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Bitcoiners Seek Constitutional Reform to Allow Swiss National Bank to Purchase Bitcoin
24.4.2024
Yves Bennaïm, founder and chair of 2B4CH, a Swiss pro-Bitcoin think tank, is launching a popular initiative to amend the country’s constitution to allow its central bank to purchase and hold bitcoin. The initiative is also supported by Bitcoin Suisse President Luzius Meisser, who believes...
Ripple Asks Court to Reject SEC’s $2 Billion Penalty Request in XRP Case
24.4.2024
Ripple Labs has filed its opposition to the request by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the company to pay $2 billion in fines in the XRP case. “The SEC’s draconian remedial requests are ungrounded in law or principle. This court should reject them in their...
Jack Dorsey’s Block Targets Chip Advancement With 3nm Bitcoin ASIC Mining Rig
23.4.2024
On Tuesday, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block, took to X to announce that the company is “building a mining rig.” Dorsey also shared a blog post authored by Block’s lead for mining hardware products, Naoise Irwin. The post revealed enhancements in the chip design, upgrading from...
SEC Lawyers Resign After Judge Sanctions the Regulator for ‘Gross Abuse of Power’
23.4.2024
Two lead attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the case against crypto firm Debt Box have reportedly resigned. This followed a federal judge sanctioning the SEC for its “gross abuse of power” after the agency made “materially false and misleading...
Venezuelan State Oil Company to Accelerate USDT Adoption for Settlements; Tether Vows to Uphold OFAC Sanctions
23.4.2024
PDVSA, the state-owned Venezuelan oil company, would be preparing to migrate more of its payments portfolio to USDT, a dollar stablecoin, to avoid being affected by the restitution of U.S. sanctions. Reuters reported that the company started receiving payments in USDT last year and will accelerate...
Controversy Swirls Around Bitcoin’s BIP-420: Push Behind Opcode ‘Isn’t in Good Faith,’ Says Developer
23.4.2024
On Monday evening, Taproot Wizards co-founder Udi Wertheimer unveiled a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that reintroduces the OP_CAT opcode to Bitcoin. This opcode could facilitate more streamlined and efficient decentralized file hosting systems, payment channels, and sophisticated Bitcoin...
Fidelity Digital Assets ‘Signals’ Report Revises Bitcoin Outlook to ‘Neutral’
23.4.2024
The latest quarterly report from Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA) Research reveals key insights into the bitcoin and ethereum markets as of Q1 2024. With a detailed analysis of market conditions and future outlooks, FDA’s research report provides several predictions for short and long-term...
Crypto market will continue to surge, says Glassnode Co-founders
23.4.2024
If the ongoing trends in the crypto market are anything to go by, it is right to assume that Bitcoin is narrating the tale of survivors—those who held onto BTC in their portfolios at a time when the market was struggling to get past $20,000. As a result, the token has now risen above $65,000. ...
Ethereum sets the stage for $3,400 with a reversal trend in sight
23.4.2024
Ethereum was previously poised to surpass the milestone of $4,000. However, that was when the market was coming fresh from the Spot Bitcoin ETF announcements. Sentiments have transitioned since then, and the market is volatile. Not that volatility ever left the space, but it did show signs...
Bitcoin’s ‘DeFi Summer’ surge mimics Ethereum’s 2020 boom
23.4.2024
In a seismic development within the cryptocurrency sphere, Bitcoin is currently basking in what analysts describe as a “DeFi summer” moment, akin to the surge witnessed by Ethereum in 2020. Analysts at Bernstein have highlighted this phenomenon, attributing it to the launch of a...
Blackrock Bitcoin ETF Sees 70 Straight Days of Inflows — Holdings Near 274K BTC
23.4.2024
The world’s largest asset manager with $10.5 trillion in assets under management, Blackrock, has seen 70 consecutive days of inflows into its spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). This achievement places Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which has amassed approximately 274K bitcoins since...
DOT is expected to rise 79% to $15 in the coming weeks
23.4.2024
Just two days before the halving, the altcoin market was shaken up, and investors and traders worried about how the market would handle the anticipated halving. It has been five days since the halving, and some altcoins have hit home. One of them is Polkadot (DOT), which rightfully shot up by...
Paypal Promotes Low-Carbon Bitcoin Mining With New Research Paper
23.4.2024
Paypal, in collaboration with Energy Web and DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc., has introduced an approach to promote environmentally sustainable practices in bitcoin mining. This research-backed initiative encourages miners to utilize low-carbon energy sources by offering financial incentives. Paypal...
All eyes on PEPE following Bitcoin halving
23.4.2024
Bitcoin Halving was potentially a success, as it has set BTC on the path to surpass the milestone of $100k by the end of this year, that is, 2024. Although an actual impact has yet to be registered by the crypto market, all eyes are turning to everyone’s favorite cryptos. PEPE is on the list …
BNB price reaches $600, eyes record highs in 2024!
23.4.2024
The BNB value has picked up to about $520, with the current price indicating a great chance to bounce back significantly. This trend in BNB’s price growth follows the performances of other widely used cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, indicating that investors around the globe...
Exclusive ‘Epic Satoshi’ Auction Launches, Bids Already Double to 2 BTC
23.4.2024
Coinex has launched the auction for the ‘epic satoshi’ from the fourth halving, originally mined by the mining pool Viabtc. This event, marking Sat # 1,968,750,000,000,000, commenced with a starting bid of 1 bitcoin. Following ten subsequent bids, the highest offer has reached...
PDVSA to raise the usage of Tether stablecoin
23.4.2024
PDVSA, a state operated oil company in Venezuela, is preparing itself for raising the usage of Tether stablecoin for the export of crude and fuel oil, since the US now intends to introduce sanctions on the country, as per a report issued by Reuters. A short while back, a statement released...
First USDC airdrop sent out; Octoblock has many more coming
23.4.2024
Octoblock’s ICO is young at phase 4, yet it has seen its first USDC airdrop, and many more are lined along its 14 phases. Octoblock is running an exciting ICO, hoping to distribute 240M tokens, with 16M tokens available in phase 4. The early phases feature discounted OCTO token prices and higher...
Shiba Inu managed to obtain 12M fund to develop a Layer-3 blockchain network
23.4.2024
Shiba Inu has obtained $12 million in a funding round via a private token selling of its forthcoming TREAT token to strengthen the building of a privacy-oriented Layer 3 blockchain network. As per the Marketing Head of Shib.io, Lucie, investors who took part in the funding round were Polygon...
Post-Halving Fallout: Bitcoin Hashprice Slides 30%, Miners’ Earnings Hit
23.4.2024
Following a peak in onchain fees, bitcoin miners experienced a significant decline in the hashprice, which fell from a daily rate of $114 per petahash on Sunday to a markedly lower $79 per petahash by Tuesday. To date, the network’s hashrate has experienced a modest decline, though nothing...