Bitcoin price 2-month highs on ‘soft landing’ may precede sub-$60K dip

Several Venezuelan leaders recently came under fire for alleged criminal acts, although, contrary to initial impressions, the situation did not directly involve cryptocurrency usage.“Maduro and his co-defendants are not alleged to have been involved with crypto, directly,” Ashok Ayyar, counsel at Experience Legal, told Cointelegraph.A number of Venezuelan officials, including former president Maduro, faced a…

StellarX, a Stellar-based zero-fee decentralized crypto exchange has left its beta phase and was fully launched Friday, September 28. The launch was announced in a blog post by Interstellar, the company behind the platform.The exchange, originally announced in July this year, is based on Stellar’s (XLM) universal marketplace. Stellar is an open-source protocol for cryptocurrency…

The introduction of a spot-based Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) would make the asset more accessible to individual investors and mutual funds. What's more, unlike a futures-based Bitcoin ETF, a spot-based ETF involves actually buying BTC. So will the approval of the first Bitcoin ETF be a bullish event? Not necessarily. GBTC 'discount' remains in…

After BottlePay’s shutdown announcement last week, two more European cryptocurrency firms have shut down because of the upcoming Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules in the European Union.Online crypto gaming platform ChopCoin and mining pool Simplecoin both announced that they are shutting down in under a month in a notice on their website. Both firms cite the…

Nearly $875 million in crypto tokens from projects like Aptos, Arbitrum, Starknet and Sui will be unlocked in June as vesting periods end.

The IoTeX Foundation will examine all DApp developers thoroughly to ensure that they effectively enable machine financialization. 391 Total views 7 Total shares IoTeX, a blockchain platform focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced the launch of a $100 million sustainable ecosystem fund.The new fund will back over 1,000 decentralized machine economy startups…

Haiti, a Western Caribbean country torn by a tragic past, natural disasters, poor leadership, and ineffective foreign aid, is not a country that comes to people's minds when they think of blockchain adoption. For years, Haiti has been among the world's poorest countries in terms of GDP per capita, as per data from the World…

The study found abnormal levels of return in a sample of tokens just before their listing announcement on Coinbase. 171 Total views 5 Total shares According to a recent study conducted by the University of Technology Sydney, researchers estimated that insider trading occurs in 10% to 25% of cryptocurrency listings.In deriving the conclusion, researchers first…

Dave Portnoy now knows more about crypto. Barstool Sports founder, Dave Portnoy, posted a video of his meeting with Gemini exchange founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, on Twitter.Portnoy, also known as Davey Day Trader on Twitter for his stock trading antics, recently invited the Winklevoss twins over to his house to teach him about Bitcoin,…