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Where to buy Compound as COMP registers 5% gains
The Compound (COMP) token has seen a price increase of 5% in the past 24 hours The Compound token is currently trading at $315 at...
Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Blocks Internet Access From Mainland China
Antpool, the largest Bitcoin mining pool by hashrate, said it will block Internet access from mainland China to comply with Chinese...
Why More Corporates Are Considering Adding Crypto Assets to Their Corporate Treasuries
More and more businesses are including cryptocurrencies as part of their corporate treasuries. The trend that was started by large...
Bitwise Files for Physically Backed Bitcoin ETF With NYSE Arca
Bitwise Asset Management has filed for a physically-backed bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with NYSE Arca.The filing, revealed by...
Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 14, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Eases After Rejection at $58.5K;...
Morgan Stanley CEO Says Crypto Isn’t a Fad, Though Not Seeing Much Client Demand
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said that cryptocurrency isn’t a fad and it’s not going away, though he said his bank is not seeing client...
Polkadot eyes breakout to $75 after DOT price rally sets up classic bullish reversal
Polkadot (DOT) chart technicals suggest it may rally to a new record high near $75 if DOT can manage to close above its $41-$43 range...
Binance Appoints Its First Chief Regulatory Liaison Officer
Crypto exchange Binance appointed a chief regulatory liaison officer for the first time as it ramps up efforts to garner a more favorable...
Zimbabwean Dollar Could Collapse, Business Lobby Warns
A Zimbabwean business lobby group, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), has warned that the country’s currency could...
Fintech Tala Raises $145M to Launch Crypto Product for Emerging Markets
Fintech startup Tala has raised $145 million in a Series E round to expand its financial services and develop a mass-market crypto product...
Are Cryptocurrencies Secure? Yes and No – Here’s Why
The blockchain technology underlying cryptocurrencies represents a great leap forward in security, yet some crypto investors have found...
Where to buy Polygon as MATIC gears up for a huge rally
The Polygon (MATIC) token seems to be heading towards a rally as the token is up by 4% in a day with a rise in trading volume The Polygon...
NEAR’s Aurora Raises $12M to Expand Ethereum Layer-Two Network
A new layer-2 ecosystem is on the rise and now it has $12 million to expand operations.Aurora, a project built on the NEAR blockchain...
How Should You Treat Crypto Compared With Other Assets in a Portfolio?
With popular platforms like Cash App, PayPal and Venmo offering easy ways to buy bitcoin and altcoins, a broader swath of consumers is...
Where to buy Chainlink as LINK sees 8% gains
The Chainlink (LINK) token is up by 8% in the past 24 hours and has seen high trading volumes indicating strong accumulation by...
UK man jailed for stealing electricity worth £32k to mine Bitcoin
Sanjay Singh pleaded guilty and received a prison sentence of 13 months A UK court has jailed a Bitcoin miner arrested for stealing...
UK Jails Crypto Miner for 13 Months for Stealing Electricity: Report
A crypto miner in the U.K. county of Leicestershire has been jailed for 13 months for stealing £32,000 ($44,000) of electricity to operate...
Charting Platform TradingView Attains $3B Valuation With $298 Million Investment Round
TradingView, a charting platform and social network, secured a $298 million investment led by Tiger Global, valuing the company at $3...
BoE official calls for urgent regulation of digital assets
The Deputy Governor said regulations haven't been evolving at the same rate at which the industry has been growing Speaking about...
Digital Pound Foundation launched to push for a UK CBDC
The Foundation wants to see an inclusive and well-regulated ecosystem put in place to promote a CBDC as well as other digital money...
Russian Energy Minister Says Miners Should Pay More for Electricity
Nikolay Shulginov, Russia’s minister of energy, told the TASS agency that cryptocurrency miners should pay more than households for...
G7 Finance Officials Outline Policy Principles for Retail CBDCs
G7 finance officials outlined a set of 13 public policy principles for the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).Any CBDC...
Elon Musk’s Tesla is already $1 billion in profit from holding Bitcoin
Tesla’s (TSLA) bold foray into the Bitcoin (BTC) market has been paying off in 2021 as BTC price rallies in October to hit over...
