nasdaq Listed Greenpro Capital to Set up Bitcoin Fund Using a $100 Million Loan
The Nasdaq listed Greenpro Capital Corporation has revealed plans to set up a bitcoin fund using $100 million in borrowed funds. In...
Ripple Assails the SEC, Claims the $1.3 billion Lawsuit is an ‘Attack on the Entire Crypto Industry Here in the United States’
Ripple has hit back at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), accusing it of creating more uncertainty and failing in its duty...
Elon Musk Endorses Cryptocurrency for Martian Economy
Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, widely believed to be the man taking humanity to Mars and building a permanent settlement there, tweeted...
US Treasury Warns of Increasing Ransomware Campaigns Against Coronavirus Vaccine Research Institutions
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a warning that alerts financial institutions in...
Blockchain Projects Detoken and Anyhedge Launch Bringing Defi to Bitcoin Cash
On December 30, the decentralized finance (defi) platform Detoken and the firm General Protocols announced the launch of Anyhedge, the...
Bitcoin Miners Earn Over $1 Million per Hour — Revenue Increases 185% Since the 2020 Halving
Bitcoin miners have been yielding a very profitable year in monthly revenues, as the latest onchain data shows significant figures at its...
Bitcoin Price Touches $28,600, Crypto Asset’s Value Gains Over 288% in 2020
The price of bitcoin touched an all-time high at 3:12 a.m. (EST) during the early morning trading sessions reaching $28,600. The crypto...
Attackers Drain Millions From Cover Protocol, Token Holders Attack Compensation Plan
Decentralized finance insurance project Cover protocol briefly suffered losses when an unknown attacker minted over 40 quintillion Cover...
Publicly-Listed Bitcoin Mining Operations See Shares Skyrocket, Riot Blockchain Market Cap Reaches $1B
While bitcoin’s value has captured new all-time price highs, a number of publicly listed bitcoin mining operations have seen...
Analysis: Polkadot surges as Binance hypes DOT/BUSD pair
DOT price surged closer to $8.00 before slowing down, but will likely increase if bulls hold above $7.00 The price of Polkadot (DOT) has...
Litecoin eyes strong end to 2020 amid Bitcoin resistance
Litecoin needs sustained upward pressure above $130 to target its highest price level since June 2019 Litecoin (LTC) has faced strong...
Nomura and Ripple Partner SBI Holdings Support XRP, Reject Token’s Categorization as Security
As XRP continues to plummet in value due to Ripple’s turmoil with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the token seems...
Physical Crypto Bank Opens in India — These 14 Locations Offer In-Person Banking, Lending, Crypto Exchange
A crypto bank has begun opening physical branches in India through a joint venture between Cashaa and United Multistate co-op society....
Betting Your Coins Online? Be Sure to AskGamblers First
Visit AskGamblers.com before ever wagering your hard-earned coins in an online casino. AskGamblers is the internet’s largest and...
Large Bitcoin Futures Gap Causes Temporary Trading Pause, ETH Open Interest Hits All Time High
CME Group temporarily paused trading of bitcoin futures after the market opened to a large gap of over $3,000 between the derivatives and...
Is Defi Coming to Bitcoin Cash? An Overview of Detoken and the Anyhedge Protocol
Maybe you’ve heard of Anyhedge. Last April, news.Bitcoin.com published an article about its announcement, but what is it really?...
New York Approves Its First Publicly Available Japanese Yen Stablecoin
The New York State Department of Financial Services, the Bitlicense regulator, has authorized GMO to issue U.S. dollar and Japanese...
Augmented Reality Firm Nextech AR Joins the Bitcoin Treasuries Bandwagon, Buys $2 Million BTC
On the heels of the Canadian company Mogo purchasing bitcoin for treasury reserves, the British Columbia-based augmented reality firm...
Okcoin and Coinbase to Halt XRP Trading Due to the US SEC Lawsuit Against Ripple
Two major cryptocurrency exchanges joined the XRP trading suspension campaign in the wake of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
Bitcoin price sees new all-time high above $28,000- Analysis
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) rose to highs of $28,387 against the US dollar Bitcoin is trading around $26,300, slightly lower from its new...
