Bitcoin Price Defends Key Support Despite ETF Rejection

Jul 15, 2020 at 19:09 UTCUpdated Jul 15, 2020 at 19:32 UTCWhile Hurricane Dorian knocked out the Bahamas' banks for months, the cell network was back up in days. (Paul Dempsey/Shutterstock)The Bahamas’ central bank said it is “progressing” toward the full launch of a mobile phone-based digital currency (CBDC) it’s betting can withstand the battering…

Fairshake is trying to throttle the Senate campaign of a California progressive, Rep. Katie Porter, before she can make it to the general election there. The super PAC is seeking to convince the young, crypto-owning voters in her base to go a different direction, hoping to avoid an ally of crypto critic Elizabeth Warren being

Aug 20, 2020 at 09:15 UTCUpdated Aug 20, 2020 at 09:32 UTCOMG price has doubled in the past seven days (CoinGecko)The native token for OMG Network has more than doubled in the past week as record Ethereum fees lead some investors to look to layer-2 solutions. CoinGecko data shows OMG tokens have increased 115% from…

Dec 8, 2019 at 00:26 UTCUpdated Dec 8, 2019 at 00:32 UTCIstanbul image via Shutterstock Ethereum’s Istanbul Hard Fork Is Now LiveEthereum has successfully completed the Istanbul hard fork.Hitting at block number 9,069,000, the systemwide upgrade is the network’s third in 2019, following February’s St. Petersburg and Constantinople hard forks. The months-long process culminated at…

news “Wumbology, the study of ‘wumbo’. It’s first grade, Spongebob!” For the uninitiated, that’s a quote from the Nickelodeon animated series Spongebob Squarepants. Spoken by the jolly starfish Patrick Star, it describes the word “wumbo” – to which the eponymous character responds: “I don’t think that’s a real word.” Well, thanks to some up-and-coming technology built on…

The firm plans to start rolling out its multi-asset debit card on the Optimus platform in Europe "shortly."(Teerasak Ladnongkhun/Shutterstock)Feb 3, 2021 at 1:55 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 3, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. UTCUphold to Launch Crypto Card in Europe After Optimus AcquisitionDigital finance platform Uphold says it has acquired card-issuer Optimus Cards UK, opening the door…

Oct 14, 2020 at 19:22 UTCUpdated Oct 14, 2020 at 19:23 UTCThe U.S. State Department has submitted a proposal to add Ant Group, the fintech arm of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, to a trade blacklist, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.The move comes as Ant, a global leader in digital payments, is readying…

news Cryptocurrency wallet provider Abra is now letting users deposit and withdraw ether (ETH) directly from its app. Previously, users could only make deposits into the app via a U.S.-based bank account, an American Express card, bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH) or litecoin (LTC). Then, if they chose, they could have their balances converted into…

This year's crypto-market doldrums brought little respite from the announcements, product rollouts, integrations, partnerships, collaborations, fundraisings, launches, deployments, migrations, transitions. There's a lot of information, all quite technical and complex; as hard as it can be to catch up, keeping up is equally daunting. Imagine piloting a spaceship through a dense asteroid field while playing