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Bitcoin to be accepted by McDonald’s and Walmart via Lightning Network
Jack Mallers, founder of Zap, is bringing Bitcoin back to its roots with an announcement that his Lightning Network wallet, Strike, has partnered with Shopify, NCR, and Blackhawk Network. According to...
US SEC Approves Third Bitcoin Futures ETF Application from Teucrium
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved America’s third functional Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) product that tracks the futures price of the world’s largest crypt...
CashApp Rolls Out “Get Paid in Bitcoin” Service
CashApp – the mobile payment service developed by Block – announced many major Bitcoin-related upgrades on Thursday. One of the new integrations allows users to automatically convert their incoming pa...
Can Bitcoin Hashrate Reach 300 EH/s By End Of 2022?
The Bitcoin hash rate has come a long way from the China crackdown that saw it fall by 50% in a matter of weeks. Its recovery has not only been swift but has been strong in the same regard. It continu...
Decentralized Finance, Blockchain Are Real – Featured Bitcoin News
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees decentralized finance (defi) and blockchain as real, new technologies that can be deployed in both private and public fashion. He also noted that JPMorgan is at the...
Singaporean fintech adds Bitcoin payments for merchants with BitPay partnership
Nium, a cross-border payments firm based in Singapore, has announced the launch of a new API-based solution that will allow businesses to start accepting cryptocurrency payments. As per the announceme...
Cash App Now Lets Users Invest Their Paychecks in Bitcoin
Alex Dovbnya Block’s Cash App has added three new Bitcoin features that could boost the adoption of the top cryptocurrency Cash App, a mobile payment service run by Jack Dorsey’s Block (fo...
UFC and Crypto.com Announce New ‘Fight Night’ Bonuses in Bitcoin
UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization and Crypto.com, announced the creation of new Fight Night bonuses for UFC athletes that will be paid in bitcoin (BTC). The new Fan Bonus of the...
Robinhood widens user access for crypto wallet transfers, unveils plan to support Lightning payments for bitcoin
Robinhood is widening access to its much-anticipated crypto wallet transfer functionality, the company announced Thursday. The rollout began in September to a select group of users, as reported at the...
UFC Fighters to Start Receiving Bonuses in Bitcoin
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced it will distribute new bonuses for athletes that will be paid in bitcoin. The crypto awards will go to the top three fighters fans have voted for. Fi...
Can Bitcoin Survive Dark UST Clouds? Thinks Do Kwon
Do Kwon recently noted that the Bitcoin (BTC) market is liquid enough to handle a potential loss of Terra’s primary stablecoin UST. He highlighted that the Terra protocol would be among the larg...
National Bank of Georgia to Regulate Country’s Crypto Sector – Regulation Bitcoin News
The National Bank of Georgia is taking steps to regulate the crypto market in the Southern Caucasus country, its governor revealed in a recent interview. While companies in the industry are to expect ...
Node infrastructure provider BlockSpaces adds Lightning Network support for bitcoin » CryptoNinjas
BlockSpaces, a blockchain node infrastructure provider, has announced that it will soon launch its Lightning Connect; a simplified, non-custodial Lightning Network node management solution designed to...
Grayscale CEO pleads Bitcoin spot ETF as SEC backs third BTC Futures ETF
Institutional investors rejoice, as there is one more way to gain exposure to Bitcoin (BTC). The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced overnight the approval of a fourth Bit...
Strike joins Shopify in massive push for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network adoption
At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami today, Jack Mallers, the CEO of peer-to-peer payments app Strike, announced an integration with e-commerce giant Shopify that would allow merchants to receive f...
Teucrium Expects SEC’s Ruling On Bitcoin Futures ETF This Week: Could Result In Implications On Spot Funds
The Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to rule on a bitcoin futures ETF this week. The ETF is proposed by fund group Teuricum and the decision of the commission could have significance for p...
Data Shows Bitcoin Mining Hashrate Has Hit Stagnation Recently
Data shows the Bitcoin mining hashrate seems to have hit a phase of stagnation over the past couple of months after riding a continuous uptrend since last July. Bitcoin Mining Hashrate Has Stagnated I...
UFC To Pay Bitcoin Rewards To Top Fighters
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the latest addition to the crypto evolution. The UFC announced that from now they will be rewarding a bonus in Bitcoin (BTC) to its fighter on its pay-per-v...
MMA Entertainment Giant UFC to Pay Fighters Bitcoin Bonuses – Bitcoin News
On April 7, the digital currency exchange Crypto.com announced that fighters from the mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), will be able to win Fight Night ...
Mike Novogratz Doubles Down On $500,000 Bitcoin Prediction
Mike Novogratz has once again reiterated his support for the $500,000 future prediction for bitcoin. The Galaxy Digital CEO who was recently at the Bitcoin 2022 conference held in Miami had spoken in ...
Bitcoin bulls may have to wait until 2024 for next BTC price ‘rocket stage’
Bitcoin (BTC) may track sideways for another two years before reigniting its bull run, new data argues. In a tweet on April 6, veteran trader Peter Brandt highlighted historical patterns, suggesting t...
MicroStrategy’s Saylor and ARK Invest’s Wood aren’t worried about bitcoin and regulation
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor said that two years ago, Merrill Lynch laughed him out the door when he said he wanted to buy bitcoin. “They said ‘not only are we not going to sell it to you, we’ll g...
Strike Announces Shopify Integration, Partnerships With NCR And Blackhawk Bringing Bitcoin Lighting Payments To Major Merchants
Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Strike, a digital payments platform built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, today announced an integration with e-commerce company Shopify. Now el...
Bitcoin Lightning Network To Strike Robinhood Wallets
At the Bitcoin Miami Conference 2022, brokerage firm Robinhood’s Chief Product Officer Aparna Chennapragada announced support for the second-layer payment solution Lightning Network. This will allow R...
Luna Foundation Guard accumulates Bitcoin in its wallets –
LFG has purchased a further $230 million of bitcoin today, as indicated by its crypto wallets Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon affirmed the enormous bitcoin buy on Twitter LFG moved $231 million in USDT sta...
Cash App Introduces Paid in Bitcoin, BTC Roundup and Lightning Network Services – Bitcoin News
At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Block, Inc., formerly Square, Inc., announced three new bitcoin services for the company’s mobile payment platform. The mobile payment platform Cash App will f...
Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC/USD Targets $44,000 Resistance
Bitcoin Price Prediction – April 7 The Bitcoin price prediction reveals that BTC may break out of the current short-term pattern and move towards the $44,000 level. BTC/USD Long-term Trend: Ranging (D...
Decoding what ‘increase in stablecoin’s whale transactions’ means for BTC & alts
You have to admit, stablecoins aren’t the most exciting part of the crypto industry, especially when there are NFTs and TVLs to gawk at. However, stablecoins are important indicators for Bitcoin or al...
UFC Partners With CryptoCom to Pay Fighters Bonuses in Bitcoin
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) today announced it will start paying fighters in Bitcoin (BTC) as part of its continued partnership with leading crypto exchange CryptoCom. UFC to Pay $60k Bon...
MicroStrategy Takes Out Huge Loan to Purchase More BTC
MicroStrategy is continuing to purchase more bitcoin, though its methods are beginning to garner a few raised eyebrows amongst traders and analysts alike. Not long ago, the software giant announced th...