Bitcoin price hits $70K as spot and BTC ETF buying surges

British blockchain technology group Setl has hired former governor of the French central bank Christian Noyer as a member of its board of directors. The new appointment was confirmed in a blog post published on Jan. 17.Founded in 2015, Setl is a financial company with a focus on blockchain technology. Setl  has built a blockchain-based…

Before it was taken down, Ordswap users said the compromised website directed users to a phishing link. 688 Total views 5 Total shares Ordswap, a marketplace that allows users to inscribe, auction, and trade Bitcoin Ordinals, has devised a method for users to retrieve their private keys as it scrambles to regain control of its

The US lost 1,233 cryptocurrency ATMs in early March, just days after a senator proposed a bill to curb fraud in the sector. More than 1,200 cryptocurrency ATMs mysteriously went offline in the United States during the first weekend of March, just days after a senator introduced the Crypto ATM Fraud Prevention Act to stop

The militant arm of Hamas — the de facto ruling authority of the Gaza Strip in Palestine — has appealed to its supporters to send it funds using Bitcoin (BTC). The appeal was made via the official Telegram channel of Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, on Jan. 29.Hamas — which…

The new CEO, Josh Swihart, has been the vice president at Electric Coin for nearly five years but recently took a four month stint away from the firm. 146 Total views 14 Total shares Zooko Wilcox is stepping down as the CEO of Electric Coin Company, the team behind privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC).ECC announced a

Bitcoin price (BTC) has been declining amid the recent coronavirus developments as today media reported that patients in the UK and Russia tested positive for the virus. The declining trend has been followed by major cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360In a day that will mark the departure of the United Kingdom (11 p.m. UTC)…

Blockchain technologies can bring improvements to finance, given a regulatory framework, and links between DeFi and TradFi are being rapidly cemented already, Cunliffe said. 641 Total views 52 Total shares Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe shared thoughts on cryptocurrency regulation and decentralized finance (DeFi) in a talk on Nov. 21. He intended to…

Ethereum’s dominance as the preeminent smart contract blockchain platform has been boosted by the popularity of decentralized finance and decentralized applications tokens in 2020, with ERC-20 tokens now accounting for nearly half of the assets on the blockchain.The smart contract platform has been in existence for just under five years and, in that space of…

In a recent podcast, Yat Siu discusses how Web3 and digital property rights will redefine the internet’s future.