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Chipper Cash Extends Peer-to-Peer Money Transfer Service to South Africa
Chipper Cash, an African fintech start-up, has extended its peer-to-peer instant money service to South Africa. In addition to being able...
Bitcoin shrugs off Chinese crackdown as BTC bounces above $44k
BTC price regained support above multiple zones amid sustained upside on Monday Bitcoin price is up 7% in intraday trades on Monday after...
Binance to Restrict Offerings in Singapore
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is about to introduce severe restrictions on its offering to users in Singapore.As of Oct....
Blockchain Startup Swash Raises $4M to Make Data Monetization Click
Swash, a blockchain startup that allows internet users to own their data and earn money from it, raised $4 million in a funding round led...
Cardano invests $100M in NFT, DeFi and Blockchain education
The cryptocurrency space continues to expand, and users need to be educated on the various aspects of the industry Cardano is one of the...
DeFi Tokens PERP, DYDX Lead Crypto Market Higher, Bitcoin Nears $44K
Native tokens of leading decentralized trading platforms are surging as the biggest centralized exchanges Binance and Huobi cut back on...
Inner Mongolia Seizes 10,100 Mining Rigs From Government Tech Park
Authorities in China’s Inner Mongolia province seized 10,100 mining rigs from a government-operated tech park, according to local...
Netflix Announces Documentary About Quadrigacx’s Downfall
Netflix, the world’s largest video streaming company, has announced it is working on a documentary that deals with the aftermath of...
Kusama price analysis: KSM bounces off major support as bulls target more gains
KSM price has rebounded off horizontal support and is looking to strengthen near the 50 SMA Kusama (KSM) has traded higher over the past...
Cryptocurrency-Trading Hamster Outperforms Bitcoin, S&P 500 Since June
A hamster that trades cryptocurrencies has been outperforming Bitcoin and the S&P 500 since June. The rodent, called Mr. Goxx, uses a...
Cardano’s Commercial Arm to Invest $100M in DeFi, NFTs and Blockchain Education
Emurgo, the commercial and venture arm of Cardano, is investing $100 million to boost decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible token...
South African University Professor Urges Country to ‘Finalize Cryptocurrency Policy’ — Warns Against Resisting Crypto
A professor with the University of Johannesburg, Rabelani Dagada, has urged South Africa to finalize its cryptocurrency public policy if...
Ripple CEO Says SEC Gives No Clear Framework for Crypto, Discusses XRP Lawsuit
As the lawsuit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse insists that the Commission...
Ethereum alternatives and layer-1 solutions see steady gains in September
The competition among layer-one (L1) smart contract platforms has been on the rise in the past couple of months as traders and developers...
Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Donates $20M to Build Math Center at Carnegie Mellon University
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has donated $20 million to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to establish the Hoskinson Center for Formal...
Rich Dad Poor Dad’s Robert Kiyosaki Predicts ‘Giant Stock Market Crash’ in October — Says ‘Bitcoin May Crash Too’
Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” has predicted a “giant stock market crash”...
Billionaire Mike Novogratz Says Bitcoin Market Is ‘in Good Shape’ — China Has ‘Less and Less’ Influence Over Crypto
The billionaire investor and CEO of Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz, says the bitcoin market is in good shape, noting that he sees...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, AVAX, ALGO, XTZ, EGLD
China has attempted to stifle the crypto sector’s growth on several occasions in the past 12 years but barring a minor blip, the blanket...
The Three Kingdoms: The New Era of Play-to-Earn Games
CryptoKitties was the first to bring blockchain gaming to life, and games such as Axie Infinity defined how a good blockchain game should...
China’s Crackdown Spurs Massive Onchain Transfers, Cold Wallets Move $3 Billion in Bitcoin and 800K Ether
Following the latest statements from China’s central bank concerning cryptocurrencies and offshore crypto exchanges, massive...
UNI Token Rises 20% as China’s Blanket Ban on Crypto Businesses Puts Focus on Decentralized Exchanges
Crypto investors seem to be betting that China’s latest blanket ban on virtual currency businesses will be a blessing in disguise for...
SEC Denies Freedom of Information Act Request Concerning Tether Documents
On September 24, the staff writer for The New Republic, Jacob Silverman, tweeted about a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request he...
DAOs May Be the Future of Work, but Don’t Bet on Them Being the Next Big Asset Class
A growing number of Ethereum enthusiasts believe that decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) could be the future of work, cultural...
