The total number of cryptocurrency users across the globe has grown to 106 million as per a report from crypto.com. The total crypto users topped the 100 million marks in January 2021, rising from 66 million in May 2020. To calculate the crypto user growth, crypto.com used on-chain data from exchanges along with several other complex parameters to map the […]

Liquidnet, an institutional trading and equities network, has appointed securities industry veteran, John Emmert, to head up its agency-only trading business in the Americas. Emmert joins Liquidnet as Head of Trading Desk for the Americas from rival Virtu Financial where he served for less than a year as chief of global program sales & trading. Prior to this, he operated […]

The legal saga over protocol developers’ obligations to combat illegitimate transactions just became front and center. In 2020, Dr. Craig Wright and his legal team sent letters to BTC Core developers, representatives from the BCH community and representatives of the BSV community. But to understand why this is still important, it’s necessary to look back into Bitcoin history for a […]

The governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shaktikanta Das, has raised fresh concerns over the impact of cryptocurrency investments on the country’s economy but is optimistic about the launch of a digital rupee. In an interview with CNBC TV-18 on Wednesday, Das revealed that the monetary regulator had shared its “major concerns from the financial stability angle” with the government. […]

Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy increased its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings by 27% on Feb. 24, after purchasing an additional 19,452 coins, taking its total BTC haul to 90,531 Bitcoin. Announced on the company’s website on Wednesday, the coins were reportedly purchased for approximately $52,765 per coin, equating to an outlay of just over $1 billion. MicroStrategy Incorporated CEO Michael Saylor said […]

A federal district court in the United States has dismissed a securities fraud class action against Israel-based cryptocurrency firm Bancor. U.S. district judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled on Monday to dismiss a case against Bancor, stating that plaintiffs had failed to allege losses as well as citing lack of personal jurisdiction. The judge has also canceled an oral argument scheduled for […]

After a dramatic steep correction, the fiat value of Bitcoin is moving up and crossed the $50,000 mark again in a fresh bull run. The digital currency is trading at $50,864 as of press time and is pushing to breach $51,000, which has become a key resistance level now. The pivot in the prices came after Bitcoin dropped below $46,000 […]

Bitcoin's price roared back Wednesday after a sharp sell-off, climbing above $50,000 again as Square announced it had purchased $170 million worth of the cryptocurrency. At 4 a.m. ET, the world's most valuable digital coin surged 7.5% to a price of $50,683, according to data from Coin Metrics. The cryptocurrency climbed as high as $51,369 a few hours earlier. Other […]

If you analyze the growing interest in Bitcoin by the number of headlines it generates nowadays, you’re left with the false impression that it is the modern-day gold rush of the digital era. This perception couldn’t be further from the truth.  When Dr. Craig Wright created Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, he wrote a white paper outlining a highly […]