Brooklyn-based crypto firm Coin Cafe has been ordered by the office of the Attorney General to refund over $4 million to cryptocurrency investors. The restitution comes after investigations revealed that the company charged users exorbitant fees without their consent. “Free” but not Free In a press release on May 18, the New York Attorney General’s...Read More
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court ruled that the Vietnamese residents – Ho Ngoc Tai and Tran Ngoc Hoang – will spend their lives in prison for kidnapping an individual and stealing $1.5 million worth of bitcoin from him. 14 other people who also took part in the crime received sentences between 9 and...Read More
Strike – a Bitcoin payments company and remittance app – announced Friday that it is now available for download to over 3 billion people worldwide, including dozens of new countries. The international expansion will allow wallet users in India, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and other countries to remit payments to one another in both USD...Read More
Bitcoin-friendly Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis doesn’t think the Biden Administration’s proposed 30% excise tax on Bitcoin miners isn’t likely to make it through the House. On stage at Bitcoin Miami 2023, the politician remained supportive of miners, and believes the industry’s proliferation throughout the United States is a matter of national security. Mining: Dirty or...Read More
The ordinals are coming in dank this week. Bitcoin Frogs was the #1 selling NFT collection for the 24-hour period on Wednesday. Frogs sales outpaced Bored Apes Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, and other popular collections for the day. The BRC-20 memecoin project describes itself as “10,000 unique frog collectibles minted directly on the Bitcoin Blockchain.” As...Read More
Recently, Bitcoin, the leading digital asset, displayed intense volatility near the $27,000 mark. The catalyst behind this wild swing was none other than the Federal Reserve’s chairman, Jerome Powell, who hinted at an imminent end to rate hikes. This unexpected development sent shockwaves through the crypto markets, igniting a frenzy among investors. US Fed’s Jeromy...Read More
Famous Canadian psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson believes Bitcoin is the only “viable” monetary alternative in a future world dominated by central bank digital currency (CBDC). The intellectual recently spoke with tech expert and entrepreneur Brian Roemmele about artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, highlighting how Bitcoin can serve to shield the world from...Read More
After the frenzy of BRC-20 tokens in the Bitcoin network, their DRC-20 counterparties have triggered a massive spike in Dogecoin’s transaction volume. The OG memecoin experienced a significant surge in daily transactions and even surpassed that of Bitcoin and Litecoin briefly for the first time ever. According to data compiled by BitInfoCharts, the daily Dogecoin...Read More
IOVLabs – a company that develops decentralized blockchain technologies – launched a $2.5 million “strategic grants program” to accelerate the adoption of Rootstock. The latter is a sidechain tied with Bitcoin and designated to enable smart contracts for the ecosystem. ‘Strong Commitment’ to Advance BTC According to a document seen by CryptoPotato, the Argentina-based blockchain...Read More
The legendary hedge fund manager – Paul Tudor Jones III – said he will always keep a “small” exposure to bitcoin since it is “the only thing that humans can’t adjust the supply in.” The American billionaire also suggested that the US Federal Reserve will cease its aggressive interest rate hike policy. Many experts previously...Read More
As speculators flocked to mint BRC-20 tokens via text inscriptions, Bitcoin blockspace saw an explosion in demand in recent weeks. This dramatic shift in network activity triggered a surge in transaction fees to levels not seen in the last two years. Signs of Strain A new report published by Bitfinex observed that the inception of...Read More
Business intelligence company MicroStrategy is doubling down efforts on bringing Bitcoin layer 2 scaling solution – Lightning Network – capabilities this year. Its executive chairman Michael Saylor shared an update notifying that the company is working on a product aimed at delivering a Bitcoin wallet and Lightning address to every corporate account holder. The main...Read More
Bitcoin has marked another significant milestone as the number of addresses holding at least one BTC hit an all-time high above one million. According to data on Glassnode, the feat was recorded on May 13, indicating an increasing interest in the asset class despite the price volatility and bear market. At the time of writing,...Read More
The latest buzz in the crypto world revolves around the newly introduced Bitcoin token standard (BRC-20), which has garnered considerable attention and favor owing to the recent memecoin craze. Despite the ongoing hype, the token standard is still subject to certain constraints concerning the broader crypto landscape. A recent report by leading crypto exchange Bitfinex...Read More
The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City reportedly brought to court 16 Vietnamese who might stand behind a $1.5 million crypto robbery and kidnapping. Interestingly, two of the defendants are former police officers. Vietnam is one of the global leaders in terms of cryptocurrency adoption. Despite its rising popularity, the government has not imposed...Read More
