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Bitcoin's attempts to go up $35.000 failed. The price of the coin has lost around 6.5% in the previous 24 hours and now stands at about $32.500. Bitcoin market dominance index is 44.2% The total crypto market cap is $ 100 B down from yesterday. It stands at $1.38...

Multiple awards winner Anthony Hopkins' next movie "Zero Contact" will be in the form of NFT. It will be presented on the newly launched NFT platform VUELE. The idea of VUELE belongs to digital media firm Enderby Entertainment and financial technology blockchain enterprise CurrencyWorks....

By 2026, at least three Fortune 500 companies will use the Cardano cryptocurrency (ADA), and 50 banks will partner with the Cardano Foundation. This was told by the head of the non-profit organization Frederick Gregaard. According to Gregaard’s presentation, as part of its short-term development...

Earlier this week, it became known that a large British bank, Barclays, prohibited its clients from sending funds to the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. The financial giant said this decision was prompted by its desire to protect investors from fraudsters. The administration of the Binance...

Major crypto exchange Binance has shared the news of expanding its compliance team amid regulatory issues. Binance's new Director of Compliance is Jonathan Farnell. The exchange aims to develop the scope of its regulatory product, among them regulated e-money and crypto-asset services. Farnell...

Crypto financial operations enterprise BlockFi issued its BTC returns credit card. The initiative of the card was first mentioned at the end of 2020. At that time, the waiting list was opened. Currently, the process of approving customers from the list has begun. BlockFi's card offers users to...

The Bybit cryptocurrency exchange will require corporate clients and individuals to undergo KYC procedures to withdraw bitcoins. According to the information on the website, the measure was implemented to “increase security requirements for all traders.” Companies are required to provide a list...

Major investment bank Goldman Sachs stated in a note to customers that the blockchain offering the most options for real use is Ethereum. The institution suggests Ether may grow into the leading digital store of value. Goldman assumes that Ether's entire market cap could get ahead of BTC in the...

Ethereum developer Tim Beiko initiated a proposal to activate the London hard fork on the main network of the second-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization on block # 12965000, expected on August 4. Co-founder of the EthHub research platform Anthony Sassano emphasized that the final decision...

Switzerland-based digital asset bank Sygnum launched services of Ether 2.0 staking, becoming the first bank on the global scale to do so. As stated by the institution, customers will be able to use its banking platform that brings up to a 7% yield yearly. Staking will be possible to do from users'...

Compared to May, in June 2021, the activity of users of cryptocurrency exchanges has significantly decreased. According to the Block Research team, the volume of trading in digital currencies last month was $ 958.3 billion. Compared to May, this figure fell by about 56%, the researchers note....

In Beverly Hills, a mansion for $65M was put up for sale, which can also be paid for with bitcoin. At the exchange rate at the time of writing, the price in the first crypto is around 1930 BTC. In the case of a purchase with Bitcoin, the transaction will be the largest in the real estate sector...

China's Central Bank ordered the shut down of the software firm Beijing Qudao Cultural Development Co, saying it may provide crypto services. Authorities ordered the firm to cancel operations, also deactivating the website. According to Chinese law, Beijing-based companies are disallowed to...

Data from NonFungible.com shows that the NFT market records new highs this year. In the first half of 2021, the total amount of NFT sales is approximately 2.5 B. It's worth mentioning that for the same interval last year the indicator was $13.7 million. In June, sales on the NFT platform OpenSea...

The world's largest crypto exchange Binance has come under scrutiny from many countries. Great Britain was on the list of such countries. The Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has ordered the Binance platform to stop serving local traders. The regulator motivated its decision by the fact...

During a recent interview with Kitco News, Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky shared his views on the two largest cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Ethereum. Mashinski finds that the possible scenario when Ether gets ahead of BTC has already begun. Talking about Celsius, he noted that the flippening...

On July 5, the information resource Bitcoin.org was subjected to a DDoS attack. Attackers demand to pay them 0.5 BTC (over $ 17,600 at the time of writing). That was announced by the operator of the site under the nickname Cobra. “This is a very powerful attack and difficult to deal with. I...

Whales seem to show a higher interest in BTC compared to the statistics from May. Data shows that the number of coins held by whale entities reached its peak since May, going up to 4.216 million from 80.000. Whales are considered the addresses controlled by a single network participant that...