Donald Trump taps crypto advocate Lutnick as commerce secretary

The Steem (STEEM) community announced its intention to create a new platform in the wake of the controversy with Justin Sun. According to a blog post published on March 18, the new platform, named Hive, will launch on March 20.The new platform will initially be launched as an exact code fork of the Steem blockchain,…

Traders look for a weekend oversold bounce after BTC price sold-off and hit an intraday low at $38,750. 1126 Total views 5 Total shares March 4 saw another day of seesaw price action for Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider cryptocurrency market as the global economic fallout from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine weighs heavily on…

This edition of Cointelegraph’s VC Roundup features Asylum Ventures’ new fund, as well as startups Puffpaw, Permissionless Labs, Infinit, DRiP, IN1 and DeFi.Gold.

XRP addresses that hold at least 10 million native units have returned to accumulating more in the past three months, a similar scenario that preceded a big rally for the XRP/USD and XRP/BTC pairs in late 2020.The return of XRP 'mega whales' A 76% spike in XRP "mega whale" addresses since December 2021 has been noted by…

The Ethereum Foundation has awarded a grant to researchers at Columbia and Yale universities for the compilation of a new smart contract programming language into the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The development was announced in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on March 6.The beneficiary of the grant is a smart contract R&D project called…

Bitcoin (BTC) mining has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Pools, manufacturers and farms contribute to the growth and professionalization of the space. Financial service companies bring institutional-grade products and capital that increases liquidity for the biggest operators.There’s a fundamental shortage of United States dollars available relative to the overall demand when the sector encounters certain market…

Grayscale CEO Barry Silbert believes the United States is past the point where regulators have the support to ban crypto assets like Bitcoin. 610 Total views 13 Total shares Barry Silbert, CEO of cryptocurrency investment firm Grayscale Investments and Digital Currency Group, believes the United States is past the point of no return for banning…

Ethereum's blog shows ETH 2.0 still chugging along with developments. A recent post on Ethereum's blog shows the network's version 2.0 is still coming, noting several developments since its last update."Aside from written updates [...] and other public summaries, client teams, contributors, and community members/prospective-validators have been busy," said a June 23 post on the…

South Africa’s Standard Bank will soon launch its private permissioned blockchain for overseas exchange trades on behalf of corporate clients, fintech news outlet FinExtra reports Thursday, Feb. 28.The platform, which is set to go live in the second half of 2019, is based on the Hyperledger Fabric — a foundation for developing applications or solutions…