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VanEck to Launch Bitcoin Futures ETF ‘XBTF’ Next Week After SEC Rejects Spot Offering
The investment firm VanEck’s bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) is set to debut on the Chicago-based CBOE exchange next week,...
Highly Anticipated Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Activates — Taproot Script-Spends Seen in the Wild
Bitcoin advocates are celebrating the successful implementation of the Taproot upgrade after block height 709,632. The upgrade was highly...
FivebalanceUSA Exploring Adding ShibaInu Token as an Additional Reward
PRESS RELEASE. Miami, FL – As the first and only company publicly known to date to use blockchain technology to fight depression...
Crypto Is for the Dissidents and Disenfranchised
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads two pieces:“Why Shouldn’t the...
Will the Holiday Season Bring Gifts or a Lump of Coal for Bitcoin Investors?
We’re approaching Christmas and many expect the art of window dressing to take hold.No, not on the streets of our towns, where shops...
Dutch Authorities Seize Cryptocurrency Worth Over 25 Million Euros
Dutch authorities have seized more than 25 million euros in cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ether, from dozens of suspects in...
Crypto Advocates Weigh ETF Rejection — Veteran Trader Peter Brandt Says Bitcoiners Should ‘Oppose Spot Bitcoin ETFs in US’
Following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rejection of Vaneck’s bitcoin spot market exchange-traded fund (ETF) on...
Bitcoin sets up nail-biting weekly close after Taproot goes live
Bitcoin (BTC) traded above a key zone into the weekly close on Nov. 13 after the successful activation of the Taproot soft fork. BTC/USD...
Quant Hedge Fund Two Sigma Hiring Crypto Operations Manager
Two Sigma, the technology-focused hedge fund based in New York, is looking to hire a Crypto Operations person to help build out the firm’s...
Russia Fails to Act on Request to Help Freeze Millions in Crypto Withdrawn From Wex Wallet
The Russian Ministry of Interior has rejected a request filed by clients of Wex to do its part in the blocking of crypto funds removed...
Adapt or die: Venture capital vs. crypto, blockchain, DAOs and Web 3.0
We have seen a steep adoption of crypto-based systems this year, including decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, nonfungible tokens...
South African Fintech Raises $120 Million in Funding Round Led by Fidelity
A South Africa and London-based fintech startup, JUMO, recently revealed it has raised $120 million in a funding round led by Fidelity...
Santander Prepares to Offer Bitcoin ETF in Spain
Santander, a leading financial institution in Spain, is preparing to offer a Bitcoin ETF to its customers in the country. This, while...
BREAKING: The Bitcoin network welcomes Taproot soft fork upgrade
The Bitcoin (BTC) network successfully activated the Taproot soft fork following a 90% lock-in consensus from miners and mining pools...
Two Entertainment Projects Featuring Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs Get Backing From Universal Music Group, Timbaland
This week Universal Music Group, the Dutch–American multinational music corporation announced the formation of a non-fungible token...
Litentry Blockchain Offers Massive Potentials to Crowdloan Investors
PRESS RELEASE. The blockchain industry is an ever-evolving world and Litentry is at the forefront of this revolution. Litentry intends to...
Egyptian Billionaire Remains Bullish on Gold, Says It’s Wrong to Compare Precious Metal to Bitcoin
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has said he remains bullish on gold and has no intention to invest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin...
Goldman Sachs: Gold Is Becoming Poor Man’s Crypto
Goldman Sachs’ head of energy research says, “Just like we argue that silver is a poor man’s gold, gold is maybe...
Every Large Bank Will Actively Consider Crypto in 1-3 Years, Says Former Citi CEO
A former CEO of Citigroup said that every major bank and securities firm will consider crypto trading or services within one to three...
Elon Musk dumps $1.1B in Tesla stock, NYCCoin launches with mayor’s blessing and Mastercard pushes crypto-linked cards in Asia: Hodler’s Digest, Nov. 7-13
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Cream Plunges on News That Hack Compensation Will Inflate Token Supply
The price of decentralized finance (DeFi) money market and lending service C.R.E.A.M. Finance’s token plunged Saturday for the second time...
Crypto Exchange Gemini Adds Shiba Inu Support — SHIB Investors Hopeful Robinhood Will Be Next
Another major cryptocurrency exchange has added support for the meme cryptocurrency shiba inu. Gemini has begun supporting SHIB alongside...
