In brief Chatex is a P2P crypto exchange. The Treasury Department says it’s been facilitating ransomware payments. Remember when President Joe Biden vowed to go after ransomware actors? Not only is it happening, but it’s bleeding over into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC), the U.S. Treasury Department’s enforcement agency for economic sanctions, today placed global…
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 baseball player and racecar driver and team owner CJ Wilson about Bitcoin. The discussion focuses mainly on self-improvement, and how Bitcoin can allow everyone to achieve their full potential and be the person they…
Momentum in the cryptocurrency market is back on the rise on Nov. 8 after a solid rally from Bitcoin (BTC) placed the price back above $66,000 and Ether hit a new all-time high at $4,793. The gains from the largest two cryptocurrencies helped to kickstart a market-wide rally that lifted the total cryptocurrency market cap above $3 trillion for the…
Argentinian bitcoin exchange Lemon Cash launched a Visa card that offers a 2% cashback in BTC for each purchase. Users can use the international card to buy everyday consumer items at any merchant that accepts Visa. Lemon automatically converts the necessary amount of cryptocurrency from the user’s account into Argentinian pesos to make the payment. Argentina-based bitcoin exchange Lemon Cash…
Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of crypto exchange Coinbase, spoke virtually at this year’s Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon, Portugal. He used his platform to advocate for a unified ideology that fights for the future of crypto. Learn to code laws faster than they learn to outlaw code, Srinivasan said, addressing what he perceives as a conflict between crypto and the…
Privacy-centric crypto browser Brave today announced an integration with Solana, the cryptocurrency network behind the market’s fourth-most valuable coin. Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, said, With more and more users and creators requiring tools for fast and affordable access to the decentralized Web, this integration will seamlessly pave the way for the next billion crypto users to harness applications…
Huobi Group, a Bitcoin (BTC) technology firm established in 2013, is relocating its spot-trading business to Gibraltar as a precautionary measure following Chinas cryptocurrency clampdown. According to a report by Bloomberg, the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission has authorized Huobi to begin moving its spot-trading operations to affiliate Huobi Technology (Gibraltar) Co. As a result, Huobi Group may provide spot trading…
Watch This Episode on YouTube Listen To This Episode: [00:00:07] CK: What’s up, everyone? How’s it going? We’re here to discuss and tease apart Tomer and Matt’s awesome, movie that they made and released today. We also want to talk about why today and not yesterday, as well as every other aspect of Bitcoin that you talk about in the…
While companies like Microbt, Bitmain, Innosilicon, Strongu, Ebang, and Canaan have ruled the roost in terms of manufacturing application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) bitcoin miners, a new challenger has entered the competition. A relatively unknown integrated technology firm called AGM Group Holdings has seen a lot of ASIC sales and partnerships in recent times. A Relatively Unknown Semiconductor Firm Has Been…
In a presentation made during the Singapore Fintech Festival, Annerie Vreugdenhil, chief innovation officer of ING, announced the firm is working on a trial of its decentralized finance, or DeFi, peer-to-peer lending protocol with the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets. Vreugdenhil said the following in regards to the development, as reported by Ledger Insights: We are looking into peer-to-peer…
