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A nightmare on Stable Street: Centralized stablecoins may be doomed
18.4.2021
Central banks are paying very close attention to stablecoins, seeking to control them — and decentralization may be the solution
Miami-Dade Officials Hope to Launch a Crypto Task Force, Residents Could Pay Taxes in Bitcoin Soon
17.4.2021
Back in mid-February, Bitcoin.com News reported on Miami’s Mayor Francis Suarez supporting the idea of the city holding bitcoin in the treasury and allowing tax payments in bitcoin as well. On April 15, 2021, reports show that the city may introduce the tax payments concept soon, as...
Crypto Markets Lose Hot Air, DOGE and BCH Skyrocket, 46% Chance ETH Hits $2,600 by May
16.4.2021
Digital currency markets have seen some slight losses on Friday morning, as a great number of cryptocurrencies saw significant gains the day prior. Bitcoin dropped to a low of $60,042 during the early morning trading sessions shedding 3% during the last 24 hours. Crypto Markets Shed Some Value...
Bitmain's new Ether ASIC mining rig may not fix GPU shortage after all
16.4.2021
A new Ether ASIC mining rig is on the way, but will it help ease Nvidia's GPU problems?
Blackrock CEO says crypto 'may become a great asset class' but is no substitute for currency
15.4.2021
Larry Fink said he hadn't been seeing great institutional demand for crypto within Blackrock's circles
Skate City Rolls Onto PC And Consoles May 6
15.4.2021
Skate City, the artful street skating game from Alto’s Odyssey creators Snowman, finally makes the leap from Apple Arcade to PC and console next month, bringing its chill lo-fi beats and dreamy rides to PlayStations, Xboxens, Switch, and PC on May 6. Read more
$5,000 Ethereum by the end of May? On-chain data suggests so
14.4.2021
The current speculative trend and Ethereum's price premium suggest that the altcoin's price could more than double over the next 7 weeks
CEO says PayPal’s crypto commerce may reach $200M volume in just months
14.4.2021
Forbes’ “2021 Blockchain 50 Symposium: Crypto Goes Corporate” event sheds light on the future of Bitcoin for large corporations
Singapore Crypto Exchange Bityard to Launch Its First Global Trading Contest
14.4.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Singapore crypto exchange Bityard will launch its first trading contest before May 2021, with up to 60,000 Tether prize pool. The contest registration for each team’s captain is now open. As mainstream cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether have been increasing gradually...
Nintendo Unveils New Blue Switch Lite, Which May Also Be Purple
13.4.2021
After a year and a half of noncommittal colors like grey, turquoise, bad mayonnaise yellow, and coral, Nintendo gives us a Switch Lite that’s confident enough to call itself blue, even though it’s sort of purplish, depending on your eyes and/or display settings. Read more
All the ways the Coinbase stock listing may disrupt the crypto market
13.4.2021
Coinbase’s direct listing will most likely set a precedent for other crypto firms, as COIN stock may rival Bitcoin for popularity
Poker Prospers in Blockchain’s Promising Landscape
13.4.2021
Gambling may be no stranger to the blockchain, but poker’s appeal amongst players has only expanded further as poker sites embrace bitcoin and Covid-19 moves gameplay increasingly online. Famed Game Puts Spotlight on Varied Blockchain Use Cases Although online betting and gaming were already...
Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Robert Kiyosaki Predicts Bitcoin Price Will Be $1.2 Million in 5 Years
12.4.2021
Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” has predicted that the price of bitcoin will increase to $1.2 million within five years. Kiyosaki revealed that he bought bitcoin at $9,000, adding that he may buy the cryptocurrency again “today or tomorrow just...
Mass adoption may take crypto toward centralization
11.4.2021
With mass adoption comes the risk that cryptocurrency may lose one of its core value propositions: decentralization
British auction house Christie’s Plans to Sell 9 Rare Cryptopunk NFTs Next Month
10.4.2021
Next month in New York, the popular auction house Christie’s plans to auction a rare lot of Cryptopunk non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles. The sample of work sold will be approximately nine rare Punks, courtesy of the project’s creators Larva Labs. Nine Rare Cryptopunks Going...
Why's Bitcoin stuck under $60,000? The gold market cap may hold the answer
9.4.2021
Both Bitcoin's daily volume and the amount held by large addresses roughly match 10% of gold's
'Not a cheaper Bitcoin' — Bitcoin Gold soars 173% as traders may be buying the wrong BTG
9.4.2021
Investors could be mistakenly linking the bank with the 2017 Bitcoin hard fork, causing a spike in price and trading action
Paypal Cofounder Peter Thiel Thinks China Is Using Bitcoin as Financial Weapon Against the US
9.4.2021
According to Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel, the Chinese government, which detests the U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status, could be using bitcoin as a financial weapon against the U.S. While he concedes that China has no intentions of making the yuan renminbi a reserve currency, Thiel still...
An Asynchronous and Divergent Recovery May Put Financial Stability at Risk
8.4.2021
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Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
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After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit...
Coinbase Listing Won't Help Bitcoin Price - Analyst
8.4.2021
Source: A screenshot, Instagram, Coinbase
The narrative that the listing of the shares of major crypto exchange Coinbase is helping the price of bitcoin (BTC) higher - is false, according to a prominent Bitcoiner, Vijay Boyapati, the author of 'The Bullish Case for Bitcoin' and Senior Software...