Is crypto entering a bear market? — 5 Things to know in Bitcoin this week

While blockchain is known for bringing trust and transparency to multi-party workflows, it can also ensure the immutability of business-critical data. Realizing this potential, technology giant Oracle has announced a crypto-secure data management offering that will be provided as a free feature for Oracle converged database users. Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies at Oracle, told Cointelegraph that…

Sunday, Dec. 9 — The crypto markets are showing a wave of green, as Bitcoin (BTC) trades closer to $3,700 at the end of the week, as data from Coin360 shows.Market visualization by Coin360After a week of breaking new year-to-date lows, the major cryptocurrency is trading at around $3,650 by press time, up more than…

The senators weren’t happy with the “seemingly minimal” protections to fight against fraud and cybercrime in Meta’s AI model. 242 Total views 1 Total shares Two United States senators have questioned Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg over the tech giant’s “leaked” artificial intelligence model LLaMA which they claim is potentially “dangerous” and could be used…

The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the launch of a CBDC task force this week, bringing together the Bank of England and Her Majesty’s Treasury to coordinate the exploration of a potential central bank digital currency. Depending on the feedback received from various areas of industry, academia, and civil society, the task force will…

Blockchain-based sports platform Chiliz (CHZ) is leading a boom in one sector of the altcoin world which is putting Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to shame.According to data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro, CHZ is consolidating on March 17 after month-to-date gains which topped 1,600%.Chiliz up 1,650% in 2 weeksWith altcoins firmly back in the spotlight…

Crypto market data reporting needs global standards to enable proper risk assessment, the FSB declared. 320 Total views 15 Total shares The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a global financial authority funded by the Bank for International Settlements, has released a new report on the financial stability risks associated with cryptocurrencies.Published on Wednesday, the 30-page study…

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of major crypto exchange Binance, suggested that Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has not yet adapted to the upcoming block reward halving.Zhao suggested that Bitcoin’s price will see more upwards movement in the future during an interview on Feb. 20. The CEO explained that, historically, Bitcoin’s block reward halvings have had a…

Nonfungible tokens appear to be an idea whose time has come. Originally developed for use with collectible trading-card games, NFTs can represent almost any unique asset. Outside of the gamer context, the first NFT to gain widespread popularity was probably CryptoKitties, which were released back in 2017.Related: CryptoKitties’ Dieter Shirley on breaking Ethereum and NFTsCryptoKitties…