Crypto liquidations reach $470M as Bitcoin retraces, altcoins surge

The fully diluted valuation of Filecoin (FIL), a digital payment and cryptocurrency system built on top of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), has reached $450 billion.Filecoin is a blockchain that enables users to rent unused hard drive space to store and retrieve data. Its model is similar to Snowflake, which completed the biggest software IPO…

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekA bruising week for cryptocurrencies, stock markets and even goldThis week, it…

Overstock’s shares are up 8% following the announcement of record activity on its tZERO security token exchange. 1658 Total views 23 Total shares Overstock’s shares have jumped by 8% following the release of new data regarding user and trading activity on the company’s tZERO alternative trading system (ATS) for security tokens.An announcement published by tZERO…

Privacy is a core characteristic of cryptocurrencies. Despite mainstream conception, however, it is not the primary goal of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH), and is more of an ancillary benefit of using cryptography. The situation is altogether different for cryptocurrencies that seek to maximize anonymity when transacting on the network.Networks like Monero (XMR)…

The stock was down by as much as 6.5%, even as the overall cryptocurrency market reached new all-time highs. 2721 Total views 26 Total shares Shares of Coinbase Global Inc. tumbled to fresh lows on Thursday, as Wall Street investors continued to cycle out of high-flying tech stocks. The cryptocurrency market, meanwhile, reached a record…

On Dec. 12, the second-largest health insurance company in the United States announced plans to leverage blockchain technology to secure the medical data of all its 40 million members over the next three years.The most unique quality of a blockchain is that once a piece of information is added to the distributed ledger, it cannot…

Huobi’s COO believes lack of defined regulation and infrastructure services are preventing the mass adoption of blockchain technology. Robin Zhu, Huobi Global Group’s COO, told Cointelegraph at a China Great Bay Area International Blockchain Week pre-event interview on August 3 that lack of defined regulations and infrastructure services are preventing the mass adoption of blockchain…

These are perilous times, and it hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that the United States Federal Reserve is doing its part to alleviate the suffering — which began with the coronavirus pandemic and has spread to the global economy. It’s printing more money. “There is an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve,” Neel Kashkari, the…

Solana (SOL) price looks ready to rise in April based on a classic bullish reversal indicator and signs of renewed appetite for memecoins. Technicals show 65% SOL price rally in play As of March 26, SOL’s price had entered the breakout stage of what appears to be a falling wedge pattern. A falling wedge forms