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BTC ends April in the red zone for the first time in 6 years
Since 2015, every April has proven to be a successful month for Bitcoin. However, this year's winning streak will be interrupted. The largest digital currency is ending its second month of spring in the red. On the night of Friday, April 30, the BTC rate fell to $53,000. The capitalization of...
ETH has surpassed platinum in terms of capitalization
Ether (ETH) is showing explosive growth this week. In terms of capitalization, ETH has already surpassed platinum. Now the value of the entire ether has reached $320 billion. The capitalization of platinum is now about $304 billion. Since 1900, 250 million troy ounces of this precious metal have...
Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Says DOGE Maybe "Frothy"
Fed Reserve head Jerome Powell was asked about his opinion about GameStop stock and Dogecoin's growth at the time of a press conference hold on April 28. The subject was if the surge is connected with low rates and simple monetary strategy and how it can influence financial stability. Powel finds...
Solana starts a virtual hackathon with prize up to $1M
The nonprofit Solana Foundation has announced the launch of the Solana Season virtual hackathon featuring Web3, DeFi, and NFT themed tracks. Solana Season starts on May 15 and runs over three weeks. The hackathon offers a global prize pool of $ 400,000. Teams will also be able to receive seed...
Core Scientific to acquire 112,800 BTC miners from Bitmain
American blockchain hosting provider Core Scientific has announced an agreement with Chinese mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain to purchase 112,800 Bitcoin mining devices. The party will be ASIC miners Antminer S19, S19 Pro, S19J, and S19J Pro. After receiving the purchased devices, Core...
Paxos Attracted $300 M in Series D Funding Round
Regulated blockchain infrastructure Paxos, the developer of the stablecoin PAX Gold and PAX Standard announced raising $300 million in its Series D funding round headed by Oak Technology. In total, the company raised $500 M. Its valuation stands at around $2.4 B. Paxos is going to use the capital...
Hacker faked Beeple's NFT sold for $69.3 million
Hacker Monsieur Personne created fake copies of the most expensive NFT painting Everydays: The First 5000 Days by American artist Beeple to debunk the myth of the uniqueness and safety of tokens. It is about forging cryptographic evidence of ownership of an original work of art. The hacker created...
Genesis to Buy $94 M Worth of Mining Equipment From Canaan
BTC mining firm Genesis has ordered machines valued at $93.63 from computer hardware manufacturer Canaan. Particularly, Genesis is going to receive Canaan's most recent AvalonMiner A1246 model, which has a hashrate capacity of 90 tera hashes per second (TH/s). Currently, the BTC computing potential...
Stock Markets SIX and Borse Xetra to Trade Ether ETP
US-based Wisdom Tree Asset Management launches an Ethereum-based ETP on the Swiss stock market SIX and German Borse Xetra. The product enables investors' exposure to Eth without the necessity to own the asset in a direct way or to work with the blockchain framework. So, it makes the investing...
BaFin breaks Binance when launching tokenized stock service
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has warned Binance of a potential violation of securities laws when launching tokenized stock trading. On April 12, the crypto exchange announced the launch of a new service. Two weeks later, the Financial Times announced that regulators in the UK...
Nirvana's Last Photo Shoot will be Auctioned as NFT
NFTs representing the last photo session of the immortal rock group Nirvana and lead singer Kurt Cobain will be launched next week. (1/9) Today I’m proud to announce my first NFT drop of iconic images from my photoshoot of Kurt Cobain in 1993. The images, some of which have never before been...
JUST NFT Fund to NFTize an Artwork by Pablo Picasso
Tron network founder Justin Sun revealed launching the world's first Picasso NFT on the JUST NFT Fund. (1/3)📢 I am thrilled to announce that Pablo Picasso’s artwork has been NFTized for the first time ever by JUST NFT Fund. pic.twitter.com/AltRFTwlwd— Justin Sun 🅣🌞...
The Number of MetaMask's Users Reached 5 Million
The wallet and extension Metamask now has 5 million active users per month which is five times more compared to October 2020, when the number crossed 1 M for the first time. 🥳 A new milestone!6 Months5 Million Monthly Active Users2 Billion USD in accumulated transactions100% more ethical...
Securrency raises $30 million from top Wall Street players
Securrency blockchain compliance provider raised $30 million in Series B funding round. The round was attended by WisdomTree Investments, State Street, U.S. Bank, and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners (subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Sovereign wealth fund and Falcon Edge Capital). The company will use the funds...
Ether Surpassed $2.700. The Blockchain Hits New Records
The price of Ethereum reached a new all-time high surging over $2.730. Its market cap went up to $314.1 B. Ethereum ecosystem keeps growing and getting ways to solve scalability problems. Recently the launch of the Berlin hard fork took place. The upgrade London is scheduled to release on July 14....
Elon Musk Calls Himself Dogefather, The Coin Surges
On May 8 Elon Musk will be the guest of the American show Saturday Night Live (SNL). The businessman tweeted about this, posting "The Dogefather, SNL May 8". Following this, DOGE has gained over 20%. Now the coin trades at around $0.3 ranking the 7th by market cap. The DogefatherSNL May...
1inch Launches 1inch Wallet iOS App
Liquidity aggregator from decentralized exchanges 1inch has introduced the 1inch Wallet app for iOS. It combined the capabilities of the web version and the functionality of a mobile wallet. At the first stage, the exchange of tokens is available to users. In the future, developers will add...
Microsoft and Intel have improved search for hidden miners
The Microsoft Defender enterprise endpoint solution has incorporated Intel's threat detection technology to quickly compute hacker programs for cryptocurrency mining. Intel Threat Detection Technology (TDT) relies on telemetry data to detect any anomalies in CPU performance. Unlike other types of...
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