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Kenyan Fintech Player: ‘Banking the Unbanked’ Is the Most Important Use Case for Digital Currencies in Africa
The year 2020 may well go down as the year when blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, in particular, gained mainstream recognition....
Bitcoin, Gold Under Pressure as Dollar Tracks US Treasury Yields Higher
Bitcoin is reversing the weekend’s price bounce alongside weakness in gold as prospects of tighter monetary policy in the U.S. push...
Facebook commits $50M to “responsibly” building the metaverse
The investment fund targets a two-year project involving several key research and technology partners Facebook is looking to invest $50...
How to Advise Crypto Natives: ‘Disrupt or Be Disrupted’
“On Purpose” host Tyrone Ross is joined by Akin Sawyerr, Chief Innovation Officer at Onramp Invest, to discuss the changing financial...
Ethereum price analysis: ETH risks new losses as it dips below $3k
ETH/USD broke lower, extending beneath $3k as Bitcoin saw fresh losses on negative market sentiment Ethereum has dipped below the critical...
Skybridge Capital’s Scaramucci on Crypto Boom: ‘The Institutions Are Not There’
Anthony Scaramucci, CEO of Skybridge Capital, a multi-asset class investment firm, says he thinks the institutional investment boom in...
JPMorgan Boss Jamie Dimon: ‘If You Borrow Money to Buy Bitcoin, You’re a Fool’
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of one of the biggest financial institutions of the world, JPMorgan, has once again let the world know about his...
More Crypto Platforms Exit China Following Ban on Related Transactions: Reports
Three more platforms providing services related to crypto trading announced they are exiting the market, Chinese media 8BTC reported...
Refinable Lists on AscendEX
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, a global digital asset trading platform, is thrilled to announce the listing of the Refinable token (FINE) under...
Nigeria’s eNaira Website Goes Live Ahead of Scheduled October Rollout
The main webpage for Nigeria’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) has gone live earlier than next month’s planned rollout date for the...
14- and 9-Year-Old Brother and Sister Duo Rake in $30K a Month Mining Crypto With Renewable Energy
The beauty behind cryptocurrency networks like Bitcoin is the fact that anyone can participate in the field of crypto mining. In fact, two...
Alibaba to Stop Selling Crypto Mining Machines
E-commerce giant Alibaba announced Monday it will stop selling specialized mining equipment on its platforms on Oct. 8.Alibaba said its...
Clearpool Raises $3M to Build Decentralized Capital Markets on Ethereum
Clearpool, a decentralized capital markets ecosystem, has received $3 million in funding from a number of prominent crypto investors to...
29 Crypto Exchanges Survive New Regulation in South Korea, 37 Exchanges Must Shut Down
The deadline for crypto exchanges and service providers in South Korea to meet requirements to stay open under the new regulation has...
Northern Data AG Acquires Bitcoin Miner Bitfield — 33,000 Miners Gained in Stock-for-Stock Deal
On Monday, the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure provider and bitcoin mining firm Northern Data AG announced the acquisition...
Traders say Bitcoin’s bullish bias will only be confirmed by a close above $44K
The fallout from China’s ongoing crackdown on the crypto sector has led to uncertainty finding its way back into the market again. At the...
Google, the most popular Bitcoin trend indicator, turns 23
Google, the leading indicator used to track the popularity of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, celebrated its 23rd anniversary on...
‘Solcial’ Raises $2.9M to Build Censorship-Free Social Media on Solana
The Solana ecosystem is getting a social network.Solcial has raised $2.9 million to scale in a round led by Alameda Research with Solana...
Master Ventures Adds Polker (PKR) to Portfolio as Play-to-Earn Project Gains Traction
Malta, 27 Sep 2021 – Master Ventures have announced that they have added Polker into their highly regarded investment portfolio....
Lots of Eggs Need Lots of Baskets
In May 2021, Nickel Digital Asset Management surveyed 50 wealth managers and 50 institutional investors across the U.S., U.K., France,...
‘Who Holds All the Bitcoin’ List Debunked — Without Cryptographic Proof No BTC Ownership Claim Holds Water
A web portal that displays a list of alleged owners of all the bitcoin in the world has been shared a great deal since China cracked down...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Traders Cautious After China Crypto Ban, DeFi Outperforms
Bitcoin was slightly lower on Monday as traders remained cautious about regulatory crackdowns from China and elsewhere.The cryptocurrency...
