BTC price 8% off all-time high — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

Crypto continues its trek into the mainstream. The European Union, or EU, plans to incorporate crypto and blockchain technology into its main processes by 2024. Over the next four years, the economic union aims to firm up fresh regulations that will promote blockchain and digital asset usage for international money transfers, according to details from internal documents that…

The event connects ATOM stakeholders, developers and enthusiasts from all over the world with the latest developments on the Cosmos blockchain. 291 Total views 3 Total shares The team behind interoperable blockchain network Cosmos (ATOM) recently hosted the Cosmoverse Conference live from Lisbon, Portugal.— Cosmos - Internet of Blockchains ⚛️ (@cosmos) November 5, 2021 Kicking…

Investment management company Stone Ridge is trying to register a new Bitcoin (BTC) futures offering with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).The new fund is called NYDIG Bitcoin Strategy Fund and describes itself as “a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company that continuously offers its shares,” with an objective to achieve capital appreciation by…

On Feb. 13, a federal judge put the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission cases against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on hold. You’ll be forgiven if you missed this story — headlines and social media were dominated by the breaking news that the SEC was suing crypto firm Paxos for…

The Ethereum-based social media app, Pepo, has integrated with video conferencing platform, Zoom, to facilitate live streaming.Pepo Live Events is currently exclusively available in beta on the platform’s website and has not given an estimate for when it plans to enable mobile functionality.Pepo integrates Zoom for live streamingOnly Pepo community admins are able to stream…

The framework under the bill would allow certain tokens to qualify as digital commodities if they were decentralized and crack down on the SEC’s previous approach to crypto. 406 Total views 3 Total shares Lawmakers with the United States House Financial Services Committee and House Agriculture Committee have released a draft discussion offering certain crypto…

There’s more to crypto than Elon Musk’s frequent (and frequently misguided) tweets on the subjects of Bitcoin (BTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE). And although the brilliantly visionary CEO/Securities and Exchange Commission-baiting meme king may have positioned himself as a news cycle unto himself, crypto news has the power to influence major price action across the altcoin…

Ethereum’s upcoming Shanghai upgrade will allow users to withdraw staked Ether (ETH), increasing the network’s liquidity and competitiveness while also boosting its staking ratio closer to its competitors.The Shanghai upgrade is a hard fork of Ethereum tentatively scheduled to occur in March. It implements five Ethereum Improvement Proposals, the headliner being EIP-4895, which allows users…