Bitcoin (BTC) briefly returned to $30,000 before the May 25 Wall Street open as range adherence lingered. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Trader: BTC should challenge 2-week highs Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD managing to hit $30,189 on Bitstamp before consolidating back under the $30,000 mark. While appearing uninspiring at first glance, Bitcoin on…
Speaking during an online event hosted by smart contracts platform Avalanche, Mastercard’s VP for new product development and innovation Harold Bossé said the integration of cryptocurrencies into existing systems would be key to helping them go mainstream. “[Crypto] has to become invisible,” he said. “I keep saying that and I sound like a broken record, but it has to disappear…
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX cryptocurrency exchange, revealed he could donate up to $1 billion to help influence the 2024 United States presidential election campaigns. “I would guess north of $100 million. As for how much more than that, I don’t know. It really does depend on what happens. It’s really dependent on exactly who’s running where…
Buenbit, an Argentinian cryptocurrency exchange, has announced a series of layoffs due to the downturn that traditional and crypto markets are currently facing. Buenbit’s co-founder and CEO, Federico Ogue, clarified that this move had nothing to do with the recent Terra ecosystem disaster and that from now on, the exchange would focus on keeping operations in countries where it already…
Crypto trading platforms show initial signs of support for the revival of the collapsed Terra network by listing Terra’s brand new token, also named LUNA. The HitBTC exchange took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce that Terra’s new chain token Luna will be available on its platform on May 27. The news comes amid Terraform Labs preparing to relaunch its…
A Proof Collective member has fallen victim to a scam, losing 29 highly-valuable Ethereum-based Moonbirds. According to a tweet by Cirrus on Wednesday morning, the victim lost 29 Moonbird nonfungible tokens (NFTs) worth $1.5 million after clicking a malicious link shared by a scammer. 29 Moonbirds were just stolen in a hack. ~750e (~$1,500,000) in value lost by clicking on…
Following the establishment of a Web3 team under Google Cloud on May 6, tech giant Alphabet’s Google is now on the lookout for a full-time candidate to lead its Global Web3 marketing strategies. As seen on the job listing, the Google Cloud division opened up a ‘Head of Product Marketing’ role who will be tasked with raising awareness about Google…
One in every 10 households in six eurozone countries has acquired cryptocurrencies, the European Central Bank (ECB) has found with a new survey. While the richest are most likely to own crypto assets, poor families are not far behind, the poll indicates. Dutch Households Lead in Terms of Crypto Ownership, ECB Survey Shows Every tenth eurozone household has purchased bitcoin…
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One of the most popular Ethereum (ETH) clients, OpenEthereum has ended support for its software in preparation for the upcoming Ethereum Merge. OpenEthereum creates “clients” or software used to interact with the Ethereum network allowing anyone to create an Ethereum node to mine the cryptocurrency which is currently using a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism. In a Twitter thread the OpenEthereum…
