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Fox Business: Firms Feel "Confident SEC Will Approve" Spot Bitcoin ETFs After January 8

According to Charles Gasparino of Fox Business, financial firms feel confident that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is going to rule in favor of approving spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) after January 8, 2024.Gasparino's post…

Celestia Rival Avail Inks Agreement With Starkware as Blockchain Data Race Heats Up

Avail's new "data availability" solution, currently in testing, and Madara, which is Starkware's sequencer, are both expected to go live in early 2024. They might be used in conjunction to create new application chains or "appchains."

Bitcoin Blockchain Surpasses Half-Terabyte Amid Soaring Transactions and Increased Block Capacity

Although bitcoin’s price hasn’t eclipsed its historic peak, this year the network has shattered multiple records. These include reaching the highest level of difficulty, achieving an all-time high in total hashrate, and setting a new…

Dogecoin Price In Trouble: Whale Transfers 85 Million DOGE To Robinhood

The Dogecoin price has been put in a perilous position once more after a DOGE whale made a massive transaction to an exchange. The transaction which was flagged by a DOGE community member has raised eyebrows in the space and could possibly be…

Bitcoin Technical Analysis: Bullish Trends Push Against Upper Resistance Limits

Bitcoin’s price of $43,094, fluctuating between $42,235 and $43,176 within 24 hours, reflects a market in subtle motion. With a substantial 24-hour volume of $20.10 billion and a market capitalization of $837 billion, bitcoin maintains its…

Lido Tests of 'Distributed Validator Technology' Portend 2024 Decentralization Push

A big selling point of blockchain networks is that they are "decentralized." But just a few validators, including those run by Lido, have gradually amassed a lion's share of the power over the dominant smat-contracts blockchain, Ethereum. One idea…

Institutional Investors Increase Bitcoin Appetite Ahead Of Spot ETF, Report Shows

A report by K33 research analysts has provided insight into how much institutional investors’ appetite for Bitcoin has increased ahead of a potential approval of a Spot BTC ETF. The research firm emphasized a particular indicator to drive…

Nansen’s Crypto Crystal Ball: AI Integration And A Potential Plot Twist In 2024?

As 2024 approaches, crypto analytics firm Nansen offers insightful predictions for the crypto sector, anticipating significant developments and shifts. Despite cautious optimism, they acknowledge a 10-20% chance of inflation resurgence after the US…

Making Privacy Solutions EVM-Compatible Is Key to Integrating Them With Blockchains and Dapps — Guy Itzhaki

While proponents of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) have sometimes touted it as a better privacy solution than zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, Guy Itzhaki, the founder and CEO of Fhenix, said both are cryptographic-based technologies which, when…

Economist Jim Rickards’ ‘Tumultuous’ and ‘Shocking’ Predictions: Global Recession and a New Banking Crisis to Ensue in 2024

Jim Rickards, a famous economist and investment lawyer, has predicted a year of turmoil for global economies in 2024. According to Rickards, the U.S. Federal Reserve will be unable to pull off a soft landing scenario, prompting a global recession…

Ghana’s Securities Regulator Creates Taskforce to Build Capacity for Crypto Asset Oversight

The Ghanaian securities regulator has established a task force which is expected to help it boost its capacity to regulate crypto assets. Ghanaian residents have continued to trade and invest in cryptocurrencies and this has forced the regulator to…