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Paypal CEO Says Demand for Cryptocurrencies Is ‘Multiple-Fold’ of Initial Expectations
The CEO of payments giant Paypal, Dan Schulman, has revealed that the demand for cryptocurrencies has been “multiple-fold” of...
Major Venezuelan Aviation Academy Enables Bitcoin Payments as Crypto Adoption Keeps Rising in the Country
A leading Venezuelan aviation academy announced its inception into cryptocurrency adoption after enabling bitcoin payments. Caracas Air is...
Bitcoin dominance drop and resistance at $55K stoke altseason hopes
The overall cryptocurrency market saw a second day of gains on April 27 after the weekend sell-off proved to be a good buying opportunity...
Unmarshal Listing on AscendEX
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans,...
Waves, Celo, and Injective Protocol (INJ) breakout as DeFi reawakens
Bitcoin (BTC) extended its relief rally on Tuesday and reclaimed a market capitalization above $1 trillion. While many traders panicked...
Finder’s Bitcoin Prediction Survey Shows Respondents Forecast Six-Digit BTC Prices
The comparison website that operates in 83 countries, finder.com, has recently published its quarterly bitcoin price prediction report for...
Ethereum price all-time high follows reduced gas costs and DeFi revival
Mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency continues to reach new highs in 2021 thanks to the growth of popular sectors like decentralized...
Bitcoin eyes $58K as spot-driven BTC bounce makes rally ‘look sustainable’
Bitcoin (BTC) is riding high on the back of a “very low and healthy” indicator, according to one market analyst, which could...
Over $4 Billion in Bitcoin Options Set to Expire Friday, BTC Derivatives Markets Still Frothy
Bitcoin options markets are set to see a large expiry on Friday as more than 77,000 BTC worth over $4 billion in derivatives contracts are...
Mastercard Launching Crypto Rewards Credit Card With Real-Time Bitcoin Rewards
Mastercard is launching a new cryptocurrency rewards credit card featuring real-time rewards in partnership with crypto exchange Gemini....
Elon Musk Confirms He Owns Bitcoin, Has Not Sold Any — Tesla Intends to Hold BTC Long Term, Sold Some to Prove Liquidity
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that he owns bitcoin and has not sold any of his holdings. His company Tesla, however, has sold some of...
Ether options open interest grows 80-fold amid rising institutional appetite
The massive growth of Ethereum’s futures and options arena is reportedly pointing toward significant institutional involvement in the...
Algorithmic Stability: How FRAX Is Developing the Future of Stablecoins
Part-collateralized, part-algorithmically stabilized stablecoin, FRAX is the world’s first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin. The...
What’s holding crypto social networks back from greatness?
Another rainy Sunday night. You’re browsing on Facebook and Twitter — inundated with photos of your friend’s new baby, jokes that have...
Market Update: Bitcoin Bulls Bounce Back, Dogecoin Slumps, XRP Jumps 18%
Digital currency markets have been regaining some of the losses felt last week as the entire crypto-economy has jumped back over the $2...
Tezos Price Analysis: XTZ Liftoff Buoyed by 10% Upside
XTZ price has traded above a key bullish trendline since December 2020 Tezos (XTZ) is up 10% in the past 24 hours, and nearly 22% in the...
Litecoin Price Forecast: LTC bulls seek control above $250
LTC has moved above $250, with a relief rally likely to take it towards $335 Litecoin’s price against the US dollar is up by more...
Survey: 14% of Russians Think Cryptocurrencies Will Oust Fiat in 10 Years
A new survey revealed the different stances of Russians toward cryptocurrencies and fiat currency. Specifically, some of the respondents...
MTI CEO and Wife Issued With Provisional Sequestration Order by South African High Court
A South African High Court recently served Mirror Trading International (MTI)’s Johann and Nerina Steynberg with a provisional...
The Global Economy Comes Before Savers: ECB President Christine Lagarde Defends Negative Interest Rates
The European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is keeping the central bank’s monetary easing policies unchanged according to...
Iran Authorizes Banks and Currency Exchangers to Use Cryptocurrencies to Pay for Imports
The Central Bank of Iran has authorized banks and currency exchangers to use cryptocurrencies mined by licensed crypto miners in the...
Serum (SRM) hits a new all-time high as Solana adoption gains traction
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has reshaped the face of the cryptocurrency market over the past year, attracting the attention of both...
All 200 Cryptocurrency Exchanges Could Be Shut Down Under New Regulation in South Korea, Regulator Warns
The chairman of South Korea’s top financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Eun Sung-soo, has warned that all of...
Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan Donate to Indian Covid Relief Fund Despite Country’s Intentions to Ban Cryptos
The covid-19 crisis is worsening every day in India, as the country keeps hitting record daily numbers of cases and its death toll. The...
Glass half full: Bitcoin options traders neutral after 28% BTC price dip
Bitcoin (BTC) might have recovered from the $47,000 low seen on April 25, but the subsequent 15% bounce was not enough to bring optimism...
Altcoins hit new highs after bulls kick Bitcoin price back above $50K
Cryptocurrency investors breathed a sigh of relief on April 26 as the sharp reversal in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) was accompanied by a...
South Korea’s Bitcoin ‘Kimchi Premium’ Reappears, Korbit and Bithumb Exchange Volumes Spike
During the first week of April, South Korea’s ‘kimchi premium’ on domestic cryptocurrency exchanges had jumped over 18%,...
Price analysis 4/26: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, DOT, UNI, LTC, BCH
Bitcoin price started the week off with a strong move that propelled the price above $50,000 and at the time of writing, bulls are in...
Charles Schwab Survey: Young UK Investors Prefer Cryptocurrencies to Stocks
Major U.S. financial group Charles Schwab has conducted a survey and found that young British investors are twice as likely to buy...
NFL Player for Kansas City Chiefs Sean Culkin to Convert 100% of Salary to Bitcoin
An NFL player for the Kansas City Chiefs, Sean Culkin, will convert all of his salary to bitcoin. A proponent of the cryptocurrency,...
Tether Market Cap Swells Past $50 Billion, USDT Stablecoin Gets Listed on Coinbase Pro
The blockchain stablecoin issuer Tether Operations Limited has recently surpassed a $50 billion market valuation after seeing exponential...
5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week as greed and leverage get ‘flushed out’
Bitcoin (BTC) is keeping bulls and bears guessing as it opens a new weekly candle in the green, heading away from $50,000. After an...
Bitcoin bulls respond with a $150M short squeeze above $53K — Can BTC go higher?
Roughly $150 million worth of shorts were liquidated within a span of hours as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) rose from around $47,000 to over...
Showcase Listing on AscendEX
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans,...
Bitmain Reveals New Antminer E9 Ethereum Miner, ASIC Device Commands 3 GH/s Hashrate
The cryptocurrency mining rig and ASIC chipmaker Bitmain revealed a new digital currency mining device that’s dedicated to mining...
Neo Price Analysis: NEO Breaks Downtrend as Bulls Target $100
NEO price had declined to lows of $71 after heavy selling hit the broader crypto market The price of NEO is looking to climb above $90 as...
XRP Rebounds Above $1 Amid Bullish Reversal Signals
Ripple price is up 11% as buyers seek to regain control following a weekly close above $1.00 XRP has moved above $1.00 after a week of...
Blockchain Object Storage Company Filebase Raises $2M, Aims to Incorporate Filecoin and Arweave Networks
Filebase, a blockchain-based object storage company built on top of the Sia network has revealed the business has closed an initial seed...
Hip-Hop Legend Eminem Launches Beat-Inspired Animated NFTs for Stans
The critically acclaimed rap phenomenon Marshall Mathers, professionally known as Eminem has revealed he is jumping into the non-fungible...
OVR Launches Futuristic Virtual Gallery for NFTs and More
Today, April 26th, 2021, the virtual gallery of OVR.ai was inaugurated to showcase artists working with non-fungible tokens (NFT) and...
Fund Manager Bill Miller Says Bitcoin Is Not a Bubble — BTC Entering Mainstream as Demand Grows Faster Than Supply
Bill Miller, the founder and chief investment officer of Miller Value Partners, does not think bitcoin is a bubble. Instead, he said it is...
Polygon (MATIC) jumps ahead as the race for Layer-2 adoption picks up
Recently layer 1 solutions like the Solana (SOL) and Cosmos (ATOM) have grown in prominence thanks to each network’s faster...
Quantum Fund Cofounder Jim Rogers Insists Governments Could Ban Cryptocurrencies
Veteran investor Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire investor George Soros, is still worried about governments...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, BNB, XMR, CAKE
Corrections in a bull phase are usually a bullish sign as they reduce the frothy excitement and allow stronger hands to enter the markets....
2 Turkish Crypto Exchanges Investigated for Fraud After Central Bank Bans Cryptocurrency Use for Payments
Two Turkish cryptocurrency exchanges are being investigated by the authorities in Turkey after they abruptly halted trading. The...
