Bitcoin drops below $95K as US inflation surpasses expectations

In my two-decade career at Microsoft, leading .NET platform architecture, visual studio .NET development, application platform, enterprise strategy and Microsoft Digital, I have been part of building technologies for multiple waves of platforms: the early web, service-oriented architectures, the so-called Web 2.0, and more recently, the Cloud.While there is no doubt that previous waves of…

Italian central banker Ignazio Visco talked about fostering or discouraging crypto assets during a lengthy speech to the Italian financial markets association. 251 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe Bank of Italy is looking for new ways to apply distributed ledger technology (DLT) and is…

Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research believes BTC will hit $200,000 this year and $500,000 before President Trump concludes his second term. US President Donald Trump’s first month in office has been highly volatile for risk assets, but his administration will likely be a net positive for Bitcoin in the long run, according to

The price of THORChain’s token RUNE is up 16% since the project announced the official launch of its mainnet on June 22. The team announced the mainnet launch on Wednesday, alongside the rollout of a “Rune in a Million Campaign” on Binance that contains a total of $1 million worth of RUNE rewards for users…

XRP’s price soared 260% in April, moving from $0.57 on March 31 to $1.97 on April 14, its highest level since January 2018. The move caused XRP futures to reach an impressive $2.1 billion in open interest. However, on Wednesday, as cryptocurrency markets collapsed, XRP lost 60% in four days, liquidating $510 million of long positions.…

Bitcoin (BTC) now has 85% of its supply in circulation as of August 1, leaving just 3.15 million new coins for the next 120 years. 3.15 million bitcoins, 120 yearsAccording to data from monitoring resource Blockchain, Thursday saw Bitcoin miners extract the 17,850,000th unit as part of the transaction validation process. As a result, due to the…

Bitcoin (BTC) remains a slave of the U.S. dollar on April 27 as the greenback spells fresh misery for risk assets across the board.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBTC faces off with the support zone to holdData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed precarious picture on BTC markets Wednesday as bulls battled for control…

Centralized exchanges are becoming the new ground zero for hackers, as shown by a 900% increase in losses year-over-year.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten will launch its own cryptocurrency exchange, dubbed Rakuten Wallet, this June, Cointelegraph Japan reports today, March 29.As per the official announcement from Rakuten, the exchange will start accepting applications for opening accounts on April 15. Rakuten Wallet is set to go live in June.According to Rakuten, its trading platform will allow…