The Canadian subsidiary of KPMG – one of the “Big Four” international accounting firms – has just confirmed the addition of Bitcoin and Ethereum to its corporate treasury. The purchase is said to “reflect the firm’s commitment to emerging technologies and asset classes”. According to a press release from Newswire, KPMG included carbon offsets alongside the purchase, in order to maintain net-zero emissions on the relevant purchases. Bitcoin and Ethereum are often criticized...
Read More »Bloomberg Insists: Bitcoin Could Still Reach $100,000
February’s investment report by Bloomberg Intelligence argued in favor of cryptocurrency investments. In particular, it suggested that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USD stablecoins will continue to do well. At the same time, though, smaller digital assets could be in trouble due to excessive speculation, analysts at Bloomberg asserted. “Some purging of the speculative excesses of 2021 may mark much of 2022, but Bitcoin is poised to come out ahead.” BTC vs. Oil In particular, crypto...
Read More »Bitcoin Lightning Network Capacity Reaches All-Time High
The Bitcoin community celebrated as the layer 2 payment system reached a total of over 3,400 BTC locked. That is an equivalent of around $141 million. Bringing near-zero fee BTC payments, Lightning’s adoption rose dramatically over the last year. During the same period, bitcoin became significantly more utilized as a network and an investment asset by investors and large companies as the crypto bull run went on. However, growth has been slowing since November’s crypto crash....
Read More »‘The Demon’ Gene Simmons Accepts Bitcoin for The Sale of His Las Vegas Estate
The legendary bassist/vocalist of the rock band KISS – Gene Simmons – disclosed that apart from fiat currency, buyers can also purchase his $13.5 million home in Las Vegas in digital assets. Those accepted are Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Polkadot (DOT), Litecoin (LTC), and more. An’ Outspoken Proponent’ of Crypto The rock star, known among fans as “The Demon,” initially displayed his support towards the cryptocurrency industry at the beginning of 2021. Back then, he predicted...
Read More »Proof-of-Reserves Audit Shows Kraken Holds $19B in BTC and ETH
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced on Thursday the results of a proof-of-reserve audit, showing that it holds over $19 billion worth of Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC). Almost $20 billion Stored on Kraken As per a blog post, the audit was conducted by Armanino LLP, a consulting and technology firm in the US. The results didn’t include other assets – just BTC and ETH, including the $3.5 billion worth of ETH held in Kraken’s staking service, which is an ETH 2.0...
Read More »ETH is Back Above $3,000: Is the Correction Over, and What Level to Watch? Ethereum Price Analysis
ETH has broken above $3,000 and appears poised to move even higher, ending the short-term downtrend. This comes less than two weeks since bottoming at $2160, according to Bitstamp. Key Support levels: $2,805, $2,500 Key Resistance levels: $3K, $3,400, $3,750 After a decent 2-day rally, ETH broke above the key resistance at $3,000 today. If ETH can turn this level into support (retest and confirm), this impressive rally could continue much further. In addition, there is also...
Read More »Crypto Markets Add $170 Billion in a Day as Bitcoin Explodes Above $41K (Weekend Watch)
After more than two weeks of trading below $40,000, bitcoin finally made a decisive move to reclaim that coveted level. The entire crypto market followed suit with massive daily price increases from Ethereum, Binance Coin, Cardano, Sollana, Polkadot, and many others. Bitcoin Surged $4K It was on January 20th and 21st when the primary cryptocurrency slumped below $40,000 for the first time in months. In the following few weeks, the asset failed to recover most of the losses...
Read More »Bitcoin Tops $40K, Correlation to Global Markets on Edge: The Weekly Recap
The total cryptocurrency market has managed to recover a considerable chunk of its capitalization, with Bitcoin currently pushing above $40K. However, excluding today, we saw a serious correlation between Wall Street and crypto, but may this be coming to a halt? Bitcoin’s price recovered over 8% in the past seven days, but let’s break it down. This time last week, things were looking quite depressing, and BTC was failing to break out and dipped on Monday. It spiked towards...
Read More »Jump Crypto Bails Out Wormhole Network with 120K ETH Following $322M Hack
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Read More »AlphaWallet Exceeds 500 Forks to Become the Most-forked, Fully Open-source EVM Wallet
[PRESS RELEASE – Sydney, Australia, 4th February 2022] Developers across the Ethereum ecosystem are using AlphaWallet as the basis for secure, flexible wallets for a wide range of assets and use cases in Web3. Smart Token Labs announces that AlphaWallet has been publicly forked over 500 times, becoming the most-forked, fully open-source, EVM wallet. Developers around the world have used AlphaWallet’s source code to create more than 500 derivative wallets encompassing a wide...
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