Starbucks to Introduce NFTs This Year

Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz announced that the American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves is entering the non-fungible token (NFT) market this year. The NFT initiative...

Gryphon Digital Mining Cancels to Go Public via Reverse Merger with Sphere 3D

Gryphon Digital Mining, a privately held company that focuses on Bitcoin mining, announced Monday that it would not be going public through a reverse merger with Sphere 3D, a publicly-traded data mana...

NFT Taskforce Asks Japanese Government to Consider Appointing Web3 Minister – Metaverse Bitcoin News

In a recently released white paper, a Japanese non-fungible token (NFT) taskforce has asked the government to consider appointing a government minister whose job it would be to oversee all matters rel...

The Sandbox: the news presented at the NFC in Lisbon

Yesterday, 5 April 2022, at 12 PM, a press conference was held by the French company The Sandbox in the presence of co-founder and COO Sebastien Borget during the Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon. Th...

IPCC Concerns Energy-Intensive Crypto Mining as Risk of Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an arm of the United Nations responsible for assessing the science related to climate change, released a new report Monday highlighting warnings a...

Ethereum Layer-2 Protocol Boba Network Values at $1.5B following $45m Funding

Boba Network, an Ethereum-based Layer-2 protocol Optimistic Rollup scaling solution, has successfully completed its Series A funding round in which it pulled as much as $45 million from investors cove...

Singapore Passes Law to Regulate VASPs Operating Abroad

Virtual Assets Service Providers (VASPs) that originate from Singapore but offer their business offerings or products abroad are now required to secure licensing from the relevant authorities, a shift...

Abkhazia Extends Crypto Mining Ban Till End of Year – Mining Bitcoin News

Authorities in Abkhazia have decided to maintain a ban on cryptocurrency mining in the territory. The partially recognized republic in the South Caucasus is restricting the energy-intensive extraction...

BitMEX Lays Off 25% Staff after Failing to Acquire German Bank

BitMEX Derivatives Exchange has reportedly cut off 25% of its staff following information shared with employees last week. For a trading platform with about 300 employees, the number of staff layoffs ...

Coinbase to Host Crypto Community Event in India to Support Entrepreneurs

Coinbase Global Inc is extending its footprint in Asia through its tech hub in India. As contained in a Blog post shared by the publicly listed firm, it will be hosting a crypto community event in Ban...

Intel Launches Second-Generation Bitcoin Mining Chip ‘Blockscale’

On Monday, Intel, a US multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in California, announced that it has launched its second-generation Bitcoin mining chip, commonly known as “Inte...

UK to Accept Stablecoins as Form of Payment, Plans to Mint NFT by this Summer

The UK announced on Monday to accept stablecoins as a valid form of payment and has set plans to make Britain a global hub for crypto-asset technology and investment. The government plans to regulate ...

Sneaker Giant Adidas and Ready Player Me Partner to Launch AI-Generated Avatar Creation Platform – Metaverse Bitcoin News

The German multinational corporation that crafts athletic shoes, sportswear, and accessories, Adidas announced on Tuesday the company is collaborating with Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar platfor...

MoneyBox Raises £35m with Plans to Launch ‘Crypto-Investing’

MoneyBox, a UK-based, rapidly emerging mobile savings and investment app, announced Monday that it had raised £35 million in a Series D funding round led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures. ...

EverLend, First Lending Protocol on Everscale Network, Kicks off Operations With Successful LEND Token Launch – Sponsored Bitcoin News

sponsored EverLend.app is a secured lending protocol powered by Everscale. The platform was successfully launched on the 18th of March, 2022 together with its own utility token. The platform facilitat...

18% of Britons Own Crypto, Indicating an Exponential Growth in 2021, Study Shows

Almost one in five Britons (18%) own crypto, according to a survey conducted by cryptocurrency exchange Gemini.  Based on the findings, crypto ownership on British soil has been trending because resea...

BAYC Owner Scammed for NFTs Worth $567K with Fake PNGs

A Bored Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible token (NFT) owner was scammed for at least $570,000 after the victim was tricked into exchanging their NFTs for worthless PNGs. The victim – s27 – lo...

