In a hearing on Thursday titled “Why Congress Needs to Act: Lessons Learned from the FTX Collapse,” U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, discussed bitcoin and cryptocurrency regulation. Moreover, the committee’s mandate includes monitoring the American commodities markets.
Michael Burry, the founder of the investing company Scion Asset Management, has predicted the coming of a “real recession” that would persist for many years. Burry is well-known for predicting the 2007–2010 U.S. subprime mortgage crisis and making money off of it. The movie “The Big Short,” starring Christian Bale,
Despite the volatile price of Bitcoin, a recent analysis by Kommersant shows that purchases of Bitcoin mining devices in the nation skyrocketed in the fourth quarter. Low costs for gear and power have also contributed to the dramatic growth. Sales at Chilkoot, one of Russia’s authorized dealers of cryptocurrency mining
The government of El Salvador has upped the ante on its crypto endeavors by establishing a National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) to monitor and direct all national Bitcoin-related activities. The new organization will be able to collaborate with counterparts in other nations on BTC-related topics. While the cryptocurrency market has been
Due to weak market performance and a larger computational demand amid increased network difficulty, Bitcoin miners’ income has dropped to two-year lows. However, miners have been able to recover losses thanks to a continuing decline in the Bitcoin hash rate over the last month. Bitcoin mining profits (from both block
Bitwise, a leading cryptocurrency asset management firm, has resubmitted its ETF proposal to include Bitcoin futures (ETF). The proposed fund would use a Cayman Islands-based wholly-owned subsidiary to invest only in Bitcoin futures contracts. Due to the high price tag and high complexity of the planned solution, Bitwise withdrew its
The crypto scenario has turned upside in a year’s gap. Last autumn was 180 degrees opposite of this year’s autumn in the crypto world. Many of the cryptocurrencies attained their All Time High (ATH) during the month of November 2021. But now the same coins have slipped 50% below. CoinGecko
In the United States, applications for unemployment benefits hit a three-month high last week, signaling a thawing of the job market in the wake of a wave of layoffs at technology companies. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits increased by 17,000 to 240,000, as reported by the Labor
On Wednesday, Bo Shen, a founding partner at Fenbushi Capital, tweeted about the theft of as much as $42 million in cryptocurrency from his personal wallet. Shen claims that on November 10, criminals made off with $38 million worth of the USDC stablecoin. The stolen funds, he clarified, are just
In spite of the current cryptocurrency market downturn, El Salvador is increasing its wagers on the investment market. The first government to recognize Bitcoin as legal cash is currently drafting a Digital Asset Issuance Law. That would make it easier to do business with any cryptocurrency. A document posted on
