Balaji Srinivasan, a former CTO at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has placed a $1 million bet on the price of Bitcoin (BTC) rising to $1 million by June 17. On March 17, a Twitter user going by the alias “James Medlock” made a $1 million bet to anybody who could prove
An optimistic result for the cryptocurrency market at the forthcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting is possible given the continued banking crisis and macroeconomic worries in the United States. On March 21st and 22nd, 2023, the Federal Open Market Committee will convene to discuss how best to achieve the
In light of the present financial crisis, former Belgian Finance Minister and Member of the European Parliament Johan Van Overtveldt has advocated for a ban on cryptocurrency. According to Van Overtveldt, the digital asset business creates “no economic or social value.” These were made in a tweet by the ex-Belgian
Binance introduced the “Secure Asset Fund for Users” (SAFU) on January 29, 2022; the SAFU is a $1 billion emergency insurance fund designed to protect Binance users in the case of a disaster. The SAFU fund’s initial holdings included BNB, BUSD, and BTC. Binance has replaced BUSD in the fund
BitGo, a popular cryptocurrency wallet, has fixed a serious flaw that could have exposed the private keys of its retail and institutional users. In December 2022, the Fireblocks cryptography research team discovered the vulnerability and informed BitGo of it. BitGo Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS) wallets were susceptible to the flaw,
A Web3 wallet that supports cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is apparently in the works for integration into Microsoft’s Edge browser. Software documenter and sometimes information leaker Albacore posted what seem to be early pictures of the company’s new Web3 wallet’s user interface (UI) on Twitter on March 17. Albacore
In the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapses on March 10, 186 banks were identified as being at risk, as per recent research. These banks are dealing with problems equivalent to those that led to Silicon Valley Bank’s demise. Federal Reserve’s rapid rate-hike campaign reducing the bank’s assets,
US-based crypto exchange Coinbase is apparently in discussions to establish a trading platform for its foreign consumers. Apparently, the exchange has been in contact with its institutional customers regarding the possibility of implementing a new platform. With the current assault on the crypto sector by US regulatory authorities, it is
Coinstreet and Somerley’s joint venture Signum Digital has revealed that their security token offering (STO) and subscription platform has been given an “approval-in-principle” by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). Security tokens are a new kind of digital asset based on blockchain technology. It reflects ownership of tangible
The biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, announced on Friday that it would process staked Ethereum withdrawals and is ready to support the next Ethereum Shanghai and Capella (Shapella) upgrades. Withdrawals of staked ETH from the cryptocurrency exchange, however, will be postponed for a week after the April 12 Shanghai upgrade to
