Showing posts from March, 2021
The Weeknd to drop NFTs on the weekend, a tennis player sold space on her arm as an NFT, Takashi Murakami has released 108 NFT flowers.

Nifty News: Weeknd NFT collection, arm space ads, Takashi Murakami joins revolution

The Prime Minister of South Korea has announced a blockchain-based vaccine certificate will launch later this month, but the concept has pr...

South Korea to launch blockchain-based vaccine passports

R/Dogecoin was the third-most active crypto group on Reddit behind r/CryptoCurrency and r/Bitcoin this week.

Hot DOGE nips at the heels of r/Bitcoin on Reddit

The A’s become the first team in Major League Baseball to sell tickets for cryptocurrency.

Oakland Athletics MLB team has sold a suite season ticket for Bitcoin for the first time

Riot Blockchain has published its 2020 financials and revealed it has increased its hashrate by 460%.

Riot Blockchain’s hashing capacity grew 460% in 2020: Report

Bitcoin's last six monthly candles have closed green, tying its previous record streak for bullish monthly candles.

Bitcoin closes six monthly green candles for the first time since 2013

Bakkt believes its new crypto payments app will unlock more than $1 trillion worth of digital assets for commerce.

Bakkt launches payments app as institutions compete for crypto assets

Over the last year, the cryptocurrency space has evolved from an industry of speculative assets, to providing globally-usable financial prod...

PARSIQ Debuts IQ Protocol: A Risk-Free DeFi Protocol to Redefine the SaaS Market

Galaxy Digital’s billionaire CEO told CNBC he’s shocked at the speed of cryptocurrency adoption.

Bitcoin on ‘inevitable path’ to reach gold’s market cap – Mike Novogratz

Victoria Bitter has partnered with blockchain energy trading platform Power Ledger to allow customers to earn beer with surplus solar energ...

Australians can now exchange solar energy credits for beer with blockchain

Brink, a nonprofit focused on financial support and mentorship for Bitcoin developers, has announced three new grant recipients. Brink, a n...

Brink Awards Three Bitcoin Development Grants

Cryptoassets will be available to Goldman investors at some point in Q2, comments from an incoming senior executive quoted by CNBC suggest.

Goldman Sachs readying Bitcoin product for clients — BTC bounces above $58K

Recent comments from Chamath Palihapitiya indicate that he doesn’t understand how inflation or monetary sovereignty really work. While bill...

Why Chamath Is Wrong About Inflation

What the planned EIP-1559 could mean for Ethereum, DeFi and miners.

The Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559: Is the squeeze worth the juice?

Financial crimes reporting obligations are irrespective of a crypto firm’s total annual revenue.

UK crypto firms must now submit yearly financial crimes reports

The ECB will decide whether to proceed with digital euro pilots by mid-2021, Lagarde said.

Digital euro could take four years, says ECB president Christine Lagarde

Chinese banks will soon have access to a permissioned version of the Corda Enterprise infrastructure via the country's Blockchain Servi...

China's blockchain project BSN to integrate R3 Corda

Bitcoin bears attempted to take control during the early European session as the cryptocurrency neared a $60,000-valuation. The BTC/USD exc...

Solid Upside Rejection as Bitcoin Tests $60,000; What to Expect?

Apple removed the fake Trezor app several times, but it kept appearing on the App Store days later.

iPhone user blames Apple for $600K Bitcoin theft via fake app

Tokenization of real-world commodities could drastically reduce trading costs, says one Swiss startup as it pilots a new non-fungible token...

Swiss startup launches tokenized grain trading pilot

A flash crash on short timeframes for BTC/USD induces panic among long traders, but for analysts, it's business as usual.

Bitcoin flash crashes by $2K in 5 minutes, liquidating $600M in longs

Bitcoin held gains, bond yields rose, and gold slipped ahead of President Biden’s next big spending push that could total anywhere between $...

Bitcoin Eyes $60,000-Breakout Ahead of Biden Spending Announcement

Blockstream has announced the launch of a new security token backed by the company's mining facilities.

Adam Back unveils Blockstream’s new Bitcoin mining security token

NYT likens the NFT bubble to the plague induced “tulip mania” of the 1600s, Polkamon NFTs generate more than $1 million in gas fees, and a ...

