Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin dropped below the $29,000 level to start the month of August, as the greenback continued to strengthen versus other G7 currencies. The U.S. dollar rose ahead of this afternoon’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which is e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bavaria’s State Office for Data Protection Supervision (DPS) has initiated an inquiry into the Worldcoin project and its data collection techniques, as disclosed in a Reuters report on Monday. This comes shortly after similar investigations by...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Veteran trader Peter Brandt has said the upcoming bitcoin halving in 2024 and the “inevitable” approval of a Bitcoin ETF by the U.S. are likely to be non-events. Brandt claimed that while the top cryptocurrency’s correlat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
David Marcus, CEO of Lightspark, a company that builds business-grade solutions to facilitate payments on top of the Lightning Network, shared his experience in developing on top of the Bitcoin scaling layer. Marcus stated that it is “incredibl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Iran has ramped up its efforts to become a member of the BRICS group ahead of the economic bloc’s summit. The Iranian deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy revealed that Iran is actively pursuing opportunities to strengthen its economi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has passed four crypto bills. “Congress is asserting its authority to design a regulatory framework, rather than allowing overzealous federal agencies to fill the gap with enforcement actions,” said the CEO...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) and former U.S. Representative Ron Paul agree that America does not have a free market. Referencing RFK Jr. stating that America has “a crony corporatist system,” Paul stressed:...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has warned that more banks in the U.S. will fail as the Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates. He stressed: “It will break down in the regional banks, which support 60% of the e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Tallinn, July 31 – Gofaizen and Sherle, the leading Estonian crypto and fintech consultancy, proudly announces the launch of its latest product in El Salvador. The innovative service offers crypto companies and startup owners wor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A new report by McKinsey & Company suggests generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could boost global economic output by trillions of dollars annually. The study, titled “The Economic Potential of Generative AI” and publ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Danielle DiMartino Booth, holding the dual roles of CEO and chief strategist at QI Research, foresees that the 22-year peak in interest rates set by the Fed is merely a precursor to what’s to come. She anticipates further upheaval within the ba...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to recent Bitcoin data, the count of pending transactions, still awaiting confirmation, has plummeted beneath the 300,000 mark, while onchain fees have seen a reduction over the past week. Starting from July 29, the average onchain fees hav...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Swisstronik, the layer-1 network for developing scalable dApps which safeguard and maintain privacy for users’ data while remaining regulatory compliant, is excited to announce the launch of its first testnet. Swisstronik Testne...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit Friday against Richard Schueler, known as Richard Heart, and his companies Hex, Pulsechain, and Pulsex, alleging they raised more than $1 billion through unregistered securities offeri...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Shiba inu remained close to a two-month high to start the week, as sentiment in the meme coin remained mostly bullish on Monday. This comes despite the global cryptocurrency market cap mostly consolidating in today’s session. Bitcoin cash was...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to Brian Armstrong, the CEO of crypto exchange Coinbase, the U.S. securities regulator reportedly told his company to delist all digital assets save for bitcoin. Armstrong said acceding to the SEC’s demand would have “meant the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin started the week trading higher, as markets prepared for a big week of economic data in the United States. The headline announcement will be Friday’s nonfarm payrolls, in addition to services and manufacturing activity data. Ethereum c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Isaias Afwerki, president of Eritrea, reinforced the need for building a new economic system away from the traditional centers of power. At the second Russia-Africa Summit, Afwerki told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the current world order, o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
NFTs represent unique and indivisible items, backed by blockchain technology, certifying their originality, scarcity, and authenticity. Whether it’s digital art, music, videos, virtual real estate, or collectible items, NFTs have become a power...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
An industry organization in Japan has suggested that the government should reform taxation rules for crypto assets and transactions. Its members are convinced that the current tax regulations hinder growth of the Web3 economy in the country and disco...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to Cato Institute experts, full dollarization of the Argentine economy helps to protect “ordinary people’s purchasing power” from corrupt politicians and “often subservient—or simply incompetent—central bankers.” The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A covert cryptocurrency mining operation, suspected of electricity theft, was uncovered in a Marina Square shophouse in Miri, Malaysia. Representatives from the Sarawak police and Sarawak Energy plant revealed that the successful operation was made p...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue, Argentina is likely to settle part of a payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) using the Chinese yu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Two masterminds of the Telecoin cryptocurrency scam will each serve more than six years in jail after a court in the United Kingdom found them guilty of fraud. According to Lee Parish, the detective chief inspector, the duo used the allure of crypto...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Kyrgyzstan intends to build a new facility for cryptocurrency mining at one of the country’s hydroelectric stations. The project aims to minimize the power plant’s electricity losses by utilizing its full generating capacity that currently exceeds th...
