Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a reminder that crypto trading platforms must obtain a license to operate in Hong Kong before the grace period ends on June 1. The regulator warned that operating without a license is a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Cathie Wood, CEO of asset management firm Ark Invest, recently met with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and discussed bitcoin. She praised his progressive approach to economic and educational reforms. “President Bukele’s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The presidential meme coin fervor persists, with the token maga (TRUMP) hitting an all-time high of $15.45 on Wednesday. This surge elevated the value of Donald Trump’s TRUMP coins to $8.06 million on May 29. Additionally, various Trump-related crypt...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pay over $1.8 million in its case against the crypto firm Digital Licensing, also known as Debt Box. The penalty resulted from the SEC’s bad faith conduct in obtai...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Payments giant Paypal has made Paypal USD (PYUSD) available on the Solana blockchain, making the stablecoin “faster and cheaper to use.” Platforms like Crypto.com, Phantom, and Paxos are among the first to offer PYUSD on Solana, alongside Paypal and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Blocksquare, a real estate tokenization protocol, has announced that it has tokenized $100 million in properties across various sectors. The team believes this marks a significant advancement in the digital real estate market, facilitated by the laun...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Financial giant Mastercard has initiated its first real-world application of the Crypto Credential system, a system aimed at facilitating easier and more secure peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency transactions. The service, which allows users to transf...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Importance of Being SRC20: The recent report published by Universelle, covered first by bitcoin.com highlights the superiority of the SRC20 ecosystem despite being undervalued due to limited awareness. This comprehensive analysis demon...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has teamed up with Coindesk Indices to develop cash-settled options contracts that track bitcoin prices. These contracts, based on the Coindesk Bitcoin Price Index (XBX), are currently in the planning stage and awai...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
While liquid staking protocols experienced a brief period of withdrawals, the past 12 days have seen liquid staking derivatives (LSDs) platforms gain 110,000 ether valued at $417.59 million. Swell Experiences Decline as Lido and Others See ETH Increa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The new PlayDoge ($PLAY) presale has kicked off with a bang, having raised $250K in its opening day. With the project introducing a new Play-to-Earn (P2E) game to the meme coin market, PlayDoge is well-positioned between two hot crypto narratives, hi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw another day of inflows on Tuesday, marking the 11th consecutive day of gains. Despite reports suggesting Blackrock’s IBIT holds more bitcoin than Grayscale’s GBTC, IBIT’s officia...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Toronto [May 29, 2024] Blockchain Futurist Conference is coming together with Emerald, America’s largest producer of business-to-business trade shows, and their associated conferences, content and commerce, to grow the Canadian show an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
May has emerged as a notable month for ‘sleeping bitcoin’ transactions, with a long-dormant address, inactive for ten years and six months, awakening on May 28 to move 145.89 BTC, valued at $9.8 million. Over $109 Million in Bitcoin Fro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Ripple announced a $25 million contribution to Fairshake, a federal super Political Action Committee (PAC) supporting pro-crypto political candidates in the 2024 elections. This follows a similar $25 million contribution made in 2023. The investment...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin’s price on May 29, 2024, reflects a period of consolidation following recent volatility. The current price stands at $67,739 with an intraday range of $67,201 to $68,880. Technical indicators and moving averages provide a mixed outlook...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin Well Inc., a non-custodial bitcoin platform, has announced the integration of the Lightning Network into its platform, enabling customers in Canada to instantly sell bitcoin from any personal Lightning Wallet. Bitcoin Well’s founder ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Dash team has announced the integration of Dash into Wizarbit, a Lithuania-regulated cryptocurrency exchange and card provider. This development allows users to purchase Dash instantly with euros at competitive rates using a credit card. Wizarbit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Nomura, a global financial services group, Laser Digital, a digital asset-based business, and GMO Internet, the parent company of stablecoin issuer GMO-Z, have partnered to explore the issuance of U.S. dollar and yen based stablecoins in Japan. The p...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Singapore, May 29, 2024 – To sustain the growth and success of the BitTorrent ecosystem, BTFS is set to implement a halving on the next round of rewards for storage miners on the BTFS network. From 00:00 (UTC) June 25, 2024, the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Bank of Israel has announced the Digital Shekel Challenge, inviting various entities — private companies, public sector organizations, and academic institutions — to participate in the digital shekel’s experimental environment. The initiati...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The South African Reserve Bank has reportedly decided not to unveil the findings of the initial phase of its central bank digital currency feasibility study. Instead, the central bank said it is currently focused on the second phase of the study and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A federal jury in Salt Lake City convicted Oluwole Adegboruwa and Enrique Isong, foreign nationals, of multiple drug-related charges. From 2016 to 2019, they generated over $8 million in cryptocurrency, including bitcoin and ethereum. Adegboruwa oper...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Sebastian Serrano, CEO of Ripio, one of the largest exchanges in Latam, stated that Brazilian companies were already harnessing cryptocurrency to pay their Chinese suppliers. In an interview, Serrano asserted that Latam countries harnessed crypto in...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Ethereum has experienced a significant increase since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a group of spot ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This week, ether reached a high of $3,980 per coin, which is approximately 18.4% belo...
