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WhatsApp has launched a new cryptocurrency-based pilot that will allow a select number of people in America to send and receive crypto funds to each other. The program is being powered by Novi, the new Facebook (or Meta) cryptocurrency wallet that has gone through a thousand name changes and struggled to get off the ground since being announced in the summer of 2019. The Novi Wallet Is Finally Launching Itself Novi was officially launched as a pilot roughly six weeks...

It looks like cryptocurrency has entered a whole new arena and crossed deep into mainstream territory. According to some financial advisors, everyone should have crypto as part of their portfolios no matter their ages. Cryptocurrency Is Rising to the Top There was a time when financial advisors across America and abroad were telling their clients to avoid cryptocurrency at all costs. The idea was that these assets were dangerous not only because they were volatile and...

Billionaire investor and hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz feels that Ethereum, in many ways, is outperforming bitcoin. Mike Novogratz Thinks ETH Is Da Bomb While bitcoin is the world’s number one digital currency by market cap and is trading for more than $50,000 per unit, Ethereum is in a whole new category thanks to the technology it presents. Ethereum is the second largest crypto by market cap and is only trading for about $3,600 at press time. At first glance, it...

Credit card giant Visa has opened an entirely new division designed to provide cryptocurrency advisory services to companies looking to get involved in the growing financial arena. Visa Is Offering Crypto Advice The irony of the situation is that Visa provides users with one of the biggest payment options available today. All one needs to do is sign up, go through a quick background check, and boom! They can get their new card mailed to them granted there isn’t anything...

The Austin Community Foundation has garnered a crypto-based gift worth more than $1 million USD. The donor remains anonymous at the time of writing, though we know he (or she) may have gotten involved in crypto at an early stage. Austin Community Foundation Is Crypto Wealthy The person opened a donor advised fund with Austin Community, which allows individuals to decide how to send money to various nonprofits across the country. The big clincher is that all money offered...

2021 saw many Americans jumping into the crypto space. In fact, according to a new report from Grayscale Investments, more than half of Americans owning crypto began trading just this year. Grayscale Issues New Report Detailing Crypto Ownership It can be said for many reasons that 2021 was the era of crypto. One of the main reasons is because assets like bitcoin and Ethereum hit all-time highs, with the former reaching $68,000 per unit in November and the latter spiking...

Google has filed a lawsuit against two individuals living in Russia over a botnet they used to infect several computer networks for the purpose of mining cryptocurrency. Google Goes After Glupteba The botnet not only stole crypto assets but the personal information of unsuspecting victims. Google has worked with several internet infrastructure companies to remove servers that the hackers were using to control the networks they infected. The botnet has been deemed null...

Craig Wright has won his bitcoin-related civil suit, casting doubt on all those who said the London-based Australian computer scientist wasn’t Satoshi Nakamoto. Craig Wright Is Victorious in Court The suit centered around an alleged stash of cryptocurrency and bitcoin units worth approximately $54 billion at the time of writing. A jury in Florida has dismissed approximately six of seven charges brought forth by the family of David Kleiman, who allegedly worked with...

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline from $585 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $500 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $500 the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must gain pace above $500 for a fresh increase in the near term. Bitcoin cash price is showing bearish signs below $500 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin....

Constitution DAO may have lost its bid on a piece of American history last month, but this has helped to launch the company into the digital spotlight. Its meme currency is now up by 900 percent, marking one of the largest surges to occur over the span of just a few weeks. Constitution DAO Is Still Accomplishing Something Big Coin Market Cap was one of the first sites to report on the data. The currency has been dubbed the “people token” given that it is offered to those...