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The sector of non-fungible tokens has reached the living soccer legend, Pelé. The Brazilian will have his own NFT collection honoring his legacy, dropping on May 2nd on the popular Ethernity Chain platform. 90% of the proceeds will be donated to the Pelé Foundation. Pele’s Legacy to Live as NFTs Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known in the soccer world as simply Pelé, is the latest celebrity to embrace the rapidly growing world of non-fungible tokens. According to a press...

Dogecoin is where all the rage is in the cryptocurrency market throughout the past 24 hours. DOGE is up almost 200% in the past day and almost 500% in the past week. With the latest surge, it has also managed to become the 6th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, surpassing Cardano’s ADA. Dogecoin Now Bigger Than Cardano As CryptoPotato reported earlier, the popular meme coin, DOGE, made headlines by painting a fresh all-time high at around $0.30. While this, in...

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, has disposed of half of his bitcoin holdings and used the substantial profits to pay off his mortgage. Although he classified this conversion as “phony money for real money,” the crypto community was quick to criticize his actions. Cramers Pays Off Mortgage with BTC Profits CNBC’s host has a somewhat controversial history with the primary cryptocurrency. He went from calling it an “outlaw currency” back in 2018 to highlighting and...

This week was quite bullish for the entire cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin charted a fresh all-time high and so did a lot of other cryptocurrencies. Altcoin season is booming as the BTC dominance continues to decline. Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a 4.2% price hike this week as the coin currency sits at around $60,500. BTC had surged higher throughout the week and set a new ATH at around $65,000 on Wednesday. Unfortunately, it could not close a daily candle above resistance at $63,766...

Binance announced the completion of the 15th BNB burn earlier today of just shy of 1.1 million tokens. Although the amount in coins has substantially declined compared to the past several such events, it set a record in terms of USD with almost $600 million.  The announcement from the Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange from earlier today reads that the company has completed the 15th quarterly BNB token burn “in accordance to the Binance whitepaper.”  The amount of coins...

Turkey’s government has introduced a new regulation that will prohibit cryptocurrency assets from being used as payment methods as of April 30th, citing significant risks. Nevertheless, banks are excluded from the legislation, meaning that users can still deposit the Turkish Lira on crypto exchanges through their banking accounts. Turkey’s Ban on Crypto Usage as Payment Methods According to the official statement from the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, the country...

There are no boring days in crypto. Today, the popular meme coin DOGE skyrocketed to new a new ATH at $0.3. With its mind-blowing surge, Dogecoin became the eighth largest crypto by market cap and surpassed giants like Motorola and Delta Airlines by that metric.  Dogecoin has always been able to grab people’s attention, and the past week or so is no exception.   DOGE traded at $0.06 on April 10th but, and there’s no other word to explain this better, exploded in value in the...

After nearing $64,000, bitcoin’s price has plummeted by about $3,000 in a matter of minutes and tested $61,000. Most altcoins have followed along south with the apparent exception of Dogecoin. DOGE has painted a new all-time high at $0.3 after a triple-digit price surge. Bitcoin Falls by $3K The primary cryptocurrency had a mainly bullish week in which it finally overcame $60,000 and went on to register consecutive all-time highs. Following the latest one at just shy of...

Gryphon Digital Mining has just completed a new funding round in which the company has raised a whopping $14 million to launch a new bitcoin mining firm that will leave no carbon footprint. Gryphon Digital Mining Has Raised a Lot of Money The hate towards bitcoin mining appears to be growing now that bitcoin has reached its new all-time high of more than $60,000 per unit. The idea is that granted bitcoin’s price grows, so do its mining costs and requirements, which are...

It should be no surprise that more traditional corporations join the crypto fever by investing in bitcoin or adopting blockchain technology. Brevan Howard, a European hedge fund, is the latest asset manager to join the movement. Bloomberg reported that the asset manager is preparing to invest $84,000,000 in digital assets, representing 1.5% of its $5.6 billion hedge fund. Jonny Steindorff and Tucker Waterman, co-founders of crypto investment firm Distributed Global, will...