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India Digital Payments Pioneer Paytm Could Offer Bitcoin Services

Over 300 million customers and 20 million merchants in India could have access to Bitcoin services through the nation’s largest payments provider. Regulatory uncertainty on BTC is preventing Paytm, India’s digital payments pioneer, from launching Bitcoin-related offerings in its platforms. A ban on Bitcoin went live in India in 2018 but was lifted last year. India’s lack of regulatory clarity…

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Finder’s Experts Expect Solana to Surpass $1,100 by 2025, Over $5K by 2030 – Altcoins Bitcoin News

At the end of October, the product comparison website finder.com published new survey data about price predictions concerning the leading crypto asset ethereum. On November 1, Finder’s researchers published price predictions for the ethereum competitor solana, as Finder’s panelists predict the digital asset is expected to reach $235 by the year’s end and $1,178 by the end of 2025. Solana…

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Bitcoin on-chain metric suggests 2017-style bull run will continue

Bitcoin’s (BTC) pullback from its record high of $67,000 to below $60,000 has not deterred bulls from eyeing another peak level ahead, per an indicator that attempts to predict market bottoms and tops. Dubbed MVRV, the risk metric represents the ratio of Bitcoin’s market value to its realized value similar to the price to book (P/B) ratio that compares acompany’s…

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Chainlinks total value secured surpasses $75B as DeFi continues to surge

The total value secured by the Chainlink network has officially surpassed $75 billion, marking a new milestone for the decentralized oracle solution that has become synonymous with price data services for the rapidly growing DeFi sector. With the milestone, Chainlink has become one of the most value securing forms of decentralized consensus on the planet, according to protocol co-founder Sergey…

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RTFKT partners with Daz 3D to advance metaverse NFTs

RTFKT Studios, pronounced artifact, has announced a collaborative partnership with software developer Daz 3D to leverage their technology to create immersive, three-dimensional avatars for their upcoming nonfungible token, or NFT, release, CloneX. Founded by Chris Le, Benoit Pagotto and Steven Vasilev, RTKFT have emerged at the forefront of next-generation sneaker culture, intertwining burgeoning technologies of augmented reality, nonfungible tokens and…

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Ex-Wall Street execs lead new Bitcoin mining firm as US hash rate soars

Prime Blockchain (PrimeBlock), a new cryptocurrency mining company in the United States, is hiring its inaugural management team after starting mining Bitcoin (BTC) in September. PrimeBlock told Cointelegraph on Thursday that it appointed Goldman Sachs veteran Gaurav Budhrani as the companys CEO. Budhrani spent over 10 years at Goldman, with his latest position featuring crypto investment banking coverage, including the…

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Ben Askren: The Center Cannot Hold

Watch This Episode On YouTube Listen To This Episode: Interview Description: In this episode of The Center Cannot Hold, host Alex McShane is joined by the legendary wrestler and MMA fighter Ben Askren. They discuss Ben’s journey down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, from when he was first told about it, through his speculation and losses in other cryptocurrencies, to today,…

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Bitcoin And The Fifth Of November

“Remember, Remember, The 5th of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.” –Traditional Guy Fawkes Night rhyme On what better day and in what better way to remind everyone why we’re all here in the first place, than a little excerpt inspired by “V For Vendetta”? On this…

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Smartbch Defi Universe Expands Dozens of SEP20 Tokens, $12.8M Total Value Locked in Dex Platforms – Defi Bitcoin News

On April 1, Bitcoin.com News published an in-depth report on the Smart Bitcoin Cash (Smartbch) protocol and its compatibility with Ethereum’s EVM and Web3 API before any Smartbch projects were seen in the wild. Seven months later, Smartbch has matured a great deal and metrics indicate that between three decentralized finance (defi) protocols, there’s roughly $12.8 million total value locked…

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