VanEck, one of the biggest contenders in the Bitcoin ETF race, has revealed it’s staying true to the orange-pilled community by choosing the ticker “HODL” for its potential crypto investment product. In a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the fund manager said the ticker—a security’s symbol trading on a stock exchange—for its VanEck Bitcoin Trust if it…
“Tell alpha, egg breeze, of that ingenious wise name travelled far tank wide success he awake crush gas famous unveil of verb.” As opening sentences go, it’s not exactly “Call me Ishmael,” or “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” But then, it’s not meant to be. The book that opens with this…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the United States Senate introduced legislation aimed at countering cryptocurrency’s role in financing terrorism, explicitly citing the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. In a Dec. 7 announcement, Senators Mitt Romney, Mark Warner, Mike Rounds, and Jack Reed said they had introduced the Terrorism Financing Prevention Act. The bill would expand U.S. sanctions…
Bitcoin (BTC) tapped $40,000 after the Dec. 8 Wall Street open as United States employment data shrunk market bets on interest rate cuts. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin holds firm as jobs data unsettles U.S. dollar Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView covered the latest BTC price action as risk assets reacted to the latest U.S. inflation cues.…
While the ossification of Bitcoin’s codebase has brought stability and reliability, it’s made Bitcoin a little… well, boring. Where once the Bitcoin ecosystem formed a hub of innovation and a hive of activity, that momentum has shifted to second- and third-generation chains whose architecture is better suited to supporting multiple use cases and applications. At least that was the case…
Bitcoin and the broader crypto market have been gleefully declared dead more than a few times during bear markets, but some experts say it would take a genuinely extreme set of events for it to truly die. According to 99Bitcoins — a website that, among other things, tracks how many times Bitcoin (BTC) has been declared dead by mainstream media…
The UK’s antitrust regulator is considering initiating a merger investigation into Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar collaboration with OpenAI. This announcement resulted in a response from Microsoft, declaring that it only plays a non-voting observer role on the board of the ChatGPT maker. The investigation announcement follows the ChatGPT maker’s disclosure that the U.S. tech giant would hold a non-voting board seat.…
Earlier this week, Google launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini, which it claimed to be the most advanced model currently available on the market, more so than the popular model developed by OpenAI GPT-4. This bold claim was treated like a challenge by community sleuths across the internet, who swiftly moved to examine the methods and benchmarks used by…
Cointelegraph is excited to announce a strategic collaboration with Chainlink Labs, the primary contributing developer of the industry-standard decentralized computing platform Chainlink. This collaboration will align the Cointelegraph Accelerator and Chainlink BUILD programs, helping drive innovation and accelerate the growth of next-gen Web3 projects. Cointelegraph Accelerator and Chainlink Labs join to empower Web3 innovation The Cointelegraph Accelerator is a global…
As crypto markets turn bullish, nonfungible token (NFT) trading has started to join the wave, with a volume nearing $1 billion in November, according to data published by the decentralized app tracking platform DappRadar. The report highlighted that the NFT industry maintained an upward momentum for the second month in a row. Trading volume surged by 125% in November, suggesting…
