Crypto news

As regulatory pressure mounts in the U.S., policymakers are putting stablecoins at the top of their agendas. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Bloomberg has reported that officials are crafting a policy framework set to be released in the coming weeks. Their primary concern is ensuring that investors can reliably move money in and out of tokens, it added. The anonymous insiders are worried that a “fire-sale run on crypto assets could threaten financial stability and...

Over the past few months, the idea of adding bitcoin or crypto to one’s retirement account has really picked up steam. There are many individuals out there that are looking for ways to diversify their portfolios as a means of preparing for retirement later in life, and thus they are looking to add cryptocurrencies to an IRA or similar product. a Crypto-Based IRA Doesn’t Have That Many Possibilities For many, inflation has become a very scary reality. Prices of goods and...

Several US state regulators have gone after the popular cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network for failing to comply with local securities laws. The project’s CEO was quick to refute the allegations, promising that all protocol services will remain unaffected for now. US State Regulators After Celsius United States watchdogs have intensified their actions against the cryptocurrency industry lately, and the latest example became known on Friday. Firstly, the Texas State...

Square – a payment firm run by the head of Twitter Jack Dorsey – is joining a non-aggression pact against cryptocurrencies. The pact is designed to reduce patent lawsuits against crypto and blockchain companies and push the world of digital currency more toward mainstream territory. Square Wants Crypto Companies to Work Together The pact is known as the Open Invention Network, in which members like Square can pledge royalty-free access to certain patents, data, and...

The 24-year-old Australian national – Stefan He Qin – will spend the next 90 months in federal prison for defrauding his customers out of $90 million. The courts also ordered him to forfeit nearly $55 million from the embezzled money. The Road to Prison According to a press release from the United States Department of Justice, Stefan Qin received a prison sentence for seven and a half years after stealing nearly $90 million from his clients. The Australian was in charge of...

The Hedera Governing Council recently announced that it had allocated 10.7 billion HBAR, Hedera Hashgraph’s native token, to fund the development and expansion of the ecosystem. The official announcement revealed that the amount worth approximately $4.5 billion at the current market price ($0.42) represents 20% of the token’s total supply. Interestingly, the value of the 10.7 billion HBAR has more than doubled since the Governing Council approved the allocation at a July 14...

Bitcoin neared $49,000 for the first time in over a week but failed to breach it and has returned to around $48,000. Most alternative coins are slightly in red, except for Solana, which has jumped by 4% in a day to above $160. Bitcoin Maintains $48K After the volatile start of the week, in which bitcoin surged by $1,500 and dropped by $3,000 in minutes, the cryptocurrency enjoyed a steady price increase. In a matter of days, it bounced off the $43,300 low reached on Monday...

Coinbase and the U.S. Homeland Security have struck a million-dollar deal to allow the U.S. government to use the exchange’s services to analyze American citizens’ data. According to official documents, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – a branch of the U.S. Homeland Security Dept. dedicated to cross-border crime and illegal immigration – paid Coinbase $1.36 million in licensing fees for Coinbase Analytics software. Pay to Trace, Pay to Tell This would be the...

The New York-based property management company – Magnum Real Estate Group – would accept Bitcoin (BTC) as a payment method for the sale of three ground-level shops worth nearly $30 million located in Manhattan. In addition, the Autism Science Foundation (ASF) announced it would allow people to make cryptocurrency donations. Initially, the non-profit organization would accept the following digital assets: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin...

Many crypto analysts have emerged to state that despite recent dips in the bitcoin price, they believe the world’s number one digital asset is going to rise from the ashes and potentially reach a rather high number in the coming weeks or months. One such figure is Tone Vays, a known crypto analyst that believes bitcoin could reach $100,000 rather soon. Tone Vays On BTC: It’s Going Down, Then Up In a recent interview, Vays commented that bitcoin’s recent behavior is...