Blockchain

Bitcoin (BTC) miners have profited roughly 37% from mining Bitcoin since its inception, new data reveals. Calculations from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode suggest that since 2010, fees and block reward subsidies have netted miners over $50 billion. Bitcoin miner revenue passes $50 billion mark Amid an ongoing debate over miner costs and susceptibility to Bitcoin price

Cryptocurrency exchange ByBit is the latest major platform to roll out an in-house cryptocurrency lending service for users. The Dubai-based exchange announced the launch of the service on May 2, delivering interest payouts to users that deposit cryptocurrency through the platform’s new offering. The service is touted to payout hourly interest payments from lending pools,

Nigeria, one of the world’s most curious nations about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), is preparing new industry regulations for digital asset platforms. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria is considering allowing licensed digital exchanges to list tokens backed by certain assets, Bloomberg reported on May 1. According to SEC head of securities and

Bitcoin (BTC) narrowed volatility on April 30 as the weekly and monthly candle closes loomed. Trader sees BTC price upside capped at $32,500 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked BTC/USD as it loitered just above $29,000 throughout the weekend. After unsettled price action earlier in the week, Bitcoin returned to sideways trading, with

Tencent Cloud — the cloud services provider arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent — has launched a new digital human production platform allowing users to create deepfakes of any individual based on a three-minute video clip and 100 sentences of voice material. Tencent Cloud’s deepfake generator uses Tencent’s in-house artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to recreate

As cryptocurrencies increasingly fall under the purview of global tax authorities, digital bank Revolut has integrated an automated tax reporting service for its users. The digital financial services provider has partnered with cryptocurrency tax solution Koinly to allow users to generate cryptocurrency tax reports to work out gains and losses. Revolut users will be able

Bitget has pledged $10 million for the development of the Fetch.ai ecosystem, the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange announced on April 27. Fetch.ai provides the infrastructure to build autonomous services. Its core product is the artificial intelligence (AI) agent network, a decentralized network of autonomous agents that can perform various tasks, such as data analysis and complex

A decentralized Metaverse platform, The Sandbox, will partner with security solution provider Ledger Enterprise to develop security integration for its partners. The latter will get their nonfungible token (NFT) collections migrated to the Ledger wallet.  The Sandbox announced a partnership in its official blog on Apr. 23. The collaboration will include several initiatives. The Sandbox

Emerging technologies such as blockchain are ushering in a new era of interactions between humans and the digital world. This is an evolving topic of conversation for thought-leaders both inside and outside of the industry trying to predict how such technologies will prompt change in the human experience.  On April 25th the reState Foundation hosted

The swift rise of artificial intelligence (AI)– generated art has shaken creatives across various industries. While many have highlighted copyright infringement issues involving AI-generated art, not all artists are against the fusion of AI and their intellectual property.  According to a tweet from Canadian musician and producer Grimes, she says will treat AI creators using

A notice issued by authorities governing the Chinese city of Changshu stated that all civil servants in its jurisdiction will be paid their full salaries in digital RMB or digital yuan from May 2023.  According to the notice issued by local Chinese authorities, Changshu Local Financial Supervision Bureau and the Changshu Municipal Bureau of Finance,

Bitcoin (BTC) barely held $27,000 on April 22 as another round of losses left bulls with little firepower. Giant RSI support retest greets Bitcoin bulls Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD just preserving the $27,000 mark on the day after the Wall Street trading week ended on a sour note. In contrast

Bitcoin (BTC) hit new intraday lows on April 21 as traders warned that $25,000 might come next. Trader: $25,000 BTC price would be “absolutely fine” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD struggling to preserve $28,000 as support on Bitstamp. The pair looked “weak,” in the words of one analyst, as overnight events failed to

The price of Dogecoin (DOGE) has almost doubled after bottoming out at $0.0491 in June 2022, alongside a similar recovery across the cryptocurrency market. On April 20, DOGE is trading for as high as $0.0942, up around 94% versus the last year’s bottom. But, despite its impressive rebound, its price is still 88% below its

Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask has denied claims that an exploit of its wallet is the cause of a “massive wallet draining operation” that has claimed over 5,000 Ether (ETH). On April 18, MetaMask tweeted in response to a series of tweets posted on April 17 by Taylor Monahan, the founder of Ethereum wallet manager MyCrypto,

The federal financial regulatory agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that it will start receiving licensing applications for firms that want to provide virtual asset services within the country.  The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) said in a press release that all virtual asset service providers (VASPs) operating in the country must

A “temperature check” proposal to deploy the decentralized exchange (DEX) Aave on the zkSync Era Mainnet has passed with overwhelming support from the Aave community.  When voting closed on April 16 more than 99% of Aave (AAVE) token holders voted in favor of launching the third version of the lending and borrowing protocol on the

The United States House Committee on Financial Services a.k.a the Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on April 19 to discuss stablecoins’ position as a means of payment and whether or not the ecosystem needs supporting legislation. The Financial Services Committee issued a memorandum to announce an upcoming hearing titled “Understanding Stablecoins’ Role in