MacroStrategy, a subsidiary of MicroStrategy, has taken out a bitcoin collateralized loan of $205 million in order to buy more bitcoin. The loan was issued by Silvergate Bank and “is secured by certai...
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Bitcoin Edges Towards $48,000 – Trustnodes
Bitcoin has taken resistance at $47,000 and got close to touching $48,000 on a bullish Sunday that saw bitcoin gain about 10%. Its market cap has once again risen above $900 billion with all cryptos n...
Bitcoin Crosses $45,000 – Trustnodes
Bitcoin has taken $45,000 as it rises above a nearly three months long resistance line on the verge of potentially breaking out. The crypto has gone green especially since this Tuesday when Do Kwon, T...
Madonna Apes – Trustnodes
Madonna, the best-selling music artist of all time, has bought a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT. “I finally entered the MetaVerse,” Madonna told her 2.7 million followers on Twitter. “My very own Ape...
Luna Buys Nearly Half a Billion Bitcoin – Trustnodes
It’s official, Terra has confirmed a proposal to stabilize Luna’s dollar pegged UST with bitcoin. According to a detailed proposal, some $2.5 billion will be needed for a pool of wrapped bitcoin in a ...
Bitcoin Crosses $44,000 – Trustnodes
Bitcoin has risen above $44,000 (pictured) for the first time since earlier this month, with the crypto gaining about 20% since last week. That’s amid an improving macro situation with stocks also gre...
Ethereum Readies Goerli For Proof of Stake Merge – Trustnodes
Goerli, a long running and established testnet used by devs for years to try out their dapps and other ethereum projects, is hours away from upgrading to full Proof of Stake (PoS). Parithosh Jayanthi,...
Tether’s Market Cap Surpasses $80 Billion, Prints $1 Billion – Trustnodes
Tether is closing in on $100 billion as its market cap surpasses $80 billion for the first time since its inception in 2015. The USD pegged token has now regained top three position, with it standing ...
Do Kwon Charges the Bulls as Bitcoin Buys Near Half a Billion – Trustnodes
It’s official, Terra has confirmed a proposal to stabilize Luna’s dollar pegged UST with bitcoin. According to a detailed proposal, some $2.5 billion will be needed for a pool of wrapped bitcoin in a ...
Bitcoin Touches $50,000 on OKX – Trustnodes
Bitcoin briefly rose to about $50,000 in one of the world’s biggest exchange, OKX, which handles some $17 billion in daily trading volumes. At 10:19 UTC this morning, bitcoin’s price began to suddenly...
2% of Bitcoin’s Total Supply Now Tokenized on Ethereum – Trustnodes
Ethereum is more and more acting like bitcoin’s actual second layer with close to 2% of bitcoin’s current total supply (19 million) now running on eth. Data from BtcOnEthereum, a tokenized bitcoin on ...
Ethereum Tweets Reach All Time High – Trustnodes
Mentions of ethereum on Twitter have more than tippled recently, surpassing all time high while nearing bitcoin levels. More than 137,000 tweets mentioned ethereum on Tuesday (pictured), up from 36,00...
Sats Near Ruble Parity – Trustnodes
Bitcoin’s smallest unit of account, one sat, has now long surpassed parity with one Ruble cent, making Russia’s fiat money one of the first in the world where sats themselves are actually worth someth...
Fidelity Launches Bitcoin Tracker Stocks – Trustnodes
One of the world’s biggest asset manager with $600 billion to invest, Fidelity, has launched two physical bitcoin Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Trading starts later today on the Swiss Six stock exc...
Defi Will Disrupt Finance Says 44% of Bankers – Trustnodes
A survey of 205 lending institutions by Fannie Mae reveals few bankers know of blockchain, those that do, plan to adopt it within four years, and they have a lot to say about decentralized finance (de...
Goldman Sachs and Bridgewater Bitcoin – Trustnodes
One of the world’s biggest investment bank, Goldman Sachs, is seemingly expanding their bitcoin services as interest continues to grow. After dipping their toes into CME’s bitcoin futures last year, t...
Bitcoin Jumps as Do Kwon Buys $125 Million – Trustnodes
Bitcoin is nearing $43,000, up 3.5% today on intense speculation that Terra, a stablecoins blockchain, is to buy $3 billion worth of BTC. Do Kwon (pictured), the South Korean Terra’s founder, apparent...
ETH v ETC, Is It Back? – Trustnodes
Ethereum Classic (ETC) is up some 35% in the past three days, gaining 7% just this Monday as pictured above. The crypto appears to have suddenly jumped, but clearly there’s a statement here and a fair...
Hacker Flashloans $600,000 Ape Airdrop – Trustnodes
An ethereum coder has claimed more than $600,000 worth of ape coins through flashloan ‘borrowing’ a Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT that was immediately returned after the airdrop was claimed. In the...
Ethereum Now Handling Fifty Times More Than Bitcoin in Network Fees – Trustnodes
Ethereum is currently 50x more in demand than bitcoin based on total daily network fees, processed transactions and other blockchain data. That’s based on stats from blockchain tracking platforms that...
Ethereum Ratio Crosses 0.07 Bitcoin as Apes Burn ETH – Trustnodes
Ethereum is gaining on bitcoin with the crypto up to a new recent high, just crossing $2,870, while bitcoin has kind of sideway dipped from $41,500 to now $40,700. Ethereum’s value against bitcoin has...
Dubai Holds Massive Crypto Exposition – Trustnodes
Crypto was on display in Dubai this Thursday where more than 10,000 visitors attended one of the world’s biggest exposition. BitMarkets, ByBit and Bassam Muhammad Al Falasi, an advisor to HH Sheikh Bu...
Russian Tanks Being Sold on Opensea for 250 ETH – Trustnodes
Three Russian tanks are being sold on Opensea as NFTs and as actual physical items by a farmer in Olyshivka, near Kyiv. He’s even put up a picture of himself, though we can’t easily verify it as there...
Ethereum L2 Optimism Raises $150 Million – Trustnodes
One of the more prominent ethereum second layer solution, Optimism, has raised $150 million at a valuation of $1.65 billion. Stripe, Paradigm, a16z, Nascent and others participated with Jinglan Wang, ...
Ethereum Merger Testnet Error Fixed – Trustnodes
The first public merger to full Proof of Stake on the new ethereum testnet network did not go without a hitch. There was a problem with endians, those being “the order or sequence of bytes of a word o...
Apes Finally Tokenize – Trustnodes
The Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) is tokenizing its NFTs in an airdrop that is estimated to give each ape holder some $50,000. “APE is a token made to support what’s next, controlled and built on by th...
UK’s FCA Hiring Crypto Director – Trustnodes
UK’s Financial Conducts Authority (FCA) is actively recruiting for a Head of Department (HoD) in Digital Assets. This will be a critical leadership role where a candidate will be held accountable for ...
Bitcoin Bulls, Ethereum Ratio Rises – Trustnodes
Bitcoin is in a bull run on one minute candles, crossing $41,000 once again in what may well be sell the rumor, buy the news. Months of speculation on interest rates has now seen the first hike in US ...