David Marcus Launches Bitcoin Payments Startup Lightspark
16.5.2022
David Marcus, former cryptocurrency head at Meta, is launching Lightspark, another payments company that will use crypto as its central payment tool. The startup, which will have Marcus at the helm as CEO, also features some of Meta’s former employees and will explore the possibilities...
Bitcoin Sees Seven Straight Weeks of Losses For the First Time
16.5.2022
Fears of inflation and poor macroeconomic sentiment have caused bitcoin to fail as an inflation hedge in recent weeks
Crypto Hedge Fund Elwood Closes $70M Funding Led by Goldman Sachs and Dawn Capital
16.5.2022
Australian Tax Office Warns Crypto Investors on Capital Gains Obligations
16.5.2022
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has published a guideline that sets out warnings for crypto investors on tax obligations around digital assets and NFTs
FTX CEO sees no future in Bitcoin payments, community fires back
16.5.2022
FTX CEO’s comments on Bitcoin received heavy backlash from the crypto community, with many reminding him of Solana, a PoS network that has gone offline half a dozen times
Luna Foundation Says Nearly Entire Bitcoin Stack Spent, Promises Compensation to UST Users
16.5.2022
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the entity whose task was to maintain the stability of the terraUSD (UST) peg, said it spent nearly all of its bitcoin (BTC) held in reserves to defend UST’s dollar peg as it collapsed. But from what is left, users of the failed stablecoin will be compensated...
Terra’s Fall Creates Ripples Among DeFi Networks
16.5.2022
The impact of Terra plummeting to $0 has crossed the ecosystem and created a chain reaction that brought down several DeFi networks and applications. Statistics confirm that the total TVL of the DeFi ecosystem lost nearly $100 million, fueled by this event. The current crisis is seen as a blow...
80,000 Bitcoin gone: What’s left in Luna’s reserve wallet?
16.5.2022
The Luna Foundation Guard updates the world concerning its crypto-asset reserves and shares a promise to compensate the remaining users of failed stablecoin UST
FTX's Bankman-Fried Accused of Misleading Public Over Bitcoin as FT Picks His Words 'Selectively'
16.5.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of major crypto exchange FTX, and investor in Solana (SOL), was accused of misleading the public as he omitted important facts while bashing Bitcoin (BTC). The CEO claims that his quotes were chosen "very selectively" by a mainstream media outlet, known...
Digital Euro Could Come Out Within Four Years, ECB's Panetta Says
16.5.2022
Peer-to-peer payments among friends could be a first test case, though no final decision’s yet taken, Fabio Panetta said of the central bank digital currency (CBDC)
44 Countries Fly to El Salvador to Discuss Bitcoin and Its Benefits
16.5.2022
Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, took to Twitter to announce that 32 Central Banks and 12 Financial Authorities from 44 countries were flying in on May 16, 2022, Monday. The meeting will center around the discussion related to the digital economy, financial inclusion, rolling out Bitcoin...
Luna Foundation Guard Left With 313 Bitcoin After UST Crash
16.5.2022
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), official stewards of Terra’s bitcoin reserves, released a statement today documenting how they disbursed millions of dollars worth of crypto in defense of failed UST stabelcoin’s $1 peg