Nifty News: NYT says NFTs in pandemic-fueled bubble, Polkamon eggs produce $1M gas ...

Carter argues that mining is concentrated in areas where there is an excess of energy.

Nic Carter takes aim at claims Bitcoin is an environmental disaster

Basketball legend Michael Jordan and Hollywood icon Will Smith are among a group of investors in Dapper Lab’s latest funding round.

Michael Jordan, Will Smith join $305M funding round for NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs

Amid the threat of dollar debasement, Kraken’s Jesse Powell believes Lamborghinis and Bugattis may be a better measure of Bitcoin’s value i...

One BTC will be worth a Lambo by 2022, and a Bugatti by 2023: Kraken CEO

LBRY is in the SEC’s firing line for selling unregistered securities. It claims the case could set a precedent that would affect much of th...

LBRY fires back at SEC over 'aggressive and disastrous ' securities complaint

Marathon plans to divert all hash power to its new, regulatory compliant Bitcoin mining pool from May 1.

The blacklist: Marathon only mining ‘fully compliant’ Bitcoin transactions

There’s an opportunity cost in every decision you make, but choosing to pay a university over buying bitcoin could cost more than you think....

Bitcoin Will Make You Rich, Not Attending A University

Juicy interest rates on lending platforms are attracting Bitcoiners who are looking to stack more sats. But the devil is in the details. Bi...

Deconstructing The Bitcoin Lending Landscape in 2021: How To Lend Wisely And Avoid Disaster

Tether’s reserves for its USDT stablecoin exceed the amount required to redeem the digital asset tokens, according to auditing firm Moore C...

Tether stablecoin is fully backed, says new assurance report

The Bitcoin market capitalization is once again sufficient to cover the M1 money supply of either Australia or Canada.

Bitcoin market cap exceeds Canada's M1 money supply once again

An Edinburgh music school will begin to accept tuition payments in the form of cryptocurrency.

Scottish music school accepts cryptocurrency as payment for lessons

Investors include Aave Ventures, Kyber Network, Sino Global, CoinFund, Spartan and others.

Delta Exchange completes $5M token raise following investments from DeFi players

The Ethereum ecosystem and some outside power players are banding together to give Flow a run for their money

Consensys announces layer-two NFT platform, Palm, to compete with Flow

The company building Moonbeam is focusing on integration work and a renewed marketing push.

Moonbeam’s PureStake raises $6M ahead of parachain launch on Polkadot

Blockstream has announced the launch of Blockstream Mining Note, a Liquid-based security token that tokenizes its bitcoin mining hash rate. ...

Blockstream Launches Bitcoin Mining Hash Rate Token

British regulators have identified the stablecoin market as their primary assignment amid efforts to create a legal framework for virtual c...

UK authorities to focus on stablecoin regulations to prevent monopolies

A checkout service will be implemented which waives transaction fees for purchases made using crypto, PayPal's president and CEO confir...

PayPal to start letting US customers pay in Bitcoin at global merchants

The latest adoption step for Bitcoin and some altcoins will receive official confirmation on Tuesday, PayPal tells Reuters.

Bitcoin jumps past $59K as PayPal launches crypto payments at 29M merchants

The digital ruble will become an integral part of national settlements by 2023 or 2024, Anatoly Aksakov of the Russian State Duma predicted...

Digital ruble is ‘highest form of money’, Russian Bitcoin critic says

A federal judge has accepted token holders' claim that their interests are not being adequately represented in the SEC's ongoing la...

XRP holders get green light for motion to intervene in SEC vs Ripple case

When Bitcoin surged to an all-time high of $17,000 in late 2017, the cryptocurrency headlined media outlets and financial journals — but not...

Bitcoin Has Won Over Institutional Investors: Could Governments Be Next?

The bill would give legal recognition to transfers and registrations made through blockchain smart contracts.

Iowa House approves bill to legally recognize blockchain smart contracts

Bitcoin prices traded narrowly higher Tuesday as it attempted to offset profit-selling behavior against an ongoing turmoil on Wall Street. ...

Bitcoin Firm as Archegos Fiasco Raises Conflagration Concerns; What’s Next?