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Famed Economist Doubts Bitcoin Will Become Global Currency
Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor at financial services company Allianz, says that bitcoin is not going to be a global currency and...
U.S. is not moving fast enough to develop a CBDC, says former CFTC chair
Tim Massad, who served as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until 2017, said the United States is too slow in developing a...
Opulous (OPUL) rallies 785% as fans dig the sound of NFTs in the music industry
There is potential for the use cases of nonfungible token (NFT) technology to expand far beyond the simple tracking of unique images with...
Was the first reply to the Bitcoin White Paper Satoshi himself? In-depth theory
Ever since Satoshi Natamoto, the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin, disappeared in 2011 there has been no shortage of theories about his...
Games Coins, Defi Tokens, Metaverse Assets Rise Above Market Downturn With Double-Digit Gains
While digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum lost roughly 10% in value during the last seven days, the decentralized finance (defi)...
Federal Reserve Governor Argues Against Subjecting Stablecoins to Full Banking Regulation
Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher Waller says that stablecoins do not need to be regulated with all the same rules as banks. He...
First Mover Asia: Altcoins Surge as Bitcoin, Ether Stall
Good morning, Here’s what’s happening this morning:Market Moves: Crypto.com’s CRO token moons on deal with Los Angeles’ Staples Center, as...
ConstitutionDAO Raises $27M on Eve of Sotheby’s Auction. $PEOPLE Could Be the Reason
Crypto nerds are on the precipice of pulling off the caper of the century.What started as a longshot bid for a decentralized autonomous...
Solana-Based Sports Betting Protocol BetDex Closes $21M Seed Funding Round
BetDex has raised a $21 million seed round to create a decentralized global sports betting protocol, the company announced Wednesday.In...
Blockchain Industry to Surpass $67 Billion by 2027: Fintech Report Names 2021’s Most Influential Blockchain Companies
Financial technology (fintech) has exploded during the last two years and cryptocurrency and blockchain firms have bolstered the...
Fed Governor Waller praises stablecoins as a genuine innovation that makes the development of CBDCs redundant
In a speech published Wednesday noon, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller reiterated his skepticism for implementing a central...
Here’s why bears hope to pin Bitcoin under $60K ahead of Friday’s $1.1B options expiry
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls were euphoric when the price soared to $69,000 on Nov. 10 because the 14.5% gain accumulated over five days meant they...
US is not moving fast enough to develop a CBDC, says former CFTC chair
Tim Massad, who served as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until 2017, said the United States is too slow in developing a...
Moledao Launches Pioneering Web 3.0 Hackathon on the Metaverse
PRESS RELEASE. Moledao, a social platform for blockchain enthusiasts, announced today its upcoming Web 3.0 Hackathon. This pioneering...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Pullback Pauses as Traders Reduce Leverage
Bitcoin’s price continued to stabilize around $60,000 on Wednesday after dropping nearly 15% from an all-time high near $69,000. Some...
Crypto.com’s CRO Token Soars on Naming Deal for LA’s Staples Center
Crypto.com’s CRO token soared in digital-asset markets after the cryptocurrency exchange and credit-card issuer inked a naming-rights deal...
Fidelity Launches Canada’s First Institutional Bitcoin Custody Service
Fidelity Clearing Canada ULC (FCC) has become Canada’s first regulated entity to offer bitcoin custody and trading services for...
Bitrefill Enables Salvadorans to Pay Many of Their Bills With Bitcoin
Bitrefill, a startup that provides users with ways to pay for their daily needs with bitcoin, has launched a bill-paying service in El...
Shiba Inu Coin Faces ‘Reversion’ Worthy of Parabolic Rise
Send the dog tokens to the doghouse.That’s the message from some cryptocurrency analysts who say the stunning rise this year of dog-themed...
Will New Anti-Terrorism Rules Help Israeli Crypto Startups? A Global Regulatory Roundup
The state of crypto regulatory news from India to Russia to Brazil.This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn today’s...
China Targets Crypto Mining at State-Owned Enterprises, Threatens Punitive Measures
Authorities in China are continuing to crack down on activities linked to cryptocurrencies which they consider illegal. The...
Four days with Satoshi Nakamoto on the stand: What did we learn from the Bitcoin creator?
Jordan Atkins In the years following Satoshi Nakamoto’s exit from public life in 2010, the growing number of investors and enthusiasts in...
