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Kraken

The Rothschild Foundation acquires a stake in Kraken

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Investment fund RIT Capital Partners became a co-owner of the Kraken crypto exchange. This is stated in a note sent to investors. The amount invested by the fund is not indicated in the document. RIT Capital Partners’ interest in the platform stems from Kraken’s plans to go public with a direct...

PancakeSwap

PancakeSwap bypasses ETH in the number of daily transactions

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Over the past day, the PancakeSwap decentralized platform has bypassed the Ethereum network in terms of the number of user transactions. The PancakeSwap exchange is deployed on the Binance Chain, which positions itself as the main competitor to Ethereum. The DappRadar team reported that PancakeSwap...

Bill Miller

Bill Miller thinks bitcoin is going mainstream

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It is no longer possible to ignore Bitcoin, and this tool is becoming mainstream. This is the opinion of Bill Miller, a financier and founder of Miller Value Partners. On the air of CNBC, he said that the rally that we have been observing over the past months is qualitatively different from the...

Coinbase

Coinbase shares down 12% after delisting of Deutsche Boerse

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On Friday, April 23, Deutsche Boerse will delist Coinbase shares from the Xetra platform and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The reason was an error in the specified LEI-code - an individual 20-digit identifier for financial market participants. To resolve the issue, Coinbase needs to apply for a new...

Bitfarms

Bitfarms to build 210 MW mining center in Argentina

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Toronto Stock Exchange (TSXV) -listed Bitfarms has signed an agreement with a private electricity supplier in Argentina to consume up to 210 MW of electricity in a data center for bitcoin mining. The agreement is for eight years. During the first four years, the effective cost of electricity will...

DOGE

Dogecoin fell more than 20%

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The rapid rise in the value of Dogecoin (DOGE) cryptocurrency has strengthened the position of optimists. This year, the coin has skyrocketed in value more than 60 times. The market capitalization of the altcoin exceeded $ 40 billion. The DOGE price reached $ 0.43 on April 19, and many supporters...

EasyFi

EasyFi lost $ 6 million due to a hacker attack

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Hackers withdrew about $6M from the liquidity pools of the EasyFi landing protocol, which uses second-tier solutions from Matic Network (now Polygon). CEO and founder of the project, Ankitt Gaur, said that attackers gained remote access to his computer and took possession of the keys to the...

Bahamas

Bahamas tops the list of advanced countries in creating CBDC

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PwC research says more than 60 central banks are currently working to create national digital currencies (CBDCs). The Bahamas is the farthest in this matter. This state received 92 out of 100 points in the rating. The second and third places were taken by Cambodia and China, which received 83 and...

ASAP Rocky

A$AP Rocky announces sale of his first NFT collection

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American rapper A$AP Rocky has announced the sale of his first NFT collection - unique crypto units that cannot be recreated. The rapper's NFT collection will appear on the Nifty Gateway platform on April 21. The auction will feature an excerpt from Sandman, which was first performed on camera on...

Bitmain

Bitmain reveals new Ethereum miner's hashrate features

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Chinese mining company Bitmain has published the characteristics of the hashrate of an ASIC miner for mining ether (ETH). On Friday, April 16, the company announced the AntMiner E9 but did not provide particular details on the technical specifications of the device. In a tweet dated April 18,...

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom invested in Celo blockchain project

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German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom has acquired an unnamed number of tokens from the Celo mobile cryptocurrency payments project. “We are not fully aware of what Celo will be like in five to ten years, but we are confident that it will not disappear anywhere. The value is...

Bitcoin

The volume of bitcoin transactions in March exceeded $366B

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In a review by the Block Research team, it is said that March 2021 was the record month for the volume of Bitcoin transactions. As a result, this figure reached $ 366.27 billion - this is the maximum in the entire history of the largest cryptocurrency. The previous record was recorded in February....

Binance

Binance scheduled a software update for april 20

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The next software update was announced by the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The administration of the trading floor published the corresponding announcement this morning. The update is scheduled for April 20, it starts at 5:00 Moscow time. The developers promise to complete it within two...

Trading

How to start trading cryptocurrencies

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Having bought your first bitcoins, you can exchange them for other tokens on any cryptocurrency exchange. You may be lucky in making a profit as soon as possible. You don't need to be an expert to start trading cryptocurrencies, but you need to take the first steps, and many people want to know how...

CME

Chicago Exchange has no plans to launch Dogecoin futures

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Late last week, Twitter began circulating information about the launch of Dogecoin (DOGE) futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). However, the marketplace quickly denied these rumors. The launch of futures trading on DOGE is not planned. Institutional investors immediately questioned the...

Ethereum

Open interest in Ethereum options reaches new highs

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Institutional investor demand for Ether (ETH) has skyrocketed this year. This is evidenced by the growing open interest in products targeted at the largest altcoin. Open interest in Ethereum options hit a new high this week. This figure rose to $ 3.57 billion. The first place is occupied by the...

Armstrong

Brian Armstrong sold Coinbase shares for $291.8 million

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sold 749,999 shares in three lots on the first day of trading on the Nasdaq. As a reminder, Coinbase entered the stock market on April 14. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on the first day of trading, insiders, together with investors, sold...

Bitcoin

New record from bitcoin: network hashrate reached 200 EH/s

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Computing activity on the bitcoin network has broken all previous records this week. The hashrate, according to the Glassnode analytical platform, has reached 200 EH/s. This is a new historical maximum, experts said. Over the past nine months, the computing power on the blockchain has approximately...

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