Rep. Cathy Rodgers (R-Wa.), who began the hearing with an off-topic speech about inflation, COVID and the current U.S. president, asked about the potential of blockchain to protect citizens’ privacy, ...
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ATOM, HEX and LUNA Leading Altcoin Rally with Average 10% Growth in Last 24 Hours
Arman Shirinyan Number of altcoins are going through a strong recovery following 30% correction A short-term recovery rally has appeared on the cryptocurrency market with the majority of altcoins faci...
Crypto staking firm Stader Labs raises $12.5 million in new funding
advertisement Crypto staking infrastructure firm Stader Labs has raised $12.5 million in a new funding round. The round was led by Three Arrows Capital, with participation from Accel, Blockchain.com, ...
Bank of Russia proposes a total crypto ban
TL;DR Breakdown: The Bank of Russia has suggested a complete ban on crypto. The proposal wants to ban crypto mining, trading, and usage in the country. However, owning cryptocurrencies would still b...
Turkey’s Erdogan set to meet El Salvador’s Bukele – crypto on the agenda?
At the same time that Turkey is looking to regulate cryptocurrencies, El Salvador is planning to launch its $1 billion bitcoin-backed bond. A meeting will take place today between Erdogan and Bukele. ...
Browser Makers Square Up As Opera Launches “Crypto Browser”
Crypto support is causing conflict in the browser market AFP via Getty Images Opera has launched a “Crypto Browser Project” just days after the browser’s co-founder described cryptocurrency as a “pyra...
Top Crypto Analyst Says This DeFi Altcoin Is Primed for a 10x Rally
Pseudonymous analyst Credible Crypto believes one decentralized finance (DeFi) altcoin could surge up to 10x. The analyst tells his 296,500 Twitter followers that he’s not worried about the short-term...
Robinhood Launches Crypto Wallet Beta for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin Transfers
For months, executives at trading app company Robinhood have been promising that cryptocurrency wallets were coming. Today, they’re finally here—well, for the first 1,000 people on the waitlist,...
European bridge between Crypto and the Euro launched
The largest crypto exchange BitMEX is buying one of Germany’s oldest banks. This means that the European Union must more intensively introduce blockchain technology into the continent’s traditional ec...
Tech Giant Google Forms Blockchain Unit in Push Towards Crypto Adoption
Tech industry giant Google is creating a unit dedicated to researching blockchains and other technologies centered around crypto assets. According to Bloomberg News, the tech giant will create a group...
What Went Wrong In The Crypto.com (CRO) Hack? Experts Weigh In
The Crypto.com hack is less than a week old and still very fresh in the minds of investors in the space. In what was a brief attack, the hackers were able to access a portion of users’ accounts on the...
Walmart Is Looking to Get Even More Involved in Crypto
Retail giant Walmart has announced it’s looking to get involved in the growing world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and it will also be unveiling its own cryptocurrency in the coming months. Walmart Is...
Twitter Integrates NFT Profile Pictures and Crypto Wallets On IOS
Twitter just made the day for NFT owners as it announced to roll out NFT profile pictures for IOS users. Last year in September Twitter enabled Bitcoin tipping and announced it will soon allow users t...
No fireworks at House’s Bitcoin mining hearing, but pending climate bills could home in on crypto
In a much-anticipated hearing earlier today, Congress heard testimony on cryptocurrency mining. Despite standing criticisms of environmental impacts and energy usage, the hearing saw remarkably little...
Global Cryptocurrency Users to Reach 1 Billion by End of 2022: Crypto.com Report
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has predicted that users of cryptocurrency will grow to one billion by the end of 2022. The exchange released a report suggesting this staggering ris...
Australian Football League Bags $25 Million Sponsorship Deal With Crypto.com
Sponsorship deals have become part of the measures that crypto-related companies employ in widening the knowledge and acceptance of cryptocurrency, one of the recent deals in the Australian Football L...
Bitcoin Rises Despite Russia’s Proposed Crypto Ban
On Thursday, Russia’s central bank suggested that lawmakers need to implement regulations to effectively ban domestic crypto-related activities. The bank made it clear, however, that is not sugg...
Former Coinbase VP of comms to take crypto CMO role at a16z
advertisement Kim Milosevich, who until December served as Coinbase’s vice president of communications, is rejoining Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as chief marketing officer for crypto. Milosevich ...
Decentralized Betting Protocol, Azuro Raises $3.5 Million Led By Top Crypto VCs
Advertisement     According to Statista data, the global sports betting industry skyrocketed to a market size of $203 billion in 2020 and is projected to grow at a CAG...
Crypto Analyst Nicholas Merten Predicts Dramatic Volatility for Bitcoin – Here’s His Target
A popular crypto analyst says that Bitcoin (BTC) is likely to experience a significant price drop, but such a sell-off might be the catalyst that finally sends the leading crypto past $100,000. In a n...
London Is Seeing Far More Crypto Ads as of Late
London is now home to a record number of bitcoin and crypto-related advertisements, and many are calling for a ban on such promotions as they feel the crypto space is far too risky. London Is Seeing a...
Changpeng Zhao says clampdowns on crypto ads won’t affect demand significantly
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, believes restrictions on crypto ads will not impact the demand for digital assets significantly. He said this earlier today dur...
World’s Largest Islamic Country, Indonesia Forbids Crypto Trading
It doesn’t come as a surprise to many as Islamic societies are known to label cryptocurrency trading as a form of “Haram”. Many Islamic organisations in the past have condemned the trading of digital ...
Banking Giant BNY Mellon Expects Significant Revenue From Its Crypto Services: Report
America’s oldest bank is eager to capitalize on the cryptocurrency revolution but remains concerned that the government still has not provided regulatory clarity. According to a new Bloomberg report, ...
Union Bank of the Philippines Looks to Becomes Nation’s First to Offer Crypto Services
Union Bank of the Philippines plans to become the first in the country to offer trading and custodial services for cryptocurrencies. The custodial services for digital assets will also cover tokenized...
Decentralization Takes Center Stage As GemUni Rolls Out Latest Crypto Gaming Platform
Play-to-earn games have proven that blockchain can be deployed in a variety of ways. A few years back, these games never existed, as gaming companies still relied on the centralized market to thrive. ...
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Stresses Crypto Trading Platforms Must Be Regulated to Ensure Investor Protection – Regulation Bitcoin News
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is focusing on bringing cryptocurrency exchanges “inside the investor protection remit,” Chairman Gary Gensler has revealed. “If the trading platforms...
USD Coin Overtakes Tether on Ethereum
The stablecoin market has undergone a shakeup as USD Coin (USDC) has overtaken USD Tether (USDT) on the Ethereum blockchain. USD Coin Supply On Ethereum Is Now More Than Tether As per the latest weekl...
Eternal oath of Georgia citizen to stop crypto mining
Residents of Svaneti, Georgia, have reportedly been forced to take a holy swear not to mine cryptocurrencies in order to address energy issues caused by Bitcoin mining. An eternal oath was signed in o...