Bitcoin’s recent price move is the ‘real deal market pump’ to $90K

Cryptocurrency brought us peer-to-peer payments that continue to elevate participation in the global economy for millions of people without access to traditional banking services. The rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) promises to further expand access to financial services, including savings, lending, derivatives, asset management and insurance products.This innovation, which empowers financial inclusion, should be allowed…

The Blue subscription was launched as a way for users to buy the blue checkmark for their profile but later evolved to share ad revenue as well. 537 Total views 4 Total shares After a major rebranding of the popular social media platform Twitter to X, Elon Musk has now rebranded the popular Twitter Blue…

Curve Finance’s LLAMMA successfully handled liquidation during a hack attempt, but the CRV token fell by 28%, sparking concerns in the DeFi community.

Bitcoin (BTC) price climbed back above the $10,000 mark again while the top 20 are seeing mostly red on Aug. 1.  Market visualization courtesy of Coin360Bitcoin price is currently up by 1.06% on the day, trading at around $10,034 at press time, according to Coin360. Looking at its weekly chart, the coin is up by about…

Tether (USDT) usage in decentralized finance (DeFi) appears to be growing, as lending protocol Aave reports over $7.2 million in USDT locked, out of a reported $60 million in total assets.This result comes two months after the initial launch of Tether on the platform, which offers a wide range of other stablecoins including Dai (DAI),…

The United Kingdom pension and welfare agency has identified blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) as technologies that could disrupt the payments industry.In an Aug. 9 blog post, Richard Laycock, the deputy director of digital payments and banking systems at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) — an agency that manages the U.K.'s welfare…

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…

The Litecoin Foundation has published two new draft Litecoin Improvement Proposals that work toward establishing privacy features for the network.On Oct. 22, the Foundation shared links to details of the draft proposals on GitHub: LIP-0002 EB and LIP-0003 MW. Protecting Litecoin’s functional fungibility from governmentAs the Foundation outlines, both proposals are targeted at mitigating the privacy…

Crypto is going mainstream, and the world’s younger generation, in particular, is taking note. Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com recently predicted that crypto users worldwide could reach 1 billion by the end of 2022. Further findings show that Millennials — those between the ages of 26 and 41 — are turning to digital asset investment to build…