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Revolut’s UK users bought 68% more Bitcoin in April
A new study reveals that UK retail traders bought more Bitcoin in April after countrywide lockdown had seen purchases drop by 50%...
Leading Australian Regulated Micro-Investing App Adds Bitcoin Option for Investors
Popular demand for cryptocurrency has prompted Australia’s leading micro-investing platform Raiz (formerly Acorns) to add a bitcoin...
Bitcoin Suisse: Users Can Now Trade Gold Against Bitcoin and Ethereum
Swiss crypto financial firm Bitcoin Suisse has added gold, silver, and platinum to its platform, allowing users to trade the precious...
Trump Threatens to Close Down Social Media Platforms After Twitter Tampers With His Tweets
A row with Twitter has provoked U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten to close down social media platforms. This follows Twitter...
Bitmain Cofounder Allegedly Expelled – Could Face Litigation for Operation Interference
One of the largest ASIC mining manufacturers worldwide, Bitmain, has allegedly ousted cofounder Micree Zhan. Regional reports note that...
Coinbase acquires prime brokerage platform Tagomi
Coinbase will complete the acquisition of Tagomi later this year but has not disclosed any financial terms Coinbase has announced that it...
Altcoin roundup: Ethereum, EOS and Ripple
Ethereum, EOS and XRP are three of the top 10 altcoins by market cap but struggled since Bitcoin’s crash earlier this year As Bitcoin...
Vodafone partners with Energy Web to integrate smart grid with an IoT blockchain
Vodafone and Energy Web want to bring billions of assets in the energy sector onto the blockchain Vodafone is partnering with Energy Web...
Bull Run Imminent? Hodl Waves Chart Shows 60% of Bitcoin Hasn’t Moved in a Year
According to the creator of the analytical bitcoin data web portal, Look Into Bitcoin, a chart often referred to as ‘Hodl...
South Korea to tax crypto income from next year
The country plans to make traders, miners and projects receiving initial coin offerings to pay income tax from March 2021 South Korea will...
Libra rebrands Calibra wallet to Novi
Facebook’s Calibra digital wallet is now Novi and will come as a stand-alone app, as well as offering integration with Messenger and...
Bitcoin Risks Turning Bearish Due to Declining Market Health, Says Glassnode
Bitcoin (BTC) risks sliding back into bearish territory should onchain activity and overall market health continue to decline, warns...
$9M and Over 4,500 Fusions – Bitcoin Cash Supporters Anticipate the Cashfusion Audit
Since November 28, 2019, the Cashfusion protocol has helped facilitate 4,583 fusions to-date with roughly 40,564 bitcoin cash ($9.1M)....
IMF Predicts Banks Will Struggle at Least 5 More Years After Global Economy Recovers
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that banks will struggle to generate profits at least five years after the global...
PBC Governor says China has no launch timetable for the Digital Yuan
The People’s Bank of China has reiterated that the Digital Yuan is still at the testing phase and there is no set timetable for the...
Swiss Government Rejects $103 Million Bailout for Crypto Companies Battered by Coronavirus
Switzerland’s government has rejected a 100 million franc ($103 million) bailout for local cryptocurrency companies battered by the...
India’s RBI claims no restrictions were imposed on banks for working with crypto businesses
The RBI’s response follows several complaints that some banks were refusing to offer banking services to crypto exchanges and...
Despite Trust Model Debates, Ethereum Is Bitcoin’s Largest Sidechain by Total Value Locked
The Ethereum network now has more bitcoin held in reserves than the Lightning Network, according to onchain statistics. At the time of...
BitAmp – The Next New Open Source Wallet
With the recent rise of Bitcoin prices and the Bitcoin halvening, new entrants into the cryptocurrency field may wonder where they can...
India’s CoinDCX exchange secures $2.5m investment from Polychain
CoinDCX raises the new investment just months after completing its Series A funding round that raised $3 million CoinDCX, the largest...
Crypto Visa card to launch for UK and Europe
Eidoo’s non-custodial card is targeted for millions of Visa users in the UK and Europe Decentralised finance (DeFi) platform, Eidoo,...
RBI Confirms No Ban on Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Businesses or Traders in India
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has confirmed that there is no longer any banking ban on crypto exchanges,...
Goldman Sachs Hosting Bitcoin Call as Institutional Interest in Cryptocurrency Surges
As interest in cryptocurrency grows among institutional investors, global investment banks, like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, are...