Suex Founder Loses Top Job Over US Sanctions, Major Exchange, Payment Provider Implicated
The scandal around sanctioned crypto broker Suex is growing in Russia where one of the co-founders of the OTC platform has been dismissed...
Ethereum price gets back to $3K as institutional investors pile into ETH futures
Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) staged a rebound on Sept. 26 following a massive decline earlier this week that saw its prices...
How Investors Warmed to Chinese Blockchain Builder Red Date
For its investors, Red Date was an acquired taste.With fewer than 200 employees, mostly engineers, Beijing-based Red Date Technology is...
UNI, SUSHI, MKR, Defi Tokens See 24 Hour Double-Digit Gains, Defi TVL Jumps 6% in 2 Weeks
While a number of popular crypto-assets like bitcoin have been consolidating, decentralized finance (defi) tokens have captured...
Is Crypto at a Socio-Regulatory Inflection Point?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeThis week’s “Long Reads Sunday” returns to the format’s roots with four threads...
The NFTs Revolution: LuxFi Is Launching Asset-Backed NFT Marketplace for Luxury Assets
Buying a Rolex watch or a Chanel bag with Bitcoins? It becomes possible with LuxFi. With the vision to bridge the gap between real-world...
Huobi to Gradually Expel Its China Users in Wake of Ban; Token Slides to 8-Month Low
Prominent crypto exchange Huobi Global announced on Sunday that it would stop serving existing China-based users by the end of this year,...
Derivatives data suggests Solana has reached a short-term top
Solana (SOL) reached a $216 all-time high on Sept. 9 after rallying 508% since Aug. The bull run caused some analysts to project a $500...
Fantom Launches NFT Marketplace Artion – Platform Aims to ‘Unburden Creators of High Fees’
On September 24, 2021, the Fantom Foundation announced the launch of a new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that aims to compete with...
Bitcoin could hit $37K but trader says BTC price top will be ‘number you can’t comprehend’
Bitcoin (BTC) sealed another $40,000 retest on Sept. 26 as the battle for the weekly close raged on. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Abkhazia Seizes 6,000 Mining Devices but Fails to Disrupt Crypto Mining
Authorities in Abkhazia have confiscated thousands of mining machines, closing down all large crypto farms, yet they have admittedly...
Introducing MetaWars: A Strategic Blockchain-Based Game in the Metaverse
MetaWars is a highly immersive multiplayer strategy game. With an infinite universe that is established in a digital metaverse, players...
London College Student Robbed at Knifepoint by 8 Thugs for $93K in Bitcoin
Recently a student from the University of Kent in London was robbed at knifepoint for his bitcoin. After eight thugs stormed his dorm room...
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers: Cryptocurrency Will ‘Do Better Regulated’
Former U.S. treasury secretary and chief economist at the World Bank, Larry Summers, says cryptocurrency will do better regulated in a...
Cardano Announces Partnerships With Dish Network, Chainlink
Ethereum blockchain rival Cardano and TV and wireless service provider Dish Network said they’ve entered a deal to help Dish integrate the...
Crypto recovers on positive Fed and Evergrande news, then drops amid China FUD; Sorare and Dapper Labs raised a combined $930M: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 19-25
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Indonesia Will Not Ban Cryptocurrencies Like China, Minister Says as Crypto Trade Soars
Authorities in Indonesia do not intend to follow China’s example of imposing an outright ban on cryptocurrencies, a government...
LD Capital Establishes $50M FOF for Supporting High-Quality Blockchain Funds Worldwide Including 1kx
PRESS RELEASE. LD Capital announced it established a 50 million US dollars FOF towards supporting high-quality blockchain funds worldwide....
The ‘Feels Guy’ Gets Blockchained — Rare Wojak NFT Project to Launch 4,000 Randomly Generated Wojaks
While Pepe the frog and Doge made it into the limelight with unique and rare non-fungible token (NFT) assets, another NFT meme collection...
China’s BSN Builder Is Registering a Nonprofit in Singapore to Manage International Arm
Red Date Technology, the company developing China’s Blockchain Services Network (BSN), wants the project to move past its government roots...
Art Collectors Swoon Over NFTs at Elite Basel Gathering
Ballers, bling and botox found their way to the Rhine this week as Art Basel finally opened following a 16-month delay. After the...