Bitcoin Eases After Rejection at $58.5K; Support at $54K
Bitcoin looks heavy on short-duration technical charts, having failed to keep gains above $58,000 early Thursday. The cryptocurrency was...
Fox Entertainment’s Blockchain Arm Drops NFT Market Dedicated to Hit TV Series The Masked Singer
Fox Entertainment and Blockchain Creative Labs (BCL) has announced the launch of maskverse.com, a non-fungible token marketplace and...
Bitcoin Erases Spike Above $58K as Fed Minutes Raise Specter of Faster Stimulus Unwinding
Bitcoin is showing signs of exhaustion after the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, released late Wednesday, flagged...
BlackRock is studying blockchain and crypto, says CEO
BlackRock’s Lawrence Fink sees a “huge role for digitised currency” In an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box,...
Putin Says Crypto Can’t Yet Replace Dollar in Settling Oil Trades: Report
Vladimir Putin said that he doesn’t think crypto can replace the U.S. dollar in settling oil trades yet, though he does believe it has...
DeFi Pushes N. America to World’s Second-Biggest Crypto Market
Growth in decentralized finance (DeFi) has driven North America to the world’s second-biggest largest crypto market, new research by...
G20 Finance chiefs want stablecoins regulated before approval
The regulatory focus on stablecoins follows efforts by governments to launch central bank digital currencies A meeting involving finance...
China’s Zhejiang Busts GPU Mining Operation in Public Facilities
Authorities in China’s eastern Zhejiang province busted a mining operation that had set up graphics processing units in a publicly funded...
Yield App Doubles Assets In Q3 As It Scores Big With Premier League Partnership
YIELD App, a FinTech company and digital asset wealth management platform, has published its Q3 report, showing the firm continuing on a...
Bitcoin analyst ‘highly doubts’ return to $50K — Will the weekly close spark a correction?
Bitcoin (BTC) challenged brand-new support levels on Oct. 14 after overnight successes took the market past $58,000 BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Digital Pound Foundation Launches to Push UK CBDC Efforts
A group of private sector professionals launched the Digital Pound Foundation, an organization that aims to promote the development of the...
ARK, 21Shares Team Up for Bitcoin Futures ETF Application to SEC
Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management and investment-product firm 21Shares are part of a new application to the U.S Securities and...
Demand for Crypto Experts in India Hikes Remuneration, Vacancies Spike
A deficit in crypto talent is pushing salaries up in Indian companies engaged with the domestic and global blockchain industry, local...
Shatner May Have Conquered Space, But 4 South Korean ETF’s Beat Him to The Metaverse
Four major South Korean asset management funds have listed metaverse-related exchange traded funds (ETFs), the first in the country, The...
Fox Leads Investment in Blockchain Tech Firm Eluvio
Entertainment giant Fox has made a strategic investment in Berkeley, Calif.-based Eluvio to “accelerate the adoption of Eluvio’s...
Cipher Mining to Purchase 28K to 56K Mining Rigs From Bitfury
Cipher Mining Technologies (NASDAQ: CIFR), a newly formed U.S.-based bitcoin mining operation, has signed an agreement with Bitfury to...
Binance Becomes New Shirt Sponsor of Italian Soccer Club Lazio
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is to become the main shirt sponsor of Rome-based soccer club SS Lazio.The...
No Joke: Hannibal Buress Is Doing Comedy NFTs
Jambb is turning laughs into non-fungible tokens (NFTs).The comedy collectibles startup has raised $3.5 million to build a...
Proposed Bank Jewel Wants to Become a Global Stablecoin Issuer, With Bermuda’s OK
Jewel, a proposed Bermudian bank and aspiring stablecoin issuer that is looking to provide services to digital asset businesses worldwide,...
Voyager Digital a Step Closer to Operating in EU After French Regulatory Approval
Cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital’s subsidiary has been approved as “fit and proper” by two French regulatory bodies, Autorité des...
St. Louis Fed’s James Bullard Would ‘Support Starting the Taper in November’ to React to Inflation
St. Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard told the press on Tuesday that he thinks the U.S. central bank needs to wind down the...
Makor Capital Raises $17M in Series A Funding to Grow Brokerage Platform Enigma
Makor Capital, a brokerage and investment banking group, raised $17 million in Series A funding to grow Enigma Securities, its digital...
Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 13, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Hovers Near 200-Hour MA Support;...
Polkadot Sets Date for Hotly Anticipated Parachain Auctions
The much-anticipated parachain auction process, where projects are allocated slots for building on the Polkadot cryptocurrency network,...
Biden’s Orwellian Tax Surveillance Policy
We are witnessing a real-time demonstration of the way a failing political order can lead to the imposition of Orwellian surveillance out...
Estonia’s New Anti-Money Laundering Chief Wants to Revoke All Crypto Licenses
Matis Mäeker, recently appointed head of Estonia’s anti-money laundering government agency believes Estonia should scrap its current...
Bank of England Says Crypto Has Grown to Twice the Size of Subprime Debt in 2008
Crypto assets have grown rapidly from just $16 billion five years ago to about $2.3 trillion today, and thus could pose a systemic risk to...
Bitqyck Founders Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion
The founders of a crypto startup pleaded guilty to tax evasion in connection with a 2016 initial coin offering (ICO).Bruce Bise, 60, and...
Why Crypto Mining Needs Nuclear Power
Opponents of cryptocurrency often cite its energy and pollution footprint as major reasons against adoption. However, the natural...
Stronghold Digital Sets IPO Price at $16-$18 a Share
Stronghold Digital, the bitcoin mining company that converts coal waste into power for its operations, plans to raise between $94 million...
Solana’s Phantom Adds Safety Rails After Scammers Drain Wallets
Solana-based digital wallet Phantom has shored up its cyber defenses after weeks of user-reported scams that drained victims’ crypto token...
The US Is Officially the Global Leader in Bitcoin Mining
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at how the United States has been perhaps the...
Republic Launches $60M Crypto Seed Fund
The crypto arm of financial services company Republic has launched a $60 million seed fund, its first and flagship fund.Republic is a...
Coinbase Rated Underperform in New Coverage on Lack of ‘Crypto Innovation’
Coinbase Global (Nasdaq: COIN) was rated at underperform with a $160 price target at Autonomous Research, which cited the exchange’s lack...
OpenSea Says It’s Patched an NFT Phishing Vulnerability
Popular NFT marketplace OpenSea has closed an NFT phishing loophole discovered by Check Point Research, a division of publicly-traded...
Estados Unidos capta el negocio de minería de bitcoin tras la restricción de China
Estados Unidos se ha convertido en el líder mundial de minería de bitcoin tras una nueva restricción impulsada por China contra el sector,...
BSN to Integrate CBDC-Focused Cypherium Blockchain
China’s Blockchain Services Network is integrating Cypherium blockchain, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk.The BSN is a...
Huobi Ventures and Republic Team Up on Cross-Border Crypto Accelerator
Huobi Ventures, the VC arm of the popular crypto exchange, has partnered with financial services company Republic to launch a cross-border...
NFTs Are Coming to Fox TV Show ‘Masked Singer’
Fox Entertainment is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for its hit show “The Masked Singer,” the company announced...
Crypto Firm Owners Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion, Face up to 5 Years in Prison
The owners of a cryptocurrency firm that raised approximately $24 million from more than 13,000 investors have pleaded guilty to tax...
Andreessen Horowitz Doubles Down on Crypto Investments With New $515M Fund
Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) second crypto fund shows the venture capital firm is targeting specific areas to invest in the cryptocurrency...
Dapper Labs Signs Multiyear Partnership With NBA Star Kevin Durant’s Boardroom
Boardroom, a sports media company created by NBA star Kevin Durant and his investment firm Thirty Five Ventures, has agreed to a two-year...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Recovering Faster Than Equities as Buyers Remain Active
Bitcoin returned above $56,000 on Wednesday after trading in a tight range over the past few days. The cryptocurrency’s price is up about...
Visa Launching NFT Program to Support Digital Artists
Visa is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) support program to help artists join the digital art space.The financial services giant is...
Bitcoin Mining After the China Ban: US Dominance Is Set to Continue
Following China’s sweeping crackdown on the crypto industry, the U.S. has taken the Bitcoin mining mantle for the first time – and...
Stacks Foundation and Brink to Fund Bitcoin Development Fellowship Using Stacking Rewards
The Stacks Foundation and Brink will fund a new full-time Bitcoin developer fellow position through stacking rewards.The foundation will...
