Bitcoin (BTC) failed to beat its all-time highs on Oct. 20 — but a separate record kept bulls confident of a breakout.BTC/USD 1-day candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin hits new all-time high against euroData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching $64,490 on Bitstamp overnight.While inches from matching April’s peak, the action nonetheless sealed Bitcoin‘s highest-ever daily close —…
The Senate Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Center (ATFC) has just tabled its third and final report in Parliament which has 12 far-reaching recommendations for the regulation of the digital asset and fintech industry down under.It proposes new licenses for crypto exchanges, new laws to govern Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, an overhaul of capital gains tax in DeFi,…
Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet, will launch a pilot program to test the functionality of the service in two countries: Guatemala and the U.S. The test will allow Novi to test all of its main functions and to evaluate what things need to be improved before launch. Novi will use pax dollars as the main currency during the test, but David…
Circle announced today the launch of its trademark stablecoin USDC on top of the Hedera network. This action is part of the multichain commitment that Circle announced earlier this year, with the objective of further expanding the reach of the currency in the cryptocurrency market. With the addition of USDC as the first stablecoin in its ecosystem, Hedera aims to…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Fast-rising Blockchain gaming platform PlayDapp has revealed the addition of a Play-to-Earn feature on its flagship game ‘’Along with the Gods: Knights of the Dawn’’. This development is expected to build on the existing features offered by PlayDapp. Play-to-Earn gaming is a rising phenomenon that has gathered steam in recent months. This is due to the…
A bounty of up to $1 million has been offered up to anyone who can cast light on the precise backing of Tether’s reserves. That backing just got a little bit murker, after Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky reportedly said that Tether mints new USDT in exchange for crypto assets — which appears to conflict with Tether’s own terms and…
Solana is a public blockchain platform. Bloomberg considers Solana to be “a prospective long-term competitor for Ethereum”. On 14 September 2021, the Solana blockchain went offline after a surge of transactions triggered the network to fork, and different validators had various views on the state of the network. The network was successfully revived online early on 15 September. The Solana…
Five Senators have called for the immediate closure of Facebook’s new crypto wallet just hours after it was launched in partnership with Coinbase.Crypto skeptic Senator Elizabeth Warren was one of the five urging Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “immediately discontinue” the project. In a letter sent to Zuckerberg on Oct. 19, the five Democrat Senators wrote:“Given the scope of the…
Blockchain data platform Chainalysis has announced that it is adding bitcoin to its corporate investment portfolio. This is the company’s first acquisition of cryptocurrency, the CEO revealed. Chainalysis is valued at $4.2 billion. Chainalysis’ First Acquisition of Cryptocurrency Blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis announced Tuesday the addition of bitcoin to its balance sheet. Chainalysis will acquire bitcoin using the brokerage…
Cardano is a public blockchain platform. It is open-source and decentralized, with consensus attained using evidence of stake. It can help with peer-to-peer transactions with its internal cryptocurrency, Ada. Cardano was founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. The advancement of the job is overseen and supervised by the Cardano Foundation based in Zug, Switzerland. It is also the…
