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Bitcoin is attempting a slight recovery, but closing above the $60,000 market will be the first step to achieve before BTC and altcoins can bounce from their recent lows.

Publicly traded software firm Splunk is using Ethereum sidechain xDai Chain to power the payments at its Las Vegas SplunkConf 2019.Payments at the conferencePer a report shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 24, conference participants have the opportunity to use a dedicated, modified version of xDai’s Burnerwallet dubbed PonyPurse. Splunk’s Head of Blockchain and DLT Nate…

Despite the current struggle in the global economy, the gap between traditional finance (TradFi) and crypto seems to be closing with each passing day. For example, earlier this month, Vienna-based fintech unicorn Bitpanda announced that it was adding commodities to its list of investment options, thus allowing investors to rake in profits from short-term price fluctuations…

Volatility is firmly on the radar as non-exchange balances suddenly decline by 700,000 ETH within just three days and resistance topples. Major investors in the biggest altcoin Ether (ETH) likely moved almost $200 million to exchanges in a fresh hint that price volatility will now hit.Data from on-chain analytics resource Santiment on July 23 suggested…

“I’m just a regular Bitcoiner caught in the crosshairs,” claimed Mark Alexander Hopkins, also known as Rizzn, prior to serving his prison sentence. 7160 Total views 50 Total shares Mark Alexander Hopkins, also known by the moniker Doctor Bitcoin or their handle Rizzn, has claimed that “transacting Bitcoin p2p is a federal crime” after announcing…

Bitcoin needs the high yield rate to fall as low as 6% if it wants to reach a "sustainable all-time high", says crypto analyst Timothy Peterson.

A major crypto company is offering outs to its employees as the situation in Belarus grows more tense. Amid the ongoing political unrest in Belarus, some local cryptocurrency-related companies are reportedly setting up backup offices in neighboring countries.Currency.com, a Minsk-headquartered crypto trading company, is reportedly planning to open an office in Lithuania to provide a…

Digital assets marketplace Bakkt is set to go public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021, which could pave the way for more cryptocurrency service providers to follow suit. The Intercontinental Exchange announced on Jan. 11 that its cryptocurrency marketplace Bakkt would soon be listed on the NYSE public stock market. This will be…

MiCA, which comes fully into force by the end of 2024, aims to create a consistent regulatory framework for crypto assets among European Union member states. 270 Total views 4 Total shares On June 9, the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) legislation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). This triggers the…