Industry Experts Speculate on the Future of Bitcoin Under Biden
As we look to the new US administration following the November election, we asked a roundtable of experts from the cryptocurrency and...
Ripple (XRP) sees 60% fall as major exchanges halt trading
The price of XRP has dropped to lows of $0.22, more than 60% lower since the US SEC brought a lawsuit against Ripple and as major...
India Considers 18% GST on Bitcoin Transactions
The Indian government is reportedly mulling over imposing an 18% goods and services tax (GST) on bitcoin transactions. According to the...
Crust Network Launches Crust Storage Market, Decentralized Cloud Service Built on Polkadot
PRESS RELEASE. One of the star projects of the emerging Polkadot ecosystem, Crust Network, recently completed a several million dollar...
Spanish Municipality Creates Its Own Cryptocurrency to Boost Economy Hurt by Coronavirus Crisis
A municipality in the province of Sevilla, Spain, has launched its own cryptocurrency, which aims to encourage residents and merchants to...
Digital Currencies Could Outshine SWIFT System, Says Central Bank of Russia’s Deputy Governor
The first deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has been vocal in a recent online meeting, reported by Russia Today (RT),...
The Bitcoin Treasuries List Exceeds $30 Billion – 29 Companies Hold BTC Reserves
More than 1.1 million bitcoin or over $30 billion worth of the crypto asset is held by a myriad of companies, according to the web portal...
Legal Battle Between Bitmain Co-Founders Appears to End With Micree Zhan Taking Control of the Company
The long-lasting legal battle between co-founders of China-based Bitmain seems to have seen the light at the end of the tunnel after both...
Vauld Raises $2 Million to Establish Stronghold in India
Singapore-based crypto bank Vauld is working hard to elevate crypto to the status of a separate, viable asset class. It combines the...
Central Bank of Iran Official Says Cryptocurrencies Have ‘Made No Contribution to Bypassing Sanctions’
An official with the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has claimed that cryptocurrencies have played no significant role in Iran’s sanction...
Marathon Settles Record-Breaking ASIC Acquisition, Buys 70,000 High Performance Bitcoin Miners
On December 28, the publicly listed firm Marathon Patent Group announced the purchase of 70,000 Antminer S19 bitcoin miners from Bitmain...
CoinDeal Obtains in-Principle Approval for Maltese Class 4 VFA License
PRESS RELEASE. CoinDeal is pleased to announce that it is now the first publicly known company to have obtained a Class 4 Virtual...
China’s Coal Standoff Causes Power Shortages, Chinese Bitcoin Miners ‘Heavily Affected’
Regional reports from China detail that bitcoin miners located in certain areas in South China are running short on electricity. The...
$200 Billion in Fines: Mega Banks Rack up Penalties From Illegal Activities
Top U.S. banks have racked up almost $200 billion in fines and penalties over the past 20 years from illegal activities in 395 major legal...
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Warns Regulators Will Come Down Hard on Bitcoin — ‘It Will Be Brutal’
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, has warned about regulators coming down hard on bitcoin. In addition, he...
Financial Guru Dave Ramsey Doubts Bitcoin Can Be Cashed Out — Advises BTC Investor to Sell Now
Personal finance guru Dave Ramsey has given advice about bitcoin to a man who made over $100,000 by investing just $1,500 in the...
Bitcoin Derivatives Action Swells: A Few June Futures Trade for $30K, Deribit Adds $140K Options Strike
Bitcoin derivatives markets have been seeing significant demand in recent months at the same time bitcoin spot markets climbed to all-time...
10-Year-Old Block Rewards Wake Up: Data Parsers Catch a String of 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins from 2010 Spent Today
On December 27, at around 2 a.m. in the morning (EST), another large string of decade-old sleeping bitcoins was transferred. The miner...
Bitcoin All-Time Price High Surpasses $28K, BTC’s Half Trillion Market Cap Now Bigger Than Visa
Bitcoin markets have been seeing a lot of action this weekend, as the price of the crypto asset touched another all-time high (ATH) at...