The long-term forecast has always been done by comparing the previous rallies, which appear too similar to trigger a healthy breakout. Besides, in the short term, Bitcoin and the entire crypto space have remained stuck under bearish influence. Moreover, ever since the launch of the third largest meme coin, PEPE, most of the liquidity within...Read More
While Bitcoin had whittled down waitlisted transaction orders by Wednesday, network congestion remains high. Median confirmation time hovered markedly above ten minutes. The on-chain metric for Bitcoin network fulfillment sits at a high unseen since Feb 2023 and Dec 2022. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of transactions at a time sit waiting to be confirmed. That’s...Read More
According to Bloomberg’s macro strategist, Mike McGlone, cryptocurrency traders may begin investing in non-digital assets as a result of an impending recession. McGlone believes that the bear markets are not yet over, and as a result, traders will likely shift their focus to gold, a traditional safe-haven asset that tends to appreciate in value during...Read More
Popular peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace Paxful is back online after shutting down services in April 2023. While the platform was suspended, the Paxful Wallet remained active. Paxful, in a blog post on May 8, announced the resumption of the marketplace a month after the platform closed down. An excerpt from the announcement reads: “We know it...Read More
Ordinal inscriptions are on fire. Users are continuously flooding the Bitcoin network with images, video games, and other content. There are now more than 5 million inscriptions. Over the past seven days, the total inscription count has more than doubled from 2.5 million. Ordinals Skyrocket According to data from Dune Analytics, text-based inscriptions, also known...Read More
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced plans to add support for Bitcoin Ordinals in its NFT marketplace in the coming weeks. According to a statement sent to CryptoPotato, Binance NFT will integrate Bitcoin Ordinals non-fungible tokens into its platform later this month as the marketplace looks to expand its multi-chain ecosystem. Bitcoin NFTs Coming to Binance...Read More
Bitcoin’s blockchain was flooded with volume over the weekend by transactions involving so-called “BRC-20” Ordinals – an emergent standard for issuing fungible tokens on Bitcoin. The surge caused network fees to skyrocket to the point where transaction fee revenue for miners briefly surpassed the natural block subsidy for the first time since 2017. Meme Tokens...Read More
The Prime Minister of Liechtenstein – Daniel Risch – said the local lawmakers plan to enable bitcoin payments for various government services. However, he did not disclose whether the country will adopt the primary cryptocurrency as a legal tender. Another country that has turned its focus toward BTC is Liechtenstein’s western neighbor – Switzerland –...Read More
Bitcoin price has recently been the talk of the town as the asset experienced a severe plunge today following Binance’s FUD. The leading digital currency is currently witnessing a downturn in sentiment following an unprecedented surge in transaction fees and a nearly 98% full mempool. However, enthusiasts and investors are eyeing a potential rebound soon,...Read More
The crypto space yet again landed in deep trouble as the star crypto witnessed a massive plunge in the early trading hours. The price marked the intraday low at around $28,004 and slightly rose above these levels. While the plunge appears to have been triggered by a huge whale transfer which kept the Bitcoin network...Read More
Quarterly earnings reports are starting to pour in across the financial sector, and with them, updates on the state of crypto adoption across the industry. Although some companies are, understandably, still feeling the chill of crypto winter, even those are doing better than expected by analysts. In the case of firms with other priorities who...Read More
The Casablanca Court of Appeals ruled that the 21-year-old Frenchman – Thomas Clausi – will serve an 18-month prison sentence for orchestrating a crypto scheme. The defendant must compensate the victims of his scam and pay a fine of 3.4 million euros ($3.7 million) to customs authorities. Crypto fraudsters have been quite inventive recently, draining...Read More
Santiment – a crypto markets intelligence platform – has a bullish outlook on Bitcoin after the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate by another 25 basis points on Wednesday. In a follow-up blog post, the firm claimed that the top crypto is showing “some promising rise potential” – particularly as its correlation to equities...Read More
According to data from the crypto financial service platform Matrixport, the narrowing wedge that has been in formation for the past three weeks is about to break to the upside. Such a trend could project a move higher by an equal amount to the range at which the triangle started to form. A breakout could...Read More
The Federal Reserve announced another small increase to its benchmark rate on Wednesday, bringing it between 5% and 5.25%. Bitcoin’s price remained relatively flat on the announcement, fluctuating between $28,000 and $28,500. The increase was largely in line with expectations, with the market only pricing in an 11.8% chance that the Federal Open Markets Committee...Read More
