Tagged: bitcoin

March 26, 2024 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee and the House Committee on Agriculture are demanding that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) clarify whether Ether (ETH—Ethereum) is a security or something else. In recent years, the SEC has publicly stated ETH is not a security…. Read More

March 25, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubit, the Bitcoin-native data availability layer, is announcing their collaboration with Babylon, which emerges as the native Bitcoin staking and timestamping protocol, “poised to unlock 21 million Bitcoin to secure the decentralized economy.” This collaboration marks a milestone in their journey “to scale and secure… Read More

March 24, 2024 @ 9:00 pm By Shane Rodgers  |  

The collapse of Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX sent shockwaves through the alternative investment world and arguably changed the cryptocurrency market forever. Following a mass exodus of investors that exposed an $8 billion gap in the company’s accounts, the market has been attempting to bounce back… Read More

March 21, 2024 @ 4:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), which claims to be one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners and a leader in supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Applied Digital Corporation’s Bitcoin mining data center in Garden… Read More

March 19, 2024 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the Bitcoin halving approaches, an event that is expected to reduce the daily BTC minting supply by half, several crypto industry analysts have provided their insights on the current state of the volatile crypto-assets markets. The Bitfinex Alpha Report aims to offer a comprehensive… Read More

March 17, 2024 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Collectively the spot Bitcoin ETFs have been quite successful, but even individually, most of the BTC ETFs would be considered successful compared to most ETFs, according to an extensive update from NYDIG. NYDIG researchers note that price movements and ETF flows will likely work in… Read More

March 15, 2024 @ 6:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

StackinSat, a France based Bitcoin startup has raised €1 Million in Series A funding, in an online securiites offering backed by 250 investors. The issuer listed the offering on Soul Invest. The company reported that the funding round is the largest online offering in the… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic is not only the largest investment crowdfunding operator in the world but it is also very active in the crypto-sphere. Republic also offers its own digital asset – the Republic Note which trades on INX, a digital asset platform in which Republic has invested…. Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) has bought more Bitcoin, according to a document filed with the SEC. MicroStrategy has morphed into a proxy for Bitcoin, and its CEO, Michael Saylor, is a huge Bitcoin bull who sees Bitcoin as a digital asset that is more like gold minus… Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the past six years from 2018 to 2024, the crypto market’s sentiment has been fearful for 54.7% of the time, greedy 32.0% and neutral for the remaining 13.3%, according to an extensive update from CoinGecko. During this period, the Fear and Greed Index averaged… Read More

March 10, 2024 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Core Foundation announced a $5 million Innovation Fund to advance India’s decentralized application ecosystem on Core Chain, the Bitcoin-secured and EVM-compatible blockchain. This fund aims to empower Web3 communities, enhance education, and provide vital support to founders and builders throughout India. Shivangi Pandey, Core Contributor,… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Is it the Bitcoin ETFs? The Halving? The debt debacle in the US? Whatever it is, Bitcoin has hit a new all-time high. According to Coinbase, Bitcoin briefly breached $69,000 – the highest valuation ever. Currently trading at around $68,000 some prognosticators are predicting that… Read More

March 3, 2024 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), an industry enabler of vertically integrated Bitcoin (BTC) mining, announced that it has entered into a new purchase agreement with Shenzhen MicroBT Electronics Technology Co., LTD, “through its manufacturing subsidiaries, (MicroBT) a prominent manufacturer of Bitcoin miners.” Under the Agreement,… Read More

February 27, 2024 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), the largest crypto exchange in the US, saw its shares rocket higher almost 17% yesterday, nearing 52-week highs. The rally is poised to continue today as in pre-market trading, shares are up by almost 7% – which means Coinbase may open at over… Read More

February 27, 2024 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lumerin, a “decentralized” Hashpower Marketplace built on Arbitrum that has built technology to make Bitcoin hashrate a liquid asset allowing for global access to peer-to-peer, decentralized hashrate trading, announced a new integration with Portal, the “trust-minimized,” cross-chain swaps that involve no bridges, custody or wrapping…. Read More

February 26, 2024 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bakkt Holdings, Inc.  (NYSE: BKKT), which has been struggling to maintain operations due to a shortage of cash reserves but has acquired financial resources to keep running operations for now, and Swan Bitcoin announced that the companies have enabled Bitcoin trading across 49 U.S. states… Read More

February 26, 2024 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Texas Blockchain Council (TBC) alongside one of its members, Riot Platforms, initiated legal proceedings against the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), challenging “an alleged unprecedented and illegal data collection demand against the bitcoin mining industry.” This legal action underscores the TBC’s… Read More

February 23, 2024 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), an industry enabler of vertically integrated Bitcoin (“BTC”) mining, reports financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2023. The audited financial statements are available on Riot’s website and here. Jason Les, CEO of Riot, said: “I am pleased… Read More

February 23, 2024 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), a firm focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, has launched Slipstream, a direct Bitcoin transaction submission service designed to streamline confirmations of large or non-standard Bitcoin transactions. By default, Bitcoin nodes frequently “exclude large and non-standard transactions from… Read More

February 23, 2024 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a critical report on Bitcoin. The report follows the approval of Bitcoin ETFs in January by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In a blog post by Ulrich Bindeil, DG of Market Infrastructure & Payments at the ECB,… Read More