Bank of England’s Deputy Governor Says Crypto Collapse Plausible, Regulators Need to Urgently Establish Rules
Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe says that a collapse in the cryptocurrency market is certainly “plausible,”...
Crypto Is a ‘Major Priority’ for Miami Mayor Building City Into Crypto Capital of the World
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says that cryptocurrency is a “major priority” for him as he attempts to build his city into the...
Olympus DAO chases a new ATH after fresh bond offerings and partnerships
The rapidly evolving world of blockchain technology offers a wide range of approaches and tokenomic models aimed at solving the blockchain...
Bitcoin bulls target prices above $58K ahead of Friday’s $820M options expiry
Everyone is talking about a six-figure Bitcoin (BTC) price now that the digital asset has broken out of its multi-month downtrend and...
Swiss Bank Seba Now Lets Customers Earn Yield on Crypto Holdings
A FINMA-licensed Swiss bank, Seba, has launched a program enabling clients to earn yield on their crypto holdings. In addition, the bank...
NFT Gaming Pioneer Vulcan Forged Launches New DEX for Gaming Tokens
PRESS RELEASE. Vulcan Forged has launched a new and revolutionary decentralized exchange for gaming tokens following the success of its...
Catch the Bitcoin dip? BTC price pares losses with a fresh surge to $57K
Bitcoin (BTC) was back at $57,000 on Oct. 13 as a classic move left hopeful traders liquidated to the tune of $200 million. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Defi and Algorithmic Stablecoin Demand Grows in 2021 Despite Large Centralized Competitors
On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, the market capitalization of all the stablecoins in existence is around $134 billion, which is 5.60% of...
Price analysis 10/13: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, XRP, SOL, DOGE, DOT, LUNA, UNI
Bitcoin (BTC) has been sustaining above $54,000 for the past few days but that has not resulted in euphoria among investors. Google Trends...
Geographic Distribution Data Shows US Takes Leading Bitcoin Mining Position After China’s Crackdown
After China has reigned for a number of consecutive years as the dominant bitcoin mining epicenter of the world, the United States has...
Binance Coin eyes $560 next after BNB price ‘Cup and Handle’ breakout
The ongoing price boom in the Binance Coin (BNB) market is painting a classic bullish chart pattern with an upside target of $560. Dubbed...
Crypto scoring big with European football
The Beautiful Game. Soccer, or football, as those living in the “old world” tend to call it. It’s a sport that has many names, a sport...
Cardano Slips to 5th-Largest Crypto Market Position — ADA Down 30% Since All-Time High Last Month
During the second week of October, bitcoin market values have maintained prices between $54K to $57K. Meanwhile, myriad alternative crypto...
Where to buy Ripple as XRP gearing up to rally soon
The Ripple coin is currently trading at $1.08 and the token could rally soon if the volumes continue to build up in the future. The whales...
Where to buy Maker as MKR sees a spurt in trading volume
The Maker token is currently trading at $2415 at the time of writing and could rally soon if the bulls decide to start a rally. The whales...
Moscow Not Planning to Ban Russians From Buying Crypto Abroad
Russia is not going to follow China’s course and does not plan to ban its citizens from purchasing cryptocurrency on foreign...
Where to buy TRON as TRX sees an upsurge in trading volume
The TRON token has seen a steady increase in trading volume and the coin could head towards another rally if the bulls retain interest....
Where to buy Binance Coin as BNB readies for another leg of the rally
The Binance token is currently trading at $444 and the coin is up by 7% in the past 24 hours. The BNB token could rise by another 5-10% if...
BlackRock chairman ‘more in the Jamie Dimon camp’ on Bitcoin, praises crypto
The chairman of multi-billion-dollar United Stated investment management corporation BlackRock “probably” agrees that Bitcoin (BTC) has no...
Binance Smart Chain (BSC) Receives $1 Billion to Bring the Next 1 Billion Crypto Users
Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency platform, has launched a $1 billion Growth Fund for Binance...
US is now the top destination for Bitcoin miners: Report
The US' BTC hashrate share increased by more than 400% since 2020—with most of the increase seen over the past few months The United...