SEC Lawsuit: Tierion to Refund Investors From Its $25 Million Token Sale
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken action against another startup in the crypto space for selling unregistered...
Ripple Lawsuit Could Invoke Billions in Losses to ‘Innocent Third-Parties,’ Says Former SEC Commissioner
The crypto community is extremely curious about what will happen to Ripple Labs and the token asset XRP, after the U.S. Securities and...
Zero to $318,000: Proponents and Detractors Give a Variety of Bitcoin Price Predictions for 2021
While bitcoin has jumped well above the $26,000 zone, a number of crypto proponents are extremely bullish for the crypto asset’s...
US Regulator Sues Crypto Hedge Fund Founder — $25 Million in Digital Assets to Be Frozen
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against a cryptocurrency hedge fund founder for fraud. The regulator is...
Biden Administration May Roll Back Some Crypto Regulations, Top Banking Regulator Warns
The top U.S. banking regulator is concerned that the Biden administration may roll back some cryptocurrency regulations aimed at...
‘Unprecedented’ Institutional Demand for Bitcoin: Bitgo’s Custodied Assets Top $16 Billion, No Paypal Deal
Bitgo’s assets under custody have surpassed $16 billion. The company says it is seeing “unprecedented interest from...
Bitcoin Hits $25,890, Peter Schiff Thinks BTC Price Rise Will Attract Regulators
The price of bitcoin jumped well over the $25k handle touching a high of $25,890 on Saturday morning (EST). The crypto asset has an...
Bitcoin Hits $500K on Russian Crypto Exchange After Hackers Take Control — Users Cry Exit Scam
Cryptocurrency trading platform Livecoin claims that it has been hacked after the crypto community noticed the price of bitcoin shoot up...
Major Producer Nornickel Issues Its First Metal Contract-Backed Digital Coins
One of the world’s biggest palladium producers, based in Russia, announced that it’s starting the first stage of issuing...
Israeli Tax Authorities Notify Cryptocurrency Owners to Disclose Their Holdings for Taxation Purposes
The revenue collector, the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) has reportedly sent notifications to dozens of Israelis who own digital currencies...
Russian Parliament Foresees a Wave of Token Issuance for 2021 in the Wake of Crypto Law Promulgation
The head of the Russian parliamentary committee on financial markets and the country’s first crypto law’s author is...
Expert: Defi Could Be a Common Term in the Financial Industry in 2021
The founder of defi-related fintech Yield believes 2021 will be the year that decentralized finance (defi) becomes a “common...
Crypto Markets Rebound, BTC Taps Another All-Time High, Bitstamp Drops XRP for US Customers
The price of bitcoin and a myriad of digital currencies have seen some significant gains on Christmas day. Bitcoin touched another...
James Sweet: Voices of Dissent
If you are a voice of dissent, you have a unique opportunity. You live in a time that puts you at an advantage to change the world for the...
Snowden Puzzled by Bitcoin’s Lack of Scaling and Privacy, Says Devs ‘Had Years to Do It’
Just recently, the film producer and well known Youtuber, Naomi Brockwell, sat down with Edward Snowden and the two discussed a number of...
Moneygram Distances Itself From the Ripple Turmoil With the US SEC
One of the world’s biggest remittance companies issued a statement addressing the recent turmoil between Ripple and the U.S....
Organizations File Lawsuit Against New York Town to Prevent Bitcoin Mining Facility Expansion
Organizations led by an environmental organization filed a lawsuit against the U.S. town Torrey in New York for giving the green light to...
Despite Bitcoin’s Price Highs, Onchain Data Shows BTC Miners Are Not Spending More Than Usual
The cryptocurrency economy has been higher in value than ever before as bitcoin has touched an all-time price high at $24,298 per unit....
Visa Grants Principal Membership to Crypto Payments Platform Wirex
London-based crypto-payments platform Wirex can now issue Visa accounts and process transactions autonomously, as the firm became a...
