Ripple’s ongoing legal battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is known to have had some negative effects on the company. And now, Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) David Schwartz has given an insight into how much the lawsuit has affected the company. SEC’s Lawsuit Made Ripple Lose Stablecoin Deal Schwartz revealed during
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Bitcoin (BTC) tried to break out of its range last week, but the bulls could not sustain the higher levels. Bitcoin is back inside the range and is trading near the $26,000 level. The price action of the past few days has formed two successive Doji candlestick patterns on the weekly chart, indicating uncertainty about
Bitcoin (BTC) could have dropped much more last week after one on-chain metric repeated its move from the FTX crash. As noted on Sep. 5 by James Straten, research and data analyst at crypto insights firm CryptoSlate, the SLRV Ratio has “flipped” for the first time since November 2022. Bitcoin SLRV Ratio channels FTX warning
Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has launched natively on both Base and Optimism networks, allowing Circle account holders to send USDC stablecoin from their accounts to Base or Optimism. Coinbase has also made USDC transfers to Base available, according to a Sept. 5 social media post. Circle claimed that it is working with “ecosystem partners” to
A plurality of experts believe the United States should create a new federal agency dedicated to artificial intelligence governance, according to a survey conducted by Axios, Generation Lab, and Syracuse University. The survey polled 215 computer science professors across 65 of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. on topics related to AI. we polled
The Ministry of Education of El Salvador and the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization Mi Primer Bitcoin (MPB), meaning “My First Bitcoin,” partnered to add Bitcoin (BTC) education to public school curriculum by 2024. John Dennehy, the founder of MPB, confirmed to Cointelegraph that this is a project of the Ministry of Education that MPB is assisting
Sina Weibo, one of the most popular Chinese social media apps with over 258 million daily active users, has removed 80 influencer accounts promoting cryptocurrency activities citing official legislation. According to the Sept. 5 announcement, 80 crypto influencer accounts with over 8 million in total followers had been “proactively removed” by Weibo. The accounts were
₿trust, a non-profit organization funded by Twitter (now X) co-founder and Bitcoin (BTC) advocate Jack Dorsey, is scaling up its programs in Africa with a new acquisition. The non-profit has acquired Qala, an organization dedicated to training Bitcoin and Lightning engineers in Africa. The acquisition will help ₿Trust succeed on its mission to drive the
Global payments processor Visa has rolled out support for USD Coin (USDC) payments settled on the Solana blockchain as its stablecoin offering begins to expand. Visa revealed that it is carrying out live and completed pilots with issuers and acquirers, moving millions of USDC tokens between partners across the Etheruem and Solana blockchains to settle
A report from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) noted that 40% of the crypto trading platforms are decentralized and make use of distributed ledger technology. On the other hand, the majority, or 60%, of platforms make use of Central Limit Order Books (CLOBs), quite similar to regulated exchange platforms. The WFE report noted that
“I live in Switzerland. I have guns at home. Anybody who shows up at my home with violent intentions risks being literally shot at,” Heaver warns altcoiners who send her death threats online. Speaking to Magazine, Heaver explains that she blames memecoin founders for fueling the fiery users on Crypto Twitter. “I mean, there’s so
In a recent Twitter exchange, David Schwartz, the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Ripple, weighed in on the ongoing discussions surrounding the XRP Ledger (XRPL) fork Xahau. The discourse was ignited by Saul, a prominent figure in the XRP community, who drew an analogy between XRPL and Nokia, suggesting that Xahau might play the role
The legal industry has emerged as a major winner amid cryptocurrency collapses like FTX and Celsius, generating hundreds of millions of dollars for lawyers. Lawyers, accountants, consultants, analysts and other professionals have collected at least $700 million in fees from the bankruptcies of major crypto firms over the past year, according to a report and
The Ethereum (ETH) market has been gripped by escalating bearish sentiment as the taker buy-sell ratio, a critical indicator of market dynamics, plunged to a yearly low. This downward trajectory has sparked concerns among investors and traders, highlighting the prevailing pessimism in the Ethereum futures market. ETH’s taker buy-sell ratio, as revealed by a recent
One of the largest South Korean banks, KEB Hana Bank, is moving to offer digital asset custody services through a new partnership with major cryptocurrency custody firm BitGo Trust Company. KEB Hana Bank has signed a strategic business agreement with BitGo to jointly establish digital asset custody in South Korea, local news agency Yonhap reported.
Crypto scams targeting MetaMask users are using government-owned website URLs to con victims and access their crypto wallet holdings. Ethereum-based crypto wallet MetaMask has been a long-standing target for scammers — which involves redirecting unwary users to fabricated websites that request access to the MetaMask wallets. Cointelegraph’s investigation on the matter found numerous government-owned websites
Bitcoin (BTC) has been on a bull run for the past six months or so, and the market has yet to respond — but it will in around six to 12 months, according to BitMEX co-founder and former CEO Arthur Hayes. In a Sept. 5 keynote speech at Korea Blockchain Week, Hayes argued Bitcoin’s bull
The principal financial regulator of Japan, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), has decided to take crypto regulation into its own hands by proposing to change the tax code regarding digital assets. The FSA submitted the request on Aug. 31. The most notable suggestion in the 16-page document is a bid to free domestic firms from
The centralization of nodes is one of the biggest problems facing the Ethereum network and should be addressed by making the running of nodes cheaper and easier, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. At current, the majority of the 5,901 active Ethereum nodes are being run through centralized web providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS),
While lacking in performance, micro Bitcoin mining devices should be seen as a stand against the Bitcoin ecosystem’s purportedly biggest flaw, its inventors argue. Micro Bitcoin mining devices — often open-source and pocket-sized — have been serving a niche part of the market, offering buyers a fully assembled device or a do-it-yourself-kit to mine Bitcoin