Bitcoin’s Market Value Now Exceeds That of Facebook

24H Low$265.5724H High$278.81PriceMarket Stats24H Average Transaction Fee$0.061300About MoneroMonero is a privacy focused currency created in 2014. A participant on the Bitcointalk forum going by the username “Thankful_for_today” forked Bytecoin to create Monero, which was later maintained by the decentralized developer community. Monero is fungible, meaning that involvement in previous transactions does not affect the value…

Bitwise Asset Management has withdrawn the application for its Bitcoin Futures exchange traded fund (ETF) citing what it said are the cost and complexity of such ETFs and that the company will instead focus its efforts on its spot Bitcoin ETF filing already in the pipeline.“Our analysis suggested contango (associated with a futures ETF) would…

Labor market strength continued in a big way in January, with the U.S. adding 353,000 jobs versus economist forecasts for 180,000 and against December's 333,000 (revised from an originally reported 216,000), according to the government's nonfarm payrolls report released Friday morning. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% versus expectations for a rise to 3.8%.The

Crypto exchange Binance will leave the U.S., pay billions in fines and appoint a monitor for five years to settle charges with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), the U.S. Treasury Department's money laundering and sanctions watchdogs, according to press releases shared Tuesday.The exchange will pay $3.4 billion

feature Amazon Web Services, the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing arm, is having its proverbial blockchain cake and eating it, too. In late November, AWS unveiled a new service during its re:Invest event that lets clients build their own cloud-based blockchains, using Hyperledger Fabric or ethereum as templates for such projects. That announcement was the next step…

There's a lot of long-term bulls in the bitcoin market. But in the short-term? Pretty much everyone has suddenly turned bearish.  Jan 21, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. UTCFirst Mover: As Bitcoin Flips Bearish, Neither Biden Nor BlackRock Brightens MoodBitcoin (BTC) was lower for a third straight day, slipping below the $34,000 level that had been seen…

Crypto trading volume has tumbled 75% from March's high as frenzied trading in altcoins eased off.The slowdown raises a question about the sustainability of lofty market valuations for coins other than bitcoin and ether, Matrixport said.Daily trading volume on South Korea's biggest cryptocurrency exchange has tumbled 75% from this year's high in a sign that

U.K.-based security services company G4S now offers a crypto custody service aimed to protect investors' holdings of digital assets. Announcing the move in a press release on Oct. 16, the firm said, with the rising popularity of cryptocurrencies, it developed the new service to offer "high-security offline storage that helps to protect assets from criminals and…

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Cheyenne Ligon is a CoinDesk news reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy.…