HODLers Are ‘In the Money’ Despite Bitcoin’s Drop to Six-Month Lows

The French Central Bank has determined that its wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) would improve cross-border payments, settlement finality and security for a vast range of financial assets after conducting numerous tests using technologies that power crypto, it announced on Friday."Through these experiments, the Banque de France shows the operational feasibility and practical implementation…

Aug 25, 2020 at 20:06 UTCUpdated Aug 25, 2020 at 20:28 UTCCoinbase is shuffling the top of its European operations: Marcus Hughes is in as chief, and Zeeshan Feroz is out. Hughes, a two-year veteran of the crypto exchange who had taken over Coinbase's international legal team earlier this month, will replace Feroz, according to…

Crypto asset manager HashKey Capital's Singapore subsidiary has secured a central bank license allowing it to provide fund-management services in the country.The Capital Markets Services (CMS) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore will enable HashKey Capital Singapore to contribute to the local blockchain community, CEO Deng Chao said in a statement. It received an

A senior official in Montenegro plans to extradite Do Kwon to the U.S. to face criminal charges tied to the collapse of his terraUSD (UST) stablecoin and Luna (LUNA) token, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.The blowups of UST and LUNA, which Kwon created, fueled a crisis that gripped the whole crypto industry in 2022

The European Banking Authority published the final version of draft technical standards on prudential matters for firms to comply.The technical standards are part of the European Union's Markets in Crypto Asset legislation.The European Banking Authority (EBA) published on Thursday the final draft technical standards on prudential matters for firms to comply with under the Markets

Oct 28, 2020 at 20:35 UTCUpdated Oct 28, 2020 at 20:40 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Slips to $12.8K; Ether Options Traders Prefer CallsMajor markets are in the red today, including bitcoin. Ether options traders have favored calls over the past month.Bitcoin trading around $13,184 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping…

news IBM has completed a trial of blockchain technology to track a shipment of mandarin oranges from China to Singapore. Announced today, 28 tons of mandarin oranges, or 3,000 cartons containing approximately 108,000 fruits, were delivered ahead of Chinese New Year celebration on Feb. 5 (mandarin oranges are a symbol of prosperity, IBM explained). The main…

The price of dog-themed token floki (FLOKI) surged by more than 100% in the past 24 hours as a proposal to burn 2% of the token’s supply was passed by the community, proposal data shows.Nearly 90% of votes favored the burn, with the top voter staking 117 billion tokens. The event is expected to occur

markets View Bitcoin’s price volatility, as represented by Bollinger bandwidth, has hit the lowest level since May 3, and is closing on a level seen ahead of violent price swings in the past. While technical charts are increasingly favoring a downside move, bitcoin’s non-price metrics continue to call a bullish move, which, so far, has…