Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Crypto miners are now in the crosshairs of US legislators. A crypto mining bill that pushes for transparency on gas emissions data is being pushed back in Congress, courtesy of U.S. Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. Jared Huffman. The bill is being reintro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Xapo Bank announced it has integrated the Lightning Network and formed a partnership with Lightspark. This collaboration will make the organization the first private bank to accept Lightning payments with a complete license. According to a press rele...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Binance USD (BUSD) has suffered a steep decline in active addresses following the regulatory crackdown by U.S. authorities. This development continues a series of dips within the Binance ecosystem in recent weeks. BUSD Active Address Shows Regression...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
One of the ways to increase investors’ interest in crypto is network improvement. Developers of cryptocurrencies usually come up with improvement proposals to make the network efficient, accommodating the needs of the users and fixing issues hi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
A report by The Wall Street Journal reveals the alleged illicit acts of Bitfinex and Tether in 2018. This is one of the many legal issues and controversies that have characterized Tether since its launch in 2014. One of the past legal issues with Te...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Microstrategy recently took to Twitter to reassure investors – and the market as a whole – of its supposedly “minimal exposure” to Silvergate, a struggling crypto bank that has since been the subject of online discourse after...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The crypto market is still reeling from Bitcoin’s price drop on Saturday. The largest cryptocurrency by market cap took the majority of the market down with it after succumbing to bearish trends. But it seems that this is not the end as investors exp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Amid the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) objections to BinanceUS’s attempt to acquire cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital, rumors have spread throughout the crypto community that Binance has called off the deal. Binance̵...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Coinbase has recently acquired digital asset manager One River (ORDAM), a leading institutional digital asset manager, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a registered investment advisor. The newly acquired digital asset manager was ann...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The crypto market is rife with oddities. The lack of regulation has allowed meme coins, bizarre experiments, and more to flourish. As a result, nothing is too surprising to cryptocurrency investors these days. However, a shocking story made it around...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Big tech giant Apple has had a troublesome relationship with the crypto industry, which could further worsen by a new decision. The company behind developing the Ethereum-based decentralized exchange, Uniswap Labs, announced a mobile wallet. The co...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Following several reports of hacks in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space last year, DeFi still seems to remain the main target for bad actors in the industry. According to data from DefiLlama, millions of dollars have been siphoned from the DeFi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Ethereum devs have also been preparing for another upgrade, the Shanghai hard fork, to improve the network. The developers have been at it for months and have just announced that they’re pushing the Shanghai upgrade to early April. Several recent upg...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The Bitcoin and crypto market could be headed for another sideways trend until March 22. QCP Capital, a leading digital asset trading firm in Asia based in Singapore, has released a new market analysis related to the current macroeconomic environment...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
BUSD stablecoin recorded some setbacks after the US SEC’s recent enforcement action on its issuer, Paxos. Aside from a plunge in trading volume, BUSD’s market capitalization has also plummeted significantly. Recent data shows that BUSD...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
MATIC has succumbed to the bearish tide that is plaguing the markets at the time of writing. Data by cryptocurrency tracker CoinGecko shows that the token itself is flashing red in almost all time frames with the monthly being an exception with an 11...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
BitBNS is an India-based crypto exchange that got compromised on February 1, 2022. But the incident came to light following ZachXBT, a crypto on-chain detective company, uncovered the incident on Wednesday. Gaurav Dahake, the founder of the exchange,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The crypto market continues to lurch from the recent Silvergate crisis. Most recently, the crypto-focused bank, Silvergate, had delayed filing its annual 10-K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has aggravated its downfall...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Silvergate shares experienced a significant decline of nearly 60% on Thursday due to both business partners and investors leaving abruptly to avoid financial instability. The drop was the largest ever seen for Silvergate. On Wednesday, Silvergate an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Crypto lender firm Celsius has announced that customers can now withdraw their assets from its platform eight months after the company filed for bankruptcy. According to an official tweet on March 2, withdrawals are now available, albeit for certain...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
HSBC and Nationwide Building Society have become the latest major banks in the United Kingdom to impose a ban on their customers’ crypto purchases, according to Bloomberg. The move follows a notice from British regulator Financial Conduct Auth...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Stuart Alderoty, the chief legal officer (CLO) of Ripple Labs, has revealed in a new interview that the fintech company will immediately appeal if judge Analisa Torres grants summary judgment in favor of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Is the Miami narrative around crypto dead and gone? Bear market conditions have certainly trimmed dialogue around the most crypto-friendly markets in the US, but one new report suggests that it’s not all doom and gloom. Miami’s once domin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), continues to crack down on the crypto industry. In an investor advisory committee, the SEC Chair declared that lending platforms and crypto exchanges operate “investment adv...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Cycle expert Bob Loukas recently shared a long-term look at Bitcoin which suggests that the top cryptocurrency is ready for another bullish trend. However, an equity-driven “roadblock” remains in the way. In this post, we’ll explain...