USDC Market Capitalization Hits $30 Billion — Stablecoin Adds $10 Billion in 4 Months
As of September 25, 2021, there’s $129.3 billion worth of stablecoin assets in existence which represents 6.54% of the crypto...
Bitcoin Has an Investment ‘Edge’ Over Other Assets, Says 178-Year Old Economic Magazine – Here’s Why
The historic magazine The Economist is giving Bitcoin high praise, saying that the crypto holds attractive investment advantages over...
Huobi Appears to Have Suspended Mainland Chinese New User Registration
The option of Mainland China in the country/region selection on crypto exchange Huobi’s new user registration page has disappeared...
Life on Bitcoin (2021 Edition)
Join hosts Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos as they reflect on bitcoin’s evolution as a currency and...
US Senator Calls on SEC Chairman to Provide Regulatory Clarity on Cryptocurrencies
A U.S. senator has asked the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, to provide clear guidance on...
US Lawmakers See China’s Authoritarian Crackdown on Crypto as Big Opportunity
Several U.S. lawmakers see China’s authoritarian crackdown on cryptocurrency, including bitcoin, as “a perfect opportunity...
Charitable sustainable NFTs for the United Nations’ 17 SDGs
In her monthly Expert Take column, Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney and CPA, covers the intersection between emerging...
Weekly Recap: What Happens When S*** Gets Real
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this edition of “The Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at the heightened state of...
Court Extends Detention of Finiko Pyramid Founder Doronin and His Right-Hand Man
A court in Tatarstan has extended the detention of Kirill Doronin, founder of Russia’s largest Ponzi scheme in recent times,...
Bitcoin volatility continues as BTC price closes in on critical weekly close
Bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell below $42,000 on Sept. 25 as the weekend looked set to deliver an unimpressive weekly close. BTC/USD 1-hour...
A Rocky Start for Bukele’s Bitcoin Law — El Salvador After Adoption
The adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador has been one of the biggest events in the cryptocurrency world this year. However,...
Bhutan Partners With Ripple to Pilot Digital Ngultrum on a Private Ledger
The Central Bank of Bhutan, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), has partnered with Ripple to start testing a model of its central bank...
These 3 NFT Projects Collectively Captured Over $10 Billion in Sales
Non-fungible token (NFT) assets have taken the world by storm in 2021 and three current projects in the NFT universe have seen sales...
Morgan Stanley’s Executive Likens Bitcoin’s Resilience to Kenny Who Dies in Every South Park Episode
Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Dennis Lynch, says that bitcoin’s resilience is like Kenny from the popular TV series...
All bark and some bite. China’s Bitcoin ban puts traders in the ‘fear’ zone
China bans Bitcoin (BTC), again. No, we’re not traveling back in time. On Sept. 24, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) published a new set...
Bridged Stablecoins on Solana Get a Boost With Mercurial Finance Pools
Mercurial Finance has launched a liquidity pool for Wormhole wrapped stablecoin assets, the decentralized exchange announced Friday....
Small Business Owners Study Says Los Angeles Ranks the Most Crypto-Friendly City in the US
A recent study conducted by the online invoicing company that works with small businesses Skynova explains that the city of Los Angeles...
Price analysis 9/24: BTC, ETH, ADA, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, AVAX, LUNA
The crypto market’s recovery was rocked on Sept. 24 after news that China’s government is adopting a new set of measures that...
NFTs Revive Dot-Com Era Hype Over Domain Names
Non-fungible tokens, known as NFTs, are reigniting a late 1990s tech trend – the short and sexy domain name.Similar to the “.com” web...
Protect Yourself With the Sim Encriptados, Travel to More Than 200 Countries, and Communicate With Security
PRESS RELEASE. When people talk about technology, the first thoughts are cell phones, applications, or equipment; but you rarely recall...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stabilizes After China Crypto Ban Sell-Off; Volatility to Remain Elevated
Bitcoin is stabilizing above the $40,000 support level after China’s latest crypto ban triggered immediate selling. BTC is down about 11%...
El Banco Central de Chile crea equipo para analizar la emisión de su propia moneda digital
El Banco Central de Chile analiza la creación de su propia moneda digital (CBDC, por sus siglas en inglés).La entidad formará un equipo...
Kentucky Sends Cease and Desist Order to Crypto Lending Platform Celsius Over Interest-Bearing Accounts
Six days ago, the securities regulators from New Jersey and Texas cracked down on the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius....
