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Canadian Regulator Alleges Poloniex Violated Ontario Securities Law

May 26, 2021

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) accused the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex of breaking its securities law through its platform. The regulator argues that crypto asset products offered by the company...

Ripple Plans to Support NFTs on XRP Ledger

May 26, 2021

Ripple, the US-based blockchain firm, released a report recently about the potential usage of XRP Ledger (XRPL) in the growing NFT market. The company highlighted the significant advantages of XRPL over other p...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Explains Why He Favors Dogecoin ($DOGE) Over Other Altcoins

May 25, 2021

On Monday (May 24), Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk commented once again on Dogecoin ($DOGE), which has to be his favorite cryptocurrency based on how often he talks about it. He started by sending a tweet t...

Another Multibillion Company Testing Bitcoin On Its Balance Sheet

May 25, 2021

The Argentinian, New York Stock Exchange-listed software developer Globant has made a low-key bitcoin (BTC) investment, according to its latest filing to an American financial regulator, and has spent USD 500...

Key Clues Emerge as to What Beijing Really Thinks About Bitcoin & Mining

May 25, 2021

Further details are emerging as to what exactly China’s current stance on crypto and crypto mining is – following days of confused reporting on Beijing’s regulatory policies. China’s last major crypto crackd...

Contrary to Musk’s Idea, You Can’t Just Increase Block Size, Says Buterin

May 24, 2021

There are limits to blockchain scalability in order to not sacrifice decentralization, according to Ethereum (ETH) Co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and "you can't "just increase the block size by 10x"," as was Tes...

Bitcoin Dominance Rises Again As Funds Are Buying The Dip

May 24, 2021

Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing some notable light in a bearish tunnel as the new week began: its dominance is up around 17% in the midst of a selloff, while it's also among those coins that fell the least in the pas...

Analysts See ‘Seismic shift’ In Bitcoin Mining Amid Chinese ‘Crackdown’

May 24, 2021

Bitcoin (BTC) could be in for a fresh battering this week after reports emerged that some mining pool players including HashCow and BTC.TOP, is reviewing their operations in China as a response to central gov...

Coinbase Hires Former White House Officer as Its New Chief Policy Officer

May 24, 2021

The US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that it had appointed Faryar Shirzad, a former White House official, as its new chief policy officer to face the ongoing regulatory environment that the c...

Ray Dalio Reveals He Owns Bitcoin, Believes Its Biggest Risk Is the Success

May 24, 2021

American billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio recognized on Monday that he holds Bitcoin and praised the cryptocurrency’s role as a better inflation hedge asset than bonds, implying a turnaround on his sk...