Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Zcash rose about 20% in 24 hours as Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang disclosed that the firm invested in ZEC amid a broader crypto market rally.Zcash gained about 20% over the past 24 hours as Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang disclosed that the crypto in...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Revolut says it received no direct contact despite separate ransom demands for $3 million in Monero and 10,000 Bitcoin from competing breach claimants.Revolut said Thursday it had received no direct contact from those claiming responsibility for a cu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
South Korean police reportedly referred 18 Polymarket users to prosecutors in a gambling probe involving 26 people and $12.7 million in bets.South Korean police have reportedly referred 18 Polymarket users to prosecutors in an illegal gambling invest...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin corporate treasuries remained at an unrealized loss on their holdings as the price fell below $80,000 and fresh capital inflows dwindled.Bitcoin (BTC) is no longer a target for corporate treasuries as current buyers sit on unrealized losses,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The Celsius estate alleges BitMEX wrongfully liquidated and seized 6,360 BTC, worth nearly $490 million, during the March 2020 market crash.The Celsius bankruptcy estate sued five BitMEX-linked companies, alleging fraud, market manipulation and wrong...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The six cases are separate from July’s incident, when OpenAI models escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face during a security evaluation.OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed another six cases of “unexpected or concerning” model behavior over the last si...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin showed little immediate reaction to the Fed’s first rate increase since 2023, but 16 of 18 officials expect at least one more hike before the end of the year. Bitcoin held near its pre-Fed announcement levels of around $76,000 on Wednesday de...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The legislation seeks to codify Trump’s Bitcoin reserve policy, locking up Bitcoin acquired through civil and criminal forfeiture for 20 years. US lawmakers took a step on Wednesday to put US President Donald Trump’s executive order to establish a st...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Digital Sovereignty Alliance managing director Adrian Wall said senators from both parties are considering another attempt to advance the crypto market structure bill before the current Congress ends. The CLARITY Act could get another chance in Congr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The FCA’s new guidance outlines which crypto activities may require authorization as firms prepare for the UK’s incoming digital asset regulatory regime.The UK Financial Conduct Authority has issued& final guidance outlining when& crypto acti...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
A bipartisan House committee vote advanced legislation that would reshape federal tax rules for stablecoins, staking, crypto lending and digital asset transactions. The US House Ways and Means Committee passed the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act with...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Anchorage Digital Bank added custody support for Etherlink and several Etherlink-based assets, including xU3O8, a token representing physical uranium.Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, has added custody suppo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
A strategist at the Danish bank said Coinbase has more at stake in the CLARITY setback because its trading business is directly exposed to US market-structure rules. While Bitcoin and crypto-linked stocks fell sharply after the US Senate failed to ad...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin price support materialized around $68,000 as markets saw a 93% chance of the Fed hiking rates by 0.25% on Wednesday.Bitcoin (BTC) stayed near monthly lows at Wednesday’s Wall Street open as markets awaited the US Federal Reserve’s decision on...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Zero-knowledge technology could let companies verify who you are without storing your identity documents. So why isn’t it already standard practice?The massive theft of more than 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses earlier this month should...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bernstein said the federal agencies will publish new regulations to compensate for the time lost negotiating the CLARITY Act, after its cloture vote failed on Tuesday.Bernstein analysts expect “aggressive and swift” rulemaking from the US Securities...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Nearly 99% of ZEC holders voted to reduce block times to 25 seconds, while keeping ZEC issuance and halving schedules unchanged.Zcash token holders backed cutting the network’s target block time to 25 seconds from 75 seconds and preserving its existi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Circle’s Arc mainnet is live with USDC for transaction fees, support for more than 20 fiat stablecoins and links to over 20 blockchains.USDC issuer Circle has launched the mainnet of Arc, a layer-1 (L1) blockchain targeting stablecoin payments and fi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Germany’s largest bank is awaiting regulatory approval to launch institutional custody solutions for Bitcoin, Ether and select stablecoins before expanding into tokenized assets.Germany’s largest bank, Deutsche Bank, is awaiting regulatory approval t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin miners generated 35% of the state-owned power producer’s revenue last year, but declining reservoir inflows led the utility to prioritize households and manufacturers.Ethiopia has reportedly reduced electricity delivered to Bitcoin miners to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Italy is probing the Revolut-linked breach after its cyber agency reported more than 650 cases involving abused or illicit certified email accounts.Italian authorities are investigating a government email breach linked to the leak of Revolut customer...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin exchange demand on Coinbase declined after the US Senate voted against the CLARITY Act, while traders sent BTC to exchanges at an unrealized loss.Bitcoin (BTC) demand is under pressure in the US as investors react to the failure of the CLARI...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Euro-area online and mobile merchants can apply until Oct. 27 to test beta digital euro payments in a 12-month pilot.The European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking online and mobile merchants to participate in a 12-month digital euro pilot expected to be...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Federico Variola says AI has diverted capital from crypto and is empowering attackers, while rising cybersecurity costs could push the industry toward greater centralization.Phemex CEO Federico Variola says AI has been a ‘net negative’ for crypto, de...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The former employees allegedly earned more than $50,000 each by trading Hyperliquid perpetuals ahead of Robinhood token listings.US prosecutors on Tuesday charged two former Robinhood engineers with commodities fraud and wire fraud for allegedly usin...