Price analysis 11/17: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, ADA, XRP, DOT, DOGE, SHIB, AVAX
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are testing psychologically important support levels at $60,000 and $4,000 respectively. Both these levels...
Canadian Police Arrest Teen for Allegedly Stealing $36M in Crypto
Hamilton police in Ontario arrested a teen for allegedly stealing CAD$46 million (US$36 million) worth of cryptocurrency through a SIM...
FTX, Crypto.com and the ‘Stadium Curse’
News broke Wednesday that Los Angeles’ Staples Center, longtime home to the National Basketball Association dominator L.A. Lakers team,...
After Taproot, What’s Next for Bitcoin’s Future?
Taproot, a privacy and scalability upgrade Bitcoin developers have long been drooling over, finally activated last weekend. But more...
A16z Leads $3.1M Funding Round for Mem’s Social Media Protocol
Mem Protocol, a startup building Web 3 tools for social networking, has closed a $3.1 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz...
Argentina to Tax Crypto Exchanges
Argentina plans to tax crypto exchanges operating in the country on purchases and sales executed on their platforms, the office of...
Bitcoin Holding Support at $60K; Could Face Resistance at $63K-$65K
Bitcoin (BTC) is stabilizing around the $60,000 support level after declining about 15% from an all-time high near $69,000. The...
Small-cap altcoins stage a recovery as Bitcoin traders aim to recapture $60K
The fortitude of Bitcoin (BTC) holders continues to be tested on Nov. 17 as a number of attempts to push the price to $59,000 and below...
Staples Center Name Change Tops List of Crypto Sports Sponsorship Deals
Cryptocurrency companies have taken the sports world by storm over the past year, and if you’re an avid watcher of sports, you’ve...
ChangeNOW returns $1M worth of MATIC stolen from Eterbase in 2020
The non-custodial platform froze the MATIC tokens for a year It recently contacted Eterbase and returned the recovered coins, ahead of...
12-Month Mega Gains — A Dozen Crypto Assets Gained More Than 7,000% Since Last Year
The crypto asset bitcoin has seen a phenomenal year gaining 261.5% over the last 12 months and the second leading crypto asset, ethereum,...
Binance CEO CZ Says He Plans to Give Away Vast Majority of His Wealth
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao says he plans to give away up to 99% of his wealth, according to an interview he gave to the Associated...
Circle Launches Initiative to Boost Global Financial Inclusion
Circle, the payment services company that operates stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), has launched an initiative aimed at helping minorities and...
Anoma Foundation Raises $26M to Simplify Exchanging Cryptocurrencies
The Anoma Foundation, a blockchain technology company, has raised 24 million Swiss francs (US$26 million) in a funding round at a...
Web 3 Social Media Needs Dedicated Blockchains
Many believe that general-purpose blockchains like Ethereum, Cardano, Avalanche and Solana will come to power everything on the web,...
$9 Billion in Bitcoin: Court Trustee Says Mt Gox Rehabilitation Plan ‘Final and Binding’
Mt Gox claimants may see restitution soon as a recent filing from the Tokyo District Court’s trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi explains...
Avalanche’s AVAX Token Surges to All-Time High After Deloitte Deal, Defying Crypto Trend
Smart-contracts platform Avalanche’s AVAX token hit a new all-time high Wednesday and is up 20% on the week, even as bitcoin, the world’s...
Analyst: Bitcoin to $100K by EOY 2021“won’t happen”
Digifox CEO Nicholas Merten believes Bitcoin could hit the six-figure value in 2022 Bitcoin needs to grow by over $660 billion in a little...
Crypto News Roundup for Nov. 17, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Stock Futures Muted After Target, Lowe’s...
Bitcoin Still Unsuited For Mainstream Payments, Says Deutsche Bank
Bitcoin must overcome extreme volatility, high transaction costs and its large carbon footprint before it can be used more widely as a...
Bitcoin toys with $60K as crucial price support level sees multiple retests
Bitcoin (BTC) bounced at the pivotal $58,400 during Nov. 17 as the day continued choppy price action. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
ConsenSys Plots Massive Expansion Following $200M Raise
ConsenSys is girding for battle in crypto’s super-hot jobs market with $200 million to spend on up to 400 new hires after a funding round...
Binance Smart Chain hits record-high daily transactions
Analytical data from BscScan, a sister product of Etherscan, reveals that Binance Smart Chain (BSC) surpassed 14.7 million blockchain...
