El Salvador launches Bitcoin certifications for civil servants

Newsweek published an article claiming 46 million Americans own Bitcoin, but where did the figures come from? 4874 Total views 17 Total shares Crypto social media was abuzz after Newsweek published the article headlined “46 Million Americans Now Own Bitcoin, As Crypto Goes Mainstream” on May 11. The impressive figure was re-posted by notable Bitcoiners…

Blockstream has announced the launch of a new security token backed by the company's mining facilities. 1952 Total views 10 Total shares Canadian-based Blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the launch of a security token backed by the company's mining production on March 29. It offers an alternative to investing in Bitcoin mining stocks, with the…

Bitcoin (BTC) has been on a tear and there’s no escaping it. But the majority of high-cap altcoins are seemingly suffering at the hands of this bull run, leading to the question: have we had our altseason already? Is it over or is there more to come?Multi-year resistance levelsBTC/USD 12-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin has been…

January 16, 2020 — As a company, Cointelegraph cares about the environment and the world in which we all live. The wildfire crisis in Australia has mobilized us as an organization to take action to help the current recovery efforts down under.Cointelegraph is pleased to announce a partnership with ecological preservation organization Oxygen Seven. We…

Growing up in poverty in Suriname, Etiënne vantKruys was told by his teacher he’d never succeed — but it only made him more determined to not follow in the footsteps of his parents. Thanks, in part, to crypto, he’s now living the dream.Despite his high-flying crypto VC lifestyle today, vantKruys keeps at least one foot…

Skale chief marketing officer Andrew Saunders described memecoins as a player-versus-player situation where early investors get the most gains. 

After stealing $5 million in cryptocurrency from 40 victims through SIM swapping, 20-year-old Joel Ortiz, pleaded guilty to theft and accepted a plea deal of 10 years in prison as reported by Motherboard, a division of news outlet VICE, on Feb 1.Ortiz accepted the plea deal last week, according to Erin West, the Deputy District…

Ripple is now required to produce terabytes of Slack messages to the SEC which were previously withheld due to an apparent data error. 2422 Total views 24 Total shares U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn has ordered Ripple to produce one million missing Slack messages between employees which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sought…

VeChain has announced a new blockchain initiative designed to help businesses openly track and report their carbon emissions data. 1314 Total views 96 Total shares Supply chain management platform VeChain has announced a new service for combining businesses to overhaul their carbon footprint data management practices.The new service, detailed in a Medium post on Thursday,…