Bitcoin dominance teeters at 50% as ETH, altcoins gain traction
Bitcoin (BTC) dominance briefly fell below 50% last week for the first time since January 2018, sending a strong signal that more...
‘Nothing Goes up in a Straight Line’- S2F Creator Plan B Claims Bitcoin Price Drop a ‘Mid-way Dip’
Bitcoin prices have dropped below the $50k region during this week’s trading sessions sinking to a low of $47,555 on Friday. The...
Ripple’s Chris Larsen Believes Bitcoin Dominance Could Fall Over Proof-of-Work’s Energy Consumption
Ripple Labs cofounder Chris Larsen has a bone to pick with bitcoin and crypto networks that leverage proof-of-work (PoW). Larsen’s...
Bittorrent Creator Bram Cohen’s Crypto Project Chia Sparks Hard Drive and SSD Shortages
On May 3, tokens stemming from the Chia network, a smart transaction blockchain created by the Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen, will start...
African Digital Media Company Set to Hold NFT Auction Featuring Artwork by Kenyan Filmmaker Rich Allela
A Kenya-based digital media company, Picha Images, is reportedly set to hold one of the first non-fungible token (NFT) auctions in Africa....
Dogecoin Investor Becomes Millionaire in 2 Months, Inspired by Elon Musk
A dogecoin investor has shared his story of how he became a crypto millionaire in a little over two months after learning about the meme...
3 things every crypto trader should know about derivatives exchanges
In the past two years futures contracts have become widely popular among cryptocurrency traders and this became more evident as the total...
SEC Commissioner on Banning Bitcoin: ‘It’s Very Difficult to Ban Peer-to-Peer Technology’
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce believes that the U.S. government cannot ban bitcoin, stating that “it’s very difficult to ban...
OCC Grants Crypto Firm Paxos ‘Conditional Approval’ for US Bank Charter
The digital currency and stablecoin issuer Paxos has been granted conditional approval for a bank charter under the Paxos National Trust...
From Startup to Success Story — Morpheus.Network Is Transforming Global Trade With Blockchain
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain-powered supply chain management platform, Morpheus.Network, has launched an updated platform, forged an...
New altcoin era? Dogecoin liquidations briefly surpass Bitcoin
Dogecoin (DOGE) saw more liquidations than Bitcoin (BTC) at one point on April 24. This shows there is a significantly high demand for...
Is the bull run over? BTC loses $50,000 as transaction fees surge: Hodler’s Digest, April 18–24
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
DEX volumes continue to surge even as Bitcoin and altcoins correct
Decentralized finance (DeFi) started 2021 by taking the cryptocurrency sector by storm and helping to kick the bull market cycle into high...
China’s Carbon Neutral Stance Puts Pressure on BTC Miners, Sichuan Electricity to Increase 150%
Bitcoin’s global hashrate dropped ten days ago following a coal mine accident that caused significant grid blackouts in Xinjiang,...
US State Passes Resolution Commending Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin
The U.S. state of Louisiana has passed a resolution to commend bitcoin for its success as well as commend the cryptocurrency’s...
Turkish Crypto Exchange Exit Scam: CEO Flees Country, 62 People Detained, Users Cannot Access $2 Billion of Funds
A Turkish cryptocurrency exchange with about 400,000 users has been accused of pulling an exit scam. Its CEO has reportedly fled Turkey,...
Eth2 is neutral infrastructure for our financial future
We are in an unprecedented period of social, political and economic turmoil. As the decentralized financial infrastructure powering...
Tax Authority Seizes Cryptocurrencies Worth $25 Million From Hundreds of Crypto Investors in South Korea
The tax department of the Seoul metropolitan government in South Korea has reportedly seized cryptocurrencies worth about $25 million from...
Asia-Pacific’s solarized digitalization agenda in pandemic times
The virtual 7th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum was jointly hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the Asia...
Two Major Hotels in Touristic Spanish City to Accept Crypto Payments in the Wake of Covid-19 Crisis
Sevilla is becoming a crypto-friendly city in Spain at a fast pace, with two prominent local hotels announcing they will start accepting...
Crowny Listing on AscendEX
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans,...
Former Employees From Major South Korean Firms Quit Their Jobs After Pocketing Millions in Crypto Profits
South Korea’s crypto-sphere has been witnessing a volatile environment in terms of regulatory moves, as bitcoin prices and other...
Bitcoin’s Market Dominance Slides to 50%, While Ethereum’s Valuation Climbs Higher
Bitcoin dominance, the metric that measures bitcoin’s overall market capitalization against all the other crypto asset valuations...