Eight Countries That Don’t Tax Your Bitcoin Gains
As world governments push through legislation to levy taxes on capital gains from bitcoin (BTC) transactions, seeking to earn more from an...
Over a Hundred 10-Year-Old Bitcoin Addresses Signed: Message Calls ‘Craig Wright a Fraud’
Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on Craig Wright’s recently submitted bitcoin address list that contained at least three...
BigONE Exchange Unveils Star Program
BigONE, one of the world’s safest cryptocurrency trading platforms, is excited to launch its new Star Program, a referral system...
Ethereum addresses hit 40M, up 350% since its all-time high price
Ethereum now holds more daily active addresses than Bitcoin, according to Weiss Crypto Ratings The number of Ethereum wallets holding...
Retail investors increase their holdings as Bitcoin’s price hovers below $9,000
Increase in the number of addresses with less than 0.1 bitcoins means most small investors are using the downturn in prices to increase...
Bitcoin Cash Tokenization Bolstered by the Creation of an SLP Foundation
On Monday, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters were introduced to a Simple Ledger Protocol alliance called the SLP Foundation. According to the...
Telegram drops TON appeal in US court
Telegram is no longer going to pursue an appeal against a court order barring it from launching the Telegram Open Network (TON), and...
John McAfee Announces Privacy Coin – Airdrop Today
2020 has been a turbulent year for the cryptocurrency market, but it has established the resilience of blockchain technology. Despite a...
Wealth manager warns against betting on ‘Sexier’ Bitcoin
A top wealth manager has warned that now isn’t the time to buy cryptocurrencies. Neither does he feel investors need to look at what...
Trezor and Ledger “investigating claims” that hacker is selling stolen data
Hardware wallet providers — Trezor and Ledger — have said their security teams are investigating claims that a hacker has stolen...
This Is Not Capitalism: How Covid-19 Shined a Light on America’s Fascist System
In the last few months, giant American corporations and financial incumbents that are subsidized by the U.S. government, have profited...
US Real Estate Crisis: Home Sales Plunge to 9-Year Low, Mortgage Delinquencies to Soar Past Great Recession Level
The US real estate market is facing a crisis as unemployment soars amid the coronavirus pandemic. Home sales have plunged to a nine-year...
Hacker Attempts to Sell Data Allegedly Tied to Ledger, Trezor, Bnktothefuture Customers
According to an online monitoring web portal called, Under the Breach, a hacker is purportedly trying to sell customer information that...
Market Outlook: Golden Cross Invalidated, Andreessen Horowitz Predicts ‘Fourth Crypto Cycle’
The price of bitcoin and a number of other popular cryptocurrencies have been collectively holding a market valuation of around $255...
Russia Proposes Law That Criminalizes Buying Bitcoin With Cash, Offenders Face 7 Years in Jail
Russian lawmakers have proposed new laws that seek to ban the use of bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in the country, local media...
Carl Menger: The Nature and Origin of Money
In the early stages of trade, when economizing individuals are only slowly awakening to knowledge of the economic gains that can be...
Iranian President Calls for Launching a Cryptocurrency Mining Strategy
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for a mining strategy throughout the oil-rich nation. The latest statements from the Iranian...
Canaan Narrows Q1 Loss to $5.6 Million Amid Weakening Demand for Mining Hardware
Bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Canaan Creative reported a net loss of $5.6 million for the first quarter of 2020, down from $9.5 million...
Bitcoin Worth $282K from the 2016 Bitfinex Hack on the Move
The cryptocurrency community has noticed a number of bitcoins from the August 2, 2016, Bitfinex breach has been moved. A small 30 BTC...
Craig Wright Submits List of Bitcoin Addresses to the Court – Roster Contains Spent Blocks
On May 21, 2020, the infamous Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, submitted a list of blocks and bitcoin addresses to...
Illegal to Own Gold? Hedge Fund Manager Warns Governments May Ban Gold Ownership
A well-known hedge fund manager has warned that governments may ban private gold ownership. He explained that central banks may attempt to...
Bitcoin Hashrate Slides 33% Since Halving – Difficulty Drops, Issues in Sichuan China
It’s been 11 days since the third bitcoin block reward halving. Data now shows that the overall SHA256 hashrate lost around 47...
South Africa Leads Crypto Revolution in Africa – Challenges Spur and Slow Adoption
Africans rank atop global cryptocurrency ownership rates, according to a new report by Arcade Research. South Africa ranks third globally...
