We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports Mango (MNGO), Kin (KIN), Orca (ORCA), Star Atlas (ATLAS & POLIS), Bonfida (FIDA), Step Finance (STEP) and Saber (SBR)! Funding and Trading Funding is live, and trading will begin on January 27. Keep an eye on the status page for updates. You can add these tokens to your Kraken account by navigating…
Month: January 2022
Meme Coins, Avalanche Move Higher on Tuesday – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Meme coins were higher on Tuesday, as the global cryptocurrency marketplace rebounded from recent declines in price. Both DOGE and SHIB were trading close to 7% higher during the session. In addition to the meme coins, there were several other gainers on Tuesday, as both traders and long-term investors bought the crypto dip. Biggest gainers One of today’s biggest gainers…
Is the bottom in? Data shows Bitcoin derivatives entering the ‘capitulation’ zone
Analysts love to issue price predictions and it seems that 9 out of 10 times they are wrong. For example, how many times did analysts say “we will never see Bitcoin back at X price again,” only to see it plunge well below that level a few months later? It doesn’t matter how experienced a person is or how connected…
Kazakhstan Powers Down Bitcoin Miners as Blackouts Roil Central Asia
Don’t expect Kazakhstan Bitcoin miners to be earning any BTC during the final week of January. The state-run Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) confirmed to Bloomberg that electricity has been cut off to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining companies from January 24 to 31. That didn’t stop Central Asia from plunging into darkness Tuesday, as a disconnected power line left…
2 Gold-Backed Crypto Asset Market Caps Near $1 Billion, XAUT Jumps 19,000% in 23 Months – Altcoins Bitcoin News
While reserve-backed crypto assets and stablecoin market valuations increased a great deal during the last year, gold-backed cryptocurrencies have also seen their market caps swell. Between the tokens tether gold and pax gold, the market valuations of these two gold cryptos are nearing a billion dollars in value with $742 million today. Tether Gold’s Market Cap Swells Over 19,000% in…
YouTube CEO hints that NFTs could be added to creator platform
YouTube’s Chief Executive Officer, Susan Wojcicki, addressed YouTube’s priorities for 2022 in a letter published Tuesday on the company blog. Among those priorities included the possibility of adding nonfungible token, or NFT, features for the platform’s video creators. there’s *so much* to in 2022: @SusanWojcicki shares the future of YouTube → https://t.co/uL2WIbLwXK pic.twitter.com/JEW8yzqh7e — YouTube (@YouTube) January 25, 2022 What…
Kanye West wants royalties from Paparazzi photos, with the help of NFTs
Kanye West expressed his frustration at the paparazzi after being filmed arriving at Miami International Airport on Monday, as seen in a video posted by ET Canada. Kanye can be heard saying to the cameraman: “It’s just really one-sided. You guys can follow us, you guys to stand from the hotel at any given time. You don’t give us any…
PureStake CEO Derek Yoo Explains the Technology Behind Moonbeam Network – Interview Bitcoin News
Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications. This Ethereum compatibility allows developers to deploy existing Solidity smart contracts and DApp frontends to Moonbeam with minimal changes. Derek Yoo is the CEO of PureStake, the technology company behind the Moonbeam Network. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast…
Why crypto industry needs venture capital: Q&A with veteran investor
Traditional funding in the crypto space was once considered useless. After all, the industry itself offers different, controversial, but nonetheless, ways to fund a project – initial coin offering (ICO), initial exchange offering (IEO) and the current darlings of offerings – launchpads and initial decentralized exchange (DEX) offerings. But with the industry maturing and more startups wanting not only the…
BTC Bounces Back After Monday’s Selloff – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Following Monday’s selloff, cryptocurrency markets mostly rebounded across the board, with bitcoin and ethereum prices rallying by as much as 10%. Overall the global crypto market cap was over 6% higher from yesterday’s session. Bitcoin Bitcoin, which fell to an intraday low of $33,184.06 during yesterday’s session, was up close to 9% as of writing, hitting a high of $37,247.52…