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On Monday, April 12, the BNB token quotes of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange reached $600. At the time of writing, BNB is trading near $578. The growth of the asset over the last day was 25.3%, over seven days -...

The CEO of the Business intelligence company MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor announced via tweet that the board of directors now get fees in BTC. The Board of Directors of @MicroStrategy is now paid in #bitcoin. $MSTRhttps://t.co/3ChlkCNZOT— Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) April 12, 2021 ...

On Friday, the court disallowed the SEC's request to publish financial statements of Ripple's execs stating it is not assured that the data would indicate wrongdoings. In March the US SEC submitted the petition for eight years of financial history from CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris...

Large investors or so-called "whales" continue to hoard bitcoins. Analysts have found that at the moment they have accumulated up to 2.2% of the total market supply of the cryptocurrency. We are talking about investors controlling 100,000 or more BTC, according to the team's report. The...

The well-known magazine Forbes lately brought out 2021 annual rankings of the most affluent individuals worldwide. The names are issued every year in March. In 2021 the mark surged to a record of 2,755 which is 600 more than that of the previous year. Forbes' research shows the number of names...

Efforts by governments to ban bitcoin trading will require shutting down the internet. This opinion was presented by the Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Hester Peirce in a podcast organized by MarketWatch. “We have passed the right moment to ban bitcoin in the US....

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz is known for more than just Bitcoin. He has also previously called on the US government to accelerate the development of a digital version of the dollar and introduce crypto regulation. The billionaire once again expressed his position at the end of this week. He...

British international banking and financial services provider HSBC informed the customers about the change of its policy concerning virtual currencies and relevant products. Therefore, MicroStrategy is viewed as one of them and is banned on the institution's online trading platform — HSBC...

Almost all of the top cryptocurrencies have seen a price increase in recent days. Bitcoin has gone up to $60.000. Eth and Binance Coin set record highs: $2.200 and $485 respectively. The total crypto market cap stands at above 2.06 trillion. Besides, the top three cryptocurrencies by market cap,...

In the coming years, we will see institutional adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) go mainstream. This point of view is shared by Tom Jessop of Fidelity. The top manager is confident that the majority of large investors are already changing their attitude towards BTC and other digital currencies. Changing...

The US-based BTC mining entity Riot blockchain signed a $651 M trade of the mining hosting provider firm Whinstone. As noted in the press release published on April 8, Riot has signed a paper with Whinstone to obtain all of its assets and services. For the deal, the company agreed to pay $80 M...

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is going to launch its first non-fungible tokens in history. The NFTs will represent the most exciting minutes of retired wrestling star William Calaway otherwise known as The Undertaker. WWE revealed the news on Twitter on April 9 ahead of the major annual event...

Japan is on the list of those states whose central banks plan to issue national cryptos (CBDC) in the coming years. In early April, the Bank of Japan launched the first round of digital yen testing. It will end by early March 2022. During the second stage of testing, the regulator plans to involve...

On April 8, trading operations provider Robinhood published a blog post announcing that in the Q1 of 2021 the number of customers of its crypto trading service reached 9.5 million. In the last quarter of the previous year, this number was 1.7 million. In March the company said that since the...

China-based software company Meitu that presents the popular photo editing app, announced an additional $10 M investment in Bitcoin. The firm acquired 175.6 coins on April 8, thus making the total number of its BTC holdings 940. Overall, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed firm now holds $100 M...

Coinbase plans to list on the Nasdaq this month. Before entering the market, the crypto company reported very good financial performance. As the CNBC channel clarifies, a company representing the cryptocurrency industry may soon enter the stock market. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell spoke about plans to...

American men's magazine Playboy will auction a collection of photographs in non-fungible token format (NFT). Bidding will take place at the Nifty Gateway marketplace. The first lot will include a collection of works by artist Mike Parisella, based on archival images from Playboy magazine. In June...

Sweden is on the list of those states that want to launch a national digital currency (CBDC) soon. The kingdom's central bank announced this week that the first phase of testing the digital krona has been completed successfully. During the tests, experts from the Central Bank discovered several...