Bitcoin just had its best May since 2019 despite 'predatory' 3% BTC price dip

The Airborne Institute will use the generous grant to study the transmission of airborne diseases such as COVID-19. 96 Total views 3 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTAccording to a Mar. 7 announcement from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the post-secondary institution has received a 15…

I first dove heavily into blockchain in 2014 when I joined Cointelegraph. To set the stage, this was right around the time of shadow projects, bitcoin casinos, and the infamous Mt. Gox crash. Almost everyone with a media badge was negative about the budding industry, and those who weren’t were typically working anonymously. At that…

It was a tough month for crypto employees with at least 14 firms announcing staff reductions in January. 207 Total views 14 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTCrypto companies tightened their purse strings in the first month of 2023, with at least 2,900 crypto staff cut loose across…

Toucan Protocol’s Rob Schmitt believes blockchain gaming could have a much better environmental reputation if games integrated carbon offsets. 197 Total views 26 Total shares Nonfungible tokens (NFT) and blockchain technology have developed an unfortunate stigma in some sections of the community for being bad for the environment — but could that perception be changed…

Bitcoin (BTC) futures daily volumes on digital asset platform Bakkt have hit a new all-time high, with 1,741 futures traded on Nov. 9.Bakkt announced the new record, stating: “Today we set a new daily record of 1,756 Bakkt Bitcoin Futures contracts traded.”Volume spike coincides with Bitcoin price dipTwitter account dedicated to Bakkt futures trading volume data,…

Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) payment processor BitPay confirmed that it suspended its operations in Germany in an email sent to Cointelegraph on Aug. 1.BitPay: “We have paused operations in Germany”In the aforementioned email, a BitPay PR rep. Jan Jahosky cited regulation coming into force next year in Germany as the reason why the…

New meme-coin Pepe (PEPE) has entered a sharp correction phase after surging by more than 2,000% since its debut a few weeks ago.On May 3, the PEPE price dropped to $0.00000089, down about 35% from its record high of $0.00000138 established two days ago. As a result of the correction, its market capitalization slipped by nearly $80…

The price of gold and Tether’s XAUT rallied to more than $1,900 today, a value not seen since September 2011. 1414 Total views 12 Total shares The Tether Gold stablecoin was valued at $1,902 on July 24, putting the price of gold within reach of the commodity’s all-time high set in September 2011.Gold has risen…

A pair of researchers from ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, have developed a method by which, theoretically, any artificial intelligence (AI) model that relies on human feedback, including the most popular large language models (LLMs), could potentially be jailbroken.Jailbreaking is a colloquial term for bypassing a device or system’s intended security protections. It’s most commonly used