U.S.-German Joint Operation Seizes $25m Worth of Bitcoin, Shuting Down Russian Darkened Marketplace Hydra

In collaboration with the U.S. Justice Department, German authorities announced Tuesday that they managed to shut down the Hydra market, the most prominent Russian darknet market, and consequently sei...

SEC Chair Gensler Asks Staff to Collaborate With CFTC on Regulating Crypto Exchanges – Regulation Bitcoin News

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has asked SEC staff to collaborate with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to develop a new plan to regula...

UK Regulator FCA to Consult Crypto Industry Concerning Ecosystem & Regulation

The United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling stakeholders in the digital currency ecosystem to a two-day CryptoSprint event that will be taking place on 10 and 11 May, respectively....

Singapore Strengthens Cryptocurrency Directives – The Coin Republic: Cryptocurrency , Bitcoin, Ethereum & Blockchain News

The new regulation is an effort by MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) to make sure that it has sufficient supervisory oversight over such facility providers. Virtual token service providers made in...

UK Regulator FCA to Convey Crypto Industry Stakeholders by Evaluating its Policymaking

The United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling stakeholders in the digital currency ecosystem to a two-day CryptoSprint event that will be taking place on 10 and 11 May, respectively....

Cardano Trading Volume Spikes! When Can Traders Expect ADA Price Rally ? – Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media

The ADA price has been unable to maintain its gains over the previous two sessions. Multiple rejections are expected near the critical resistance level of $1.24. However, since March 28, the price of ...

MicroStrategy Acquires Extra 4,167 Bitcoins for Approximately $190.5m

MicroStrategy, the Nasdaq-Listed business intelligence and software firm has made another purchase of 4,167 Bitcoin as it continues on its sporadic BTC accumulation campaign. As detailed by Michael Sa...

Shares Price & Memecoins Soars after Elon Musk Appointed as Twitter’s Board of Directors

Twitter shares inked an awe-inspiring performance on Monday after regulatory findings show that Elon Musk, the Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc, and SpaceX have bought up a total of 73.5 million s...

Elon Musk Promises to Make ‘Significant Improvements’ to Twitter — Calls Crypto Spam Bots ‘Single Most Annoying Problem’ – Featured Bitcoin News

Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk has joined Twitter’s board of directors and promised to “make significant improvements” to the social media platform. Some changes he is considering include adding an ed...

Microstrategy Spends $200 Million More on Bitcoin, Raising Total Holdings to 129,218 BTC – Featured Bitcoin News

The Nasdaq-listed company Microstrategy has bought an additional 4,167 bitcoins. Its latest purchase has raised the company’s crypto holdings to 129,218 bitcoins. Microstrategy Purchases More Bitcoin ...

Point Labs Releases Full Roadmap to Web3 – Sponsored Bitcoin News

sponsored (Link to full roadmap here: roadmap.pointnetwork.io) With “web 3.0” suddenly upgrading from an obscure area of research to a hot topic of mainstream conversation and a significant part of th...

Tourism Minister of El Salvador Reiterates Effect Bitcoin Has Had on the Sector – Bitcoin News

Morena Valdez, the tourism minister of El Salvador, has spoken on the recovery the tourism sector of the country has reportedly experienced even after the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Valdez’s stat...

We Have a New AbbVie Price Target After Our Previous One Was Reached

AbbVie (ABBV) is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that was spun off from Abbott Laboratories (ABT) a number of years ago. Its blockbuster drug Humira brought in billions. We reviewed the cha...

Germany Shuts Down Hydra Market, Seizes Servers and Bitcoin – Bitcoin News

Law enforcement agencies in Germany have targeted Hydra, a leading darknet market (DNM). As part of an operation conducted with U.S. support, the German police were able to establish control over the ...

AMD Is About as Hot as It Gets: Here’s How to Trade It

The news on Monday morning was a little surprising. Long-time Sarge fave Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) had agreed to acquire edge computing startup Pensando for about $1.9B… just weeks after clos...