Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 10 of 298

Ethereum Address Activity Approached Bitcoin’s Level In June

June 30, 2021

In June, the biggest smart contract network, Ethereum (ETH), has started to challenge the network of the most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), in another metric, briefly surpassing it by the number of a...

El Salvador Government: We’re Giving out Bitcoin – But Don’t Convert It To Fiat

June 30, 2021

El Salvador government officials said that the bitcoin (BTC) they plan to give away in forthcoming airdrops is for spending, not for converting into USD via crypto ATMs. Per ElSlavador.com, the website of th...

Musk’s Crypto Tweets Not Helpful, Say Investors, While Elon’s Mom Goes NFT

June 30, 2021

Only some 12% of surveyed investors find Tesla's CEO Elon Musk's tweets helpful, while nearly 60% think he wields too much power, found a recent survey. Meanwhile, his mother announced an update to the non-fu...

British Binance Users Reporting Fiat Ramp, Bank & Card-Related Problems

June 29, 2021

UK-based customers of the crypto exchange giant Binance have claimed they have been frozen out of GBP withdrawals via the Faster Payments network, with disruption also reported on bank card-linked transaction...

Craig Wright Wins Bitcoin White Paper Copyright Case on Technicality

June 29, 2021

Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who fails to back his claims that he's the Bitcoin (BTC) creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has won a legal battle with Cobra, the operator of the Bitcoin.org website. T...

Deutsche Börse Announces Acquisition of a Majority Stake in Crypto Finance AG

June 29, 2021

Deutsche Börse Group, a leading German marketplace organizer for the trading of shares and other securities, announced today that the Group has acquired a majority stake in Switzerland-based Crypto Finance AG...

Mexico Central Bank Warns Lenders against Offering Crypto Services

June 29, 2021

Mexican central bank, locally known as Banxico, clarified on Monday that the financial institutions operating in the country are not allowed to offer cryptocurrency-based services. The joint statement issued...

Billionaire Dismisses ETH, DOGE, Backs XMR, ZEC, Says His Bank Will Accept BTC

June 28, 2021

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the influential Mexican billionaire with links to his nation’s government, has hit out at ethereum (ETH) and dogecoin (DOGE) – while issuing ringing endorsements of bitcoin (BTC) and p...

Dogecoin Fee Structure Proposal Released, Marked ‘Important’ by Elon Musk

June 28, 2021

A proposal regarding a new fee structure and policy for Dogecoin (DOGE) Core has been released on GitHub, receiving the support of Elon Musk, who celebrates his 50th birthday on June 28, too. Today, Ross Nic...

Binance Exits Canada’s Ontario amid Mounting Regulatory Scrutiny

June 28, 2021

Cryptocurrency exchange giant, Binance has decided to stop its services to clients from Ontario, Canada, due to mounting regulatory obligations for crypto businesses in the country’s most populous province. ...