Cryptocurrency News

Back in the summer of 2019, Donald Trump, who was then president of the United States, tweeted that the dollar is the world's leading financial instrument. Unregulated digital assets like bitcoin are used by criminals to launder money. Trump then stressed that real threats to the state's economy...

On June 7, enterprise analytics and software solutions entity MicroStrategy revealed starting to receive $400 M via a private offering of senior secured notes. The goal is to use the net income from the sale to increase its Bitcoin holdings. MicroStrategy Announces Proposed Private Offering of...

The price of the first cryptocurrency could drop to $30,000 or even $23,000, said Jurrien Timmer, head of macroeconomic research at asset manager Fidelity Investments. He compared bitcoin price trajectories to investment bank Goldman Sachs' Retail Favorites Index based on stocks popular with retail...

ETP provider 21Shares announced the addition of its first cryptocurrency-based instrument to the listing of the British alternative trading system Aquis. Bitcoin-ETP trading will begin in mid-June. The partner will be ETF specialist GHCO, which will act as a liquidity provider. The 21Shares Bitcoin...

Multiple world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather donned the EthereumMax altcoin t-shirt to weigh in and battle against blogger Logan Paul. EthereumMax (EMAX) appeared about a month ago and is traded on Uniswap and 1inch decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges. At the time of writing, the altcoin is...

First time in history, BTC architect Satoshi Nakamoto's statue will be raised. The place is going to be the capital of Hungary. The sculpture's face features a mirror-like surface with a hoodie. Thus, designers Réka Gergely and Tamás Gilly build Satoshi's image which symbolizes his...

El Salvador could be the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as legal tender. The corresponding bill was prepared by the team of the President of this Latin American state, Naib Bukele. The text of the document will be published this week. At the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Jack...

Cryptography and blockchain technology firm Blockstream and payments operations provider Square teamed up to create a solar-based Bitcoin mining facility. On June 5 Blockstream issued a blog post informing it received a $5 M investment from Square to provide the framework and arrange the project. ...

The Central Bank of Ghana is in a superior stage of developing a CBDC. This was announced by the head of the regulator Ernest Addison. Ghana has become the first country in the region to explore the idea of a CB's digital currency, the official said. “We are moving in stages. The first was...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has remained critical of cryptocurrencies, head of the regulator Shaktikanta Das said during an online conference. “RBI has serious concerns about cryptocurrency that we have reported to the government,” Das said. In 2018, the regulator banned the controlled...

The biggest BTC conference with around 12.000 participants was started in Miami on June 4. It will be over on June 5. Miami major Francis Suarez opened the conference. He mentioned the importance of BTC in making Miami a technological leader. The head of growth at the crypto exchange Kraken Dan...

San Francisco-based financial services company Square intends to launch a Bitcoin hardware wallet. The company's CEO Jack Dorsey shared the news on Twitter. Dorsey says the building process from engineering to design is going to be open and with the community's cooperation. He posted series of...

Institutional-oriented crypto bank Anchorage will launch a USD-secured lending service with deposited Ethereum. BankProv, one of the oldest US banks, will act as a partner. Crypto companies interested in a loan in US currency will be able to satisfy their needs without liquidating their positions...

Blockchain.com cryptocurrency exchange announced the move of its US headquarters from New York to Miami and the expansion of the state. As part of its scaling plan, the company expects to hire 100 employees by the end of the year and another 200 in 2022. They noted that the reason for the move was...

P2P platform Paxful has launched a service that allows businesses around the world to accept BTC. Their customers can choose from over 400 payment methods. Paxful Pay converts the money received from the customer into digital gold and sends it to the merchant's wallet. Clients of the service can...

Nasdaq-listed company The9 has signed an agreement to take over green mining company Montcrypto. The9 will invest C $ 7.6 million ($ 6.26 million) in two phases. The partners will build a 20 MW carbon-neutral mining center in Calgary,...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk referred to Bitcoin once again in his tweet. On June 4, he posted a meme-like tweet about a breakup citing the words of Linkin Park's song "So, in the end, it didn't even matter?". In the description, Musk put Bitcoin's hashtag and the broken heart emoji. ...

The preponderance owner of Marilyn Monroe's intellectual property, Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has put up for sale a collection of NFTs inspired by the legendary American actress. The collection titled "Metamorphosis of Marilyn Monroe" includes works by 3D artists Vasya Kolotusha,...