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Price analysis 10/15: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, LUNA, UNI
Hopes of a BTC ETF approval sent Bitcoin charging toward a new all-time high and several altcoins are also breaking out of bullish setups. Bitcoin (BTC) rose within a few steps of $63,000 today for the first time since April 18. The recent surge in the price may have...
SEC likely to allow Bitcoin futures ETF to trade next week: Reports
The long-awaited launch of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund could finally arrive on Monday. The long wait for a Bitcoin exchange-traded product could soon be over according to sources reported by financial media giant Bloomberg.Citing “people familiar with the matter”...
G7 leaders issue central bank digital currency guidelines
Financial leaders from the G7 agree that CBDCs would complement cash and should not be detrimental to the monetary system. Group of Seven advanced economic nations has been discussing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) this week, concluding that they should “do...
Stripe builds new crypto team for payments three years after dropping Bitcoin
After pulling back from Bitcoin three years ago, Stripe is looking to re-enter the crypto sector. U.S. fintech giant Stripe is hiring a new blockchain team to enable crypto payments for its users. The $100 billion company is returning to the crypto sector three years...
YouTube deletes and restores Bitcoin bull Anthony Pompliano’s channel
According to Pomp, he had not violated YouTube’s community guidelines and his most recent video didn’t have any questionable content. Video sharing platform YouTube removed the 251,000-subscriber channel of Anthony 'Pomp' Pompliano, co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital...
Nuclear engineer sells classified data to undercover FBI agents for crypto
The FBI paid tens of thousands worth of cryptocurrency to a nuclear engineer in exchange for SD cards containing classified data. A nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested in West Virginia on charges of espionage and selling restricted data.The couple sold...
CoinSwitch Kuber becomes crypto unicorn, Bitcoin returns to a $1T market cap, and a bullish 2017 Ethereum fractal resurfaces: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 3-9
Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top...
DeFi picks up the pace as alternate blockchains and NFTs boom
On the back of the incredible crypto market recovery and the boom in NFT markets, the DeFi market has grown 18% in October. As September ended, the cryptocurrency markets recovered from the so-called “September curse” handsomely to hit a market capitalization of $2.32...
Globetrotting Binance looks to Ireland for ‘centralized’ headquarters
Binance established three subsidiaries in Ireland during September and the globe trotting exchange may be settling down. Under pressure from regulators around the world, major exchange Binance is looking to establish a headquarters in Ireland. Until now it has...
MakerDAO founder’s plans to address climate change and pivot back to ETH
Rune Christensen believes MakerDAO’s collateral should be mobilized to capital into sustainable investments. MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen has published an essay outlining measures that could be taken to make the protocol a vehicle for addressing climate change.In...