African economies show high potential for digital asset adoption

Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase that it made Stellar’s Lumens (XLM) trading available also to those users who reside in New York.The exchange made the announcement in a tweet sent by its official Twitter account on Sept. 25. New York state residents can now trade, store, send and receive Stellar Lumens using both the…

"Post-merge blocks are being produced by validators, and they contain transactions!" said Ethereum developer Tim Beiko. 123 Total views 4 Total shares On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) developer Tim Beiko tweeted that Kiln successfully passed the Ethereum Merge, with validators producing post-merge blocks containing transactions. Kiln will be the last Merge testnet (formerly Ethereum 2.0) before…

Germany joins countries such as France, Luxembourg, Spain and Portugal by greenlighting the Bitcoin-based EXOeu token. 807 Total views 5 Total shares German financial regulators have approved a security token offering (STO) based on a Bitcoin (BTC) sidechain.Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has greenlighted the EXOeu token by game publisher Exordium, making local retail investors…

Bitcoin holds the steady near $85,000 as the Coinbase Premium returns and positive comments from the Fed and President Trump add to traders' confidence. 1137 Total views 1 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) price rallied to an intraday high of $87,453 in the early hours of the NY trading session but quickly retraced its gains to

Bitcoin (BTC) is nearing $40,000 this week as “Dogefather” Elon Musk deals out pure pain to hodlers — what’s next?After a traumatic weekend for many crypto investors, Monday is setting the stage for the next chapter in the wild 2021 bull market.Cointlegraph takes a look at five factors which could shape what Bitcoin and altcoins…

“Old-time” Japanese crypto traders are coming back as Bitcoin recovers to $10K. 1232 Total views 14 Total shares Japan’s “dormant” crypto accounts are starting to see activity as Bitcoin breached a critical price resistance level this week. According to the Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck, their trading volume this week has risen by two to three…

On June 25, Ether (ETH) will face its largest options expiry in 2021 as $1.5 billion worth of open interest will be settled. This figure is 30% larger than March's 26 expiry, which took place as Ether price plunged 17% in 5 days and bottomed near $1,550. However, Ether rallied 56% after March's options expiry, reaching…

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has asked his followers to prepare for “lots of dumb things in [the] coming months” on his newly acquired social media platform.The Tesla CEO, now sole director of Twitter has already made a swathe of changes to the platform since taking over the company on Oct. 27, and has now…

Sotheby’s originally estimated Banksy’s “Love is in the Air” to sell for up to $5 million. 4042 Total views 19 Total shares Major auction house Sotheby’s has completed its cryptocurrency-enabled auction offering Banksy’s iconic protest artwork “Love is in the Air.”According to the auction results, Sotheby’s sold the physical artwork on Wednesday for $12.9 million,…