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Binance Chain surpassed Ethereum in terms of user activity. The CEO of the Binance exchange Changpeng Zhao wrote about this on Twitter and admitted that soon the number of transactions on the network would also be higher than on Ethereum. However, he added that he does not oppose ETH. It supports...
On February 17, the price of BTC crossed the $ 52000 mark. The asset is growing amid news from the software provider Microstrategy, which raised the target of issuing convertible notes from $ 600 million to $ 900 million with the option to purchase an additional $ 150M. The company will use the...
Altcoin Cardano (ADA) has secured the fourth line in the ranking of the largest cryptocurrencies. Last week alone, its value increased by more than 30%. On Tuesday, February 16, the ADA rate rose to $ 0.875 (+ 1.65%). The capitalization of digital currency has doubled over the past two weeks, now...
Due to abnormally cold weather in the United States, there are problems with the power supply of Texas. Local mining farms were de-energized, which led to a significant drop in hash rates. For example, the capacity of only one mining firm, Luxor Tech, fell 40%, said its co-founder Ethan Vera....
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple said that the regulator's lawsuit over the alleged unregistered sale of securities in the form of a digital asset XRP will not be settled out of court. In a letter to open the case, the parties stated that having previously discussed this...
Researchers from the Glassnode team found that mining pools started selling fewer bitcoins in February. In January, by contrast, they were actively selling coins to earn as much as possible. By the beginning of this month, the miners received enough funds and switched to accumulative tactics. The...
Financier Peter Schiff is widely known as one of the fierce critics of Bitcoin. He repeatedly on Twitter and during a conversation with reporters noted that BTC is an ordinary pyramid that will inevitably collapse. Schiff believes that cryptocurrency is growing in value only due to the influx of...
Many celebrities not only pay attention to cryptocurrencies but also invest part of their capital in them. For example, rapper Robert Bryson Hall, acting under the pseudonym Logic, announced in the fall of last year that he had bought bitcoins. However, he did not specify exactly how much he sent...
Commissions in the Bitcoin network are growing, the day before the average transaction fee was just over $ 25. Miners last Thursday earned $ 4.06 million in just an hour - this is the maximum figure in the entire history of the BTC blockchain over such a period. This is the conclusion reached by...
If Andrew Young wins the mayoral elections in New York, he promises to make this metropolis a platform for the massive use of bitcoin within the city. The politician wrote about this on Twitter. As mayor of NYC - the world’s financial capital - I would invest in making the city a hub for BTC and...
Payment giant PayPal will enhance the integration of cryptocurrencies into its business, including by positioning the supported application as a "digital wallet for global national digital currencies (CBDC)". Similar plans were shared by the CEO of the company Dan Shulman at a conference...
The co-founder of Dogecoin Billy Markus published an open letter on the r/dogecoin subreddit, in which he spoke about the sale of his coins and his attitude to new price records. Markus stressed that he is not currently associated with the Dogecoin team. According to him, in 2015, he left the...
If on February 7 the average cost of one transaction on the Bitcoin network was just over $ 11, now it reaches $ 25.4. This is evidenced by the latest data from the BitinfoCharts service. Transaction fees soared after it was revealed that Tesla had invested $ 1.5 billion in BTC. Over the past three...
The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon), the world's largest custodian bank with approximately $ 41 trillion in assets, announced on Thursday 11 February that it has opened a new custody division for cryptocurrencies. “The platform we build will serve any of these assets,” said Mike Demissi,...
Binance Coin (BNB) made another breakthrough last Tuesday. For the first time in its history, the coin broke through the resistance around $ 100 and continued its expansion. On Wednesday night, February 10, the BNB rate rose to $ 108. Cryptocurrency capitalization is now just over $ 16.543 billion....
Cybersecurity experts found out that in 2019-2020, North Korean hackers seized about $316 million in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to the report of the Committee under the UN Security Council to monitor compliance with sanctions against Pyongyang. The researchers found that hackers...
Blockfolio, a cryptocurrency portfolio management service, has been hacked. The hackers sent messages to users, which said "the closure of the service for black people and n**** with the immediate loss of all funds." We are incredibly sorry about the offensive messages posted today.1: no...
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz predicts further growth in the value of bitcoin (BTC). On Bloomberg TV, he said that the price of the cryptocurrency could reach $ 100,000 by the end of this year. On Tuesday, February 9, the BTC rate exceeded $ 48,000, but the coin could not keep at this level....
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