Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Good for Bitcoin, Barry Silbert Says

VanEck joins the group of asset managers updating applications for a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States. 733 Total views 3 Total shares Asset manager VanEck filed an amended application for a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Oct. 27 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to the regulator’s

The Sandbox (TSB), a mobile creation game on Ethereum, announced on April 1 that its third presale of virtual land had generated 3,400 Ether ($450,000) in sales.The March 31 presale sold 12,384 pieces of LAND — virtual spaces in the game — in just five hours. That equates to approximately 10% of the total 166,464…

Satoshi Natakmoto’s anonymity and powerful mining-incentive mechanism are key examples of what made Bitcoin (BTC) unique and led to its unparalleled success. But for truly democratized money and finance to be achieved, it is worth reminding enthusiasts that Bitcoin was an iteration in a series of trials and errors that go back as far as…

Bitcoin (BTC) is reverting to its historical 90%+ market dominance at altcoins’ expense, one of the industry’s best-known figures has declared.Back: Bitcoin will hit 90% dominance againIn a Twitter debate with Primitive Fund co-founder Dovey Wan on Sept. 9, Blockstream CEO Adam Back said altcoins’ previous supremacy was a temporary feature of the cryptocurrency space. Wan…

Bitcoin (BTC) was gearing up to crack $7,000 on March 20 as the cryptocurrency’s miraculous turnaround produced almost 90% weekly gains.Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360Data from Coin360 and Cointelegraph Markets showed BTC/USD trading at around $6,600 on Friday, having risen by more than 20% in the preceding 24 hours alone.Exchange spreads were wide —…

Most crypto enthusiasts are less than pleased with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s past approach to crypto. This is not because legitimate businesses oppose regulation but because of the breadth, complexity and uncertainty associated with the current regulatory regime. Even in the context of general discontent, few actions by the SEC have engendered…

As the price of DOGE surged eight-fold within a day, the volume of Dogecoin surpassed Bitcoin's on Binance. 350 Total views 5 Total shares Dogecoin (DOGE) briefly surpassed Bitcoin (BTC) in daily volume on Binance at over $5 billion on Jan. 29. This is a first for Dogecoin, and it happened as the price of DOGE…

“Holding some portion of what you hold in cash in things like crypto seems to make some sense to me," said Rick Rieder. 699 Total views 5 Total shares Rick Rieder, chief investment officer at BlackRock Financial Management, hinted that the firm ha already invested a percentage of its portfolio into crypto.In an interview with…

The oracle network’s exponential growth has been tied to the emergence of DeFi. Co-founder Sergey Nazarov said Chainlink is also powering metaverses. 541 Total views 35 Total shares The total value secured by the Chainlink network has officially surpassed $75 billion, marking a new milestone for the decentralized oracle solution that has become synonymous with…