Bitcoin (BTC) held gains above $21,000 into Nov. 5 as the U.S. dollar posted a rare major daily decline. Dollar dives 2% as risk assets recover Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD building on prior strength to hit highs of $21,473 on Bitstamp — a new seven-week high. The pair had benefited
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The Nigerian currency appeared to accelerate its decline versus the U.S. dollar after it slipped to a new low of 900 naira for every dollar. The currency has continued to depreciate even after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s raid on suspected illegal foreign exchange dealers. Continuing U.S. Dollar Shortages Following the Oct. 27 announcement
Foundry Digital, a digital asset mining and a staking-focused subsidiary of Digital Asset Group, has announced the launch of a new bitcoin mining hardware training program. The training course, which is expected to commence on Nov. 7, is expected to help professionals and enthusiasts learn how to set up a miner as well as to
Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency recently said it has launched a blockchain training program and over 30,000 people are set to participate. The objective of the training course is to make the participants “early solution providers in the fourth industrial revolution.” Hastening Adoption of Blockchain The Nigerian government has said it plans to educate
Payments giant Mastercard has added seven startups to its Start Path program to make cryptocurrencies more accessible. “We’re welcoming a new cohort of startups to ease access to digital assets, build communities for creators and empower people to innovate for the future through Web3 technologies,” said Mastercard. Mastercard: ‘Anyone Who Uses Crypto Should Be Able
Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest brokerage firms with $9.9 trillion in assets under administration, is launching Fidelity Crypto, a service that allows retail investors to trade bitcoin and ether commission-free. “A meaningful portion of Fidelity customers are already interested in and own crypto,” the firm said. Fidelity Investments to Begin Offering Crypto Trading
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain says that the U.S. is not in a recession. “The economy is growing. It is strong,” he stressed. In addition, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there are no meetings or anything happening in preparing for a recession. White House Dismisses Recession Concerns White House Chief of
press release PRESS RELEASE. On October 31st, the cryptocurrency trading platform MEXC announced that it had reached a cooperation with Coinbase to jointly fulfil the privacy and security obligations of cryptocurrency under the framework of Coinbase’s TRUST Network (TRUST). The TRUST network is an alliance of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges. And the TRUST solution
The American venture capitalist and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Tim Draper, is still confident his bitcoin prediction that says the crypto asset will tap $250K per unit. Draper said in April 2018, at the Draper University blockchain party, that he predicted: “$250K by 2022.” At this year’s Web Summit 2022 event, Draper said
U.S.-licensed Formula One constructor Haas F1 Team has announced a collaboration with non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea. As part of the agreement, a collection of NFTs will be produced for Haas while Opensea’s logo will appear on its cars. Opensea to Help American Formula One Team Launch NFT Collection Leading peer-to-peer marketplace for non-fungible tokens
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has published findings stemming from an experiment dubbed “Project Cedar,” a protocol that uses a wholesale digital dollar in order to improve financial transactions. Michelle Neal, head of the bank’s Markets Group remarked on Friday that the research “indicated that settlement could occur in fewer than 10 seconds
The Chinese government has presented a plan of action regarding the inclusion of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in the lives of the Chinese people. The plan contemplates research of several technologies, including the development of an open metaverse platform for its citizens and research on odor simulation technology. Chinese Government Includes Odor
press release PRESS RELEASE. INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, LISBON, Nov. 4th, 2022 – Global crypto exchange, LBank, joined Web Summit Lisbon in Portugal as a proud sponsor and exhibitor. Lisbon has been on LBank’s list of destinations for a while and it was great for the top-20 crypto exchange to finally set foot in Europe officially.
Billionaires, take note. It’s one million times cheaper to send huge sums of money on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. A Bitcoin user sent over 50,562 BTC ($1 billion) to an address on the blockchain, paying a fee of just 2,513 Satoshis (the smallest denomination of a Bitcoin), equivalent to half a dollar for the pleasure.
During the last few weeks, a number of individuals have been discussing the upcoming release of Bitcoin Core version 24.0 and how the codebase will include full-replace-by-fee (RBF) logic. The discussion has become controversial as a few Lightning Network and zero confirmation advocates have expressed a distaste for the full-RBF idea. The CEO of Synonym,
Polygon rose for a second consecutive session on Friday, climbing by as much as 20%. This surge pushed prices of the token to their highest level since May. Cosmos was another big gainer on Friday, with prices rallying to a five-week high. Overall, the cryptocurrency global market cap is now trading 2.64% higher. Polygon (MATIC)
Bitcoin (BTC) passed $21,000 at the Nov. 4 Wall Street open as bulls tackled a formidable sell wall. Sellers move aside for new multi-week highs Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView breaking through resistance to hit local highs of $21,262 on Bitstamp. The pair had struggled to return to higher levels during the week,
Following the demise of the largest darknet marketplace (DNM) in mid-July 2017, the underground market Alphabay returned in August 2021, and during the last year, Alphabay has managed to once again regain its position as the world’s top DNM. Furthermore, Alphabay relentlessly conducted business amid a domino effect of DNMs folding last year and throughout
Cryptocurrency prices rebounded on Friday, as markets prepared for the latest U.S. nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report. It is expected that 200,000 jobs will have been added to the United States workforce, which comes as job openings once again trended higher. Bitcoin moved away from a recent floor of $20,060, with ethereum surging closer to $1,600
Bitcoin (BTC) headed toward $21,000 on Nov. 4 as bulls attempted to reclaim lost ground. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it rose overnight to put in new daily highs of $20,683 on Bitstamp. $21,000 sell wall proves ugly While so far a lower high on hourly timeframes compared to the