Former US solicitor general claims regulators want to ‘debank’ crypto

Bitcoin (BTC) is done with its bear market, but the coming months may see a return to $20,000.That is the outlook for Philip Swift, a veteran Bitcoin market analyst who co-founded trading suite Decentrader and data resource Look Into Bitcoin.In his latest interview with Cointelegraph, Swift takes a look at what the near to long-term…

India's WazirX has launched an NFT marketplace for the exchange of digital assets. The launch comes after a strong month for the exchange's in-house WRX token. 2186 Total views 25 Total shares India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX, has launched a nonfungible token marketplace for the exchange of digital art, assets, intellectual property and more, reports…

Global blockchain platform Waves has raised $120 million in a private funding round for its new project called Vostok, according to an official blog post published Dec. 19.The Vostok project is a “universal blockchain solution” that combines two basic components  — its own private blockchain platform, and the Vostok system integrator, a tool for developing…

Meanwhile, the minting volume of nonfungible tokens have been declining steadily. 95 Total views 2 Total shares According to data provided by Polygon and Dune Analytics, the trading volume of Reddit nonfungible token (NFT) avatar collection has eclipsed $1.5 million in the past 24 hours. The increase represents over one-third of the collection's cumulative trading…

Bitcoin (BTC) maintained $34,000 support on Wednesday as a rebound from six-month lows showed surprising resilience.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin bulls see 2020 similaritiesData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD stabilizing on Wednesday after a day of unnerving volatility.At the time of writing, Bitcoin was approaching $34,500 on the back of…

The Digital Assets division within Fidelity Investments will have around 500 total staff members by the first quarter of 2023, according to a spokesperson. 152 Total views 3 Total shares $4.5 trillion asset management firm Fidelity Investments is reportedly set to hire another 100 people to bolster the firm's growing digital assets division — a…

There are mounting concerns that recent United States government sanctions against Tornado Cash will become a “slippery slope” for Web3 privacy that could eventually make the entire space “meaningless.”Speaking to Cointelegraph, Shumo Chu, co-founder of privacy protocol Manta Network expressed worry that the strict sanctions against Tornado Cash could have a knock-on effect on every…

Shocking as it may sound, the venture capital industry is built on the idea that it doesn’t really matter if most of the companies they fund lose money or go belly-up. Could this be because they often turn hot air into fabulous profits and cash out before the balloon bursts?Even when that is not the…

“We are looking at it and evaluating the best ways to interact and participate in this ecosystem,” a B3 exec said. 237 Total views 2 Total shares Brazil Stock Exchange (B3), one of the world’s few exchanges trading Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs), is exploring ways to provide data inputs for the country’s central bank…