Cross-chain bridge equipped altcoins rally higher despite China’s crypto ban
The bullish momentum that had been growing across the cryptocurrency ecosystem over the past few days came to a screeching halt on Sept....
China’s Latest Crypto Crackdown Draws Yawns From Bitcoin Market Vets
A fresh crackdown by Chinese authorities on cryptocurrency trading sent bitcoin tumbling on Friday.But to veteran traders and analysts in...
Bitcoin Mining Firm Fortress Names Ex-Galaxy Digital Exec as New CEO
Canadian bitcoin mining infrastructure company Fortress Technologies announced Friday the departure of its co-founder and chief executive...
China’s Latest Crypto Crackdown Drawns Yawns From Bitcoin Market Vets
A fresh crackdown by Chinese authorities on cryptocurrency trading sent bitcoin tumbling on Friday.But to veteran traders and analysts in...
Bitcoin Is the Most Illiquid It’s Ever Been: 12 Numbers That Tell the Current Story of Markets
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeNLW looks at the current state of crypto markets through numbers,...
Gavin Andresen Publishes Theory of Possible Crypto Future: Whales Shut Down the BTC Network in the Year 2100
On September 21, former Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen published an interesting blog post about “a possible [Bitcoin]...
China’s Latest Crypto Ban Is Its Most Severe, Insiders Say
Things are getting worse for crypto in China. A comparison of China’s crypto trading ban Friday and previous crypto-related bans reveals...
Why El Salvador Is Botching Its Bitcoin Experiment
It’s rare that I agree with David Gerard, the British writer who has made a career out of cherry-picking the crypto industry’s problems to...
Robinhood Crypto Appoints New CTO; Hires Chief Compliance Officer From Grayscale
Brokerage platform Robinhood has appointed Johann Kerbrat as its new chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee its growing crypto...
Twitter’s New Crypto Features Are a BFD
The past four months have been full of transformational moments for crypto. From El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender to the...
Central Bank of Chile Sets Up Team to Study CBDC Issuance
The Central Bank of Chile is exploring the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).The bank will form a team to analyze the...
Scalable network KSM is now an official validator for Guarda Wallet
As the benefits of stalking are increasingly being discussed in the crypto world, Guarda announces KSM as its newest stalking validator In...
SEC Hints at Tether Probe in Records Request Denial
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be investigating Tether and Tether Operations Limited, a Freedom of Information Act...
Sound familiar? September 2017 China Bitcoin ‘ban’ sparked $20K all-time high in 3 months
Bitcoin (BTC) dipped deeper to challenge $40,000 support during Sept. 24 as the dust settled on what analysts stressed was a false alarm...
FTX Moves Headquarters From Hong Kong to Bahamas: Report
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FX has officially moved its headquarters from Hong Kong to the Bahamas, according to a report from...
10 Crypto Exchanges File for Registration With Korean Regulators Ahead of Deadline
Cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea have until midnight on Friday to register with financial authorities in order to continue...
Ethereum drops more than Bitcoin as China escalates crypto ban, ETH/BTC at 3-week low
The price of Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) crept lower Friday after China extended its crackdown on cryptocurrencies by...
Lessons From the Canadian Model for a Crypto ETF
This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Insider Protocol. In this week’s episode of “Money Reimagined,”...
Crypto News Roundup for Sept. 24, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Bitstamp.Today’s Stories:“Reasonably good” September jobs starts Fed taper. Is another dud...
Andre Cronje’s New NFT Marketplace Is a Vampire Attack Suicide Pact
As non-fungible token (NFT) giant OpenSea struggles through the fallout from an insider frontrunning controversy, a new challenge may be...
China Tightens Crypto Mining Crackdown, Bans Trading
Chinese authorities ordered a fresh crackdown on crypto mining and outlawed virtually all crypto trading activities on Friday.The People’s...
Crypto Miners Riot Blockchain, Marathon Digital Slide on China Crypto Ban
Bitcoin miners Riot Blockchain Inc. and Marathon Digital Holdings Inc. were among the sharpest decliners among crypto stocks on Friday...
Where to buy Terra before new upgrade sends LUNA price to the moon
Growing demand for UST saw LUNA price hit an all-time high this month, and it could easily achieve another after the Columbus 5 upgrade...