Global money transfer service MoneyGram says it has changed its relationship with blockchain payments firm Ripple amid the latter’s litigation with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to MoneyGram’s quarterly outlook, the company is “not planning for any benefit from Ripple market development fees” for the first quarter of 2021. MoneyGram said it had a more than $12 million net expense […]

On February 22, 2021, an author published a post on substack.com about an anonymous Twitter account that may have belonged to the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The researcher discovered a Twitter account dubbed ‘Goldlover,’ and found some interesting coincidences with the account’s tweets and Bitcoin’s creator. The Curious Goldlover Tweets An author called Varun published an interesting analysis of a specific […]

Securities custody and clearing firm Apex Clearing Corp said on Monday that it is going public through a reverse merger Northern Star Investment Corp II. Apex will be listed on Nasdaq following the deal with Northern Star, a so-called blank-check company backed by Jon Ledecky, who is the majority owner of the NHL team, New York Islanders. The deal is […]

A single buyer now owns 34 limited-edition CryptoPunks after splashing 557.5 ETH (or $1 million), Larva Labs details show. The $1 Million Purchase Larva Labs has subsequently confirmed that the anonymous buyer has active bids for three more CryptoPunks NFTs. As expected, the trading volumes of Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks NFTs has shot, reaching over $15 million, only trailing top-selling NBA […]

Ethereum (Ether, ETH) declines after buyers fail to convincingly break the $2,000 overhead resistance. The bulls broke the overhead resistance twice but could not sustain the bullish momentum. Ethereum Price Long-Term Analysis: Bullish  In the first breakdown, Ether plunged to a low of $1,780. The bulls promptly bought the dips as the biggest altcoin rallied to a $1,975 high. Unfortunately, […]

China’s central bank is pushing exposure to its ongoing national digital currency pilot by enlisting two major private banks in the project. According to a Feb. 22 Bloomberg report, MYbank and WeBank will help the People’s Bank of China extend its user exposure in the ongoing pilots of its central bank digital currency, the digital yuan As part of the […]

  As the price of Bitcoin continues to increase, the value of a certain high-profile BTC investment may have considerably risen since it was announced one month ago. Crypto analyst Anthony Pompliano wrote on Twitter that “Tesla bought $1.5 billion of Bitcoin around $33,000. That means they have now made over $1 billion on that investment in less than 45 […]

The Securities and Exchange Board of India, the country’s top securities market regulator and popularly known as SEBI, is quietly asking the local initial public offering (IPO) promoters to liquidate their cryptocurrency investments. As reported by the local daily The Economic Times on Monday, the regulator informally communicated over several weeks with merchant bankers, securities lawyers, and even company executives, who are […]

Having recently suspended its planned crypto regulations in the wake of the central bank ban, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission has clarified its position on cryptocurrencies in the country. According to a report by Premium Times, both the SEC and the Central Bank of Nigeria will work collaboratively on devising a concrete regulatory framework for cryptos in Nigeria. For Timi […]