Bitcoin doesn’t care about your opinion — or mine. And neither do the world’s leaders. You also may not care about my opinion. You don’t need to, but here it is anyway. It’s my opinion that the fact that Bitcoin doesn’t care about our opinions is a good thing. And, it’s also my opinion that the fact that the world’s…
press release PRESS RELEASE. The Tori Zero NFT project announced a joint cooperation with the trendy silver jewelry brand BWL. BWL founder Bill Wall will be the first celebrity to join the REDLAB Metaverse KOL program and will be giving away 30 pieces of customized hand-crafted BWL silver pendants to the Tori Zero community as gifts. Tori Zero is a…
The biggest crypto heists to date are MT Gox, Bitgrail, Coincheck, KuCoin, PancakeBunny, Poly Network, Cream Finance, BadgerDAO, Vulcan Forged and Bitmart. MT Gox MT Gox was the first large-scale exchange hack, and it remains the most significant Bitcoin (BTC) heist from an exchange. The MT Gox robbery, on the other hand, was not a one-off occurrence. Rather, the site…
In an earnings call on Thursday, Visa stated that its customers made $2.5 billion in payments using its crypto-linked cards during the first fiscal quarter of 2022. That’s over 70% of all crypto-card volume throughout fiscal 2021, signalling increased adoption of digital asset payments. Visa CFO Vasant Prabhu expressed optimism over the development in an interview with CNBC. “To us,…
It has been more than 50 years since the Nixon shock — August 15, 1971, when President Nixon went on national television to announce the historic change that the U.S. dollar would no longer be pegged to gold. Perhaps few people knew how tremendous of a decision that was at the time, and fewer people realized the vast consequences and…
The founder of Barstool Sports blog, Dave Portnoy, announced he purchased 29 bitcoin on January 28, spending more than a million dollars. The day trader has had his ups and downs with bitcoin over the last few years, and it seems he’s now jumping back into the market. Day Trader Dave Portnoy Bought 29 Bitcoin on the Fly After His…
In a period of market downturns, rumors of crypto bans and decentralized finance, or DeFi scams, blockchain enthusiasts can be sensitive to the smallest abnormalities within projects they follow and sometimes erroneously fear for the worse. The day prior, CertiK, a leading cybersecurity ranking platform in the blockchain space, issued a warning via Twitter regarding CryptoCars, alleging that it was…
On Friday, credit rating agency Fitch published a research piece about Russia’s proposed ban on cryptocurrencies. Although the report agreed with the Central Bank of Russia’s (CBR) position that the ban would limit its financial system’s exposure to risks, it also cautioned that such a proposal could “hold back the diffusion of technologies that could improve productivity.” In addition, Fitch…
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist with a huge microphone. The former MIT and Princeton professor has used his regular column in The New York Times to advocate for free trade, clean energy, and financial regulations. Oh, and he doesn’t like Bitcoin—or cryptocurrency in general. That’s evident from his latest op-ed, in which he compares crypto markets to subprime…
Since 2019, Swiss financial crypto intermediaries have required proof of ownership of an external wallet’s address for Bitcoin withdrawals and deposits to their customers’ non-custodial wallets. One automated mechanism used for this is the Address Ownership Proof Protocol, or AOPP. The Trezor hardware wallet introduced AOPP signing as part of its latest January update last week, allowing users to generate…