Analysts Turn Negative on Ether as Weekly Chart Tips Bearish
Ether remains on slippery floors despite the weekend’s bounce to $3,000, analysts studying chart patterns told CoinDesk Monday. One source...
3 Takes About China’s Crypto Ban That Are Wrong
Following China’s surprise move to make crypto mining and crypto trading services explicitly illegal within its borders, there is still...
Price analysis 9/27: BTC, ETH, ADA, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, AVAX, LUNA
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) recovered a large part of the losses that happened due to the knee-jerk reaction to China’s regulatory...
Revolut to Launch Crypto Token: Sources
Revolut, the fintech company with a $33 billion valuation that offers cryptocurrency buying as part of its services, is looking to launch...
USA v. Virgil Griffith: What We Know (and Don’t) in the Bombshell Crypto Sanctions Case
Prosecutors appear to have a strong case against Virgil Griffith, the ethereum developer charged with conspiring to aid North Korea, legal...
Major Crypto Exchanges Cut Ties With Chinese Users After China’s Latest Crackdown on Cryptocurrency
Major cryptocurrency exchanges are cutting ties with users in China following the latest crypto crackdown announcement by the Chinese...
Did China Finally Ban Bitcoin for Real?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at two major recent stories.Twitter has added...
7 Nights in Pyongyang: Inside the North Korean Trip That Got Ethereum’s Virgil Griffith Arrested
I grew up in Germany, but I was born in northeastern China, whose porous border let in thousands of North Korean defectors. Higher in the...
Crypto Funds Drew Most New Money in 3 Weeks Even as China Cracked Down
Investors pumped a total of $95 million into digital asset products last week, more than double the prior week’s pace, according to a...
FalconX Eyes Miami for Expansion as CEO Plans Hiring Push
FalconX expects to grow to roughly 160 employees from 90 over the next six months, CEO Raghu Yarlagadda said.He said the institutional...
Aave Proposal Enlists Fireblocks to Aid DeFi Lender’s Mainstream Finance Push
Aave Arc may be close to onboarding its first “whitelister” – a possible step towards institutional users integrating with the...
Coinbase to Allow US Users to Deposit Paychecks Directly in Crypto
Coinbase will enable direct paycheck deposit, the cryptocurrency exchange giant announced in a blog post Monday.The nine-year-old,...
Dogecoin Mining 2021: Everything You Need to Know
Dogecoin’s incredible start to the year has attracted record numbers of miners to its network. But how easy is it to mine dogecoin and...
Crypto-Focused Bank Silvergate Gains 6% as Morgan Stanley Sees Potential 52% Increase for Shares
Crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital Cop. (SI) rose about 6% after Morgan Stanley initiated the stock with an overweight rating and a...
What Do DAOs Actually Do?
Crypto, like any speculative asset, is driven by hype: Elon Musk tweets and the market responds; China cracks down and investors run for...
Former Ethereum Dev Virgil Griffith Pleads Guilty to North Korea Charge, Enters Plea Deal for 6.5 Years: Report
On September 27, 2021, at the Southern District of New York courthouse, the trial against former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith...
Crypto News Roundup for Sept. 27, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Bitstamp.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Above $42K Support; Resistance at $46K-$48KUNI Token Rises...
Bitcoin breaking new highs in Q4 will ‘temporarily turn alts to dust’ — Analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) was busy losing its overnight gains on Sept. 27 as resistance continued to prove too much for bulls. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Before NFTs: Surging interest in pre-CryptoPunk collectibles
NFT hunters are suddenly rediscovering these forgotten vintage collectibles Love them or hate them, blockchain collectibles are having a...
Tajikistan National Bank Enlists Fantom, Orienbank to Help Develop CBDC
A central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform for deployment across Tajikistan is to be built on the Fantom blockchain.The Fantom...
Crypto OG Bobby Lee Says China’s OTC Desks Are Next to Go
Over-the-counter (OTC) trading desks in China are on their way out as the country cracks down on cryptocurrency activities, a veteran of...
Crypto Exchange Binance Ends Some Services in Singapore to Comply With Regulation
Binance is terminating some services in Singapore, including fiat deposit services and spot trading of cryptocurrencies, to comply with...