Visa Executive Says Crypto Is ‘Becoming Cool’ — Sees Whole New Class of Mainstream Consumers Entering the Space
Visa’s head of crypto sees a “whole new class” of mainstream consumers entering the crypto space due to non-fungible...
SHIB Listed on ChangeHero for Accountless and Limitless Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. ChangeHero instant cryptocurrency exchange listed SHIB on its platform. Customers can exchange SHIB against over 80...
The stablecoin boom won’t continue without decentralized interoperability
Stablecoins are the cornerstone of the digital asset marketplace with a market cap of over $100 billion. Governments are already putting...
Report: Traditional Banks in Africa Hold Trust Advantage Over Fintechs
A recent report by CR2 on Africa’s fintech transformation suggests traditional financial institutions can still be a part of the...
M.I.A. on Crypto, Assange and Her New Album
As a musician and video artist, M.I.A. has always made expressly political work. Throughout a bracing, eclectic catalogue she’s tackled...
South African Crypto Token Holders Concerned About Status of Funds, Unable to Withdraw as Promised
A group of South African cryptocurrency investors have voiced concerns about the fate of their investment in the Fight to Fame (F2F token)...
Crypto trading face-off: Shiba Inu (78 million percent in a year) vs Koinos (535% in a month)
The story of Shiba Inu (SHIB), crypto’s best-performer of the year, still boggles the mind — even after multiple retellings. Just 12...
DeFi’s quest to reimagine finance must come from a community-based design
Crypto has seen a rise in novel uses of liquidity mining and rewards through protocols like Uniswap, Aave and Compound. More recently, a...
Indian Government to Take ‘Progressive’ Steps on Crypto, Sources Say After PM Modi’s Meeting
While the Indian government is cognizant of risks associated with cryptocurrencies, it intends to take “progressive” and “forward-looking”...
3 out of 4 of the Top Smart Contract Tokens Outpaced Ethereum’s 12 Month Gains
While the price of bitcoin has been volatile during the last seven days, a number of smart contract platforms have been performing far...
US President Biden Nears Decision to Choose Fed Chair — Reports Indicate Toss-up Between Powell and Brainard
Following the passing of the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill, the U.S. president appears to be nearing his decision on...
Indian National Congress Accuses Modi-Led BJP of Covering Up Country’s Biggest Bitcoin Scam
Bitcoin is about to become an even more popular topic in India, with the country’s leading political parties at loggerheads over a...
Bitcoin Taproot upgrade improves the network as BTC price impact may be limited
Bitcoin is set to undergo a major network upgrade, Taproot, in nearly two days, i.e., on Nov. 14 or 255 blocks later, as per data from...
Digital rights management in the open seas of blockchain systems
To understand the complexity of digital rights management, or DRM, one must first understand the DRM challenges of current systems and...
US ‘Kidnapped’ Russian Crypto Businessman Denis Dubnikov, Lawyer Says
U.S. law enforcement agents have “kidnapped” crypto entrepreneur Denis Dubnikov in Mexico, before transferring him to the...
Thirst Traps Explode on NFT Platforms, With Predictably Controversial Results
Sexy selfies and feminist GIFs are selling like hotcakes on non-fungible token (NFT) markets, but not everyone is thrilled about this...
Limit order protocols offer more flexibility and efficiency to DEX traders
As decentralized exchanges (DEXs) evolve, their functionalities become more and more advanced, often matching those of centralized...
Is Jack Dorsey About to Announce a Bitcoin DeFi Platform?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this edition of “The Breakdown Weekly Recap,” NLW follows up on the story about...
Alchemy Pay’s Unique Crypto-Fiat Payment Solution Disrupts the Industry
On November 6, 2021, Alchemy Pay’s Chief of Staff, Karmen Tang, delivered her keynote address at the Epicenter Crypto Conference in...
Bitcoin halts losses amid criticism ETF rejections have cost investors ‘12,700% gains’
Bitcoin (BTC) tapered losses on Nov. 13 as the market showed little interest in U.S. regulators refusing to allow a spot exchange-traded...
Russian Nationalists Prepare Bill to Regulate Cryptocurrency Mining
Lawmakers from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia are gearing up to introduce a draft law designed to regulate crypto mining. The...
Hong Kong Company Onedegree to Offer Insurance for Cryptocurrencies
Onedegree, a virtual insurer based in Hong Kong, will provide insurance services for digital assets as part of a partnership with a local...
