Austrian crypto unicorn Bitpanda receives MiCA license in Germany

Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter.DYdX surpassed Coinbase in daily trading volume for the first time this week. Read on to discover why this was a seminal moment for the project’s founder.What you’re about to read is the concise version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments…

Getting all the facts right is hard, especially when you don’t have internet access. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of SilkRoad, has issued a short follow-up to his essay on MakerDAO (MKR) and how it could be redesigned and improved.The follow-up amounts to a small correction to an assumption he made earlier about the Maker system.…

The Financial Technology Protection Act passed the House of Representatives by voice vote roughly a year after lawmakers sent it out of committee.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) miners appear to have wasted money mining 14 blocks on the wrong chain after the altcoin underwent a hard fork. According to data from monitoring resource Fork Monitor on Nov. 15, Bitcoin Cash, which itself forked off from Bitcoin (BTC) in 2017, successfully split in two once again on Friday.BitMEX: Miners are “wasting…

Billionaire investor Elon Musk said that the futures of his AI startup xAI and social media platform X are “intertwined” after announcing the sale of X to xAI. 23992 Total views 17 Total shares Billionaire investor Elon Musk has sold his social media platform X to his AI startup xAI, sparking controversy as it coincides

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban says that assigning all authority to the CFTC "could solve" the problem of vocal crypto voters for current United States president Joe Biden.

An NFT generator powered by artificial intelligence was recently launched by crypto exchange Binance, with 10,000 mints in 2.5 hours. 76 Total views 2 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTIn this week’s newsletter, read about how Yuga Labs’ first Bitcoin-based nonfungible tokens (NFTs) earned $16.5 million in 24…

Banca Generali will introduce crypto to its customers in 2021 following a partnership with an Italian custody service provider. 375 Total views 3 Total shares Major Italian private bank, Banca Generali, is planning to introduce cryptocurrency services in 2021. According to a Dec. 15 announcement, Banca Generali has entered a corporate and commercial partnership with Conio…

Hackers have attacked multiple supercomputers across Europe this week with the intention of mining cryptocurrency. Clusters of supercomputers have been forced to shut down in order to investigate the intrusions, according to a ZDNet news report on May 16.These security incidents were reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. Additionally, another possible attack occurred in…