Now is the “right time” for Hong Kong to push forward with Web3 despite the crypto market fluctuations, according to the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, Paul Chan. In an April 9 blog post, Chan explained that one of...
Positive momentum is building up for the upcoming upgrade to Ethereum, a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality, a survey by OKX, a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange, has found. The two-part Shanghai-Capella event, which has been dubbed the ‘Shapella’ upgrade,...
Two Republican lawmakers from Texas, senator Bryan Hughes and representative Mark Dorazio, have introduced legislation to create a gold-backed digital currency that could be enacted by the state legislature. The policymakers believe that this currency could greatly benefit the...
The complaint, filed with the Southern District of New York on Friday, alleges Gryphon CEO Rob Chang wired 18 of Sphere 3D’s bitcoin to an address belonging to a fraudster who masqueraded as Sphere 3D’s chief financial officer in...
Crypto-friendly Congressman Tom Emmer has slammed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler for his approach to cryptocurrency regulation, labeling him as a “bad faith regulator.” Great interview by @laurashin with @GOPMajorityWhip! Congress is working in their...
Crypto has often come across as apolitical. This is partly due to being seen as existing outside regular financial systems and, going back through crypto history, being outside regular systems really meant that, with early enthusiasts acquiring bitcoin peer-to-peer,...
On Wednesday, Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, shared an article about the Federal Reserve’s Fednow project and criticized the central bank’s digital currency efforts. The representative from Georgia insisted that the...
India’s digital rupee was the subject of great interest at a recent meeting of the Group of 20 (G-20) hosted by India in Bengaluru, said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das in a media conference on Thursday. “In fact, an eminent...
A nonfungible token (NFT) trader has seemingly fat-fingered a bid for a free NFT, buying it for 100 Ether (ETH), currently valued at $191,239, instead of nothing. The token was part of NFT marketplace OpenSea’s Gemesis NFT collection —...
The publicly-listed cryptocurrency miner, Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA) has announced its March and first quarter 2023 production statistics, showing a record number of Bitcoins (BTC) mined during the previous month and the entire Q1. According to Marathon Digital’s...