Total crypto market cap briefly surpassed that of Saudi Aramco. Amid another bullish trend on cryptocurrency markets, total crypto market capitalization has broken a new historical record just unde $2 trillion. The market cap of all cryptocurrencies surpassed $1.9 trillion on March 31, according to data from major crypto monitoring resources like CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap.…
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Bitcoin’s rally to $54,850 boosted its market capitalization above $1 trillion, a feat which took Amazon and Google decades to achieve. Within the last hour, Bitcoin’s market capitalization pushed above the $1 trillion level. This milestone occurred less than a year after its market cap dipped below $100 billion on Black Thursday and the move…
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Amazon has been silently working on a new digital currency project in Mexico, according to the company’s job postings. American e-commerce giant Amazon is developing a new service that will allow its customers to shop using digital currency, according to the company’s job postings. According to an official job application on Amazon, the company is…
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Lawmakers are prepping new tools to pursue tech firms accused of anti-competitive business practices. Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note As they say, the sun never sets on the Google empire. That said, the role of antitrust law in tech…
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The soon-to-be top executive at Amazon has released blockchain products in the past. Amazon has announced today that founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is planning to step down as CEO, and Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy — who oversaw Amazon’s crypto product offerings — will replace him. In his letter to employees, Bezos said…
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“Ripple’s all-star engineering team continues to grow,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said of the firm’s new senior VP. Amid legal action from the SEC, Ripple has brought in fresh blood from Amazon to lead its engineering team. In a statement released today, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced that former Amazon vice president of delivery experience,…
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The U.S.-based exchange has told users that they may experience some intermittent delays or errors while transacting. Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is experiencing “elevated error rates on some backend systems due to an AWS service outage,” according to an official post on Nov. 25 shortly after 7:00 pm PST. In an announcement posted nine…
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As the U.S. stock market enters earnings season, analysts explain how Bitcoin could perform after earnings and the presidential election. Tech-heavy stock market indices, including the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500, have begun to recover. Amazon posted high pandemic sales that led profits to climb threefold and reported a 37% spike in revenue. Facebook…
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The Antitrust Subcommittee looks for new legal tools to rein in Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google — a clear opening for tech tools built to decentralize. On Tuesday, a House subcommittee put out a massive report that places Big Tech in the crosshairs of major antitrust reforms. The four firms at the center of the…
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Indian IT tech giant Tech Mahindra will build blockchain supply chain solutions for aviation, healthcare and telecom sectors. The Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra is planning to build and deploy an array of blockchain solutions on Amazon Managed Blockchain in the next 12 to 18 months. According to a report by The Economic Times on…
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