60 Minutes, the CBS news show that has been running since 1968, will feature El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach in a new episode airing April 10. According to a Friday post from 60 Minutes’ Twitter account, the investigative news show will air a segment on the crypto-friendly area of El Zonte, a village located in El Salvador, where residents and visitors […]

European Central Bank executive board member Fabio Panetta provided an overview of the central bank’s current research on a retail central bank digital currency Friday when he spoke at the IESE Business School Banking Initiative Conference on Technology and Finance. Panetta said the issuance of central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, is “likely to become a necessity,” but warned that […]

Ever since the “DeFi Summer” in 2021, the DeFi track entered a period of accelerated growth, with a large influx of capital that boosted many DeFi projects to offer traders great APY returns (primarily due to the rise in coin prices) while the diversity of DeFi protocols continued to proliferate. Starting in 2021, accompanied by the hike of the NFT […]

The four new decentralized tokens will give users price exposure, not ownership, to the underlying stocks and ETFs without any restrictions DeFiChain, the world’s leading blockchain on the Bitcoin network dedicated to bringing decentralized financial applications and services to everyone, is thrilled to announce that it has added four new decentralized assets aka dTokens following a Ticker Voting by the […]

Following the announced integration of the payment app Strike with e-commerce platform Shopify to accept Bitcoin (BTC) through the Lightning Network, the crypto community raised concerns over the legal implications of the move.  Crypto researcher Matt Ahlborg believes that the event is a very significant development for BTC as it allows the offloading of BTC without the need to go […]

Strike CEO Jack Mallers has recently announced a new partnership with Shopify. This integration will allow over merchants and stores in the United States to accept Bitcoin payments through Lightning. This was announced at Bitcoin 2022’s conference in Miami. Thanks to this integration, it will be possible for LN and Bitcoin users to pay at a large number of shops […]

Digital currency derivatives exchange BitMEX will lay off a quarter of its global staff at the end of April, sources have disclosed. The move was reportedly partly orchestrated by founder Arthur Hayes who resigned as CEO after American authorities began pursuing and found him guilty of violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act. The Seychelles-based exchange employs about 300 people globally, […]

As Cardano (ADA) prices fall back towards the psychological one dollar level, more and more investors are finding themselves with unrealized losses by holding on to the digital asset. Cardano’s ADA token has had a bearish week. The price has fallen 11.4% since Monday resulting in more holders being in the red. More significantly, ADA is now 64.7% below its […]