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Authorities in Iran are taking steps to make crypto payments easier for companies importing goods in the sanctioned country. A dedicated platform has been established to allow local businesses to transfer cryptocurrency for the purpose of cross-borde...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bank of Russia raised its forecast for the profits of Russian banks in 2023, expecting results that may break the 2021 record. This year’s high numbers are coming after 2022 became the worst annual period in seven years for the sanctioned Russian ban...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Another one bites the dust! The banking industry in the United States is in trouble, and regional banks are feeling the squeeze. A number of banks have failed recently due to mismanagement, poor risk management, and other factors which are leading to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Geoff Kendrick, the head of forex research at the banking institution Standard Chartered, recently said that the price of bitcoin is likely to jump by $20,000 in the event of the United States defaulting on its obligations. According to Kendrick, whi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The recent takeover of First Republic Bank, the fourth U.S. bank to fail this year, has awakened concerns about the possible repercussions this new failure might have on U.S. and international economies. While United States President Joe Biden has as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Russia is closely monitoring the U.S. economy amid discussions of the U.S. government defaulting on its debt obligations. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the Treasury will be unable to pay the government’s bills if Congress does not act by June...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Florida governor Ron DeSantis reiterated his call for a ban on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) during a visit to Jacksonville on Tuesday. Last March, DeSantis pushed for legislation to prohibit a CBDC in Florida. At Tuesday’s event called ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Economist Peter Schiff has warned that the U.S. economy is facing stagflation and the situation is going to get worse. “Not only is the economy weakening, but inflation is strengthening,” he stressed, emphasizing: “You have the wors...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced the launch of a new service called Coinbase International Exchange. The new platform will enable institutional users outside of the United States to trade bitcoin and ether...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
This year, the world has witnessed a surge in the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) software, with a plethora of cutting-edge platforms such as Openai’s Chatgpt 3.5, Chatgpt 4.0, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and other innovative tools lik...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Following the acquisition of First Republic Bank by JPMorgan Chase, several regional banks such as Pacwest and Western Alliance experienced a significant drop in their stock prices. On Tuesday afternoon, all four major U.S. benchmark stock indexes ar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
While the next difficulty change for Bitcoin is just two days away, the network’s hashrate soared to unprecedented heights, reaching 491.15 exahash per second (EH/s) on May 02, 2023, at block height 787,895. This staggering amount of computatio...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Polkadot was one of Tuesday’s biggest movers, as the token dropped to a six-week low in today’s session. Prices fell for a long-term support point of $5.60, as the global crypto market cap was once again 1% lower today. Avalanche also hit a pri...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Monday, Morgan Stanley’s equity strategist, Michael Wilson, shared his thoughts on the state of Wall Street. He expressed his belief that a sell-off could be imminent, and that this could occur as a result of U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Je...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin fell below the $28,000 level on Tuesday, as markets continued to prepare for tomorrow’s Federal Reserve interest rate decision. The Fed is expected to increase rates by 0.25%, despite the U.S. economy slowing down. Ethereum also remain...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The governments of India and Russia are considering integrating part of their payment systems, in order to counter the possible future effect of US sanctions on the capital flows of each country. The deal would include the integration of India’...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. ProBit Global has announced the native asset for the Ethereum network, ETH, as the next token for its series of trading competitions.
The crypto trading contest, which allows ProBit Global users to win rewards based on their trading vo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
International analysts have called out the supposed use of the national security policy of the U.S. as a tool to justify the establishment of blockades and economic sanctions against countries like China and Russia. While U.S. Treasury Secretary Jane...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Pro-freedom technologies advocate and software developer Jason Dreyzehner recently spoke with Bitcoin.com News via email about the upcoming Bitcoin Cash network upgrade on May 15. One of the most talked about improvement proposals set to go through o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Gold companies operating in China ramped up their production levels during the first quarter of 2023. According to industry reports, the Chinese gold industry managed to recover its extraction levels, reaching numbers it saw before the Covid pandemic...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, says the trend toward multipolarity is inevitable and will only intensify. “Those who do not understand this and do not follow this trend will lose,” the Russian president warned.
Putin on Multipolarity Trend Escal...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the Treasury will not be able to pay all of the government’s debt “as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before that time.” Yellen also cautioned that the U...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Johann Steynberg, the founder and CEO of Mirror Trading International, has been ordered to pay over $1.73 billion in restitution to victims of his bitcoin ponzi scheme. The court has also ordered Steynberg to pay a civil monetary penalty of a similar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Mawson Infrastructure Group announced on Monday that the company has secured a new mining site in Corning, Ohio. The bitcoin mining firm, on May 1, 2023, unveiled its plans to set up its miners at the new location by Q3 of this year, with an aim to r...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Amid the collapse of the second, third, and fourth largest banks in American history, U.S. president Joe Biden reassured the public that the country’s banking system remains sturdy. However, the president also acknowledged the “threat by...