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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...
JK Rowling Bitcoin Quest: Elon Musk Joins Community to Explain Cryptocurrency to Harry Potter Author
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has become inundated with bitcoin insight and cryptocurrency explanations when she tweeted asking someone...
P2P Bitcoin Trade Volumes and Inflation in Latin America Are on the Rise
During the last two months since the March 12 crypto market rout, otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday,’ demand for...
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BigONE is a global cryptocurrency trading and custody platform founded in 2017, clad in four principles – Integrity, Security,...
Bitcoin Loophole: Wanna Make $13K in 24 Hours? This Crypto Trading App Is a Scam
A bitcoin investment scheme claiming to help people make over $13,000 within 24 hours has recently gained more attention. Bitcoin Loophole...
20 Blockchain Surveillance Firms Monitor Crypto Networks, But Some Apps Show Inaccuracies
During the last few years, blockchain surveillance has increased a great deal and in the early days around 2013-14, there were only a...
How Investors Are Presented With Bitcoin: ‘A New Decentralized Monetary Asset, Akin to Gold’
Bitcoin (BTC) is a compelling investment case “for patient, long-term investors” willing to spend the time to understand the...
Crypto Derivatives Exchange FTX Launches Bitcoin Hashrate Futures
On Friday, Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX launched a hashrate futures tool that allows Bitcoin (BTC) miners to hedge against...
FTX to Launch a new Bitcoin Hash Rate Futures Contract to Trade
FTX’s new hash rate futures contract will track Bitcoin’s mining difficulty and allow traders to trade hash changes Crypto...
Libra Adds Temasek to Membership List
Libra Association adds yet more members to the consortium, among the latest to join are government-owned Singapore firm, Temasek...
Bitcoin Cash Upgrade Complete: 3 New Features Added to Consensus Rules
Today, at precisely 9 a.m. ET on May 15, 2020, the Bitcoin Cash network completed another upgrade adding a few new features to the...
ETH/BTC Longs Up 90% on Bitfinex’s Yearly Chart
Ethereum (ETH) longs on Bitfinex have increased their positions over the last year, surging by 90% in 2020 Ethereum longs on Bitfinex have...
Investors in Telegram’s Terminated TON Project Contemplating Lawsuits Against the Firm
Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, announced this week that the TON project had been terminated; now, investors who participated in the...
60% of Coinbase’s Customers Buy Bitcoin First Before Moving into Altcoins
Investors who purchase their first digital asset on Coinbase buy Bitcoin, but a majority then move on to purchase other cryptocurrencies,...
Visa Files Patent for Cryptocurrency System to Replace Cash
Visa International has filed for a cryptocurrency system patent that is meant to replace physical currency. The system, which utilizes...
Bitwala Launches Bitcoin Interest Account With up to 4.3% Annual Rate
Neobanking service provider Bitwala on Thursday introduced a new account that offers its 80,000 European customers passive bitcoin (BTC)...
Bitcoin Network Sees a Massive Mining Pool Shift Following the Halving
Following the third bitcoin halving on May 11, 2020, there’s been a big shift in mining pool distribution, as far as hashrate is...
Digifinex Live AMA Hosts Bitcoin.com Chairman – Roger Ver Talks Stimulus, Useful Cryptocurrencies, Coronavirus
On May 14, Bitcoin.com Executive Chairman Roger Ver sat down with Digifinex cofounder, Kiana Shek, for an ask-me-anything (AMA) session...
Bulls Take Control Despite Bitcoin Erasing 15% in the Pre-Halving Crash
Post-halving prices have stabilised below $8,700. The weekend before the halving, Bitcoin crashed 15% and touched $8,100 and has since...
Binance Freezes Funds Sent from Address Linked to $49M Upbit Hack
Hackers breached crypto exchange Upbit in November 2019, making off with $49 million in crypto — yesterday they tried to sell stolen...
Bitcoin Miners Revenue Plunge 48% as Halving Impact Kicks In
Revenue for Bitcoin (BTC) miners plunged 48% a day following the third halving, as the full impact of the periodic supply cut event began...
Over $220M in Bitcoin Has Been Moved From Crypto Exchanges since the Halving
Data shows that Bitcoin users have moved 24,000 BTC from exchanges since Bitcoin’s halving Bitcoin (BTC) worth over $220 million has...
Bitcoin’s Hash Rate Drops as BCH and BSV Surge Post BTC Halving
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) hash rates have surged as BTC’s have dropped; the same scenario happened in April, when BCH...
Bitwala introduces Bitcoin Account with 4.3% Interest
Digital crypto bank Bitwala and crypto lender Celsius Network have partnered in a deal that will see bank account holders earn interest...
More Than $220M in Bitcoin Withdrawn from Crypto Exchanges Since the Halving
In mid-April, news.Bitcoin.com reported on a great number of BTC withdrawn from cryptocurrency trading platforms and after the third BTC...
New $3 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill: Second Stimulus Checks Could Be Coming to Americans
Americans could be getting their second stimulus checks as a new coronavirus relief bill has been introduced. It includes more direct...
17,000 Quadrigacx Users Seek $307M from the Failed Canadian Crypto Exchange
About 17,000 people have filed claims for refunds from the collapsed Canadian digital asset exchange Quadrigacx. Altogether, the claims,...
Bitfinex Partners with Koine to Launch Crypto Product for Large Investors
Seychelles-based Bitfinex and UK regulated Koine’s collaboration targets making custody services safe from counterparty risks Bitfinex and...
2 Days After the Bitcoin Halving: Network ‘Remains Strong,’ Higher Fees, Bullish Sentiment
On May 11, 2020, the Bitcoin network completed it’s third block reward halving and the network seems to be chugging along just fine....
17,000 Users of Defunct QuadrigaCX Exchange File Claims Worth $300 Million
Tens of thousands of ex QuadrigaCX users have filed claims against the now-defunct crypto exchange. Lawyer says any disputes could see...
$417 Million Worth of BTC Transferred for only $1.44 in Fees
Someone just transferred Bitcoin (BTC) worth $417 million, paying just $1.44 on the Bitcoin network Large transfers on the Bitcoin network...
ETH 2.0 ‘on track’ claims Ethereum Founder over dispute of July Launch
Ethereum (ETH) founder Vitalik Buterin says he believes that the launch of ETH 2.0 remains on track after he appeared to confirm the...
Telegram Terminates TON and Gram Token Projects
Telegram’s decision comes days after the Free TON community launched a free version of the blockchain Telegram has announced that it has...
Telegram Drops TON Cryptocurrency Project After US Prohibits Global Distribution
Popular messaging app Telegram has shut down its TON cryptocurrency project. Telegram founder Pavel Durov explains that a US court has...
$2 Billion Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Industry Set to ‘Grow Significantly’
Cryptocurrency hedge funds’ assets under management have been increasing significantly, rising to more than $2 billion at the end of...
Canadian Firm Hut 8 Reports Bitcoin Mined in Q1 Declined 54% Due to Price Volatility
On Monday, Hut 8 Mining reported that first-quarter revenue rose 5% to $9 million from $8.59 million a year ago after the amount of...
Halving Sell-Off Temporary, BTC to Hit $20,000 by Year End, Says Billionaire Investor Novogratz
Bitcoin (BTC) may not have pumped at the scale expected by many halving optimists, but Wall Street billionaire Michael Novogratz insists...