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JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are among the financial institutions that are opposing the new rules that would require them to set aside a dollar in capital for every dollar of Bitcoin they own. The rules were proposed in June by a group of global central bankers and regulators known as the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS). The Global Financial Markets Association, which includes the two banks and 5 industry associations, published a letter this week,...

American professional basketball team Philadelphia 76ers has announced a partnership with the leading cryptocurrency exchange CryptoCom. The initiative will see the popular NBA club launch its non-fungible token (NFT) on the digital asset trading platform. Philadelphia 76ers Partners CryptoCom Announcing the partnership in a press release today, 76ers noted that fans interested in obtaining the digital collectibles can log on to the CryptoCom NFT platform to get access. The...

Online payment giant PayPal has announced a new app offering multiple financial services previously foreign to the platform – including “crypto capabilities.” PayPal’s New App Features As reported by Newswire, the new app will introduce the ‘PayPal Savings’ service in partnership with synchrony bank, a savings account that offers APY rates of 0.4% with no monthly fees or minimum necessary balance. While this is still well below rates offered by many centralized and...

Tron price started a fresh decline from the $0.1200 resistance against the US Dollar. TRX price is now trading below $0.1000 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $0.1150 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Bitfinex). The pair could accelerate lower if there is a clear break below the $0.8200 support zone. TRON price failed to continue higher above $0.1200 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Bitcoin price started a major decline below the $45,000 support against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $44,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $42,850 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must settle above $44,000 to start a steady increase in the near term. Bitcoin price is recovering higher above $42,000 against the US Dollar. BTC could...

A federal judge in New York has denied Ripple Labs’ motion to order the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to produce records of its employees’ crypto transactions in an effort to prove that the agency did not consider XRP to be a security. The SEC Wins One Against Ripple According to an official transcript, Ripple filed the request on August 27. Their rationale for the request was that if it were discovered that the SEC employees had traded XRP, it would at a...

Sam Bankman-Fried – CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX – opined that the 17-hour network outage which Solana (SOL) experienced last week was due to its rapid growth. He also said stablecoins are an essential part of the ecosystem and urged the US regulators not to ban them. Solana Was Down Because It Grows Too Quickly In a recent interview for Bloomberg, the Founder and CEO of FTX – Sam Bankman-Fried – shared his stance on hot topics such as Solana’s disruption and...

According to a recent study conducted by Bloomberg, the amount of energy used for crypto and bitcoin mining purposes in 2021 already outdoes all the energy used in 2020, and we’re not even three quarters of the way through the year. Crypto Mining Is Using a Lot of Electricity Some environmentalists are taking this as a bad sign. It suggests that people are not only mining more but may be increasing the carbon footprint that already stems from the mining industry. So far...

Fidelity Digital Assets – the cryptocurrency division of Fidelity Investments – has recently sent representatives of the firm to secretly meet with agents of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a means of pushing its new crypto-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) further along the way. Fidelity Wants the SEC to Move Quickly Fidelity believes that the cryptocurrency industry is now large enough to push such a product, which has been making its way across SEC...

David Ignatius of the Washington Post interviewed SEC chair, Gary Gensler, on the cryptocurrency landscape, where the latter provided his approach to regulating the digital asset industry. Gensler expresses optimism for the possibilities crypto provides for enhancing finance, but he also believes that most of the space should fall under regulatory supervision – including stablecoins. At the start of the interview, Gensler commented on the recent market crash in the market of...