The world of digital assets saw a significant rise last year. The total cryptocurrency market cap reached $3 trillion, making more people, governments and universities take a closer look at the asset class. The presence of crypto in the world’s major economies has created a big opportunity for diverse startups in the industry, leading to a massive demand for digital…
Law professor Michael Barr, a former advisor to Ripple, is President Biden’s choice to become the next vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve, according to an announcement from The White House. In the position, created in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, Barr would be responsible for developing policy recommendations regarding the supervision and regulation of banks…
The past seven days have reminded me of how lucky I am to have forged a career in the Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency industry. Cointelegraph sent a contingency of reporters to the Bitcoin conference in Miami, where we got to chop it up with billionaires, business leaders and hedge fund managers. I had the privilege of sitting down with Canadian…
Bitcoin and altcoins continue to face selling at higher levels, indicating that the bears are not willing to let go of their advantage. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/price-analysis-4-15-btc-eth-bnb-xrp-sol-ada-luna-avax-doge-dot
Bitcoin and Ethereum—the two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap—are down by approximately 8% over the last week. Both cryptocurrencies, priced at $40,200 and just a tick over $3,000, are also edging closer to falling below landmark prices. This already happened earlier this week, when Bitcoin and Ethereum fell by 15% and 14%, marking the first time each asset fell below…
In our last post we introduced the cornerstone of scaling up blockchain analysis, commonspend, and its pitfalls. In this blog post we’ll explore more complex and novel blockchain analysis scaling methods, their drawbacks and why time is a critical feature of blockchain analytics. Change prediction is the second most commonly applied UTXO heuristic. It aims to predict which receiving address…
On Thursday, following Robinhood’s listing of shiba inu, the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, Vladimir Tenev, spoke about dogecoin being the future currency of the internet on Twitter. Tenev’s Twitter thread got a lot of comments and also received responses from the co-founder of the meme-based crypto, Billy Markus, and Tesla’s Elon Musk. Robinhood CEO Discusses How Dogecoin ‘Can Be…
Bitcoin (BTC) fooled no one with its criss-crossing of $40,000 on April 15 as traders remained firmly risk-off on BTC. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin returns to key 2022 Fib level Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD bouncing modestly after returning to the $39,500 zone on Thursday. The move erased an impulse move higher from…
During what can be described as a choppy trading session, it was XRP which was one of the most notable gainers, climbing to a one-week high. While ripple rose, NEAR was once again lower, falling by as much as 10% on Friday. While crypto markets were mainly in the red, XRP was one of Friday’s biggest gainers, climbing by as…
By Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer The digital economy is permanently changing the nature of financial services globally and digital assets are at the center of much of this rapid change. This is something clearly understood by the UK Government. John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, used his recent keynote speech at Fintech Week to highlight the opportunities crypto…
