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Kelly Loeffler, former CEO at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)-backed crypto trading platform Bakkt, has been sworn into the United States Senate.In a Jan. 6 tweet, Loeffler announced that she was sworn into the U.S. Senate by Mike Pence, the Senate’s chief officer, to become Georgia’s newest Senator.Loeffler casts first vote to support Trump’s pickto lead…

Bitcoin (BTC) fell into the Wall Street open on April 5 after briefly passing $47,000.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewTrader shows importance of 200DMA for BitcoinData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD encountering downward pressure as financial markets opened on April 5.The pair was thus more or less at the same level as…

The Palau Stablecoin, or “Kluk,” will be minted on XRP Ledger using the Ripple CBDC Platform and will be distributed first to government employees. 331 Total views 2 Total shares The government of Palau is set to begin a pilot project for a United States dollar-backed stablecoin on July 26. The new coin will be…

Co-founder and CEO of major U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Brian Armstrong attracted criticism after praising private crypto transactions in a tweet published on June 22.In the aforementioned tweet, Armstrong notes that “a scalable, sufficiently decentralized, chain that supported private transactions by default (privacy coins) would be a game changer.” He then compares anonymous cryptocurrency transactions…

Hackers transferred roughly $12M from wallets connected to the Bitfinex breach, in which 120,000 Bitcoin was stolen in August 2016. Someone with access to the 119,756 Bitcoin stolen from crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016 moved $12 million to unknown wallets in the last six days.According to a series of tweets posted by Whale Alert on…

Bitcoin holds its latest advances over the weekend, but there are plenty of arguments calling for a snap BTC price retracement.

Bloomberg senior analyst Eric Balchunas says there is a 75% chance that the SEC will approve a Bitcoin futures ETF this month. 834 Total views 3 Total shares A surge in Bitcoin prices today may be in response to increased speculation that an exchange-traded product could finally be approved in the coming weeks.BTC prices are…