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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...

P2P payment provider Venmo owned by PayPal announced the launching of crypto buying and selling functions. The users of the network will be able to purchase BTC, Ether, LTC, and BCH with a spending requirement of at least $1 and share the activities on the app's feed. The possibility is allowed...

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,...

Crypto exchange platform Binance.US hired Brian Brooks, the previous exec of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as its CEO. Brooks will begin his service on May 1. He will replace the company's present CEO Catherine Coley, who was assigned in the role in July 2019. Serving at the...

Israel-based multi-asset investment provider eToro included Chainlink (LINK) and Uniswap (UNI) purchase options. We have 2 new asset additions 💚Explore👉https://t.co/0BOTZ04P7N— eToro (@eToro) April 19, 2021 ...

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....

California-based online e-retailer Newegg revealed enabling Dogecoin payments on its website. Trades will be managed through crypto payment service operator BitPay. We are now accepting #dogecoin as an official payment method via BitPay. Simply click "Edit" in the payment section during...

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...

Well-known American newsmagazine Time partners with crypto operations platform Crypto.com to enable payments in CRO token while subscribing. Particularly, Crypto.com users can get an 18-month subscription via one-time remittance. The cost of the option is $49. By paying with CRO the readers will...

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...

Today Bank of England's official website disclosed that together with HM Treasury the entity will build a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) task force, which aims to organize the examination of a possible UK CBDC. There was noted in the release that the financial influencers haven's decided yet...

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...

American business magnate, the owner of professional basketball squad Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban put capital in NFT data provider CryptoSlam. We're thrilled to announce that Mark Cuban (@mcuban) has invested in CryptoSlam!⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️Can't thank Mark enough for believing in us...

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...

The European Central Bank is taking a big risk by slowing down the development of a regional digital currency (CBDC). In the context of rapid digitalization, the entire financial system of the EU may be at risk, says Monica Singer, representing the crypto company ConsenSys. The singer participated...

Canada was the first country to approve BTC ETFs in February. Now, it became the first to authorize Ethereum ETFs too. Today, April 17, the republic's regulators granted three requests: They come from Purpose Investments, Evolve ETFs, and CI Global Asset Management. The first two firms were the...

Crypto trading provider Robinhood faced technical difficulties along with Dogecoin's record trading volumes. The first interruption happened on the site at 10:19 AM Eastern. Forty minutes later the platform announced via Tweeter that activities have been "restored for most clients"....

The Chinese digital currency (CBDC) has begun to be used as a payment instrument. As TASS clarifies, for the first time the digital yuan was used when buying an air ticket. The token was accepted for payment in Shanghai by Spring Airlines. The ticket, priced at 560 yuan (up to $ 86), was purchased...