Altcoin season hasn't arrived because everyone jumped 'straight to the punchline'

An ice cream shop in Berlin’s trendy Friedrichshain district has revealed that a chat with an unknown “super nice” guy spurred them to spearhead Bitcoin adoption with the local crowd.That unknown guy turned out to have been the legendary Bitcoin (BTC) evangelist and educator Andreas Antonopoulos, as a Nov. 21 Twitter thread from the retailer,…

Venture arms for Salesforce and Samsung participated in a second Series C funding event for a startup called Digital Asset. After gathering $35 million in its first Series C raise that ended in December 2019, Digital Asset decided to run another round, a Feb. 4 press release read. This second Series C funding attracted investment from Samsung…

Bitcoin is already legal tender in Roatán, Honduras and Madeira, Portugal. Now a Mexican Senator wants to make it so in her country as well. 655 Total views 27 Total shares Speaking at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Samson Mow, former chief strategy officer of Blockstream, named three new jurisdictions that would be adopting…

Two US-based law firms are the latest victims of the REvil malware group, which is auctioning off their sensitive data. 1688 Total views 34 Total shares Ransomware group REvil has started another auction on the dark web listing sensitive data stolen from two US-based law firms.The listing appeared June 6 through REvil’s official blog on…

Ethereum recently turned five years old, and coincidentally, it also appears to have reached an inflection point for user adoption. In the second quarter of 2020, daily active Ethereum users nearly doubled to 1.26 million, up from 637,000 in the first quarter, according to a recent report from Dapp.com. The sudden spike is widely attributed…

At the start of August, the United States Federal Reserve Board announced its plan to release a real-time payments and settlements service in order to boost the payments infrastructure in the country. Called FedNow, the service will reportedly “permit banks of every size in every community across the country to provide real-time payments to their…

The Caribbean country expects a nationwide CBDC rollout by the end of the first quarter of 2022. Central bank digital currency (CBDC) evolved into a hot topic in Jamaica when the country’s central bank successfully completed the first pilot test in early January.Following the tests, the country's prime minister, Andrew Holness, has spoken confidently about…

Bitcoin (BTC) was struggling to recapture $8,800 on Nov. 12 after selling pressure sent the largest cryptocurrency broadly lower late on Monday.Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360Bitcoin fails to gain momentum to break $9KData from Coin360 showed BTC/USD trading between $8,700 and $8,800 on Tuesday morning, having fallen to local lows of $8,630 in the…