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After the parliament of El Salvador supported the presidential bill to legalize bitcoin, the cryptocurrency was able to strengthen slightly. On some trading floors, in the middle of the week, the BTC rate exceeded $ 38,000. However, a correction returned to the market over the weekend, as a result...

Blockchain is advertised as one of the most secure technologies, which uses a high degree of data encryption, which almost completely protects them from unauthorized and fraudulent changes. Despite this, security threats exist. They can be avoided by adhering to the principles below. 1. Storage of...

World-famous DJ David Guetta is ready to sell an elite apartment in Miami for cryptocurrency. The musician put up housing in a prestigious area of ​​the city for $ 14 million. He is also ready to accept payment in bitcoin or ether. If we take the current prices of these digital currencies as a...

The press center of the Texas Department of Banking said that now local lending institutions can process customer transactions with cryptocurrencies. In particular, they will be able to provide services for storing and accepting bitcoin or other virtual coins. A special order from the department,...

The head of the Kraken crypto exchange Jesse Powell said that his team is not abandoning plans to attract investments in the stock market. The company was tasked with listing on one of the traditional exchanges as early as 2022. Previously, Dan Held, representing the Kraken administration, told...

Back in the fall of last year, Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes announced his country's intention to launch a national digital currency (CBDC). The creation of the token will become part of a large-scale project of the authorities to digitize the economy. Moreover, the head of the department...

Crypto cashback, or crypto cashback reward program, is a type of incentive program in which an amount of Bitcoin is paid to a customer upon their purchases at the store. In other words, when users buy goods, they are immediately rewarded with a small percentage of money spent. The reward is usually...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called on American investors not to invest in bitcoin futures. The corresponding notification was published last Thursday. This document states that even if investors decide to channel their capital into BTC-focused products, then they must analyze...

Daily transactions in the DeFi market have dropped to their lowest levels since 2020. For example, the number of transactions on the UniSwap platform decreased by 28% compared to mid-May. The Glassnode report says that the volume of transactions in dollar terms decreased by 60% in two weeks....

In late summer 2021, Interactive Brokers clients will be able to trade cryptocurrencies on the broker's platform. “We have been asked about this, and we will fulfill this wish by the end of the summer,” said the head of the company, Thomas Peterffy. The broker currently offers Bitcoin futures...

Singapore-based investment firm Spartan Group has launched a $110M venture fund to support DeFi applications. The general partner Jason Choi told about this. According to Choi, the Spartan Group initially expected the fund to be $ 30 million. The framework will place particular emphasis on the DeFi...

The Polkadot platform team stated their willingness to start auctions for the sale of slots for launching parachains on the experimental Kusama network from June 15, 2021. Kusama started operations in 2019. According to a blog post, the first active parachain called Shell launched in May 2021. The...

In connection with the recent hacker attack on the Colonial Pipeline and the growing scale of bitcoin extortion, the US President plans to raise the issue of regulating the cryptosphere at the next G7 summit. Jake Sullivan, the current national security adviser to Joe Biden, told reporters about...

The NEAR Foundation, a non-profit organization, has partnered with the South Pole and Mintbase to announce a Green NFT auction. ForkLog was informed about this by representatives of the project. “This is part of our journey to decarbonize the entire IT sector and turn important technologies like...

Ripple CTO David Schwartz has posted a proposal to launch federated sidechains powered by XRP Ledger. The solution will allow you to connect smart contracts and create decentralized applications using the native network token. According to Schwartz, smart contracts are one of the most requested...

Billionaire Mar Lasry, the founder of Avenue Capital Management, said bitcoin's skyrocketing growth in 2021 exceeded his expectations. He also expressed regret that he had not invested enough in the first cryptocurrency. “As more people start using Bitcoin, the chances of continued growth are...

Institutional investors were seriously scared by the fall of bitcoin in May. Recall that the coin lost almost 40% in value last month. A report from CoinShares says that capital outflows from bitcoin-focused funds intensified over the past week. Institutions have withdrawn from such products about...

PNY has reduced the lifespan of its XLR8 CS3030 series SSD. The resource of some models has decreased by almost 80%. The XLR8 CS3030 series includes 250GB and 500GB devices as well as 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB devices. The new batch of drives has significantly reduced TBW. Depending on the modification of...