Bitcoin News Roundup for April 15, 2020

Jan 8, 2021 at 4:34 p.m. UTCBitcoin’s Market Value Now Exceeds That of FacebookThe explosive surge in the rise of the price of bitcoin has propelled the market value of the leading cryptocurrency past that of social media giant Facebook.With a market value at this writing of $761.5 billion, bitcoin is now more valuable than all…

news Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, has launched a new fiat-to-crypto exchange on the island of Jersey, a British self-governing dependency. The firm announced Wednesday that, through the new exchange, users are able to trade in pairs for bitcoin and ethereum against the British pound and the euro in Europe…

Sep 24, 2020 at 07:00 UTCUpdated Sep 24, 2020 at 07:19 UTCOcean Protocol and Balancer Want to Do for Data What Uniswap Did for CoinsSome tricks of the trade employed by today’s booming decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms are being used for a completely new paradigm: decentralized data marketplaces.Announced Thursday, blockchain-based data monetization startup Ocean Protocol…

Nov. 16: Nocturne, a protocol enabling on-chain private accounts, has announced the successful deployment of Nocturne v1 to Ethereum mainnet. According to the team: "This marks a significant milestone in the journey towards a more private and accessible Ethereum. For the first time, users will have a compatible and easy-to-use product resembling a private onchain

Mar 10, 2020 at 14:00 UTCJeremy Allaire image via CoinDesk videoCircle’s full-tilt pivot into stablecoins is nearly complete. The payments startup intends to sell SeedInvest, the crowdfunding platform it bought a year ago, and focus its remaining assets on developing stablecoin products, said Jeremy Allaire, one of Circle’s co-founders and its remaining CEO (fellow co-founder and…

Manta Network will build MantaSwap now that it's closed a $1.1 million funding round.(Mohamed Nashah/Unsplash)Feb 2, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. UTCDeFi Privacy Is Getting a Boost From Polkadot Parachain Manta NetworkA new survey by Manta Network, a privacy-preserving decentralized finance stack built on Substrate, has shed further light on the need for privacy in the…

The social media firm will dedicate developer resources to support scaling efforts for Ethereum.Jan 27, 2021 at 7:18 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 27, 2021 at 7:37 p.m. UTCReddit Joins With Ethereum Foundation to Build Scaling ToolsReddit is growing its role in the Ethereum ecosystem, with the goal of building out scaling tools for the blockchain network.The…

Traders betting against higher bitcoin (BTC) prices lost over $100 million in the past 24 hours as expectations of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval in the U.S. neared the finish line late Monday.BTC surged as high as 9% Monday, before giving back some gains, as prices jumped over $47,000 for the first time

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended its review of the Ark 21Shares bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) application, as it continues to look at applications from traditional finance heavyweights like BlackRock and Fidelity.Ark Investment Management and 21Shares, which have been seeking an ETF approval since 2021, filed for the first potential bitcoin ETF application…