South Korean gov't makes $10.5M profit from 4-year-old Bitcoin crime haul
1.4.2021
The coins languished in cold storage for four years after being confiscated by authorities during an arrest
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of March and 1st Quarter of 2021
1.4.2021
March came to an end, and with it the first quarter of 2021. Both turned out to be very green for the crypto market. As a matter of fact, not a single coin's price from the top 50 by market capitalization dropped over the past three months, and only one among the top 100 did.
As the last month...
Free Bitcoin: Major US Fast Food Chain Chipotle Giving Away $100K in BTC to Celebrate National Burrito Day
1.4.2021
Chipotle Mexican Grill says it is giving away bitcoin and free burritos to celebrate National Burrito Day. The company has created a game where each participant will have 10 tries to guess a valid six-digit code for a chance to win a free burrito or up to $25,000 in bitcoin. Free Burritos...
MLB's Oakland A’s Sell Full-Season Suite For Bitcoin
1.4.2021
Source: Screenshot, Instagram/athletics
The Oakland Athletics have become the first team in Major League Baseball to sell tickets for cryptocurrency as a full-season six-person suite was picked up by crypto asset platform Voyager Digital.
The embrace of bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptoassets could...
Total crypto market capitalization posts new all-time high above $1.9T
1.4.2021
Total crypto market cap briefly surpassed that of Saudi Aramco
South Korea will use blockchain to prevent counterfeit vaccine passports
1.4.2021
Blockchain technology is being used to cement confidence in the integrity of new health surveillance measures such as COVID-19 vaccine passports
April Bulls Day? Bitcoin just closed its best March and Q1 since 2013
1.4.2021
No hint of bearish traditions returning to Bitcoin markets this year as 2021 bucks the trend for March to bring serious downside. Will Q2 deliver on expectations?
NFT investment vehicle set to go public in London
1.4.2021
The newly formed investment firm expects to reach a valuation of just under $35 million
Ripple Bosses Break from Legal Battle to Bash Bitcoin
1.4.2021
Brad Garlinghouse. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Ripple
Not content with fighting the American regulatory Securities and Exchange Commission over the nature of the XRP token, the heads of Ripple have picked a fight with bitcoin (BTC) advocates – attacking the Bitcoin network’s often-maligned...
Japan's FSA asks cryptocurrency industry group to introduce FATF travel rule
1.4.2021
Japan has been a member of the FATF since 1990
Stake Announces Wagering Race with 1 Million USD in Rewards
1.4.2021
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
APRIL 1st, 2021 - Stake.com will host one of the biggest gambling events of the year - a wagering race with a whopping prize pool of 1 million USD. This is the biggest prize pool ever given away by the crypto...
A Forex Broker Transfers 1,200 BTC Belonging to the Mirror Trading International to a South African Liquidator
1.4.2021
Fresh reports from South Africa suggest that a total of 1,200 bitcoins belonging to the now-defunct Mirror Trading International (MTI) were recently transferred from FX Choice to an appointed liquidator. The reports add the transfer had been sanctioned by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority...