Venezuelan State Oil Company to Accelerate USDT Adoption for Settlements; Tether Vows to Uphold OFAC Sanctions
PDVSA, the state-owned Venezuelan oil company, would be preparing to migrate more of its payments portfolio to USDT, a dollar stablecoin, to avoid being affected by the restitution of U.S. sanctions. Reuters reported that the company started receiving payments...
BlackCard Redefines Crypto Payments With Token Launch And Key Listings
By introducing a plethora of useful features for crypto users, including the launch of the $BcCoin token (which will be featured on prominent crypto exchanges soon), BlackCard aims to be at the forefront of revolutionizing global cryptocurrency payment...
Ripple Asks Court to Reject SEC’s $2 Billion Penalty Request in XRP Case
Ripple Labs has filed its opposition to the request by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the company to pay $2 billion in fines in the XRP case. “The SEC’s draconian remedial requests are ungrounded in law or principle. This...
Jack Dorsey’s Block Targets Chip Advancement With 3nm Bitcoin ASIC Mining Rig
On Tuesday, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block, took to X to announce that the company is “building a mining rig.” Dorsey also shared a blog post authored by Block’s lead for mining hardware products, Naoise Irwin. The post revealed enhancements in...
K33 Research cautions Mt. Gox’s imminent $9B payout could impact Bitcoin (BTC)
Gox to distribute 142,000 BTC and 143,000 BCH, valued at over $9 billion, to creditors. The payout process could commence as early as next month. All eyes are on the impact of the payout on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash price especially after the bitcoin halving...
SEC Lawyers Resign After Judge Sanctions the Regulator for ‘Gross Abuse of Power’
Two lead attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the case against crypto firm Debt Box have reportedly resigned. This followed a federal judge sanctioning the SEC for its “gross abuse of power” after the agency made...
BlackRock tokenizes Money Market Fund on Hedera, HBAR soars
Archax, Ownera and The HBAR Foundation have enabled the first tokenization of BlackRock’s money market fund (MMF) on Hedera. This is a major development in the real-world assets (RWAs) industry and comes after abrdn plc tokenized its MMFs on Hedera last year....
Fidelity Digital Assets ‘Signals’ Report Revises Bitcoin Outlook to ‘Neutral’
The latest quarterly report from Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA) Research reveals key insights into the bitcoin and ethereum markets as of Q1 2024. With a detailed analysis of market conditions and future outlooks, FDA’s research report provides several...
Argentina’s financial regulator introduces mandatory registration for all cryptocurrency service providers
Last month Argentina’s financial regulator, Comisión Nacional de Valores, introduced mandatory registration for all cryptocurrency exchanges and brokers operating in Argentina. As crypto service providers begin to get to grips with this new crypto registration...
Paypal Promotes Low-Carbon Bitcoin Mining With New Research Paper
Paypal, in collaboration with Energy Web and DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc., has introduced an approach to promote environmentally sustainable practices in bitcoin mining. This research-backed initiative encourages miners to utilize low-carbon energy sources by...
Bitget Wallet’s Chief Operating Officer Presents Web3 Wallet Security Strategies at Blockchain Life Dubai
Victoria, Seychelles, April 23rd, 2024, Chainwire At this month’s Blockchain Life Dubai conference, Bitget Wallet‘s Chief Operating Officer Alvin Kan joined industry experts from SafePal, Ledger, Trust Wallet, Telegram Wallet, and CoinTelegraph journalists to...
Exclusive ‘Epic Satoshi’ Auction Launches, Bids Already Double to 2 BTC
Coinex has launched the auction for the ‘epic satoshi’ from the fourth halving, originally mined by the mining pool Viabtc. This event, marking Sat # 1,968,750,000,000,000, commenced with a starting bid of 1 bitcoin. Following ten subsequent bids,...