Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered the country’s leading bank, Banco de Venezuela, to accept the nation’s cryptocurrency El Petro at all its branches. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered the country’s leading bank, Banco de Venezuela, to accept the nation’s cryptocurrency, the Petro (PTR) at all of its branches, the country’s Finance Ministry tweeted on July […]
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Cointelegraph traveled to Malta for the second time to see the changes on the Blockchain Island. Some things never change, like the Megalithic Temples built in Malta over 5,000 years ago. These days, however, that may be the only thing that remains unchanged in Malta. With a population of just under half a million and […]
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The finance minister of Cyprus, Harris Georgiades, said that the country’s blockchain regulation draft will be ready this year. The finance minister of Cyprus, Harris Georgiades, has said that the country’s blockchain regulation draft will be ready this year. English-language local finance news outlet FinancialMirror reported the news on July 4. Per the report, Georgiades […]
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Litecoin has been integrated into Flexa and will be accepted as payment by its network of almost 40,000 merchants. New York-based blockchain payment startup Flexa has added litecoin (LTC) as the fifth crypto accepted by merchants on its payment network, the company officially announced on July 3. Following the listing, litecoin is now accepted as […]
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sponsored A remote mining company says it enables individuals to lease hashing power from state-of-the-art mining centers. With demand for Bitcoin on the rise in response to soaring prices of late, attention is increasingly being turned to mining. However, the market has changed from the early days of cryptocurrency, when Bitcoin was in plentiful supply, […]
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Sina Finance, financial website owned by China’s major tech firm Sina Corp, silently launched crypto index on its mobile app. Sina Finance, a finance-focused website owned by China’s major tech company Sina Corp, has added crypto index into its mobile app, China-focused online Twitter resource Cnledger reported on July 3. The new index on China’s […]
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Accounting for almost 40% of bitcoin tweets worldwide, the United States looms large over crypto twitter. Accounting for almost 40% of bitcoin tweets worldwide, the United States looms large over crypto twitter. According to a new thread of tweets, published July 3, by crypto data and infrastructure provider The TIE, overall 38.9% of total bitcoin […]
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Donald Trump’s latest currency manipulation tweet bolsters the argument for crypto as a safe haven asset. United States President Donald Trump has proposed the U.S. should ‘MATCH’ Chinese and Euoropean currency manipulation, sparking a dip in the greenback’s value. The president shared his thoughts in a tweet published on July 3: “China and Europe playing […]
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A new report from crypto analytics site SFOX suggests bitcoin could see a price hike on U.S. Independence Day — July 4th. A new report from crypto analytics site SFOX suggests bitcoin (BTC) could see a price hike on American Independence Day — July 4th. In a July 3 blog post, SFOX analyzes the apparent […]
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A downtrend from earlier in the week appears definitively over as BTC/USD keeps retaking lost ground. Bitcoin (BTC) continued defying expectations to retake $12,000 on July 4 as analysts increasingly compare its performance to 2017’s parabolic rise. Market visualization courtesy of Coin360 Data from Coin360 showed BTC/USD retracing slightly to $11,680 after hitting $12,025, continuing […]
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