Peter Todd reportedly named as Satoshi Nakamoto in HBO documentary

The United States equities markets tumbled on March 15 after Saudi National Bank, Swiss Bank Credit Suisse’s largest investor, said it will not be able to provide any more funding to Credit Suisse due to regulatory limitations. Investors are nervous because Credit Suisse, which has large U.S. and global operations, warned on March 14 that…

The takeover of the ailing Credit Suisse bank by UBS boosted European equity markets on March 20 but not everyone is happy with the deal. According to Swiss regulator FINMA, the value of additional tier one (AT1) bonds will be written to zero. This move will wipe out $17 billion worth of investments for AT1 bond…

A digital asset’s price rally rarely comes out of the blue. Before the token’s market value explodes, some collateral forces come into motion. The asset can suddenly attract abnormally high online attention, its trading volume can go up dramatically, or some market-moving information can go public that triggers the first two examples. Mastering the art…

Binance Labs, the venture wing of the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has released its first “batch” of blockchain projects from its Incubation Program, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Dec. 14.Binance Labs is an initiative that seeks to help early-stage blockchain and digital assets projects and entrepreneurs through direct investments and technical…

Investors are magnetically attracted by the $1.1 billion Bitcoin and Ether options expiry scheduled to occur Friday, June 26, but they might be missing some relevant indicators of the futures contracts. June 26 will also be the last trading day for many weekly and monthly Bitcoin (BTC) futures totaling $665 million at the time of writing.For…

Inflation, cross-border payments, assets tokenization and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) were among the major drivers for crypto adoption across Latin America in 2022, sources in the region told Cointelegraph, with exciting examples of progress across many countries. Latin America made up 9.1% of the global crypto value received in 2022, reaching $562 billion between July 2021 and…

Tether’s stablecoin continues to dominate rivals, including Circe’s U.S. Dollar Coin (USDC).

Last month’s assault on the global economy and Bitcoin’s (BTC) subsequent crash — the worst in seven years — have been the object of much discussion, with critics questioning the leading cryptocurrency’s potential as a safe haven asset.Plenty has been written as well around why Bitcoin plummeted as dramatically the way it did. Generally, analysts…