Mystery Whale Returns by Moving $35 Million — Miner Transfers 1,000 ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ from 2010
Two months after the mystery mining whale from 2010 transferred a string of 20 block rewards with 1,000 bitcoin on...
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Hong Kong to Connect Digital Yuan With Domestic Payments System in Cross-Border Trials
Financial authorities in Hong Kong have announced a second phase of trials for mainland China’s digital currency. As part of...
Crypto Payments App Bottlepay Is Now Available Across Europe
U.K.-based crypto payments provider Bottlepay has started offering services in other European countries. Users on the Old Continent will be...
NYAG Court Order to Shut Down Coinseed Succeeds, CEO Creates Profanity Token for Attorney General
The crypto trading platform Coinseed is shutting down operations according to a written statement from the company’s CEO Delgerdalai Davaasambuu....
El Salvador Bitcoin Law Making BTC Legal Tender Passes With Supermajority
The bill to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador has been approved by a supermajority in the Salvadoran Congress....
White House Tech Advisor Tim Wu Keeps at Least $1 Million in Bitcoin
Tim Wu, top advisor to the Biden administration on technology and competition policy, holds more than $1 million in cryptocurrency,...
Alternative 401(k) Product Offers In-Plan Cryptocurrency Investment via Coinbase Institutional
On Monday, the San Francisco-based retirement plan provider for small to medium-sized businesses, Forusall, announced the launch of an alternative...
Scammers Pick Bank Transfers Over Cryptocurrency, Australian Report Reveals
Investment scams have been by far the most common type in Australia recently, a new report by the country’s consumer...
As Crypto Interest Winds Down Bitcoin’s Daily Transaction Rate Plummets to Two-Year Lows
Onchain data indicates that bitcoin transactions per day have plummeted to lows not seen since October 2018. Further, bitcoin transaction...
FBI Agent Recovers Private Key to $2.3M in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers
U.S. law enforcement officials from the Justice Department on Monday announced the seizure of $2.3 million dollars worth of crypto...
Government Cannot Stand in the Way of Crypto Technologies, Iran Minister Says
New technologies, including blockchain and cryptocurrency mining, have helped Iran to increase budget receipts and withstand foreign sanctions, according to...
Goldman Sachs Survey: Chief Investment Officers Say Bitcoin Is Their Least Favorite Investment
Investment bank Goldman Sachs recently held two roundtable sessions for chief investment officers of hedge funds. The bank found that...
US Pharmacy Chain Pharmcorx Accepts Cryptocurrency for Fast Covid Testing
Progressive Care, a company that operates a chain of pharmacies in the United States, has announced it’s now accepting cryptocurrency...
Study Shows 36% of Nigerian Adults Are Financially Excluded — Digital Financial Services Bolsters Inclusion
Nearly 36% of Nigeria’s 106 million adults lack access to both regulated and unregulated financial services, according to the findings...
Shanghai to Hand Out $3 Million in Digital Yuan Lottery
As part of government efforts to get the digital yuan going, authorities in Shanghai will distribute $3 million worth of...
