At the very beginning of 2022, South Korean tech giant Samsung announced its foray into the metaverse and a new “NFT Aggregation Platform” designed for its smart TVs. In addition to the NFT TVs, Samsung also launched a virtual experience inside of Decentraland, one of the most popular metaverse gaming platforms. It’s high time we had a peek at the…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ruling Ak Party officials met earlier this week to discuss the metaverse, with the president calling for comprehensive research on the subject. Erdoğan has reportedly urged the Ak Party to study the metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and how transactions are made using them, according to a Daily Sabah report. At a meeting on Jan. 25, party…
Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital and the former White House communications director, has told people to “take a chill pill” amid Bitcoin’s price crash, per CNBC. “Take a chill pill, stay long Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies like Algorand and Ethereum, and I think you’re going to be very well-served long-term in those investments,” Scaramucci said. His comments come amid a…
Bitcoin (BTC) staged new retests of $38,000 resistance on Jan. 26 as optimism increased over a potential recovery to $40,000 and higher. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Next stop a $40,000 retest? Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it continued the rebound that began on Monday. At the time of writing, two breakthroughs of $38,000…
New York-based entrepreneur and crypto enthusiast Dan Reich breathed a sigh of relief after a hardware hacker helped him recover over $2 million sitting in a Trezor One hardware wallet. As reported by The Verge, in early 2018, Reich and his friend spent $50,000 in Bitcoin to purchase a batch of Theta Network tokens (THETA), worth about $0.21 at the…
Authorities in Belarus have no intentions to adopt stricter rules for the country’s crypto space. That’s despite neighboring Russia, a close partner in many areas, considering a blanket ban on а number of activities related to cryptocurrencies as suggested by the central bank in Moscow. Belarus to Keep Favorable Crypto Regulations Officials in Belarus do not plan to tighten the…
Chicago-based crypto exchange FTX US has reached an $8 billion valuation following new funding. According to Reuters on Wednesday, the American affiliate of FTX closed a $400 million funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp, Temasek Holdings, Paradigm and Multicoin Capital. FTX US president Brett Harrison said that this development puts their firm as one of the largest crypto exchanges in…
As price action bewilders market makers and traders, experts in the crypto industry reached an agreement on several important points last week. Notably, centralized finance (CeFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), can coexist, and a “blend” of financial products and services will be available to users in the future. On Jan. 21, Cointelegraph moderated the panel discussion, “Can CeFi and DeFi…
Net inflows into SPDR Gold Shares surged to a new record of $1.63 billion, the highest since its listing in 2004. The surge of net inflows into one of the largest gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) comes against a backdrop of falling cryptocurrency and stock values. Investors More Bullish on Gold One of the world’s largest gold ETFs, SPDR Gold Shares,…
Bitcoin (BTC) could still fall under $30,000, but some prominent sources are already calling the end of the latest bearish turn on BTC/USD. In a tweet on Jan. 25, Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, eyed Bitcoin’s position relative to its 20-week moving average, noting that historically, current levels have marked a turning point. McGlone: Bitcoin “a bit…
