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We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and we throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes!This week, our 6 Questions go to Denelle Dixon, CEO and executive director of the Stellar Development Foundation.Denelle Dixon is the CEO and executive director of…

Bitcoin (BTC) is heading for a bullish start to another week’s trading after shrugging off lower levels to hit $11,700.Cointelegraph takes a look at five things that could shape price performance in the coming days after BTC/USD saw little impact from both the Fed and futures settlements last week.Stocks put in higher highsIn a classic…

The Pennsylvania-based Stronghold Digital Mining has announced the completion of two private equity securities raises worth $105 million.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the firm’s first power generation facility, the Scrubgrass Generation Plant in Venango County, converts waste coal into energy on a scale equivalent to “a large-scale hydropower plant” that is then used…

SEBA Bank exec Nasha Afshar believes that the question of institutions getting into crypto has shifted from "if" to "when," indicating growing confidence in the industry. As more institutions go from only showing their interest in the crypto space into actually investing in Web3 projects, getting into crypto turns into a question of “when” rather…

From Oct. 9–20, Immutable invited playtesters to try out an early demo of its upcoming mobile game, Guild of Guardians.Guild of Guardians was first announced in 2021. Its utility token, Guild of Guardians Gems (GOG), went up for sale in December 2021, raising over $5.3 million for the game’s development. In addition, over 800,000 individuals registered

Institutional crypto trading, portfolio and risk management platform Caspian announced that it has integrated its platform with cryptocurrency futures and options trading exchange Deribit. The news was revealed in a press release from Caspian published on March 20.Per the announcement, Deribit has been added to Caspian’s ecosystem of over 30 cryptocurrency exchanges and liquidity providers.…

The Association of German Private Banks (Bankenverband) foresees that a need for new regulation may arise from the emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based securities. The association expressed its concerns in a post on its official website on March 11, Cointelegraph auf Deutsche reported.Per the post, if securities are issued using new technologies, then there…

On Sept. 16, Google updated the description of its helpful content system. The system is designed to help website administrators create content that will perform well on Google’s search engine.Google doesn’t disclose all the means and ways it employs to “rank” sites, as this is at the heart of its business model and precious intellectual

Thousands of enterprise computers have been infected with a cryptojacking malware that installs a Monero mining app. The Blue Mockingbird malware gang has infected more than 1000 business systems with Monero mining malware since December 2019.The global scale of the hacker group’s operations was revealed by cloud security firm Red Canary on May 26.The report…