Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), joined by 16 state attorney generals, filed an antitrust lawsuit against tech giant Apple, claiming its app store rules create a monopoly that hampers competition and stifles innovation. The lawsuit argu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Okx has notified its users in India that the platform is shutting down services in the country “due to local regulations.” The exchange has advised users in India to “withdraw all funds” from their acco...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Gold bug Peter Schiff has highlighted a problem with owning spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). However, the issue Schiff pinpointed isn’t unique to bitcoin ETFs. This discussion has reignited calls for self-custody among crypto propone...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has advised investors to buy as many bitcoins as they can afford, noting that China is in trouble and this is not the time to buy stocks and bonds. “This is the time to buy real gold, real silver, a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
“Mining for Power,” an anti-Bitcoin report by Greenpeace USA that explains the links between the bitcoin mining industry and fossil fuel companies, has faced a backlash in social media due to its inaccurate portraits of the mining activit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin miners face two additional difficulty adjustments before the network’s halving event, which is rapidly approaching, with less than 4,300 blocks remaining. Data indicates the total hashrate has recovered from a minor dip, suggesting min...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
An investigation carried out by blockchain sleuth Zackxbt has found that the trend where individuals ask for funds on social networks and promote their meme coin launches has grown in popularity. Almost $150 million has been raised on Solana after Bo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In its latest “Halving Handbook,” Coinbase Institutional draws striking comparisons between the upcoming Bitcoin halving and the market cycle from 2018-2022, offering insights into the potential impacts on the crypto economy. Co...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
As Bitcoin’s network halving event draws near, Glassnode’s latest report sheds light on the evolving trading strategies in the face of significant demand from ETFs, signaling a pivotal shift in the cryptocurrency market. Glassnode Repor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Amid a widespread downturn in the cryptocurrency markets this week, tokens based on artificial intelligence (AI) have nevertheless attracted billions of dollars in additional investment. In the last month, the AI-focused cryptocurrency sector has exp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Publicly traded bitcoin mining companies experienced a revival this week, as numerous stocks saw double-digit increases on Wednesday. Shares of Cleanspark soared by 22.8%, Marathon’s shares climbed by 16.1%, and Riot’s shares increased by...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Contrary to the perception that decentralized applications (dapps) are unstoppable, many are “reliant on centralized middleware components in the extreme.” James Bayly, COO at Subquery, argues that such an overreliance on centralized midd...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) has staged a sharp recovery rally after finding crucial support, providing relief for crypto bulls. The world’s largest cryptocurrency is back above $67,000 at the time of writing, regaining ground after the recent selloff. Ridin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Polygon’s Napoli hard fork, incorporating the RIP-7212 upgrade, marks a significant advancement in interoperability with mainstream tech by introducing support for the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm commonly used across the internet...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The smart contracts platform Avalanche recently said it is collaborating with the Chinese payments giant Alipay to launch a Web3-enabled voucher program. The second phase will see the proof of concept being expanded to more than 100 million users fro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Alexey Pertsev, a developer for Tornado Cash, has reportedly been indicted by prosecutors in the Netherlands. They accuse him of laundering $1.2 billion. Pertsev’s attorney confirmed the prosecutors’ intent to charge his client. Accordi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
During the Ethtaipei 2024 event in Taiwan, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin introduced “rainbow staking,” a new conceptual framework designed to allow protocol service providers to engage in a differentiated menu of protocol services. Rai...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has submitted its 2025 budget request, which will partly fund the securities watchdog’s efforts to regulate the crypto sector. “We’ve seen the Wild West of the crypto markets, rife with no...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A group of 85 economists has supported the Honduran government’s decision to leave the World Bank’s arbitration body, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), amidst a legal conflict with the crypto island p...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Coinbase has been chosen as a key infrastructure provider for Blackrock’s newly unveiled tokenized investment fund, the crypto exchange has revealed. “This is the latest progression of our digital assets strategy,” said Blackrock’s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The valuation of bitcoin (BTC) tapped the $68,000 mark merely 17 hours following its dip to $60,760 per unit. Following the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) session, the entire crypto market has seen a 5.9% upturn, with bitcoin rising 6.8%...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Meme coin mania has taken a backseat in recent days as the speculation that drove viral tokens to billions in market cap cools off. With the broader crypto market also in the red over the past week, the air has come out of many of these meme-themed p...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In a detailed letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, the legal representatives for Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, have vehemently argued against the government’s recommendation for a 50-year prison sentence, lab...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Wednesday, March 20, 2024, Cryptopunk #7,804 exchanged hands for a sum of 4,850 ethereum (ETH), equivalent to $16,382,444. This transaction marked it as the collection’s second highest-priced non-fungible token (NFT) sale. It surpassed the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The insolvent cryptocurrency lender, Genesis, has petitioned a U.S. bankruptcy court to approve a proposed settlement principle announced on Feb. 28. According to an update, if the court approves the settlement, Genesis Earn users will receive all of...
