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Bitcoin, Stocks Green on Gas Crash Below $6 – Trustnodes
Gas has suddenly crashed, down 8% to fall below $6 in US for the first time since June this year. In Europe, Dutch gas futures have also fallen to €140 from a peak of €350 in August, with a gradual d...
Ethereum Returns to $1,300 on Banks’ Soft Coup in Britain – Trustnodes
After a week that saw ethereum dive to $1,190, the crypto is back above $1,300 with its ratio also gaining from a recent low of 0.065 BTC, to just briefly touch 0.068. Bitcoin is up as well however, a...
Kanye West Goes Bitcoin, Wears Satoshi Nakamoto Hat After JP Morgan Closed Account – Trustnodes
One of the world’s most famous rapper, Kanye West, has been spotted wearing a Satoshi Nakamoto hat in Beverly Hills, California. That’s just days after JP Morgan cancelled his bank account, with West ...
Musk Dogecoins Ukraine – Trustnodes
There was no greater surprise in 2021 than Tesla announcing they bought $1.5 billion bitcoin. Until then, Elon Musk was this other figure in other spaces, especially in space itself. Our paths had cro...
Blockchain.com, Crypto.com Bans Russians After New EU Sanctions – Trustnodes
Blockchain.com, one of the biggest and oldest crypto wallet with 80 million users, has reportedly banned Russians from the platform. Local media reports that the crypto wallet informed Russian users t...
Fed Swaps $9 Billion to Swiss National Bank, Bail Out For Credit Suisse? – Trustnodes
The Federal Reserve Banks have extended $6.3 billion to the Swiss National Bank through the Dollar Liquidity Swap line. That’s after swapping $3.1 billion last week, with Credit Suisse announcing shor...
Nasdaq Jumps, Bitcoin Up on Inflation Downtrend – Trustnodes
Markets seem to have decided that the inflation report was good news in the end, with Nasdaq seeing a 5% move from -3% to now 1.41% in green. Dow has gone from -2% to +2.29% in one of the biggest uno ...
Bitcoin, From Revolution to the Establishment – Trustnodes
There was a time when plenty of bitcoiners didn’t even know who the Fed was, except that it causes inflation. Now, plenty of bitcoiners are in Wall Street offices – or their bedroom – keeping an eye o...
Bitcoin Dives on Inflation Data, Nasdaq Red – Trustnodes
Bitcoin is down by about 5%, with the global currency starting to fall two hours prior to the inflation report, after a further dive on its publishing. It initially went down to $18,700, to then fall ...
Google Partners with Investment Firm to Bring Web3 to the Cloud – Trustnodes
Google, the world’s biggest company by market cap, has began targeting Web3 crypto startups to expand their cloud business. L2 Capital, a new VC in the Web3 area with some of its team members previous...
Optimism Cries Foul as Arbitrum Acquires Prysmatic Labs – Trustnodes
Offchain Labs, the team behind ethereum’s second layer Arbitrum, has bought out Prysmatic Labs. Preston Van Loon of Prysmatic Labs said: “These two world class teams are value aligned in their work to...
Validity Rollups Proposed For Bitcoin – Trustnodes
ZK-tech based second layer solutions may be coming to bitcoin with John Light of the Human Rights Foundation’s ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship, putting forward a proposal that has grabbed the attention ...
SWIFT Connects a Quorum and Corda Blockchain For Cross-Border Payments – Trustnodes
SWIFT, the world’s biggest financial messaging system has launched a running sandbox where blockchain based central bank digital currencies (CBDC) can connect to each other globally through SWIFT, as ...
British GDP Grows 2% in August – Trustnodes
The United Kingdom is still seeing decent growth, with its GDP increasing year on year by 2%. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: “Monthly GDP grew by 2.0% between August 2021 and August 20...
Ape Coin Dives on Rumors SEC Investigating JPEGs Are Securities – Trustnodes
ApeCoin, a token airdropped to holders of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs, suddenly dived by 10%. That’s on rumors the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating Yuga Labs, the startup...
Devcon Begins in Colombia – Trustnodes
Devcon VI opened to a Colombian dance in Bogota, Colombia’s capital, after a colorful animated intro that highlighted the achievements so far. That includes EIP-1559, the Merge, defi summer, NFT summe...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Spikes to a New All Time High – Trustnodes
Demand for mining bitcoin has never been higher, with both the hashrate and network difficulty spiking to a new all time high. The hashrate has risen from around 230 to near 260 exahashes a second, on...
China Starts Easing – Trustnodes
China’s economy has slowed down further, with their General Service Industry Business Activity Index (Service Industry PMI) contracting to 49.3 in September, down 5.7 points from August after three mo...
Are We Reaching Peak FUD? – Trustnodes
There’s a general feeling that we’re going back to some previous decade, but everyone seems confused about which decade exactly. The roaring 20s certainly was for 2021, but just before that we had mor...
Ethereum’s Supply Reduces by 3,000 ETH – Trustnodes
Ethereum’s total supply has fallen from 120,534,212 on Saturday to 120,530,723, its biggest drop since the Merge upgrade on September 15th. This reduction in supply is due to an increase in network ac...
Shanghai Stocks Fall Below 3000 – Trustnodes
The Shanghai Stock Index has fallen below the support line of 3000 for the first time since May, down another 1.66% this Monday. The Shenzhen Component Index also fell 2.38% while the ChiNext Index fe...
Dow Jones Becomes More Volatile Than Bitcoin – Trustnodes
The Dow Jones stock index of United States’ biggest companies has become more volatile than the most volatile asset so far, bitcoin. According to a chart from the Bespoke Investment Group, which provi...
Lukashenko Makes Inflation Illegal – Trustnodes
The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has announced that any price increases are now illegal. “It starts today – not from tomorrow, but from today, so that prices cannot be inflated during the...
Bitcoin Volumes Pick Up – Trustnodes
Bitcoin is seeing rising volumes this October, with small dips seeing pick ups in volumes as shown above. That suggests people are buying the selloff, with some traders speculating that if volumes hol...
Crypto Company Integrates with $1.2 Trillion Envestnet – Trustnodes
Envestnet, a financial company with $1.2 trillion in assets under management, has integrated with Flourish Crypto, a subsidiary of the the Flourish platform which itself is wholly owned by the Massach...
Oil Falls, Bitcoin Up – Trustnodes
Buy the rumor and sell the news may be in action in oil markets where prices have fallen a bit today, when you might have expected a rise. Both WTI and Brent oil are down by about 1% with WTI falling ...
Can US Take on the Russia-Saudi Oil Alliance? – Trustnodes
The OPEC oil cartel, accounting for about 40% of global oil production, has taken the surprising step of cutting oil production not by one million as they leaked, but two million barrels a day. “The d...
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Price Drops to $11,000 – Trustnodes
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) is expanding its huge discount with one bitcoin there trading for as low as $11,400 on Friday. It has slightly recovered since to almost precisely $12,000, but that’...