Crypto whales dominate holdings of Trump family tokens: Chainalysis

Speakers from Binance.​US, BRD, and Vanderbilt Law have weighed in on the pros and cons of a U.S. Fed-backed digital dollar for Cointelegraph Talks. 180 Total views 32 Total shares On April 21, Cointelegraph hosted its first virtual Cointelegraph Talks meetup. The event consisted of two expert panels discussing major news and developments in the…

Mario Havel of Paralelni Polis has sided with Samourai. Although the privacy-focused Bitcoin (BTC) wallet Wasabi Wallet recently dismissed allegations that its anonymity features may be compromised, a third-party expert disagrees.In an August 19 blog post, Wasabi competitor Samourai claimed to have “discovered two potential privacy vulnerabilities in the Wasabi Wallet software.” Per the announcement,…

Bitcoin (BTC) has topped $19,000 in a fresh bullish surge, but traders are all about altcoins on Nov. 24.In what many are heralding as the beginning of “altseason,” large-cap cryptocurrencies are seeing their biggest gains in three years. XRP, XLM lead new “altseason”Cointelegraph takes a look at five of the biggest movers, all of which…

The rising amount of Bitcoin OTC desk balances for miners indicates “significant selling activity” among miners.

Regulators have green-lighted a new exchange-traded fund that provides exposure to “Bitcoin Industry Revolution Companies.” 1258 Total views 4 Total shares The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, has approved the Volt Crypto Industry Revolution and Tech ETF, providing investors with easy access to companies with significant exposure to Bitcoin (BTC).The ETF, which…

Bitcoin (BTC) price has been testing the $10,000 mark this month as online metrics like the number of tweets and Google searches mentioning Bitcoin show a two year-high.Cryptocurrency market weekly overview. Source: Coin360Several relationships have been established between external factors and Bitcoin price evolution. Most notably, social media metrics like the number of tweets mentioning…

Tokenized real-world assets have surged to a capitalization of $8 billion, outpacing Bitcoin and Ether in both market performance and volatility-adjusted returns.

Some Ether (ETH) miners appear to be re-engineering blocks to take advantage of DeFi opportunities in an instance of what is termed “miner extractable value,” or MEV.Miner extractable value was long anticipated by researchers as a potential exploit pattern for DeFi that leverages the miners’ unique protocol influence. Since miners have free reign over what…

Financial services giants Visa and Mastercard have shown an increased interest in the trillion-dollar digital payment sector through their recent acquisitions of innovative fintechs. In January this year, Visa acquired fintech firm Plaid for $5.3 billion. The San Francisco-based firm enables data sharing of financial information between different fintech apps like Venmo and Chime, supporting over…