Web3 might be crypto’s key to the mainstream market

2021 has been a significant year for crypto with no fungible token (NFT) being awarded word of the year, decentralized finance (DeFi) trending in the mainstream media and crypto companies making headlines... Read more »

Bitcoin inactive supply nears record as over 60% of BTC stays unspent for at least 1 year

Bitcoin (BTC) may be struggling at $40,000 but fresh data is reinforcing the fact that hardly anyone is interested in selling. Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode shows that despite price volatility,... Read more »

MiamiCoin disbursement to fund a rental assistance program, says Mayor Suarez

Upon the announcement that Francis Suarez, mayor of the city of Miami, took a $5.25 million disbursement from the MiamiCoin wallet, Cointelegraph inquired about how the city will use these funds. I’m... Read more »

Georgia lawmakers consider giving crypto miners tax exemptions in new bill

Five members of the Georgia House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would exempt local crypto miners from paying sales and use tax. On Monday, Georgia Representatives Don Parsons, Todd Jones,... Read more »

Crypto community condemns Canada for freezing dissidents’ Bitcoin wallets

Global cryptocurrency enthusiasts have expressed concerns over Canadian authorities freezing bank accounts and crypto wallets involved in funding local COVID-19 protests. On Thursday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Calum MacLeod issued an order... Read more »

Bitcoin bulls scramble to defend $40,000 as the crypto market sell-off intensifies

Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins dropped further on Feb. 17 after the situation in Ukraine worsened and Russia expelled Bart Gorman, the United States Deputy Chief of Diplomatic Mission, from the country after... Read more »

SEC chair hints at no spot Bitcoin ETFs yet, but cites ‘careful consideration’ for future

Gary Gensler, chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has responded to a letter from lawmakers calling the regulator denying approval of Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds “unacceptable.” In a Tuesday letter... Read more »

Crypto is like ‘venereal disease’ and should be banned: Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger, the ancient vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffet’s right hand man, has no issue with providing his honest thoughts on cryptocurrency: He hates it.  Speaking at a shareholder’s... Read more »

Twitter enables users to give and receive Ethereum tips natively

In Sept. 2021, Twitter enabled Bitcoin payments as the first cryptocurrency payment option available via its tipping jar. Wednesday, the social media platform added a slew of fresh payment services to these existing... Read more »

Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions

It’s the Netflix script that wrote itself. A story so outlandish, it’s stunned the crypto community; an industry accustomed to apparent suicides in Spanish jail cells and nonfungible token auctions for dead... Read more »