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Through Taproot Assets, Lightning Labs is bringing stablecoins to Bitcoin and Bitcoinizing traditional assets including the dollar. Bitcoin layer-2 infrastructure firm Lightning Labs has officially launched the mainnet of Taproot Assets, a protocol that supports the issuance of stablecoins and real-world assets on the Bitcoin and Lightning networks. According to an official announcement, the mainnet release will support functionality on the Bitcoin blockchain, with support for Lightning...

It was disclosed that FTX customers’ money was spent on business investments, political and charity donations, and real estate. Beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange FTX spent customer’s deposits for business investments, political contributions, charitable donations, real estate, and the buyback of shares from competitor exchange Binance. During a hearing on Wednesday at the ongoing Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) trial, professor Peter Easton, an accounting officer hired by the US Department of...

Tesla continues to hold on to its BTC holding having last sold about 75% of it in the second quarter of 2022. It has now been five consecutive quarters that electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has left its sizable Bitcoin (BTC) holdings untouched. That is despite recently spending greatly towards improving its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions and projects. According to Tesla’s Q3 2023 report that was released on Wednesday, the company still has $184 million worth of...

Bitcoin is enjoying price spikes and increased trading volumes as Fidelity and others amend proposals while the market awaits an approval. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) hit $28,817 today in response to amendments to spot Bitcoin ETF applications submitted to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). However, as of this writing, Bitcoin has fallen to $28,379 according to data from CoinMarketCap, a 4.3% increase over the last 7 days. The initial increase put Bitcoin at a new...

Bitcoin price started a downside correction from the $30,000 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $28,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a short-term contracting triangle with support near $28,250 on the 4-hour chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a fresh increase if it stays above the $27,750 support zone. Bitcoin price is correcting lower below $28,750 against the US Dollar. BTC...

The tool will use analytical dashboards to identify transaction errors, wallet address balances and digital signatures. Ernst & Young (EY) Global has announced the first corporate client for its EY Blockchain Analyzer: Reconciler. Per the announcement, Fidelity Digital Assets, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, became the first enterprise to use the tool after its launch in February. EY Global Blockchain Leader Paul Brody believes that a robust internal risk management process and...

It is important to note that when a government agency seizes a crypto asset, it does not immediately own the assets. Ownership transfers only after a court ruling in favor of forfeiture. The United States government is among the largest Bitcoin (BTC) holders in the industry, with over 200,000 of the crypto assets stashed away in a hardware wallet controlled by the Department of Justice (DOJ), International Revenue Services (IRS), and other agencies in the country. According to a public...

Während die Landschaft der Kryptowährungen sich ständig ändert und Entwicklungen oft schwer vorherzusagen sind, hat sich ein interessantes Phänomen um den Monat Oktober und Bitcoin entwickelt. In Krypto-Kreisen wird der Oktober gelegentlich als „Uptober“ bezeichnet, da er in der Vergangenheit oft positive Trends für Bitcoin gezeigt hat. Hier sind einige der Gründe, warum der Oktober als günstiger Monat für Bitcoin-Investoren gilt: Uptober is BACK...

The progress on the Grayscale conversion front offers a welcome degree of clarity to the ETF approval process, which had been somewhat murky. The crypto community has witnessed a significant milestone as recent reports indicate that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided not to appeal a court ruling that could potentially pave the way for Grayscale Investments to convert its Bitcoin Trust into an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). This development has left analysts and investors...

The developments between US SEC and Grayscale over the past weekend led to whales accumulating Bitcoin in huge numbers. Over the last week, the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) gave a strong breakout moving all the way to the $28,000 level. As of press time, the BTC price is up 3.8% trading at $27,904 with a market cap of $544 billion. The recent price rally comes as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided not to challenge the court ruling that allowed...