Gox Rising Offers $800 per Bitcoin Claim to Buy out Mt Gox Creditors
Gox Rising has offered to buy out creditor claims from the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox. The Brock Pierce-led outfit will pay...
Bitcoin Futures, Options, and Open Interest: Crypto Derivatives Break Records After the Halving
Since the market rout on March 12, otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday,’ bitcoin futures and options contracts have seen...
Trump Signs Deregulation Order to Boost US Economic Recovery
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to eliminate “unnecessary regulations that impede economic recovery”...
France’s Central Bank Successfully Tests Blockchain-Based Digital Euro
Banque de France and Societe Generale collaborated as the latter issued bonds worth €40 million in security tokens, which was settled...
Bitcoin Sales from Miners Spike 600% One Week After the Halving
Bitcoin sales from miners have jumped six-fold since the halving, while exchanges continue to see their reserves dwindle. Miners have now...
No Evidence ISIS Is Storing $300 Million in Bitcoin, Says Chainalysis
Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has dismissed claims ISIS is holding a $300 million bitcoin (BTC) war chest. In a...
Bitcoin.com Exchange Lists ESH Token Support Prior to John McAfee’s Ghost Airdrop
In mid-April, news.Bitcoin.com reported John McAfee’s new privacy token called Ghost, as the former anti-virus tycoon detailed...
Coinbase Custody Adds Staking Support for Cosmos, Tezos and Alogorand
Clients can now earn income on their holdings without having to risk their funds on the speculative market. Coinbase Custody has added...
Shopify Adds CoinPayments Support to Bring Crypto Payments to Millions of Merchants
A deal has been struck between the world’s largest crypto payment processor and a major e-commerce platform — another step towards...
11 Year-old Address Moves 50 BTC — Causing a Price Dip
The price of Bitcoin dropped 5% as panic-selling hit the crypto sphere after someone moved 50 bitcoins from a Satoshi-era wallet....
Bitcoin Use on Darknet Markets Jumps 65% to Over $400 Million in First Quarter
Bitcoin transactions on darknet markets jumped 65% in value during the first quarter to $411 million, according to research by a...
Wild Satoshi Theories: The Curious Case of Bitcoin Block 3654 from 2009
On Wednesday, 50 bitcoin mined on February 9, 2009, was moved from the original address to a new address. The movement of coins caused a...
Generations of Debt: US Taxpayers Held Liable for Federal Reserve’s $6.9 Trillion Balance
The central banking system in the U.S. and the country’s megabanks have manipulated the economy for quite some time and these days,...
Tezos, Cardano and Chainlink Surge as Altcoins Gather bullish momentum
Tezos (XTZ), Cardano (ADA) and Chainlink (LINK) are surging over 5% today, as major Altcoins flash green. The Altcoin market has been in...
78% of Open Interest in Bitcoin Options is Dominated by Deribit Platform
Deribit is now the largest crypto platform for Bitcoin options, taking up nearly 80% of the open interest market share. Crypto derivatives...
Exposure to -1x the Daily Performance: Bitcoin.com Exchange Adds Inverse Token BTCSHORT
During the last few months, Bitcoin.com’s cryptocurrency exchange has added a number of new coins and features. Today, Bitcoin.com...
Bitcoin Miners Double Revenue: Fees Spiked Over 200% in 10 Days Since the Halving
Bitcoin (BTC) miners earned 44% more in transaction fees in the nine days since the halving than they did for the whole of April. If this...
Best-selling Author who Predicts $75,000 Bitcoin advises people to “Get Bitcoin”
Rich Dad, Poor Dad author, Robert Kiyosaki, once again advocates buying Bitcoin: saying it is how to “save yourself” from economic...
US Court Continues with $1.8M Crypto Lawsuit against Telecom Giant AT&T
Two-time Emmy winner Seth Shapiro filed the lawsuit in December 2019 after a SIM-swap attack saw him lose worth $1.8 million of crypto. A...
BitMEX Promises Full Investigation into Outage of its Trading Engine
The Bitmex trading engine went offline for the better part of an hour before an update announced the exchange was back online and that...
Iran to Regulate Crypto market in Bid to Raise More Tax Revenue
Iran has made plans to enhance mining operations over the next few years. ArzDigital, an Iranian news outlet, has revealed that the...
Hyperblock Bitcoin Mining Servers and Datacenter Infrastructure to Be Auctioned off in Public Sale
Thousands of mining servers and all the datacenter infrastructure needed to operate them will be auctioned off in an upcoming public sale...
