After months of legal wrangling, CNBC, The Washington Post, and Insider report that Elon Musk, Twitter's most prominent troll, has added the social platform to his business empire. He was said to have celebrated the acquisition by firing some...
Binance launched its new Bahrain platform, binance.bh, on Thursday. On May 19, 2022, Binance was licensed as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) Category-4. The platform will be regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB). Binance now offers...
As a part of a larger strategy to tighten Singapore's rules on digital assets, the central bank has proposed new stringent guidelines for Digital Payment Token (DPT) service providers in an effort to deter people from engaging in cryptocurrency...
According to an official announcement, BitPay, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency payment providers, will now accept MATIC, Polygon's native coin. Users will be able to use the BitPay app to buy, store, trade, and use MATIC and several...
BitOasis, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the United Arab Emirates, and Mastercard (MA.N) announced on Tuesday that they had signed an agreement to launch cryptocurrency-linked payment cards. Customers in the Middle East and North Africa will be able to...
ARK's Fintech Innovation Fund (ARKF) increased its Coinbase (COIN) stock holdings by 10,880 shares, totaling $60.5 million, or approximately 8% of the fund's weight. According to 13F filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, this would be ARK's...
On October 25, Block Inc.'s Cash App, a mobile phone payment processing app, added a dedicated support page for processing Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions. Users of Cash App can now send and receive Bitcoin using the more streamlined Layer...
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao told CNBC on Monday that the cryptocurrency exchange is getting closer to identifying the hacker responsible for a $570 million hack on the BNB blockchain. In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe," Zhao said...
On October 23, David Schwartz, Ripple's Chief Technology Officer (and an XRP ledger architect), announced the departure of Nik Bougalis, Director of Engineering. The CTO further elaborated that he had recently lost his Executive Assistant. On October 22, Bougalis...
According to BTC.com, the Bitcoin mining difficulty went up by 3.44% on Sunday, reaching a new record high of 36.835 trillion hashes. Although the latest increase is not as significant as the previous difficulty adjustment of approximately 14% earlier...
