PayPal’s stablecoin ripple effect on markets
PayPal’s introduction of its native stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD), has sparked heated debates within the crypto industry regarding its possible sway on payments…
Brett Harrison (ex-FTX US), X Hall of Flame – Cointelegraph Magazine
The former president of FTX US dishes the dirt on his falling out with former Jane Street colleague Sam Bankman-Fried and predicts the spot Bitcoin…
Swiss city Lugano accepts Bitcoin and Tether for municipal taxes
The Swiss city of Lugano is enhancing the local adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) by enabling citizens and companies to pay for municipal services and taxes with…
Societe Generale issues its first green bond on Ethereum
The third-largest bank in France, Societe Generale, reported issuing its first digital green bond as a security token on the Ethereum public blockchain. The bond,…
Bitcoin short-term holder sales near $5B as profit-taking mimics 2021
Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a mass profit-taking event which rivals its $69,000 all-time highs, new analysis reveals.In a post on Dec. 5, James Van Straten, research…
BlackRock received $100K seed funds for Bitcoin ETF — SEC filing
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, received $100,000 in seed funding from an unknown investor for its spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) in…
Bitcoin miner Phoenix surges 50% after $371M Abu Dhabi IPO
Cryptocurrency mining firm Phoenix Group has debuted trading on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), becoming one of the Middle East’s first publicly listed…
Hashdex tips spot Bitcoin ETFs to trade by Q2, followed by Ethereum
Hashdex, one of the 13 asset managers vying for spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, expects to see the first spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States land by…
Robinhood crypto trading rises 75% in Nov, CEO tips ‘9 figures’ in revenue
Crypto-friendly trading platform Robinhood has reported a 75% month-on-month increase in digital asset trading volume in November.In an 8-K filing to the…
Riot Platforms buys $291M in BTC rigs as miners rakes in from Ordinals
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is buying 66,560 Bitcoin mining rigs from manufacturer MicroBT, in one of its largest orders of hash-rate in the firm’s history —…