Terra to Burn $4.5 Billion Worth of LUNA From Community Pool
Terra, an algorithmic stablecoin project, will burn $4.5 billion worth of terra (LUNA), its native token, from its community pool. The...
The Metaverse Is the Next Big Investment Theme, According to Morgan Stanley
Investment bank Morgan Stanley has stated the metaverse is now the next big investment theme, in a note directed to investors Thursday....
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Soars 42% Higher Over the Last 3 Months Following Crypto Asset’s 36% Price Increase
While bitcoin has been hovering above the $60K handle for a great majority of the last 28 days, the network’s hashrate has jumped...
Finiko Fugitives Suspected of Moving 750 BTC From Crypto Pyramid’s Wallet
A large amount of cryptocurrency has reportedly been withdrawn from a wallet previously controlled by the Finiko Ponzi scheme in Russia....
Taproot, Bitcoin’s Long-Anticipated Upgrade, Activates This Weekend
Taproot, the long-anticipated Bitcoin upgrade, will activate this weekend at block 709,632, opening the door for developers to integrate...
Look out below! Dogecoin risks further downside after a key support is tested
Dogecoin (DOGE) is potentially at risk of losing critical support if the price falls from the ascending channel traded in for the last 53...
Altcoin Roundup: 3 Proof-of-work protocols focused on building Web 3.0
The proof-of-work (PoW) consensus model is the mechanism that kicked off the revolution that launched Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009 and it was the...
Moonshot to $90K — After Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Activates, Crypto Advocates Expect the Price to Rally
In mid-June, the ‘Speedy Trial’ lock-in period for the Bitcoin network upgrade Taproot locked in at block height 687,285 and...
How traders can use Twitter to anticipate altcoin price moves
When crypto traders win big, they often take to Twitter to share the joy. They tend to do the same for sharing painful stories of getting...
xDai Wants a Gnosis Merger to Stay Relevant, but Some Tokenholders Are Crying Foul
A historic, multimillion-dollar deal between a layer 1 with a devout following and a major Ethereum infrastructure builder may have hit a...
Finance Redefined: ENS airdrops token, and SEC’s Crenshaw speaks on DeFi, Nov. 5–12
Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter. Ethereum Name Service announced a retroactive...
Traders look to ‘buy the dip’ after spot ETF rejection sends Bitcoin price to $62K
Bears swooped in to seize the upper hand on Nov. 12 after news that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had...
ADALend: Announcing Imminent Cross-Platform Development
ADALend, currently in the process of developing a decentralized financing (DeFi) project has just announced its plans to start the...
Price analysis 11/12: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, SOL, XRP, DOT, DOGE, SHIB, LUNA
Bitcoin (BTC) price continues to weaken following the shakeout of the leveraged traders in the derivatives markets on Nov. 10. This caused...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Expected to Rise on Taproot Upgrade
Cryptocurrencies were mostly lower on Friday after buyers failed to sustain the all-time price highs reached in bitcoin and ether earlier...
La caída de bitcoin podría estabilizarse en el soporte de $60.000
Bitcoin (BTC) cayó por debajo de los $65.000 mientras los compradores continúan tomando algunas ganancias. La criptomoneda cotizaba en...
Coinbase Allows Users to Share Info About Crypto Holdings With Friends
Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN) the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, will allow users to easily share information about their crypto...
SEC Rejects Vaneck Bitcoin Spot Market ETF Over Price Manipulation Concerns
On Friday, November 12, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected Vaneck’s bitcoin spot market exchange-traded...
Off the Charts: Supply Chain Angst
This week, the U.S. consumer price index for October showed a 6.2% increase from a year ago, the highest inflation rate since 1990, news...
Tether, Bitcoin and Chinese Commercial Paper at Scale
For critics of Tether, the new economy of digital assets is based on the world’s oldest profession: real estate speculation.Crypto markets...
How Crypto Becomes Money
By soaring 4.4% to new record highs Wednesday after the release of a report that showed U.S. inflation hit its highest level in 31 years...
The Politics of Bitcoin
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at how bitcoin’s place in the...
‘Speedy Trial’ Taproot Activation on Bitcoin Could Still Include a ‘UASF’ Safety Net
Taproot – Bitcoin’s most anticipated upgrade ever – has been “close” for a year now, but no one in Bitcoin’s community has agreed on how...