Chinese Ethereum Mining Pool SparkPool to Halt All Services Due to Crackdown
Ethereum mining pool SparkPool said it plans to suspend services for all its users by Sept. 30.Hangzhou-based SparkPool said it had...
DeversiFi Says User Funds Are Safe After $23.7M Gas Fee Blunder
Decentralized exchange DeversiFi is looking to calm user jitters after a simple ERC-20 token transaction somehow cost the platform $23.7...
Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charge in North Korea Sanctions Case
Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum developer charged with violating U.S. sanctions law, has pleaded guilty in an agreement with federal...
Gary Gensler, You Should Be Watching How Canada Is Regulating Coinbase
The question of how to regulate cryptocurrencies, and by extension cryptocurrency exchanges, is getting heated.Securities and Exchange...
5 Reasons Why Bitcoin Remains Below $50,000
On Sept. 8, Standard Chartered’s cryptocurrency research team projected the price of bitcoin could reach $100,000 in the last days of 2021...
African Crypto Exchange Yellow Card Completes $15M Funding Round
Yellow Card has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round, the Africa-focused cryptocurrency exchange and digital wallet provider...
FLURRY heralds the next big wave of DeFi: where to buy Flurry Finance
The Flurry Finance token is currently trading at $0.0077 at the time of writing. The FLURRY token has recovered with a huge price spike of...
Where to buy Serum as SRM recovers by 12%
The Serum token is currently trading at $7.85 and bulls have regained control and look determined to push prices to the $9 levels and...
FIL token rises by 12%: where to buy Filecoin
The Filecoin token has seen strong gains of 12% and the coin is currently consolidating near the $59 level after trading sideways between...
DeFi Portal Avantgarde Eyes DAO Treasuries, Asset Managers With $5.5M Raise
The startup formerly known as Melonport is homing in on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) for its latest act.Avantgarde...
Where to buy Uniswap as UNI surges by 32%
The Uniswap token is currently trading at $24.97 at the time of writing. The UNI coin is up by 32% in the past 24 hours and this rise has...
US Government Seizes Trezor Wallet With $6.3 Million in Bitcoin From Gift Card Fraud Case
On September 22, 2021, a U.S. district judge from San Antonio, Texas, granted a summary judgment on the civil forfeiture of 147 bitcoin...
Nasdaq-Listed CleanSpark Moves Full Mining Power to Foundry Pool
CleanSpark (NASDAQ:CLSK), a sustainable bitcoin mining company, has moved its entire hashrate to Foundry Digital’s North American mining...
Ethereum alternatives and layer-one 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...
Immutable X Token Sale Raises Over $12.5M in Under an Hour
Ethereum scaling solution Immutable X’s token sale on CoinList sold out in less than an hour, raising over $12.5 million.Of the 720,000...
Cryptowisser: Then, Now and What’s Next for NFTs
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have been around for some time now, with what is recognized as the first-ever NFT “Quantum”...
Scaramucci Says Most Institutional Investors Remain Hesitant to Invest in Crypto: Report
Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director and hedge fund manager of SkyBridge Capital, said the majority of...
Almost a Third of Salvadorans Are Using the Bitcoin Wallet, Bukele Says
Almost a third of Salvadorans are actively using the Chivo bitcoin wallet less than a month after the country allowed the cryptocurrency...
US to pass controversial infrastructure bill: House Speaker
The bill passed in the Senate in August and includes crypto-focused sections on tax reporting US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy...
UNI rallies as Chinese investors turn to decentralised exchanges
Chinese traders are finding it hard to buy cryptocurrencies on centralised exchanges, and they are now turning to the alternative options...
Bitcoin Above $42K Support; Resistance at $46K-$48K
Bitcoin (BTC) buyers defended the $40,000-$42,000 support range over the weekend as selling pressure slows. The cryptocurrency was trading...
China fear is now infrastructure bill fear — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) is at the start of another week with China’s latest “ban” behind it — but its next “FUD” story is already brewing. The...
Singapore Startup Sells Carbon Neutrality Tokens Backed by Chinese Carbon Credits
Singapore startup Cyberdyne Tech Exchange (CTE) sold its first tranche of carbon neutrality tokens backed by Chinese carbon credits,...
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...