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YouTuber Hit With 150 Copyright Claims For Reviews Featuring Anime Footage
8.12.2021
YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick of Totally Not Mark has made a name for himself with his anime videos on YouTube. His reviews edit together montages from the anime he’s reviewing as he expounds his thoughts in voice over. Mark says his use of copyright material is fair. Toei Animation, it seems...
Dan Tapiero’s 10T will launch $500M fund for late-stage crypto firms
7.12.2021
With the addition of the new fund, 10T Holdings’ assets under management would likely exceed $1 billion
Bitwise CIO Says $100K Bitcoin a Difficult Prediction to Make, Calls Ethereum the ‘Asset of the Year’
7.12.2021
While there’s been an awful lot of calls for bitcoin to reach six-digits in value in 2021, as the end of the year draws closer, it doesn’t seem like $100K per bitcoin will happen. Bitwise Asset Management’s chief investment officer Matt Hougan told the press on Monday that...
Russia’s largest bank struggles to register its digital asset platform
7.12.2021
State-owned bank Sber is trying to launch digital asset tools, but regulators remain skeptical about the industry
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Stresses Crypto Markets Are Open to Manipulation, Investors Vulnerable
6.12.2021
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has called for more investor protection in crypto markets. “This asset class is rife with fraud, scams, and abuse in certain applications,” he said. “In many cases, investors aren’t able...
Bitcoin Hashrate Rises Despite Price Drop, Mystery Hashpower Returns
5.12.2021
Bitcoin’s hashrate has increased a great deal, even after the leading crypto asset’s price slipped below the $50K price zone. Eight days ago the network hashrate was coasting along at 168 exahash per second (EH/s), and this past week it increased 7.73% to today’s 181 EH/s....
US SEC Charges Man With Defrauding Crypto Investors in Two Digital Asset Securities Offerings
5.12.2021
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a citizen of Latvia with defrauding investors in two crypto offerings. The fraudster “used fake names, fictitious entities, and fraudulent profiles to perpetrate his schemes, and misappropriated nearly all of the investor funds...
Blockchains need to move toward standards for interoperable asset transfers
4.12.2021
A new emerging economy, which includes blockchain-native tokens, digital tokens, stablecoins and CBDCs, requires interoperable blockchain standards
Terra Tokenomics Lead to Market Surge, Bitcoin Reserve Hinted
4.12.2021
The recent movements in the treasury of Terra, a decentralized financial payment network, which is now burning more than $4 billion worth of LUNA due to a governance proposal, have seemingly made the price of the asset rise to all-time high (ATH) levels. This rise has been also accompanied by...
Ethereum Market Cap Is Less Than 50% Away From Flipping Bitcoin — ETH Nears All-Time Price High
1.12.2021
The second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, ethereum, has come awfully close to reaching the digital asset’s all-time high ($4,878) it reached 21 days ago on November 10. While bitcoin dominance has slid below the 40% zone, ethereum’s market dominance, or $557...
BRD Wallet and Unbound Security — Coinbase Acquires 2 Companies in Less Than a Week
1.12.2021
The publicly-listed crypto-asset exchange Coinbase has announced the company has acquired the Israeli firm Unbound Security. The announcement follows Coinbase acquiring the cryptocurrency wallet BRD last week and the Unbound acquisition is aimed at the company’s “commitment...
Ethereum Devs Assess Reducing Data Transfer Cost 5x, EIP-4488 Becomes Possible Solution
28.11.2021
The second leading crypto asset ethereum has been dealing with high fees since the end of June and today the average ethereum transaction fee is between $5 and $34 per transfer. While there’s been a lot of complaints about ether gas costs this year, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin...
Report Shows Ethereum, Litecoin, Solana ETPs Outperformed Bitcoin Investment Products in November
28.11.2021
Cryptocompare, the firm that provides institutional and retail investors with real-time and historical cryptocurrency data, has published the firm’s November 2021 Digital Asset Management Review. The report covers crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), and recent findings show alternative...
Bitcoin AUM falls 9.5% to record largest monthly pullback since July
28.11.2021
The Bitcoin assets under management (AUM) market fell 9.5% to $48.7 billion in November while altcoin-based crypto funds such as Ether saw their AUM rise 5.4% to $16.6 billion
Data Shows a Myriad of Crypto Networks Are More Profitable to Mine Than Bitcoin
27.11.2021
As the end of the year approaches, digital currency values have risen a great deal in 2021 and crypto asset miners have been profiting as a result. According to statistics, the most profitable coin to mine at the end of November is kadena, as an 18 terahash (TH/s) machine can get up to $326...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Dips, Mining Difficulty Expected to Decrease for First Time Since July
27.11.2021
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been volatile in recent times following the same patterns as the crypto asset’s price. Three days ago, Bitcoin’s hashrate neared the 180 exahash (EH/s) zone only to plummet to 128 EH/s two days later. The recent shifts have taken place before the upcoming...
Grayscale Report Sees Metaverse as Potential $1 Trillion Business Opportunity
27.11.2021
Grayscale, a leading cryptocurrency asset manager, seems to have set its gaze on the metaverse as a business opportunity. Yesterday the company released a report where it examined the feasibility of this interconnected virtual world and how these economies can provide a profitable entry...
2021 Crypto Literacy Report Suggests 96% of Americans Fail to Comprehend Basic Crypto Knowledge
26.11.2021
A recent study suggests that 99% of people from Mexico and Brazil and 96% of Americans fail to grasp the basic concepts of cryptocurrencies. Out of all the survey respondents aware of bitcoin, 17% in the U.S., 15% in Brazil, and 14% in Mexico own the crypto asset. The report published...
Crypto Economy Slides 8% in Value Shaking Out Billions, Blame Placed on New Covid Variant
26.11.2021
During the last 24 hours, the crypto economy has lost 8% in value as a great number of crypto asset prices dropped significantly during the overnight trading sessions. Crypto markets lost more than $22 billion in value as the leading digital currencies in the top 20 standings lost anywhere between...
Chinese Central Gov’t Wants to Create ‘Digital Asset Exchanges’ as CBDC Nears
26.11.2021
China’s policy-forming State Council has announced that it wants the nation to launch Beijing-based digital asset exchanges to power the adoption of its forthcoming central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, the digital yuan.
The council called upon financial bodies to speed up the pilots...