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How trade wars impact stocks and crypto
16.4.2025
The 2025 US-China trade war On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump declared a national economic emergency and announced sweeping new import tariffs.Dubbed “Liberation Day,” the policy set a baseline 10% tariff on all foreign goods, with a massive...
How trade wars impact stocks and crypto
16.4.2025
The 2025 US-China trade war On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump declared a national economic emergency and announced sweeping new import tariffs.Dubbed “Liberation Day,” the policy set a baseline 10% tariff on all foreign goods, with a massive...
Bitcoin’s wide price range to continue, no longer a ‘long only’ bet — Analyst
16.4.2025
Bitcoin could be heading into another extended consolidation phase, with short-term indicators suggesting a more bearish outlook, contrary to the broader crypto community’s view, according to the head of research at 10x Research.While many crypto analysts predict new Bitcoin (BTC) all-time...
Chipmaker stocks slide as Nvidia faces $5.5B charge with US restrictions
16.4.2025
Chipmaking giants Nvidia and AMD have seen their share prices slide in after-hours trading after Nvidia said US restrictions on artificial intelligence chips to China would cause it to face major costs.Nvidia stated in an April 15 regulatory filing that it is expecting around $5.5 billion...
Brazil’s Meliuz floats to boost Bitcoin buying strategy
16.4.2025
Brazilian fintech firm Meliuz has floated a plan to expand its Bitcoin holdings and make the cryptocurrency a strategic asset on the company’s books.Meliuz, which provides cashback and financial technology services, is taking the plan to make Bitcoin (BTC) the primary strategic asset in...
China selling seized crypto to top up coffers as economy slows: Report
16.4.2025
Local governments in China are reportedly seeking ways to offload seized crypto while facing challenges due to the country’s ban on crypto trading and exchanges.The absence of clear rules on how authorities should manage seized cryptocurrency has led to “inconsistent and opaque...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: ‘Privacy is freedom’
16.4.2025
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that privacy should be a top priority for developers, warning that assumptions about transparency and good intentions in global politics are overly optimistic.In an April 14 blog post, Buterin argued that privacy is essential to maintain individual...
Aztec launches StealthNote app giving privacy to corporate whistleblowers
16.4.2025
Developers behind the Ethereum layer 2 Aztec Network have launched a whistleblowing platform called StealthNote that allows workers to vent about their employer without revealing themselves.StealthNote uses zero-knowledge proofs to prove that posts on its platform are written by someone with access...
Semler Scientific reports $42M paper loss on Bitcoin, floats $500M stock sale
16.4.2025
Healthcare technology firm Semler Scientific has reported paper losses on its Bitcoin holdings over the first quarter of this year as the cryptocurrency saw a heavy correction. The firm reported a preliminary unrealized loss from the change in fair value of Bitcoin holdings of approximately...
Bitcoin bulls ‘coming back’ as key metric on Binance flips to neutral
16.4.2025
Bullish sentiment could be returning to Bitcoin as a key metric from Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, shows that buyers are starting to dominate the platform’s volumes.The Binance Taker Buy Sell Ratio, which calculates the ratio of buyers to sellers of Bitcoin (BTC)...
UK lawmaker’s X account hacked to boost scam ‘House of Commons Coin’
16.4.2025
The X account of UK member of Parliament and Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, was hacked to promote a scam crypto token.In a series of now-deleted posts on April 15, Powell’s X account shared links to a token called the House of Commons Coin (HOC), describing it as “a...
Strive targets Intuit for Bitcoin buys after orange-pilling GameStop
16.4.2025
Fresh from successfully convincing game retailer GameStop to add Bitcoin to its balance sheet, Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole has now set his sights on fintech firm Intuit to do the same.Cole said in an April 14 open letter to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi that Intuit’s growth...
Mantra CEO plans to burn team’s tokens in bid to win community trust
16.4.2025
Mantra CEO John Mullin said he is planning to burn all of his team’s tokens in order to win back the trust of the network’s community following the sudden collapse of the Mantra (OM) token on April 13.“I’m planning to burn all of my team tokens and when we turn it around...
Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remake Screenshots Leak Online
15.4.2025
After years of rumors and speculation that Bethesda was working on a remake of the landmark role-playing game, the first screenshots of this brand new version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have been found as fans started digging around the developer’s website ahead of a reported release next...
Trump Shocks With Massive New Tariffs That Could Make The Switch 2 Cost More Than $600
3.4.2025
Fans faced a bit of sticker shock today when Nintendo revealed the Switch 2 would cost $450, especially with some new physical games set to cost as much as $90. But the price of upgrading to the Mario maker’s next console generation is set to get even worse after President Donald Trump announced...
Northern Trust to Provide Custody, Cash Management Services for Stablecoin Issuer Haycen
27.3.2025
Haycen provides stablecoin-based solutions for non-bank lenders in global trade
Game Developers Launch North America's First Industry-Wide Union Anyone Can Join
19.3.2025
Game industry unionization efforts that exploded across Sega of America, Bethesda, and others have recently been on pause. A new initiative by the Communications Workers of America could jumpstart things again. At the Game Developers Conference 2025 happening this week, the group announced...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Promises To Nuke A Currency Players Just 'Shredded' Tons Of Rare Cards To Stock Up On
14.3.2025
The “T” in Pokémon TCG Pocket stands for “trading,” but ironically that’s been the worst part of the game ever since the feature launched earlier this year. Finally, the mobile hit’s developers have promised a major overhaul of the busted system, though the fixes could still take a long time...
Crypto.com’s Explosive Growth Reshapes Exchange Rankings
20.2.2025
Total centralized exchange volume reached $18.83 trillion, the second-highest in five years, though still below 2021’s record of $25.21 trillion. 2021 Marked by Key Events In 2024, Binance remained the largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange, despite its share of total trading volume...
What is Tether (USDt), and how does it work?
9.2.2025
USDt explained for beginners: Learn how Tether works, why it’s popular and how it stacks up against other stablecoins