Bit Digital Migrates All of Its Bitcoin Mining Out of China Amid Ban
North American dominance in bitcoin mining continues to strengthen as most miners continue their migration out of China, since the...
SEC Reportedly Looking Into BlockFi’s Crypto Yield Products
BlockFi’s high-yield crypto interest products have reportedly come under the federal microscope.Citing one anonymous source, Bloomberg...
Iconic Staples Center, Home of Los Angeles Lakers, Changing Name to Crypto.com Arena
Staples Center, one of the most iconic and globally recognized sports and entertainment arenas in the world, is changing its name to...
Oasis Launches $160M Ecosystem Fund With Backing From Jump Capital and Others
After the establishment of a $160 million investment fund, a long-dormant layer 1 project with a focus on privacy is showing signs of...
FMFW.io Has Listed Audited Asset-Based Stablecoin – EURST
PRESS RELEASE. EURST will be listed on fmfw.io starting November 17th. The Euro representative digital coin you can purchase with FMFW.io...
Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy Upsizes Its IPO, Valuing Company at $1.5B
Iris Energy, a Sydney-based company that mines bitcoin primarily with renewable energy, raised its initial public offering (IPO) pricing...
Binance CEO: Dogecoin’s growth shows the power of decentralisation
Changpeng Zhao says growth for Dogecoin and Shiba Inu among other meme coins is indicative of crypto’s decentralisation He told The...
Nearly 500,000 Nigerian CBDC Wallets Downloaded Since Launch
Nearly half a million e-naira wallets have been downloaded a few weeks after the central bank digital currency (CBDC) was officially...
Get Your Daily Price Updates on TikTok With Bitcoin.com News’ Brand New Channel
Are you addicted to following the crypto markets? Are you new to the game and just want to know what’s going on? In just 59 seconds...
KuCoin Labs Launches $100M Fund for Metaverse Projects
KuCoin Labs, the investment and research firm spun out of the crypto exchange KuCoin has launched a $100 million fund to invest in...
‘Ethereum Killers’ Are Helpful, Not Harmful
Since the launch of initial coin offerings (ICOs) like EOS and Tezos, a steady stream of alternative smart contract platforms have been...
ECB Sounds Alarm Over Linkages Between Stablecoins and Conventional Financial Markets
The search for higher yields amid rising inflation and falling interest rates, have led investors to take greater risks, exposing a broad...
Kyrgyzstan Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Farm With 2,500 Mining Rigs
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have uncovered and shut down a large crypto mining farm in the north of the country. Law enforcement officials...
LA Laker’s Home Renamed from Staples Center to Crypto.com Arena
Staples had previously paid $120 million to secure naming rights of the Arena in 1999, according to Financial Times Award-winning...
Crypto markets lower, SAND is the big winner today
The crypto market was lower over the past 24 hours, with the majority of top 10 cryptos registering losses. All three major US indices...
Where to buy Doge Dash, the game token that gained 27% in the last 24 hours
Doge Dash is a game token that wants to give mainstream audiences access to crypto gaming. It is a simple game, inspired by classics like...
A rose by any other name…best places to buy CUMSTAR now
As the name suggests, CUMSTAR is a token for the adult industry. It provides solutions for privacy, chargebacks, and anonymity. Most...
India’s crypto panel yet to agree on which regulator should oversee the sector
The Parliamentary Standing Committee wants government officials to appear before it to address existing concerns In a meeting that was the...
Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani Joins FTX’s Global Ambassadors, MLB Superstar to Be Paid in Crypto
The cryptocurrency firm FTX Trading Ltd. announced on Tuesday that the Major League Baseball (MLB) legend Shohei Ohtani also known as...
Australian baseball club Perth Heat to pay athletes in Bitcoin
Australian baseball club Perth Heat has announced a partnership with Bitcoin payment processor OpenNode to accept and make payments in...
Some Chinese Crypto News Sites Appear to Go Dark As Crackdown Continues
Chinese crypto news sites ChainNews, Odaily, and information platform Block123, were inaccessible on Wednesday, as the Chinese government...
Here’s where Porto fans can buy the football club’s token – if they choose
FC Porto Fan Token empowers fans of the popular club with lower fees, broader accessibility, and more functions. It runs on the Binance...
GenshinShibln up 380% after PancakeSwap listing
GenshinShibln (GSHIB), the latest meme coin in the market, is up 380% in the last 24 hours with a trading volume of over $1 million after...
Where to buy SAND after the successful Metaverse Alpha launch
After play to earn virtual world The Sandbox announced the launch of Metaverse Alpha, which had been a long time in coming, the price of...
India’s Central Bank Governor Says Blockchain Technology Can Thrive Without Cryptocurrencies
While the Indian government has recently softened its stance on cryptocurrencies, the country’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India...
SEC pursues crypto miner Marathon Digital over possible regulation violation
Last year, Marathon revealed a partnership with Beowulf Energy to set up a crypto mining facility Crypto mining company Marathon Digital...
Digital Ruble Should Not Boost Inflation, Bank of Russia Says
Bank of Russia is preparing for a prolonged trial of the digital version of the national fiat to ensure this is a “full-fledged...
Bitcoin Crowd Appears High on ‘Hopium’ as ‘Buy The Dip’ Trends
As bitcoin nurses a weekly drop of 9%, the cryptocurrency’s social metrics indicate the retail crowd is high on hopium – a crypto slang...
Valkyrie Will Launch On-Chain Defi Fund Next Week
Valkyrie Investments, one of the biggest cryptocurrency asset managers, has announced it will launch a so-called on-chain defi fund next...
LA’s Iconic Staples Center to Be Renamed to Crypto.com Arena
The Staples Center arena in Los Angeles will be renamed to Crypto.com Arena on Christmas day, according to a press release .The...
Tezos NFT Market Hic et Nunc Returns After Founder Steps Back, Begins Transition to DAO
Last week, the popular Tezos-based non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Hic et nunc discontinued its services following the...
How to Sell Items With Crypto? Ethair Market Offers Users Ebay/Etsy Alternative
The beta version of Ethair Market that launched on Monday, November 8th allows sellers to list their items early and get buyers acquainted...
India to Ban Crypto As Payment Method, But Regulate As Asset: Report
India will ban the use of cryptocurrencies for making payments, but will allow and regulate trading of crypto as assets, the Economic...
Investment Manager Expects Governments to Clamp Down on Bitcoin, Warns of ‘Intense’ Crypto Regulation
The founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, Kyle Bass, has warned that governments will start to really clamp...
Top cryptocurrencies reeling from Tuesday’s market crash
Except for stable coins, other digital assets are still trading in the red The overall crypto sector recorded huge losses on Tuesday's...
Kleiman v. Wright Trial: Craig Wright’s Flinty 4-Day Testimony Comes to an End
MIAMI — On Monday, Craig Wright, wearing a cream-colored suit and purple tie, concluded his fourth day of testimony in the civil suit...
Fund Managers Expect Bitcoin Price Over $75k in 12 Months: BofA Survey
Most global fund managers expect the price of bitcoin to surpass $75,000 in 12 months, according to a Bank of America survey of global...
Ripple Proposes ‘Real Approach to Cryptocurrency Regulation’
Ripple has published a proposal for a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies called “A Real Approach to Cryptocurrency...
IoTeX ‘MachineFi’ rebrand backs 200%+ rally to a new all-time high
In the past 30 years, the growth of the internet and digital technology has transformed the way the world operates and now artificial...
Traders watch for a trend reversal after Ethereum price drops to $4,100
Ether (ETH) traders might have a few reasons to panic after today’s 13% drop down to $4,100. The swift pullback appears to have...
Binance Calls for Global Crypto Regulation While Launching ‘Crypto Is Evil’ Ad Campaign
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has called for “global regulatory frameworks for crypto markets.” The company has also...
Director Quentin Tarantino Sued by Miramax Over Pulp Fiction NFTs
Famed director Quentin Tarantino is being sued by Miramax for copyright infringement after Tarantino announced that he would be auctioning...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Plummets, Dashing Hopes of a Quick Return to Its Record High
Good morning, Here’s what’s happening this morning:Market Moves: Crypto traders were licking their wounds – and looking for explanations –...
DOJ Selling Cryptocurrency Seized From Bitconnect Worth $56 Million
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is selling cryptocurrency worth $56 million that was seized from the “number one...
Mt. Gox rehabilitation plan is now ‘final and binding’
The rehabilitation plan to compensate creditors from the now-defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox is now finalized following confirmation from...