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Bitcoin Halving Inches Closer With Fewer Than 2,900 Blocks Remaining
31.3.2024
The next Bitcoin halving is on the horizon, drawing closer with each passing block and anticipated to take place anywhere between April 18 to April 22, 2024, at the milestone of block 840,000. Following this event, the reward for mining a block will halve from 6.25 bitcoins to 3.125 bitcoins....
Philippines Blocks Binance, Citing Threat to Security of Investor Funds
26.3.2024
The Philippines has proceeded to block crypto exchange Binance. The country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has concluded that the public’s continued access to Binance’s websites and apps “poses a threat to the security of the funds of investing Filipinos.”...
Jupiter’s Compliance Team Blocks Crypto ETP Investment: Report
16.2.2024
Jupiter Asset Management’s compliance team blocked its team from having any exposure to a cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP) in one of its Irish UCITs funds, according to a Financial Times report. The reason for blocking investment was due to, “divergent regulatory approaches in the EU.”...
Steven Waterhouse, CEO of Orchid Labs, on DePIN, AI, Decentralized VPNs, and Fighting for Internet Freedom | Ep. 307
9.2.2024
Cryptonews’ Matt Zahab recently sat down with Steven Waterhouse, CEO and co-founder of Orchid Labs, an open-sourced, decentralized marketplace for Internet services that aims to provide the building blocks for a better, freer Internet. In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview, the CEO discussed:...
OFAC Blocks Venezuelan Gold Business, Warns About Upcoming Oil Sanctions
2.2.2024
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has revoked the license of Minerven, the Venezuela-owned gold company, for commercializing gold in international markets. The sanctions on Minerven, which were eased in October, will be applied again on February 13, with oil and gas sanctions reported...
Bitfinex blocks exploit as a massive transfer fails
16.1.2024
Bitfinex has reportedly blocked a major exploit that could have drained half of its market capitalization. According to reports, the malicious actor intended to take away $15 billion worth of XRP tokens. The number comes to around 25.6 billion, which is half of the circulating supply. Bitfinex...
India Blocks Websites of Offshore Crypto Exchanges After Non-Compliance Warning
13.1.2024
  India blocked access to websites of several offshore crypto exchanges, including Binance, Kucoin, OKX , Gate.io and many others on January 12 . This action followed the removal of these platforms from the Apple App Store in the country just a few days earlier. The move is a consequence...
Vanguard Blocks Customers From Trading SEC-Approved Spot Bitcoin ETFs
13.1.2024
Several investment firms, including Vanguard, reportedly block customers from trading spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “Our perspective is that these products do not align with our offer focused on asset classes such as equities, bonds, and cash,” the firm explained....
Crypto Community Calls to Boycott Vanguard as $7.7 Trillion Asset Manager Blocks Spot Bitcoin ETFs
12.1.2024
Source: Vanguard Asset management giant Vanguard has opted not to allow the purchase of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on its platform, triggering the crypto community. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on January 11, Vanguard stated that it will not offer the new spot...
Hedera and Algorand Ecosystems Unite to Form DeRec Alliance for Decentralized Asset Recovery System
11.1.2024
Source: iStock/PeopleImages Entities from the Hedera and Algorand ecosystems, including the HBAR Foundation, Algorand Foundation, Hashgraph Association, Swirlds Labs, DLT Science Foundation, and industry partners The Building Blocks and BankSocial, have come together to establish the Decentralized...
Investment Giant Vanguard Blocks Clients From Buying Bitcoin ETFs
11.1.2024
Vanguard, one of the largest asset managers in the world, is preventing customers from buying the newly approved bitcoin ETFs
Less Than 15,000 Blocks to Halving: ETF Hopes and Ordinal Inscriptions Serve as Life Preserver for Bitcoin Miners
9.1.2024
As of Jan. 9, 2024, fewer than 15,000 blocks remain before the fourth Bitcoin halving event. This milestone will halve the block reward from 6.25 to 3.125 bitcoins per block. Expected to occur in April 2024, this event will render bitcoin increasingly scarce. However, it may exert considerable...
5 Mining Pools Dominated in 2023, Discovering Over 84% of Bitcoin’s Blocks
31.12.2023
Over the past year, statistics reveal that 54,002 bitcoin blocks have been mined from Dec. 30, 2022, to Dec. 30, 2023. Leading the industry this year, Foundry USA topped the charts by mining 16,492 blocks in the past 12 months. Additionally, miners navigated through a total of 27 difficulty...
India Cracks Down on Offshore Crypto Exchanges — Blocks Binance, 8 Other Platforms
30.12.2023
The Indian government has directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to bar access to offshore cryptocurrency exchanges deemed illegal within the country. The nine affected crypto platforms include Binance, Kucoin, Huobi, Kraken, and Bitfinex. The Ministry of Finance also...
FIU IND blocks 9 crypto exchange URLs for non-compliance
29.12.2023
A total of 9 crypto exchange platforms have been served with a compliance Show Cause notice by the Financial Intelligence Unit India, also recognized as FIU IND. The names of these platforms are Binance, Kucoin, Kraken, Huobi, Gate.io, Bitstamp, Bittrex, Bitfinex, and MEXC Global. The said...
Study Observes Consolidation of Bitcoin Mining Rewards With Antpool
28.12.2023
In a significant shift within the bitcoin mining landscape, Antpool’s resurgence in 2023 has marked a notable trend in the consolidation of bitcoin rewards, surpassing Foundry USA in blocks mined. The Miner Mag’s recent analysis reveals that Antpool, along with other major pools,...
Bloxroute to Reject Blocks With OFAC Flagged Transactions
22.12.2023
Bloxroute, a company that provides relaying services, has declared that it will start rejecting block bids with transactions from wallets part of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN List). Based in the U.S., the company clarified...
Adam Back States ‘You Can’t Stop JPEGs on Bitcoin,’ Proposes Block Size Increase to Host Inscriptions
18.12.2023
Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream and legendary cryptographer, has acknowledged that inscriptions, media embedded directly on top of Bitcoin, cannot be stopped, stating that any action focused on this will only prompt users to do it in “worse ways.” Instead, Back proposed adding a new blob...
Million-Dollar NFT Heist: Apes to Art Blocks Stolen
18.12.2023
A massive cyber attack today breached online security by affecting NFT Trader, one of the most popular platforms for private individual trading. As a result, they fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in valuable Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Prized items came from a variety of collections...
Jack Dorsey-Backed Bitcoin Mining Pool Refuses To Process Ordinals Transactions – What’s Going On?
7.12.2023
Jack Dorsey. Source: a video screenshot OCEAN – a newly launched Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool backed by Jack Dorsey – has updated its mining software to exclude Bitcoin ordinals transactions from the blocks that it generates. Ordinals is a protocol for issuing NFTs and alternative tokens on...