Bitcoin (BTC)

Kraken – a popular cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell – has recently offered its books to auditors to show them the company has heavy reserves of BTC, ETH, and Tether on file. Kraken Has Tried to Do a Lot of Good Kraken was founded in San Francisco, CA, which appears to be the ultimate hosting grounds for many crypto businesses considering this is long where Coinbase was stationed before deciding it was going to operate on a fully remote business...

Late August saw a huge flip in the digital currency arena. Bitcoin – the world’s largest number one digital currency by market cap – fell by several thousand dollars and eventually dipped below $22,000 for the first time in about three weeks, while Ethereum – the world’s second largest cryptocurrency and the main competitor to bitcoin – ultimately rose 100 percent from its June low of under $1,000 per unit and managed to surpass bitcoin’s level of growth. Ethereum Is...

The current President of El Salvador known as an outspoken bitcoin proponent – Nayib Bukele – said he will compete in the next presidential elections in 2024. Throughout his reign, El Salvador launched numerous BTC initiatives, such as turning the coin into a legal tender inside the nation’s borders. On another note, the American credit rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded El Salvador’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to “CC” from “CCC.” The entity...

Die norwegische Zentralbank Norges Bank hat bekannt gegeben, die Ethereum Blockchain für ihre Zentralbankwährung (CBDC) verwenden zu wollen. Dies repräsentiert einen entscheidenden Schritt in der Entwicklung digitaler Währungen in Ländern. Der Quellcode soll als Sandbox auf Github veröffentlicht werden. So stelle man eine Schnittstelle zum Testnetzwerk her. Bereits im Mai kündigte Norges Bank an, dass die Ethereum-Technologie in Zukunft eine...

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline from the $138 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $125 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $126 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair remains at a risk of more losses below the $115 and $112 support levels. Bitcoin cash price is moving lower below $125 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prohibited domestic cryptocurrency entities from providing staking and lending services to clients. The ban aims to protect traders and the public from risks related to such activities. The South East Asian country has been active on the digital asset scene lately. At the beginning of the year, the local authorities displayed intentions to start taxing transactions with bitcoin and alternative coins, while later, they...

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s latest tweet did not sit well with the Cardano creator, Charles Hoskinson, who squarely aimed at the Bitcoin proponent and said the Merge will kick off an “era” where all proof-of-stake (PoS) networks will be unfairly categorized as being similar to Ethereum. His tweet read, “Now begins the Era of everyone assuming that all Proof of Stake works like Ethereum’s Proof of Stake. The maxis will attack Cardano for slashing and label all the...

Ethereum just experienced its first hint of post-merge price action. Unfortunately for bulls, it was to the downside.  After clinging to roughly $1600 over the past 24 hours, Ethereum has now slipped over 5% lower within the past two hours. Likewise, Bitcoin has lost its $20,000 level once again. Ethereum was trading for about $1587 at roughly 14:19 UST on Thursday. It rapidly descended after that, falling as low as $1456 just an hour later.  At the time of writing, Ethereum...

During a time when many crypto companies and lending firms appear to be on their last legs, during a time when many digital asset enterprises are making their way out the door or cutting back on expenses and operations, others are flourishing, one of which is the new exchange Bit Castle based in the island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (in the Caribbean). Bit Castle Is Now Operational The crypto space has not been doing well these past few months. Several...

Several reports show that crypto television ads are beginning to vanish or die down. What was once a rather prominent thing to do (create crypto commercials) is now almost becoming passe or uninteresting to many media companies. Crypto Commercials Are Vanishing Crypto has taken a lot of flak in recent months. Right now, the space is doing rather terribly when it comes to prices, which could be one of the reasons why so many television ads are no longer making their way...