Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Economist Peter Schiff has predicted that the U.S. Federal Reserve will ultimately throw in the towel on its inflation fight to confront “something it fears even more, which is a complete economic collapse, another financial crisis, or a sovere...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. GameSwift has announced the open alpha version of its all-in-one Platform for playing and building web3 games. It features the GameSwift ID – a revolutionary passwordless sign-on system with an in-built wallet that offers seamles...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Israel’s public stock exchange is suggesting regulatory amendments that would permit some clients to trade crypto assets. The proposals, which have been put forward for public consultation, come at the backdrop of a growing number of regulated instit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Bitcoin blockchain has 40.49 gigabytes (GB) to go until it reaches half a terabyte (TB), and with the recent trend of Ordinal inscriptions, it’s likely to get there faster. The average block size reached a high of 2.52 megabytes (MB) on Fe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Roughly 11 days ago, it was reported that Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at FTX, was working with federal prosecutors to arrange a plea deal. On Tuesday, Singh pleaded guilty to criminal charges and stated, “I am unbelievably sorry...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
According to a recent report from sources familiar with the matter, Mastercard and Visa, the credit card and payment services giants, are halting new partnerships with cryptocurrency firms. This news comes after the collapse of several cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Avalanche fell to a two-week low on Tuesday, as the token broke out of a key support point. Prices fell below a floor at $17.50, which comes as the global cryptocurrency market cap is down by 1.01% as of writing. Polkadot also extended its recent los...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Following the initial incident on Feb. 25, Solana resolved the blockchain’s performance degradation after validators decided to restart the network. According to an outage report following more than 24 hours of downtime, Solana developers detailed th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, the number of Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain crossed 200,000 at 1:02 p.m. Eastern Time. In addition to the 200,000 inscriptions, Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible tokens (NFT...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin and ethereum were trading lower on Feb. 28, as markets anticipated the release of the upcoming U.S. consumer confidence report. The data, which is for February, is expected to show a slight increase in confidence for the month. This will like...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Wallbit, a crypto-enabled neobank, announced it would stop serving users in Venezuela after its banking partner in the U.S. called on it to do so. The platform announced this move was the direct result of the economic sanctions that the country is cu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Web3 gaming platform Iskra breaks into the Top 10 Games ranking list on DappRadar, the world’s leading directory for decentralized apps or dApps, in a promising start for the project in 2023.
Iskra also reached another milestone as the #1 app on the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Several Japanese tech and finance giants have signed a document to create the Japan Metaverse Economic Zone, a multipurpose virtual universe that will have its base in a platform called Ryugukoku. The virtual world will allow these companies to share...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Neal Stephenson, ostensibly the first to coin the term “metaverse,” issued his opinion about the future of the adoption of virtual worlds. The sci-fi writer and co-founder of Lamina1, a blockchain metaverse company, believes that building...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Monday, Wasabi Wallet and the open-source bitcoin payment processor Btcpay announced a new plugin for the Btcpay server. The plugin implements Wasabi’s Wabisabi coinjoin coordination protocol, allowing merchants to benefit from privacy enha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors recognize that cryptocurrencies pose major risks to financial stability, monetary systems, and cyber security, India’s central bank governor reportedly said. Crypto regulation was among the k...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has detailed why he considers all crypto tokens other than bitcoin as securities. While acknowledging that crypto tokens may have different setups, he stressed that “at th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced it will suspend trading and delist the Paxos-managed stablecoin asset BUSD. The decision follows Paxos’ revelation that the New York State Department of Financial Services directed the firm to stop iss...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Trezor, the manufacturer of crypto hardware wallets, has announced that it will take control of its wallet chip production process by producing its own silicon chips. The company states that the newly designed “chip wrapper” will enhance...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Shiba inu started the week trading marginally higher, despite cryptocurrencies mostly consolidating on Feb. 27. At the time of writing, the global market cap is currently up 0.83%, as volatility has intensified. Litecoin also rebounded on Monday, hit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The bitcoin mining operation, Mawson Infrastructure Group, Inc., announced that the firm has broken ground at a new site in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Reports detail that Mawson has delivered six modular production units capable of housing 3,528 applicati...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin consolidated below the $24,000 level on Feb. 27, as cryptocurrency markets prepared for a big week of economic data. Durable goods orders from the United States will be released later today, with consumer confidence figures set for Tuesday. E...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A tokenized version of the digital real, the Brazilian central bank digital currency (CBDC), has passed a public blockchain pilot test successfully. The test, which was carried out by Mercado Bitcoin, a local exchange, using the Stellar network, show...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. Flynt Finance, a cryptocurrency portfolio management platform, has announced a partnership with Ceffu, formerly known as Binance Custody, to provide its clients with enhanced asset storage security and access to its off-exchange settle...