Bitcoin Core devs set up new policy aimed at handling ‘critical bugs’

Malaysian authorities have arrested 14 Chinese men for operating a Bitcoin investment scam and violating the Immigration Act. 503 Total views 19 Total shares Malaysian police have arrested 14 Chinese men for their involvement in a Bitcoin (BTC), scam targeting investors in their home country.Assistant Commander, Dzulkhairi Mukhatar, stated that the arrests took place on…

Reduced remittance costs could prove significant in justifying El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender. 919 Total views 11 Total shares The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has identified remittance as an important aspect of El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) adoption policy.According to Reuters on Tuesday, the regional development bank expects other Central…

The Ethereum network has just turned five years old. Although the project was first announced at the North American Bitcoin Conference in January 2014, its genesis block was only mined on July 30, 2015. Since then, Ether (ETH) has become the dominating altcoin in market capitalization, popularity and network value settlement, having even surpassed Bitcoin…

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is up 5% in the past 24 hours and currently trades at $9,600 after reaching a daily high at $9,664. The overnight increase in BTC coincides with an unexpected decision from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).On July 22, the OCC said banks in the U.S. are…

Chip-making giant Nvidia’s (NVDA) stock is flashing a major bearish signal — the last time this pattern appeared, it retraced nearly 50%. This may raise questions for the AI crypto sector, which has, at times, seemed to react to Nvidia’s price. “NVDA just formed a Death Cross for the first time since April 2022. The

The region's traders are highly aware of scams and avoid them. Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis has found that crypto traders in Africa are less likely to have sent tokens to, or received tokens from, known scam addresses than traders in other regions in the past year.In the Chainalysis “2020 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report”, the firm…

Several prominent crypto commentators have criticized the new crypto tax reporting rules recently put forth by United States president Joe Biden. On Aug. 25, in an effort to catch crypto users avoiding taxes, the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) proposed brokers follow new rules for selling and trading digital assets. Brokers would use a new form to…

Startup Status raised $100 M in its 2017 initial coin offering on the premise of building a private messenger based on the Whisper protocol that allows Ethereum DApps to communicate. Each smartphone that runs a Status app becomes a node, and all the messaging runs on a peer-to-peer network which is censorship-resistant. After three years…

The Polygon network, formerly the Matic network, is an Ethereum-scaling protocol that reduces cost and embeds high security. In a short span, Polygon has gained a high level of traction.A string of solutions on a single network sets Polygon apart from other Ethereum scaling projects. It empowers developers to zero in on a scaling solution…