Looking for something scary to play while “spooky season” is in full swing? You won’t have to spend a penny to play The Evil Within on PC thanks to a free promotion that launched today—and the sharp sequel will be free to claim starting next week. It’s thanks to the latest promotion on the Epic Games Store, which launched early…
The impact of the Bitcoin halving on crypto prices is often overestimated and the next halving, set for April 2024, may play out differently than previous ones, according to a leading analyst. The halving event, which every four years, cuts in half the rate by which new Bitcoins are created, and is generally considered one of the main catalysts driving…
United States-based crypto advocacy organizations are calling out Senator Elizabeth Warren and other lawmakers for some of the claims made regarding connections between the terrorist group Hamas and financing through cryptocurrency. On Oct. 17, Sen. Warren and more than 100 lawmakers signed a letter calling for action to “meaningfully curtail illicit crypto activity” used for funding Hamas and the Palestinian…
The world is interested in crypto. In the United States and European Union, individual investors have shown they are intrigued by its possibilities, while emerging economies are leveraging it to expand access to financial services. This, of course, is attracting the focus of legislators who want to both tap into crypto’s potential and ensure investors and consumers are well-protected. But…
Seed phrases have been the bane of many crypto enthusiasts because they’re long multi-word phrases that have to be safely stored so users can access their funds. Now one company is trying to make them a thing of the past by leaning on a more user-friendly approach known as social recovery. Social recovery relies on users finding five friends or…
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) today announced that it had agreed to buy digital asset infrastructure firm Securrency in a bid to make bigger inroads into the blockchain space. In a Thursday announcement, the U.S. clearinghouse said that it had signed an agreement to acquire Securrency—but did not say for how much. Bloomberg citing anonymous sources reported that DTCC bought…
BlackRock submitted an amended prospectus for its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday. Notable changes in BlackRock’s new filing include acknowledgment of the competition in the race for Bitcoin ETF approval, as well as detailed explanations on the product’s pricing and reporting mechanisms. The world’s largest asset manager filed its first…
Bitcoin (BTC) kept pressure on $28,500 after the Oct. 19 Wall Street open ahead of a key speech on United States economic policy. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Lepard: Powell may flip “very dovish” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price action gaining strength ahead of commentary by Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve. Due to…
Hacked cryptocurrency wallet Atomic Wallet has frozen $2 million in “suspicious deposits” in a joint effort with major crypto exchanges. Announcing the news to Cointelegraph on Oct. 19, Atomic Wallet said that blockchain intelligence firms Chainalysis and Crystal have assisted the wallet firm in identifying and containing the threat. Citing reports received from Chainalysis and Crystal, Atomic Wallet reported that…
From privacy coins to shiny iris-scanning orbs, zero-knowledge proofs have become synonymous with crypto, scalability and privacy. In 2022, investors gave over $700 million in funding to companies pushing the envelope with zero-knowledge proofs. This year, ZK-proofs has arguably become one of the biggest blockchain trends, with several major Ethereum scaling protocols hitting mainnet. ZK-proofs are a cryptographic protocol that…
