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El Salvador was serious when it said it was making bitcoin a legal currency within its borders, and anyone who didn’t believe the nation’s regulators are likely getting a good kick in the pants right about now. El Salvador Is Moving Up the Crypto Ladder The Central American country has begun rolling out bitcoin ATMs to begin allowing individuals to trade their crypto for fiat and vice versa. Thus far, about 200 separate machines have been installed. The country is still...

A bug afflicting a prior version of Geth has just caused the Ethereum mainnet to split. Nodes running the old client are being barred from the main network. This could threaten the possibility of double-spending and lost funds for those using the network. Go Ethereum just tweeted that a bug afflicting the old version of Geth has caused the Ethereum mainnet to fork. He urges all nodes to immediately update to the current version 1.10.8, which was announced just days ago. A...

Jack Dorsey has proven himself to be a major bitcoin fan over the years. Now, he is taking that fandom to a whole new level. Jack Dorsey Is “Trying” Mining The man behind both Twitter – one of the largest social media platforms in the world – and Square, a digital payments platform, announced that he is trying his hand at bitcoin mining. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been monitoring Dorsey’s bitcoin career, as the man was one of the first...

Stablecoins remain the most traded assets in the crypto market. Fresh data from on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant shows that nearly $2 billion worth of those tokens were recently moved into exchanges. According to Ki Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, these massive deposits are actually a bullish sign for the industry. Ju noted that most crypto trading platforms usually fill the market to enable users to purchase different coins, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and...

The strange and crazy circumstances surrounding the recent hacking of the Poly Network have reached an odd, yet definitive conclusion. The Poly Network Is Rich Again! Not long ago, the Poly Network – which hosts several blockchains including those of Ethereum, Binance and of course, Poly – stated that it was the victim of a hack that saw more than $610 million in digital funds practically vanish overnight. The company halted all withdrawals and deposits and said in a...

It was a compelling week in the cryptocurrency markets. It took bitcoin more than three months, but it finally did it this week – reaching the $50,000 price line for the first time since May. However, it also took less than 24 hours for the bears to get back in action and push it beneath that level. The primary cryptocurrency spent the next few days sliding south and bottomed yesterday at just over $46k, but it found support amid the 200-day moving average line. Despite...

Bitcoin (BTC) Bitcoin is up a small 1% this week after getting rejected trying to breach above the $50,000 mark on Monday. The current high since May now lies at $50,500. Unfortunately, BTC was unable to sustain this level and ended up closing the daily candle beneath $50K. Following the rejection, BTC headed sharply lower: Yesterday it fell back beneath $47,800, recording its weekly low amid $46.3k, however, the bitcoin price managed to close the day on top of the crucial...

Shaktikanta Das – the governor of the Reserve Bank of India – said the financial institution could launch its first trial programs for a digital rupee by December this year. The initiative would determine the security of the Indian CBDC and its impact on the local economic network. India’s Approach to a CBDC In a recent interview for CNBC, Shaktikanta Das revealed the Reserve Bank of India’s plans to begin trials for a central bank digital currency before the end of this...

Bitcoin continued to trade around the $47,000 line in the past 24 hours after it dropped to a weekly low beneath $46,400. Most altcoins have stalled since yesterday, except for Solana. SOL has gone on to chart another all-time high above $83 after a double-digit surge. SOL’s Latest ATH The alternative coins, similarly to their leader, lost significant chunks of value in the past few days. Ethereum, for example, went from about $3,360 to beneath $3,100. As of now, it has...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] AAX Exchange is launching its flagship non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace and featuring selective artists’ high-end works. As a prelude to this market place, AAX is giving its users an opportunity to auction their NFTs for a charity campaign, at the same time the chance to win themed NFTs after trading. The campaigns mark the first steps the exchange is taking in the NFT space in preparation for the launch of its NFT marketplace in...