U.S. Congress subcommittee says that bank reporting methods led to Capitol attack arrests but worries that Bitcoin might have helped fund the insurrection. A U.S. Congress subcommittee is investigating if domestic extremists are turning to cryptocurrency as a source of funds for their activities. On Feb. 25, the Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and…
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NFTs are pumping right now, with a new report identifying more NFT sales in the last 24 hours than during the entirety of 2020. Canadian-based analytics company NonFungible has released a report predicting that 2021 is poised for “a new Bull Market in the NFT industry.” Although NFTs have been around since ERC-721 was invented…
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Verge has been hit by a huge blockchain reorganization, resulting in more than six months worth of transactions and balances vanishing. However, devs claim it can be fixed. Privacy-focused blockchain network Verge (XVG) has experienced a significant block reorganization, replacing transactions dating as far back as July 2020. Despite being described as potentially “the deepest…
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Tesla’s stock fell 7% following its announcement that it invested $1.5 billion of its cash reserves in the cryptocurrency. Electric car manufacturer Tesla has seen more than $55 billion wiped from its market cap since announcing the purchase of $1.5 billion in Bitcoin four days ago — but Twitter and MasterCard have headed in the…
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MasterCard will allow its almost one billion users to spend cryptocurrencies at more 30 million merchants, although it hasn’t specified which coins will be supported. MasterCard has announced plans to support cryptocurrencies in 2021, paving the way for its nearly one billion users to spend digital assets at more than 30 million merchants. The firm…
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“If you’re not a green hacker, and you’re not doing it for the planet, you can also do it for the money: by speculating downward on the price of Bitcoin before launching attacks.” The exponential rise in Bitcoin’s price and hash rate is driving critics to once again question the largest blockchain’s energy efficiency —…
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Striving to become Ethereum’s DApp hub, MyEtherWallet users can now search for and access the entire suite of Ethereum DApps within their MEW app. Ethereum wallet and interface MyEtherWallet, or MEW, has brought decentralized applications to its 1.3 million monthly users through a new “DApps Browser” feature in the MEW mobile app. The collaboration with…
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The Bitcoin-to-gold price ratio could shoot to 100x with the digital asset’s volatility possibly dropping to gold levels by 2024. Bitcoin will continue its bullish push towards $50,000 as investors move funds out of gold and into the digital asset, according to Bloomberg senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone. By 2024, he believes its volatility could…
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Source: A screenshot, Instagram/winklevoss If you think the recent GameStop furore sounds like something from an American big-budget movie, you may not be alone – so do the Winklevoss twins, and they are planning to take the whole shebang to the silver screen. It is a move that will see the brothers continue their involvement in producing…
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Vlad Tenev. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg Markets and Finance Vlad Tenev, co-founder and CEO of the popular trading app Robinhood, which also allows crypto trading, claims the platform wasn’t in any way directed by anybody to temporarily restrict buying of shares of Gamestop (GME) and twelve others. Meanwhile, Robinhood is reportedly negotiating with its…
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