Locked In: Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Gets Its 90% Mandate
Taproot, the most significant improvement to Bitcoin’s protocol in years, now has enough mining support to lock in activation.According to...
Kazakhstan’s Crypto Miners Face New Regulations After Contributing to Power Shortages
Kazakhstan’s energy grid is coming apart at the seams because of the massive influx of bitcoin miners. But that might turn out to be a...
Bitcoin Decline Could Stabilize Around $60K Support
Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below $65,000 as buyers continue to take some profits. The cryptocurrency was trading around $64,000 at press time...
Loopring Price Up 7-Fold This Month on GameStop Speculation, Metaverse Bets
Loopring (LRC), an Ethereum-based project that allows developers to build their own decentralized exchanges, has jumped a stunning...
13,000 BTC Moved in 20 Months — 2010 Mystery Miner Transfers Another String of 20 Decade-Old Block Rewards
Two days ago on November 10, a mystery whale transferred 20 block rewards from 2010, which saw the movement of 1,000 decade-old bitcoins...
Ethereum ‘has to bounce’ as ETH bulls pin $5K rally hopes on critical support channel
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), could see yet another strong rebound in the sessions ahead as its price falls into a trading zone...
New England Patriots Say They’ve Partnered With Fan Token Site Socios
The New England Patriots are partnering with Socios in a deal that could lead to the National Football League’s first fan token.The U.S....
Crypto News Roundup for Nov. 12, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stabilizes as Traders...
SEC Rejects VanEck’s Spot Bitcoin ETF Proposal
The SEC rejected investment firm VanEck’s proposal for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Friday. The decision was widely...
Why Axie Infinity Caught Fire in the Philippines
This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Nexo.io.Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren...
ChangeNOW announces new cashback feature for loyal customers
The feature will see customers get NOW tokens valued at 0.1% of every transaction amount There’s a standard limit of 1000 NOW tokens...
Big Money Apes Into Blockchain Gaming With $725M Raise for Forte
Major crypto players Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Cosmos, Polygon Studios and Solana Ventures were among those that have invested in an...
Bakkt Shares Fall After Crypto Firm Posts Third-Quarter Loss
Publicly traded crypto firm Bakkt (NYSE: BKKT) posted a net loss of $28.8 million in Q3, versus a net loss of $18 million...
Analyst: Decentraland (MANA) has potential to reach $15
“It’s hard not to be bullish about MANA, says analyst The token is seeing double-digit gains as the market readies for a major...
Here’s where to buy SAND, the coin that appreciated by 15% in 24 hours
The live The Sandbox price today is $2.64 with a 24-hour trading volume of $1.6 billion. SAND is the token based on the popular game....
Meet the Antminer S19 XP — Bitmain Reveals ASIC Manufacturer’s Most Powerful Bitcoin Miner
At the World Digital Mining Summit in Dubai, the leading application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) bitcoin mining rig manufacturer,...
Chinese Crypto Miner The9 Expands in U.S. With Compute North Deal
The9 has signed a 32 megawatt (MW) mining capacity deal with Compute North to deploy 10,000 miners in the U.S.The high-end S19j miners...
Decentraland is up 32% today: here’s where to buy Mana coin
The live Decentraland price today is $3.27 with a 24-hour trading volume of $5.7 trillion. It has gained 32.14% in the last 24 hours. If...
Cardingo – a Curated Designer NFT Marketplace and Series for Cardano
PRESS RELEASE. Sydney, Australia – Cardingo is an NFT series and Cardano NFT marketplace that has secretly been in the works for...
BlackRock iShares Exec Says Firm Has ‘No Current Plans’ to Launch Crypto ETFs: Report
BlackRock global head of iShares and index investments, Salim Ramji, said in an interview the $9.5 trillion firm has “no current plans” to...
Weekly Report: Huobi’s woes continue, Grayscale eclipses $60BN in trading volume
Huobi only recently moved its business out of China following a crypto ban in the country. This week, the exchange was also forced out of...
Bitcoin due to hit $90K ‘in coming weeks’ despite pullback — latest technical analysis
Bitcoin (BTC) is still on to run to $90,000 in the coming weeks after “trapping” leverage traders. In its latest market update on Nov. 12,...
India’s Central Bank RBI Reiterates ‘Serious Concerns’ About Crypto — Governor Doubts Reports on Indian Crypto Investors
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), still has “serious concerns” about cryptocurrency from a...