New record: Bitcoin surpasses $1.6 trillion market cap

After more than a year spent ensuring full compliance with the United States authorities, Bakkt, the first federally regulated platform for Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading, launched on September 23. Conceived by the global trading giant Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and counting a solid portfolio of investors from Microsoft’s venture fund M12 to Starbucks as its backers, Bakkt offers institutional…

Institutional investors have continued to pump money into cryptocurrency investment products in Q1 of this year, according to a report by CoinShares. The inflows of $4.2 billion in the first quarter have broken the previous record of $3.9 billion made in the fourth quarter of 2020.NYDIG CEO Robby Gutmann recently told listeners of the “On…

Cryptography experts are somewhat skeptical of the technique's scalability, but aren't ruling out the possibility of success either. 857 Total views 7 Total shares Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as an NFTAccording to a recent paper, Chinese researchers claimed to have discovered a novel method to break the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman 2048 bit (RSA-2048) signing…

On Nov.4 Stellar Lumens announced the completion of a 50% token burn of their total supply. This led to the destruction of 55 billion (XLM) tokens and the Stellar Development Foundation explained that the token burn was designed to provoke efficiency within the Stellar ecosystem.Crypto market data daily view. Source: Coin360The price of XLM surged…

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week‘Bullish rate hike’ — Why crypto spiked in the face of bad…

The chief economist of Dutch multinational banking and financial services giant ING says that Facebook’s plan to launch a digital currency has put pressure on central banks to launch their own.In an article and video interview published on ING’s THINK portal on Sept. 27, Mark Cliffe said that there was “some urgency in the policy…

Top Stories This Week Bankman-Fried may enter plea in NY federal court next week before Judge Lewis Kaplan Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is scheduled to appear in court on the afternoon of Jan. 3 to enter a plea on two counts of wire fraud and six counts of conspiracy against him in relation to…

Canadian-based University of British Columbia (UBC) has announced a blockchain and distributed ledger technology training program for master’s and PhD students. UBC announced the development in a press release on June 11.The training path is reportedly designed to build competency around blockchain tech, and is focused on its application in four public benefit areas: health…