Bitcoin funding rate flips negative after $48K retest — Was it a bear trap?
As Bitcoin (BTC) lost the $52,000 support on April 22, the futures contracts funding rate entered negative terrain. This uncommon...
Bitfarms Partners With Foundry, Joins US Mining Pool, Fleet Expands by 2,465 Bitcoin Miners
On April 23, the publicly listed mining operation Bitfarms revealed a partnership with the Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary Foundry...
Pros say Bitcoin’s ‘very healthy’ correction ‘builds ground for more stable growth’
Bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency market took a beating in the late ho April 22, and intense selling saw (BTC) price dip below $48,000...
Justin Sun: A Colorful Crypto Hawker or Surprising Business Savant?
Although he is outspoken, raucous, and bombastic when it comes to his public persona, Sun’s questionable publicity stunts could be...
Metis to Revolutionize NFTs With Launch of Community-Minted NFT, ‘’Rebuilding the Tower of Babel’’
The craze for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) has engulfed the blockchain space as more people move towards this unique sector. The ability to...
5 reasons Bitcoin and Ethereum plummeted 15% in a single day
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) fell by 15% and 20%, respectively, on April 23 as the cryptocurrency market became engulfed in...
Joe Biden’s Proposal to Double Capital Gains Tax Rate Shakes Financial Markets
The Biden administration has revealed plans to raise taxes on investors who are millionaires according to a flurry of recent reports....
Price analysis 4/23: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, DOGE, ADA, DOT, UNI, LTC, BCH
As Bitcoin price crashed below $50,000, mainstream media highlighted that the selling across the market could have been triggered by...
‘Black Swan’ Author Nassim Taleb Advises to Stay Out of Bitcoin, Citing No Link to Inflation or ‘Anything Economic’
The famous author of The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, says investors should not buy bitcoin. To hedge against the current turbulent...
Cointelegraph Consulting: The post-genesis state of the Fei Protocol
Following the Fei Protocol falling short of expectations at the beginning of April, much ink has been spilled on the doomed design of the...
Top 3 Binance Smart Chain Projects to Watch This Month
So far, the sector of decentralised finance (DeFi) has been built almost exclusively on Ethereum, but given the network’s congestion...
Bitgo Chosen to Manage Seized Cryptocurrencies for the US Marshals Service
The U.S. Marshals Service has published a contract showing the crypto custodian Bitgo has been chosen to manage law enforcement’s...
Analyst enters $32.5K Bitcoin buy order as hodlers bet on $46K BTC price bottom
Bitcoin (BTC) is expected to dip as low as $32,500 in the short term after several crucial support levels faded to nothing on April 23....
The homeless immigrant who ended up a crypto VC: Etiënne vantKruys
Growing up in poverty in Suriname, Etiënne vantKruys was told by his teacher he’d never succeed — but it only made him more determined to...
Torum Closes Million Dollars Private Round to Create Social Media Platform With NFT and DeFi
PRESS RELEASE. Torum, a social media platform specially designed for cryptocurrency users, is proud to announce that the project is now...
Egypt’s Growing P2P Volumes Being Driven by Crypto Traders Under the Age of 34
A recent market report by Localbitcoins suggests that traders or holders under the age of 34 are driving crypto volumes in Egypt. This...
Price Analysis: Cardano, Ripple and VeChain
Cardano, Ripple’s XRP, and VeChain sank after Bitcoin’s price crash impacted the altcoin market Cardano, XRP, and VeChain have...
Bitcoin crashes 10% to move below $50k- what next for BTC?
BTC fell to lows of $47,600 bringing weekly losses to over 23% The price of Bitcoin fell 10% in 24 hours to plunge past the critical...
Nigerians Shun Local Currency— Seek to Protect Wealth From Inflation and Currency Depreciation with Foreign Currency
Nigerians are thought to be accumulating foreign currencies which they believe will protect their wealth from the naira’s volatility...
Bitcoin price ‘relief’ move to $47K pushes BTC below stock-to-flow trajectory
Bitcoin (BTC) may be making long traders miserable but one bullish analyst says that he is “relieved” that it has shed 22% in...
National Court of Spain Takes the Investigation of the Alleged Ponzi Crypto Scheme Arbistar
The investigation against an alleged major Spanish Ponzi crypto scheme will now be in charge of the National Court of Spain. A judge from...
NFT Weekly Roundup: Polygon’s Sustainable Minting, Oscars NFTs, And, Yes, Poop Emoji NFTs
As another busy week comes to an end, the NFT universe witnessed many new developments. From Polygon teaming up with leading brands to...