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El Salvador to Issue $1 Billion Bitcoin Bond to Fund ‘Bitcoin City’
21.11.2021
President Nayib Bukele, of El Salvador, announced yesterday he would issue a $1 billion “Bitcoin Bond” to build the first Bitcoin City in the world. The city would feature no taxes of any kind except VAT, and it would be carbon neutral, with most of the energy powering it coming from...
Coinbase Users Sharing Crypto Portfolios, ETFs in US & India + More News
15.11.2021
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Bitcoin’s ‘Upgrade for the Ages’ Taproot is Here
14.11.2021
It’s been long coming, but now it’s here – Taproot, Bitcoin (BTC)’s largest upgrade in more than four years....
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Two firms account for the majority of Tether received: Report
12.11.2021
A new study by Protos claims that Tether flow is dominated by just two firms, Alameda Research and Cumberland
NYCCoin, Cambridge on Tezos, Tether on Avalanche + More News
10.11.2021
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The NYCCoin is set to launch on Thursday, November 11, with the community-led proposal endorsed by New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams....
BTC Futures Open Interest Continues to Rise Following Bitcoin ETF Listings Last Month
5.11.2021
Bitcoin futures open interest continues to remain high after the launch of the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on October 22. While Binance commands $5.81 billion and leads the pack, CME Group holds the second-largest position in terms of bitcoin futures open interest (OI) with $4.1...
MetaMask integrates with Bitfinex Pay amid growing demand for crypto payments
5.11.2021
MetaMask has played a pivotal role in onboarding millions of new users to the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets
Crypto exchange Bitfinex testing new AML compliance tool
28.10.2021
Launched in production in 2020, Notabene’s Travel Rule solution now processes transactions between 50 crypto exchanges
As the Crypto Economy Nears $3 Trillion, Top 10 Crypto Exchanges Hold Over $206B, More Than 7%
21.10.2021
The crypto economy has come awfully close to nearing the $3 trillion handle as far as the value of all 10,000+ crypto assets is concerned. Today, crypto market aggregation sites show the entire crypto-economy at $2.756 trillion is worth more than the value of Apple’s market cap at $2.467....
CFTC Fines Stablecoin Issuer Tether and Crypto Exchange Bitfinex $42.5 Million
15.10.2021
On Friday, October 15, 2021, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had ordered the company Tether Holdings Limited and Ifinex Inc., the parent company of Bitfinex, to pay fines totaling $42.5 million. The CFTC accuses Tether of “making untrue or misleading...
CFTC slaps Tether and Bitfinex with a combined $42.5 million fine
15.10.2021
The settlement triggered concerns that the CFTC's role in stablecoin regulation could be misunderstood by the public
CFTC Fines Tether For Lying & Bitfinex For 'Illegal' Transactions + More News
15.10.2021
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Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain Criticized Over Long Outage — Block Signing Issue Related to Upgrade
6.10.2021
On Tuesday, cryptocurrency supporters on social media and forums discussed Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain product as block signing had been down for over 20 hours. While Blockstream had noted the sidechain was undergoing a hard fork upgrade planned for October 5, a number of crypto...
Is $40K Bitcoin the new $10K? BTC holds $43K support as exchange Bitfinex halts trading
30.9.2021
An unexpected problem causes Bitfinex to temporarily shut down, with Bitcoin price action undoing gains in the process
Tether scores win in class action case as court dismisses RICO claims
29.9.2021
"Litigation will expose this case for what it is: a clumsy attempt at a money grab, which recklessly harms the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem," said Tether
Bitfinex paid a colossal $23M fee to send $100K of USDT
27.9.2021
In what is presumed as a technical error, popular crypto exchange Bitfinex have paid a seismic $23.7 million dollars in gas fee for a comparatively nominal $100K transaction
The Most Expensive Transaction on Ethereum Cost USD 23.5 Million
27.9.2021
123ad4921dfb9cd5e59dbb78ce78f277759587115">data on Etherscan.The transfer was made at 11:10 UTC on Monday, and appears to have been sent from a wallet controlled by Bitfinex to a wallet bel
DeversiFi Set to Launch Its First Layer-2 Bridge on Bitfinex
24.9.2021
The DeFi sector is set for another innovation as DeversiFi announces its first Layer-2 bridge. The swap will release the bridge on Bitfinex to facilitate low-cost and instant Tether transfers. In addition, the bridge will conduct transactions between DeFi and CeFi without using Layer-1 Ethereum....
Bitfinex launches the first L2 bridge from CeFi to DeFi
23.9.2021
The bridge will facilitate ERC-20 token transactions between centralized and decentralized exchanges
Custodial Lightning Network Service Attack Discovered by LN ‘Newbie’ — Hacker Strikes 6 LN Custodians
20.9.2021
On September 18, a Redditor posted to the r/bitcoin forum and explained how he discovered a way to “attack [the] lightning Network’s custodial services.” The Reddit account dubbed “Reckless Satoshi” wanted to figure out if a “discrepancy between real...