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Bitcoin (BTC) will cost $1 million by 2030, one of the industry’s best-known pundits insists, as countries worldwide shun the euro and United States dollar.In his latest blog post published o April 27, Arthur Hayes, former CEO of crypto derivatives giant BitMEX, doubled down on his sky-high price prediction for Bitcoin and gold.Bitcoin, gold, commodities... just not…

Sales of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, reached $25 billion in 2021, demonstrating that the sector is one of the most sought-after markets in crypto. Art NFTs, in particular, made a big impact last year with Christie’s reporting over $93 million in nonfungible token sales during its fourth annual Art+Tech Summit that took place this past August. While…

Matterum’s platform for authenticating collectible items is now live, and it’s already processed several $10,000 William Shatner figurines.According to its website, Mattereum “has the tools to make physical goods flow around the world as easily as information using Ethereum blockchain smart contracts.” The company’s first client is Third Millenia Inc. (which works on the authentication…

Aside from ditching USDC for its native token, Worldcoin announced some changes to the terms of its WLD loans to market makers. 660 Total views 4 Total shares Worldcoin is set to begin paying its Orb Operators — those rewarded for scanning people's eyes — with its native Worldcoin (WLD) token, phasing out USD Coin (USDC)

Earlier this month, the Ethereum Foundation team lead Péter Szilágyi confirmed the date of the network’s upcoming upgrade, Istanbul. Ethereum’s eighth hard fork overall and the second one this year is slated to take place on Dec. 4. Istanbul will introduce a number of improvements such as interoperability with Zcash, cheaper zero-knowledge layer two scalability solutions,…

American major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has expanded into cross-border payments. Coinbase revealed the development in a recent announcement.Coinbase customers can now transfer funds to any user with a Coinbase account around the world using Ripple (XRP) and the exchange’s stablecoin USDCoin (USDC) with no fee. The development reportedly enables users to send and receive money…

The Spanish-speaking world saw some major developments this week with Spain introducing a reinforced authentication system for payments, Mexico giving fines up to $47,000 for the unauthorized use of crypto and a South Korean blockchain delegation visiting Peru. Here is the past week of crypto and blockchain news in review, as originally reported by Cointelegraph en…

Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Aug. 24. Here’s what we know so far and how prominent figures have reacted.

BTC price momentum is building as Bitcoin bulls attempt to cement $69,000 as support this month.