Bitcoin Sentiment on Twitter Reaches Its Highest Level in 3 Years, Says Data Firm The Tie
Positive investor sentiment about bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter has reached record levels – its highest in three years – triggered...
5000 BTC Giveaway Scam: Chamath Palihapitiya, Elon Musk Not Giving Away Bitcoin
The number of bitcoin giveaway scams has been increasing rapidly amid rising prices cryptocurrencies and deepening economic crisis...
Retail Investors Branch to Altcoins: ‘60% of Coinbase Customers Start With Bitcoin, Only 24% Stick Exclusively’
On May 13, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase published a report that shows digital currency investors are...
Grayscale Buys 33% of All Bitcoin Mined in Last Three Months
Grayscale Investments bought up to 33% of all newly minted bitcoin over the last three months, as the asset manager continues to stockpile...
Bakkt Announces $500M Crypto Custody Insurance and Onboards 70 New Clients
Bakkt partners with insurance firm Marsh to expand its insurance coverage. Bitcoin futures platform, Bakkt, has announced it is...
Celo Mainnet Goes Live Following $10 Million Dutch Auction
Decentralised blockchain platform, Celo Gold, has launched its mainnet, meaning investors can now transfer their tokens on-chain. The Celo...
Covid-19 Economy Fuels Faith in Crypto: Trust In Bitcoin Over Banks Increased 3X Since 2017
The market research organization, The Tokenist, recently published a report called “Comparing Public Bitcoin Adoption Rates in 2020...
Bitcoin Price could hit $50K Analyst Says
Price is already bottomed and won’t drop below $6,000 analyst claims, and describes buying spree of Bitcoin by institutions as a...
Bitcoin’s Sentiment Score Hits Highest Level Since 2017
Bitcoin has been increasingly presented in a positive light, data on digital assets from The TIE shows. The sentiment score for Bitcoin...
Square’s Cash App Unveils Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Purchases
The new feature allows Cash App users to set automatic orders to buy Bitcoin on a daily, weekly or bi-weekly basis. Square CEO, Jack...
Economists Predict Worst Recession Ever for India Amid Lockdown Extension
Economists have predicted that India will face its worst recession ever as the country announced another nationwide lockdown extension....
Venezuelans Can Now Use Bitcoin to Pay for Goods at 20,000 PoS Terminals
Venezuelans will now be able to use bitcoin to pay for goods and services at more than 20,000 point-of-sale (PoS) terminals throughout the...
From Buenos Aires to Beirut – Covid-19 Excuse Restricts Millions of Citizens from Withdrawing Their Own Money
The coronavirus and the government-induced lockdowns have wreaked havoc on the global economy and millions of people can’t access...
XRP Identified as Vital Player in Remittances Sector
XRP could be a major player in the cross-border money transfers, a US consumer protection agency has found — signalling a boost to...
Bitcoin.com’s Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube’s Blatant Censorship and Propaganda
During the last few years, the Google-owned Youtube platform has been accused of massive censorship and in the last three months, the...
Bitcoin Close to $10,000 level as Gold hits a Seven-Year High
Bitcoin’s price has retracted after coming close to breaching $10,000, while a positive outlook from the Federal Reserve comes as Gold...
BitMEX has been Hit with a New Lawsuit
A US Court has filed a lawsuit against crypto derivatives platform BitMEX, with accusations ranging from wire fraud and money laundering....
Ethereum Primed to Sky-Rocket as Long Orders Hit Record Highs
Record long orders in the market make the bullish case for the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. Ethereum has surged by more...
South Korea to Decide On the Future of $380M Blockchain Fund
The blockchain development fund is earmarked for technology projects that could transition the country to a data economy over the next...
Germany Enters Recession as Over 100 Banks Charge Negative Interest Rates
Germany has plunged into a recession with the worst quarterly contraction since the global financial and economic crisis of 2008,...
S2F Hopium: Report and Twitter Critics Find Flaws With Bitcoin’s Stock-to-Flow Ratio
In mid-April, news.Bitcoin.com researched the popular stock-to-flow (S2F), which shows the price of a single bitcoin reaching $55K and...
45 Older-Generation Bitcoin Miners Are Unprofitable After the Reward Halving
On May 11, the Bitcoin network experienced its third block reward halving, which had chopped the 12.5 BTC reward to 6.25 coins following...