The US SEC Fines Shipchain $2 Million for Conducting an Unregistered Token Offering: Company Agrees to Cease Operations
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a cease and desist order against Shipchain and ordered it to pay a penalty of...
MinePlex Creates CrossFi Crypto Bank by Combining Traditional Finances With Blockchain
PRESS RELEASE. The MinePlex platform announces the creation of a new mobile crypto bank for CrossFi industry that aims to combine the...
Localbitcoins Trader Facing up to 40 Years in Prison Over Bitcoin Fraud Schemes
A trader on Localbitcoins and Paxful has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a couple of bitcoin scams. The U.S. Department of...
Digital Securities Brokers May Not Be Subject to Enforcement for 5 Years, Says US Regulator
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a statement and is looking for public comment toward the custody of digital asset...
NEM price analysis: XEM plunges 30% amid altcoin bloodbath
NEM (XEM) looks poised for a bearish rally and may fall below $0.20 level if sell-off pressure mounts NEM (XEM) has seen selling pressure...
Coinrule Fundraises $700k to Expand Automated Trading to Tokenised Stocks
PRESS RELEASE. Coinrule – a hyper-growth, automated trading platform based out of London, UK – is poised for explosive growth...
Stellar (XLM) price plummets amid SEC lawsuit against Ripple
XLM price dropped from highs of $0.20 to the critical support zone near $0.10 as Ripple (XRP) dumped following SEC’s lawsuit Stellar (XLM)...
Electronic Frontier Foundation: US Government Will Expand Financial Surveillance Through FinCEN’s Proposed Crypto Wallet Rules
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) raised concerns about the strengthening financial surveillance through the proposed crypto...
Real Estate Billionaire Sam Zell Skeptical of Bitcoin but Says ‘It May Be the Answer or One of the Answers’
The founder and chairman of Equity Group Investments Sam Zell says he is sceptical of bitcoin but concedes that it may be part of the...
YieldFinanceFarm Next Generation Rewards Maximizing DeFi Farm – 2nd YIF Presale Is Live
PRESS RELEASE. Yield Finance Farm attempts to correct a few major issues plaguing the market at this time. Primarily, YieldFinanceFarm...
8 Beginner Bitcoin Questions Answered
I asked some friends who were Bitcoin noobies what they wanted to know about Bitcoin, and was ready with some answers. Here’s what...
CEO of MTI Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Flees South Africa in Possible Exit Scam – Funds Blocked
In an unexpected turn of events, the management team at Mirror Trading International (MTI) now suggest that their CEO Johann Steynberg may...
Canadian Company Mojo Invests $1.5 Million in Bitcoin, Plans to Allocate More Next Year
On December 23, 2020, the Canadian financial tech firm Mogo announced its plans to invest 1.5% of the company’s reserve assets into...
Skybridge Bitcoin Fund Launches With $25 Million: Anthony Scaramucci Expects ‘Avalanche of Institutional Investors’
Global investment firm Skybridge Capital has launched a bitcoin fund with $25 million. The founder of the company, Anthony Scaramucci, is...
Win a Limited Edition Franck Muller Bitcoin Cash Watch “Free the Money. Free the World.” With Bitcoin.com Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. The Bitcoin.com Exchange team will be giving away a Franck Muller Bitcoin Cash watch in a margin trading competition this...
XRP Crash Burns Other Crypto Asset Values, BTC Price Remains Unscathed
Digital currency markets have seen some volatile action this week and during the last 24 hours following the XRP charges, a number of...
XRP Token Plunges Nearly 40% Following the Announcement of SEC Charges Against Ripple
Ripple’s XRP has lost almost 40% of its value after the token price dropped from $0.51 on December 21 to $0.31 at the time of...
Indian Police Bust International Bitcoin Extortion Rackets, 96 Arrested
Ninety-six people have reportedly been arrested in India for allegedly extorting bitcoin from foreigners. They set up illegal call...
Celsius and Theta experience spike as Graph Network stalls
Celsius (CEL) and Theta (THETA) are among crypto’s biggest gainers on the day, while The Graph (GRT) has slowed down Celsius, Theta,...