Citadel Securities has joined up with Charles Schwab, Fidelity Digital Assets and venture capital firms like Paradigm, Sequoia Capital and Virtu Financial, to launch a crypto exchange. “The new exchan...
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Brave Search, Can it Take on Google? – Trustnodes
Brave has entered the search market fray, making it the first crypto related company to take on Google’s almost total dominance at 92% market share. And there’s some signs Google is a little bit worri...
Bitcoin Futures Lead Spot Says Study – Trustnodes
A study looking at the relationship between the price of bitcoin futures and spot has concluded that futures lead price discovery. “The Bitcoin futures market is acting as a leading indicator and the ...
Ethereum’s Ratio Eyes Massive Cup and Handle – Trustnodes
Ethereum’s price against bitcoin, the ratio, has formed what may potentially be a huge cup and handle over the past four years. At 0.078 BTC, the ratio is back to 2018 levels after forming a huge cup,...
African Crypto Exchange Crosses One Million Users – Trustnodes
A crypto exchange that operates only in Africa, Yellow Card, has become one of the first to cross one million users in the continent. “Reaching the one million goal is fantastic,” said John Colson, th...
Bitcoin Crosses $22,000 – Trustnodes
Bitcoin rose again above $22,000 for the first time in nearly a month while eth fell slightly as its ratio drops to just below 0.079 from a recent peak of 0.085 BTC. The ping pong thus is perhaps back...
Bitcoin Jumps, Stocks Green – Trustnodes
Bitcoin rose above $21,000 overnight, up 10% from $19,000, around at the same time as stock trading began in Shanghai. That suggests demand for crypto has risen in Asia as both the Yen and the Yuan lo...
Queen Passing Lifts Bitcoin Ceiling – Trustnodes
The passing of Queen Elizabeth the Second ends a journey for bitcoin, which over the years has progressed through the ranks, with only the Queen left to mention its awareness. The first senior officia...
Corporate Media Covers the Merge – Trustnodes
Ethereum’s upgrade to Proof of Stake next week may be the first technical event the world pays attention to since Bitcoin Cash forked from bitcoin in August 2017. The merge matters, says the Times, to...
75% of European Wealth Managers to Increase Crypto Exposure – Trustnodes
The vast majority of wealth managers across the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, plan to increase their exposure to cryptos in the next 12 months. That’s according to the results of a s...
British Hedge Fund Hires Crypto Quant – Trustnodes
Winton, a British investment management hedge fund with $8 billion in assets under management, is expanding its operations to crypto. The hedge fund has added a Crypto Quant Researcher to their London...
Oil Drops, Gas Falls Below $8, DXY Up, Bitcoin Down – Trustnodes
The dollar strength index (DXY) has crossed 110 for the first time since 2002, and is just 10 away from an all time high since 1984. For much of its rise however, a rule of sorts developed whereby if ...
SEC Greenlights $35 Trillion Pension Pot For Clearing House Default – Trustnodes
The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has removed a $1 billion cap on the amount of pension funds that can be tapped by the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) in case one of its members defaul...
Bitcoin Supporting Liz Truss Becomes the New Prime Minister – Trustnodes
Mary Elizabeth Truss has been announced as the 56th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the conservatives manage to deliver a third woman for the top job. Labour remains at none. Sir Graham Brady,...
NFT Volumes Fall to a Yearly Low – Trustnodes
The hot NFT market has cooled down significantly, though still handling half a billion a month in volumes, down from the peak of $6 billion in January 2022. The biggest NFT market, OpenSea, now handle...
Dogecoin Leads NAFO as the Propaganda War Heats Up – Trustnodes
Doge, the beloved symbol of Dogecoin that took the heart of even the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, now leads the charge in the digital defense of Ukraine as the propaganda war intensifies amid troop...
Ethereum Crosses 0.08 BTC – Trustnodes
The last time bitcoin was at current prices, eth was at around $900. Now, one eth goes for more than $1,600 even while one bitcoin remains close to its all time low (since last bear) of $20,000. Nasda...
Unemployment Rises – Trustnodes
The unemployment rate in the United States has risen for the first time in nine months, increasing to 3.7% from 3.5%, higher than in 2019. “In August, the unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage poin...
MT Gox Suspends Transfers of Claims – Trustnodes
MT Gox, once the biggest bitcoin exchange now waiting to distribute 141,000 bitcoin and BCH, has suspended transfers of claims in a sign the distribution might be in its final stages. “The Rehabilitat...
Pound Plunges to Decades Low as Strikes Ravage Britain – Trustnodes
The pound has fallen to its lowest level since 1985 against the dollar, down to $1.15 per GBP, lower than the $1.19 it reached following the Brexit vote in 2016. A general strengthening of the dollar ...
World Holds Breath as the Battle For Kherson Rages – Trustnodes
For the first time in six months, it is the Ukrainian defenders finally advancing against the invading forces with the aim of capturing the first city that fell to the Russian army, Kherson. A country...
Onchain Data Predicts Bitcoin’s Price Says Study – Trustnodes
A paper published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Access Magazine, claims they can predict bitcoin’s price by using on-chain data processed through neural networks deep...
Albanian Banks Shun Bitcoin, Except One – Trustnodes
The beautiful riviera of Albania, decorated this August with an almost tropical, albeit brief, rain sunshine, adds to the reminisces of any expat by reminding cryptonians of almost a decade ago. That ...
Euro Area Inflation Hits 9.1% – Trustnodes
Inflation in the euro zone has risen to 9.1% according to a flash estimate by Eurostat for August. “Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 9.1% in August 2022, up from 8.9% in July,” it said. En...
Powell and Gas, is the Crisis Done? – Trustnodes
Four rate hikes in as many months has the market back to watching natural gas attempting to cross $10 in USA, the highest level in more than a decade. In Europe, gas has lost its head. Up 20x at Dutch...
Armstrong Calls for a 20% Ownership Rule on Crypto-Commodities – Trustnodes
Brian Armstrong, the founder of Coinbase, has called for a clear division of responsibility among regulators to end a confusing maze that currently prevails in the United States. “There’s a very unhel...
Ethereum Fees Drop Below 20 Cent – Trustnodes
Numbers unseen in years are now quoted as sufficient for network fees in ethereum, the biggest smart contract platform, with just 4 gwei being enough for a transfer. Network fees have dropped below 20...
Mainnet Merge Clients Launch – Trustnodes
All major clients of ethereum have launched the Merge ready client for the mainnet upgrade to Proof of Stake (PoS). The biggest, Geth, needs a small re-do because of some new online pruner, but Besu o...
China Opens Probe on Banks as New Loans Collapse – Trustnodes
China has opened an investigation into the banking sector to determine its exposure to the crashing property market which has fallen another 7% in June. “The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Com...
Gas Hits New Decade High – Trustnodes
Gas prices have suddenly spiked even as oil continues to fall, with natural gas crossing its highest point since 2008. CME’s e-mini gas futures point to $9.50, up from a recent peak of $9.30 in June. ...
The Law Comes to ETH, Where Boundaries? – Trustnodes
It’s summer, with those that matter relaxing on sunny rivieras to escape any burnout. So what better time to depose Boris Johnson, or indeed to sanction an ethereum smart contract. No one is paying at...
EthereumPoW Will Send Network Fees to a Multisig – Trustnodes
A proposed chain-split fork of ethereum, EthereumPoW, has committed a fundamental change to its network that will in effect make Proof of Work (PoW) mining semi-permissioned. “ETHW Core has just relea...