Bitcoin payments are being undermined by centralized stablecoins

The launch announcement followed expansion moves by Bitfinex into El Salvador and Chile through licensing and partnerships, respectively. Digital asset exchange Bitfinex has launched a peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform in Venezuela, Argentina and Colombia.In a June 27 announcement, the crypto exchange said it had started the “Bitfinex P2P” platform allowing users in the South American…

Samsung is another big-name company to consider issuing its own cryptocurrency. Similar stories have already emanated from the likes of Facebook and JPMorgan Chase, with analysts speculating on various use cases for these cryptocurrency tokens.While not yet confirmed officially, a “Samsung Coin” could find application as a payment means on the company’s app store and…

Just as it started to look like the crypto market was staging a comeback and bracing for a new bull run, geopolitical tensions stepped in to drive the price of Bitcoin (BTC) below $40,000 again, with most altcoins seeing deep red as well. Such periods of market uncertainty, however, are not unprecedented, and digital assets’…

Blockchain content creators still need to improve distribution power in order to cement their role in the future of media. 169 Total views 3 Total shares Cointelegraph spoke to Keith A. Grossman, President at TIME, about the legacy media company’s recent moves into the Web3 space. According to Grossman, TIME seeks to “modernize the relationship…

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unexpected and revealing patterns among cryptocurrency traders, according to new research.In their paper entitled “How Crisis affects Crypto: Coronavirus as a Test Case,” posted to the Oxford University Faculty of Law blog on April 17, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky And Roee Sarel observed that the crypto markets took a pronounced U-turn…

The firm reported it held 174,530 Bitcoin as of Nov. 29 — worth roughly $6.6 billion at a price of $37,726. 433 Total views 4 Total shares Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy purchased 16,130 Bitcoin (BTC) in November, bringing its total holdings to more than $6 billion.In a Nov. 30 announcement, MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor said

Pump.fun is incentivizing memecoin creators to get their tokens off to a successful launch, but the jury’s out whether it will stop bad actors from rugging their tokens early.

Bitcoin options market positioning shifted as BTC price shot through the $60,000 to $63,000 level. 

The card is only available to citizens of the 30-country European Economic Area. 242 Total views 4 Total shares Bulgarian decentralized lending platform Nexo has unveiled a crypto-powered debit and credit Mastercard for citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA).According to the Aug. 31 announcement, the Nexo Card will allow users to spend their euro