The ministers of finance of the countries in the eurozone reaffirmed their support for efforts to prepare for the potential launch of a digital euro. Meanwhile, the single currency area’s monetary aut...
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Thailand Issues New Regulations on Custodied Cryptocurrencies – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand has issued new regulations on custodied cryptocurrencies. Companies offering crypto custody services are now required to “establish a digital w...
South Korea to Regularly Inspect Crypto Risks With New Monitoring Tools – Regulation Bitcoin News
South Korea’s financial regulator is developing new tools to regularly monitor crypto risks. The regulator warned that while the impact of the crypto market on the traditional financial system is stil...
Japan Urges Regulators Worldwide to Subject Crypto Exchanges to Bank-Level Oversight – Regulation Bitcoin News
Japan has reportedly urged other countries, including the U.S., to regulate crypto exchanges like they do banks. A top official at the Financial Services Agency explained that the recent FTX implosion...
Rarible launches Polygon-based NFT marketplace builder
Rarible, a marketplace for nonfungible tokens (NFTs), has announced the debut of a marketplace builder. This builder gives artists and projects the ability to personalise a store for their NFT collect...
Average Onchain Fees Jump by More Than 50% – Altcoins Bitcoin News
While the second-largest crypto asset by market capitalization, ethereum, has risen 27% against the U.S. dollar in the last two weeks, the network’s average and median-sized gas fees have increased by...
Bitzlato Exchange Busted as US Deals ‘Blow to Crypto Crime,’ Arrests Owner – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, better known to the Russian-speaking segment of the market, has been taken down as part of an “international cryptocurrency enforcement action,” the U.S. Justice Depa...
Deal Box offers $125M blockchain and Web3 venture fund
According to a press release dated January 18, the capital markets consulting and token offering platform Deal Box, which has its headquarters in the United States, has established a new venture capit...
Nearly $1 Billion Poured Into Egypt’s Forex Market — Local Currency Now World’s Worst Performing Currency in 2023 – Economics Bitcoin News
The Egyptian central bank recently claimed that its decision to devalue the local currency has been vindicated by foreign investors’ return to the country’s foreign market where they reportedly poured...
SARB governor: CBDCs must tackle a “serious challenge” at WEF 2023.
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023, which was hosted in Davos, Switzerland, South African Reserve Bank (SARB) governor Lesetja Kganyago addressed some of the difficulties that surround the adoptio...
Digital Currency Group Suspends Dividends Amid Regulatory Trouble With Subsidiary Genesis – Bitcoin News
According to a shareholders’ letter from Digital Currency Group (DCG) viewed by finance and crypto publication Coindesk, the company has suspended dividends until further notice. This news follows the...
On BX Swiss market, 21Shares launches crypto staking ETP
A cryptocurrency company by the name of 21Shares, which has its headquarters in Switzerland, is placing its bets on proof-of-stake (PoS) coins by launching a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded product...
Sam Bankman-Fried Disputes FTX US ‘Shortfall’ Claims, Critics Skeptical of Excel Spreadsheet Defense – Bitcoin News
Following an update from FTX debtors about the $5.5 billion discovered by administrators during an investigation, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) took to Twitter to share a blog post from his S...
Fox News host credits Bitcoin pump to ransomware hackers
Fox News host Tucker Carlson theorized that recent bullish market moves were due to the U.S. government buying Bitcoin to pay ransomware attackers. Specifically, Carlson linked the recent grounding of...
Coinbase Leaves Japan After Trade Collapse
Even if Bitcoin’s price has returned to where it was before the FTX crash, the sector is still being negatively affected by the contagion, which has forced the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase t...
New Slogan, Better Product, and More User-Friendly Services – Press release Bitcoin News
press release PRESS RELEASE. 2022 is an extraordinary year for the crypto industry, and it is also a year of struggle for both institutions and users. For CoinEx, 2022 was also a special year – quite ...
Rachel Maddow And ‘Dateline’ Push NBC News Into Top Tier Of Podcast Producers
NBC jumped ahead of The New York Times with the fourth-largest monthly podcast audience (Photo by … [+] Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images Boosted by hit podcasts like Murder & Magnolia...
Digital Currency Group Suspends Payouts To Maintain Liquidity
In an effort to maintain its existing level of liquidity, the venture capital company Digital Currency Group (DCG) has informed its shareholders that it would temporarily suspend the payment of its qu...
SHIB Surges to Fresh 2-Month High on Wednesday – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Shiba inu surged to a multi-month high on Wednesday, as the meme coin collided with a key price ceiling. Prices rose by as much as 17% in today’s session, as the global cryptocurrency market cap also ...
Xternity migrates Solana multiplayer Web3 game for Polygon
Scalability enhancements are a part of Ethereum’s layer 2 software. In order to transfer and onboard a multiplayer Web3 game called Synergy Land to the Polygon network, which was formerly hosted...
FTX Discovers $5.5B in Liquid Assets — Debtors Explore Ways to Maximize Recovery via Potential Sale of Subsidiaries, Real Estate – Bitcoin News
On Jan. 17, 2023, FTX Trading Ltd. and affiliated debtors updated the public and detailed that the firm’s current administrators have discovered $5.5 billion of liquid assets to date. Top-level execut...
Elon Musk Reduced Dogecoin Carbon Emissions By 25%
Recent studies have shown that Dogecoin was the first memecoin in the year 2022 to voluntarily cut its carbon impact by 25% over the course of a single year. This achievement would not have been possi...
BTC Hits Highest Point Since September – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Bitcoin rose to its highest level since September, as markets prepared for the release of U.S. retail sales data. This afternoon’s economic release is expected to show a cooling off of sales, as consu...
Thai SEC Regulates Crypto Custody Providers
In an attempt to provide cryptocurrency investors a higher level of safety, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand is hard at work establishing new legislation for bitcoin custody se...
Silvergate Reports $1B Deficit In Q4 2022
A class-action lawsuit is now being brought against Silvergate Bank because of its interactions with FTX and Alameda Research. Silvergate Bank has declared that it expects to report a net loss of $1 b...
Exciting New Gaming-Focused Blockchain Neon Link Successfully Launches January 2023 – Press release Bitcoin News
press release PRESS RELEASE. LONDON, ENGLAND – January 18th, 2023 – Neon Link, a new blockchain and ecosystem, is about to launch on mainnet in Q1 2023. Coming out of stealth after over a year of deve...
Crypto Lender Struggles Extended Creditor Protection For Vauld
A troubled cryptocurrency lending platform known as Vauld has been given an additional term of creditor protection by a court in Singapore. Before February 28th, the business has to devise a strategy ...
Head Chef Says DEX Aggregator Will 10x SushiSwap’s Market Share
Just one month after issuing a warning about a huge deficit in its treasury, the Chief Executive Officer of the decentralized exchange (DEX) SushiSwap has announced many planned changes to the platfor...
Coinbase Up 69%, MicroStrategy Up 74% From Lows
It’s been green candles all around since the beginning of 2023, as the share price of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has increased by 69% since it hit an all-time low, and other crypto-related...