Crypto news

Are you new to the crypto space? Humphrey Yang, a personal finance expert behind a firm known as Humphrey Talks, has some advice for you. Yang Explains the First Steps to Take Approximately 55 percent of the world’s bitcoin investors say they began in the year 2021. That’s rather recent considering how strong bitcoin has proven itself to be over the past five years alone. You’d think there would be more people involved at this stage, but it seems like just a year ago is...

The leading German stock market operator – Deutsche Börse – noted that cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) had been highly attractive options for investors over the past year. The company outlined that the average monthly trading turnover in crypto ETNs surged to more than $1 billion, or +922%, than in 2020 ($115 million). Crypto ETPs with a Record Performance Deutsche Börse presented the record numbers in its most recent report. To meet the growing demand for...

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify – Tobias “Tobi” Lütke – will join Coinbase’s Board of Directors. The CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange – Brian Armstrong – described him as a “tremendous entrepreneur” who also deeply believes in “the power of crypto.” Lütke to Sit Among The Directors In a recent blog post, Armstrong stated that Coinbase seeks to expand its international scope and build new products. In his view, having “Tobi” Lütke onboard would be highly...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many leading digital currencies have all fallen over the past few days. No doubt the crypto industry is suffering like it never has before, and yet not everyone is convinced the space is going to the gutter. Cathie Wood, for example – the woman in charge of Ark Invest – is suggesting that bitcoin cold potentially hit $1 million by the year 2030. Cathie Wood Is Positive About Bitcoin In addition, with Ethereum’s market capitalization on the rise,...

One simple mistake cost a trader $500,000, sparking intense debate in the Ethereum community over security and user experience. To Lose $500K Worth of WETH A post titled “Did I just lose half a million dollars by sending WETH to WETH’s contract address?” made its way to the top of r/ethereum. “Sent ETH to WETH contract and got WETH back (after some googling I found this is how the contract works). Assumed it works the same way backwards and sent WETH back to the contract. No...

Trump Coin is a cryptocurrency designed to celebrate the 45th President of the United States and his family. It seems people have been investing in the currency for some time and a lot of individuals are quite happy with it, but Trump and those who surround him have very different feelings about the currency. They are now threatening legal action against the currency’s developers and say that the asset uses the family name without permission. Trump Seeks to End the...

Bakkt – a digital asset management platform – has seen its shares plummet since going public in October. Trading at over $40 on October 29th, its stock is now as cheap as $3.96 on the NYSE. Down Alongside Crypto According to Google Finance, Bakkt’s stock peaked following its public listing on October 18th. It had tripled its value within a week from $8.76 to $30.60 by the 25th. After about another week, its price surged again on October 31st, touching $42.52. Bakkt’s listing...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Huobi Global, one of the world’s leading digital asset exchanges, today announced the launch of a trading fee rebate campaign for USDT-margined futures, becoming the first cryptocurrency exchange to offer maker fee rebates (as high as 0.015%) for all users. The platform also offers amongst the lowest taker fees in the market: even normal users can receive 0.02% taker fees for trading USDT-margined futures. Commonplace amongst digital...

The Asian country has dabbled with what sorts of tax it should put on cryptocurrency mining, trading, and transacting for months. However, the Financial Times reported that the authorities had ultimately decided to abandon the idea to tax transactions. Citing Thailand’s new revenue department rules, the FT said the authorities no longer want to implement a 15% withholding tax on digital asset transactions. This comes less than a month after the country presented its latest...

Days after its US branch raised $400 million, so has done the global exchange FTX. Thus, its total valuation grew to $32 billion. CryptoPotato reported last week the funding round in which FTX US raised $400 million from different investors such as Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. Less than a week later, CNBC reported that the new funding round for the global digital asset exchange FTX saw participation from some of the same investors. With this...