Bitcoin traders celebrate ‘good news’ as BTC price trades above $57K

Security token offerings, or STOs, have more or less taken the mantle from their semi-defunct counterpart, the initial coin offering (ICO). Still, the extreme rise and subsequent fall of the ICO has left quite an impression on the cryptocurrency industry.At its peak prevalence in 2017, this novel fundraising prototype accumulated a total of $6.2 billion…

Hong Kong-based Babel Finance will have more than a year to repay debts to its creditors after suspending withdrawals in June 2022. 547 Total views 2 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTTroubled cryptocurrency lending firm Babel Finance has more time to repay debts to creditors like Deribit after…

The servers Edward Snowden used to leak thousands of documents to journalists were paid for using bitcoin (BTC), the National Security Agency whistleblower revealed at the Bitcoin 2019 Conference on June 27.Snowden was working as a CIA subcontractor in 2013 when his leak revealed that telecom companies and governments were involved in “almost Orwellian” mass surveillance programs that…

With as much as 130 million people introduced to cryptocurrencies since the end of 2021, millions of investors could soon be looking at their first crypto bull run, with some suggesting it could come as early as 2024. However, unlike the current bear market, a bull market is “unlike anything else you've ever experienced” according…

Armstrong said he had spoken about China’s central bank digital currency with lawmakers and heads of federal agencies, believing it to be "a threat to U.S. reserve currency status long term." 409 Total views 1 Total shares Prior to the Federal Reserve announcing it would release a discussion paper on a central bank digital currency,…

Is artificial intelligence (AI) cursed? It seems to be accelerating us toward a dystopia that humanity isn’t ready for.It's true that AI has had positive effects for some people. Twitter hustlers have an endless stream of new AI tools, giving them endless content about useless ChatGPT prompts that they can use to compile threads for…

India’s citizens will soon be able to cast votes from outside their city of registration thanks to a blockchain-based system.According to The Times of India on Feb. 13, India’s Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that the country hopes to increase voter turnout with a blockchain-based voting solution.Using blockchain to prevent “lost votes”Arora said that,…

China buys military secrets from Taiwanese soldiers with Tether; Asia’s crypto license barrage; scam victim under suspicion: Asia Express

Bybit officially announced that it launched ETHW trading against the USDT stablecoin, planning to soon open ETHW deposits and withdrawals. 964 Total views 12 Total shares Major cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX and Bybit, are among the first crypto trading platforms to launch spot trading for Ethereum proof-of-work (PoW) tokens.While the Ethereum blockchain has not forked into…