Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Tether has announced the “largest-ever freeze of USDT in history.” In collaboration with crypto exchange Okx, Tether froze $225 million in USDT following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The tokens were...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Sunday, November 19, 2023, Bitcoin achieved a historic milestone, registering the highest number of daily transactions ever confirmed within a 24-hour span. A significant 710,579 transfers were confirmed by miners that day, including a significant...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Dfinity Foundation and Singularitynet have announced an initiative to merge the Internet Computer blockchain with Singularitynet’s marketplace. This collaboration aims to transform the accessibility and transparency of decentralized large l...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Crypto media firms in 2023 are emerging with new owners. After Foresight Ventures, a Singaporean Web3 venture capital firm acquired a major stake in the publication The Block, a week later, the crypto publication Coindesk was acquired by Bullish, a f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
As of this writing, the crypto market is cruising at a value of $1.42 trillion, with bitcoin (BTC) holding 49.9% of the overall market cap. This past week saw both bitcoin and ethereum experiencing notably stagnant weeks in terms of their percentage...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Monday, ethereum (ETH) showcased an impressive bullish pattern, with its value reaching a peak of $2,041 as of November 20, 2023. Ranking as the second most prominent cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $242 billion, it continues to dra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Monday, November 20, 2023, bitcoin (BTC) is navigating slightly above the $37K mark, kicking off the week. Over the last day, BTC’s price has fluctuated from $36,441 to $37,516 per unit. Currently, bitcoin trades are generating a global tra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Prosecutors in Poland’s capital Warsaw recently launched a probe into how cryptocurrency mining equipment was installed in a building housing the country’s Supreme Administrative Court. The chairman of the court’s information depart...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Concero.io announces a partnership with bitcoin.com ‘s Verse Ecosystem and takes the next step in tackling centralisation within the industry. With synergies of both companies being aligned around self-custody and ease of use, this col...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to a Messari report, the Ethereum network’s revenues constituted more than 90% of the $491.5 million generated by layer 1 chains in Q3. The data also shows that in the period in question, the Aptos network’s revenues were 160%...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Argentine presidential candidate Sergio Massa has proposed to use blockchain for state oversight, the Brazili...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Aerdt Houben, Director of Financial Markets for the Dutch Central Bank (DNB), has talked about the value gold could have in a financial collapse scenario. As the bank has been recently increasing its gold holdings, Houben stated that due to its prope...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to Kronos Research, the crypto trading firm lost assets worth $26 million on Nov. 18 after an unknown party illegally accessed its application programming interface (API). Kronos Research claimed the losses associated with the unauthorized...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Argentina has welcomed Javier Milei as its newly elected president, with the libertarian candidate achieving a majority in the popular vote, surpassing his opponent Sergio Massa. Milei, who identifies as an anarcho-capitalist, has expressed his inten...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Since October 18, 2023, the aggregate value locked in decentralized finance (defi) has witnessed a substantial augmentation of $9.3 billion within a one-month span. Among the leading ten defi protocols, Rocket Pool, known for its liquid staking servi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Sunday, November 19, 2023, Bitcoin’s hashrate maintained a steady pace at 468 exahash per second (EH/s), surpassing the intended ten-minute block interval average. The most recent block was processed in just 7 minutes and 37 seconds. Presen...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In the past week, trading activity on the decentralized exchange (dex) Thorchain has experienced a significant surge, reaching $1.854 billion in trade volume. Data shows that Thorchain is currently the third-largest dex in terms of volume, following...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
FTT, the exchange token launched by the now defunct cryptocurrency trading platform FTX, has experienced a significant 200% surge in value over the past two weeks, surpassing the $3 per unit mark. Ranking as the fifth largest exchange coin in terms o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
It’s been slightly more than two years since the 2021 cryptocurrency boom, a time when the crypto economy reached its zenith with a valuation of $2.90 trillion on November 10, 2021. Although it has been an extended and harsh crypto winter mark...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of leading crypto exchange Binance, recently revealed that executives of a Binance client were kidnapped and shaken down for their crypto holdings. In other news, Vancouver-Based Hive Digital has increased its mining power and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Greenidge Generation Holdings has successfully wiped out $21.8 million in secured debt and divested its South Carolina bitcoin mining facility to NYDIG. The firm detailed that the move enhances Greenidge’s financial stability and liquidity....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Based on a recent report, Jump Trading Group, known for its focus on algorithmic and high-frequency trading techniques, has reportedly severed ties with the Wormhole crypto initiative, known for its cross-chain communication services. Last year saw W...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says the government is “threatened by the existence of Bitcoin,” emphasizing that if the cryptocurrency becomes more popular, it would create “a threat to the incumbent status of the U.S....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler was slammed by the crypto community for stating: “We are not prosecutors of honest business, nor defenders of crookedness.” Many crypto advocates pushed back against Gensler, arguing...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly provided specific guidance to exchanges seeking to list and trade spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on what they should do next. “This is real progress,” said o...
