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Your After Hours Guide to Consensus 2024, Wednesday Night
Events to consider following the first day of the conference.
Trump Campaign Now Accepts Crypto Donations via Coinbase
Former U.S. President and presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign now accepts cryptocurrency donations through Coinbase Commerce. The new fundraising page enables federally permissible donors to contribute using any cryptocurrency supported…
Analyst Says $71,000 Bitcoin Move Is Only Halfway Through, Here’s Why
An analyst has explained how the current Bitcoin surge appears to have hit the halfway completion mark if this indicator is to go by. Bitcoin VWAP Oscillator Suggests BTC Rally Only Halfway Done In a new post on X, analyst Willy Woo has posted an…
DOJ Captures Alleged ‘Architect’ of Darknet Marketplace Incognito
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the operator of the darknet marketplace Incognito was apprehended at John F. Kennedy Airport on May 18. Law enforcement officials claim Rui-Siang Lin allegedly constructed the DNM and facilitated…
Uniswap responds to SEC Wells notice: ‘We are ready to fight’ for DeFi
The company called for supporting U.S. lawmakers in favor of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, hinting the bill could nullify the SEC’s case.
Trump Becomes First Major Party Candidate to Accept Crypto Donations
The likely GOP flag-bearer in the upcoming U.S. presidential election signaled his friendliness to crypto at a campaign fundraiser two weeks ago.
Embrace Privacy and Earn up to 150% APY With wZANO-USDT
Bitcoin.com’s decentralized exchange, Verse DEX, has launched the second wZANO-USDT farm, offering an impressive APY of up to 150%. For full details, including instructions, head over here. This initiative is the continuation of the…
Bitcoin Analyst Says The BTC Leg Up Is Halfway: Next Stop $74,000?
Bitcoin is firm, recently trending above $71,200 and easing past local resistance levels, much to the delight of holders. However, the current leg up is just the beginning for Willy Woo, an on-chain analyst. Bitcoin Rally Getting Started: Analyst…
How a Liquidity Protocol Marketer Mines Web3’s ‘Most Sacred Data’
Yakov Sychev is the CMO of cross-chain liquidity protocol Eywa. He is helping marketers understand user journeys between Web 2 and Web3.
Several U.S. House Democrats Petition Colleagues to Join Yes Side on Crypto Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives is on the verge of a vote on Wednesday that is widely expected to approve comprehensive cryptocurrency legislation with bipartisan support – a major milestone for the industry – and several Democrats there are…
Market Analyst Michael Oliver: Gold Is Entering a ‘Generational Event’ Bull Market Trend
OP_CAT & Bitcoin Ossification With Blockstream’s Andrew Poelstra
In a recent interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Shinobi sat down with Andrew Poelstra from Blockstream to discuss his colleague Rusty Russell's ambitious proposal. Rusty plans to restore several abandoned features from Bitcoin's code, a bold move that…
Whistleblowing In The Surveillance Age
This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Inscription Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.Bitcoin allows for the permanent inscribing of data onto the public record. Still, whistleblowing on the blockchain
Institutional Investors Pour $942 Million Into Bitcoin, Will This Trigger A Rally To $80,000?
Institutional investors are doubling their bets on Bitcoin, with investment funds related to the flagship crypto recording massive inflows last week. This development signals a bullish sentiment among these investors which could trigger a Bitcoin…
US lawmaker addresses House before FIT21 vote: Bill ‘will stop another FTX’
Representative Wiley Nickel called on Democrats and Republicans to support the bill to stop the SEC from “turning cryptocurrency regulation into a political football.”
CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger on Overzealous Crypto Regulation and the Need for Legislative Action
The commodities regulator has been clear about the dangers of regulating a burgeoning industry through enforcement actions.
Diamonds Standard Co. uses precious gems to back payment network
Diamond Standard Co. has introduced a blockchain payments system that uses diamonds as backing collateral for transactions.
Standard Chartered Now Expects SEC to Approve Spot Ethereum ETFs This Week
Standard Chartered Bank has revised its forecast and now expects the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve spot ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) this week, with the bank’s head of digital asset research expressing 80%…
Running The Self-Sovereign Bitcoin Business
As we take the concluding tenth and final step in “10 Steps to Self-Sovereignty”, we’ve articulated nine ways that Bitcoin can enable the sovereign individual. But what about building the sovereign Bitcoin business? From longer timeframe accounting
Vitalik Buterin proposes solutions for Ethereum’s MEV problem
Ethereum’s co-founder explained how using MEV quarantining, MEV minimization, inclusion lists and node requirements could mitigate the problem.
The Biden Administration Is Easing Up on Crypto (a Vibes Analysis)
A wave of positive regulatory developments for crypto could be coincidence. Or they could be the Biden Administration reacting to Donald Trump’s recent embrace of the industry.
KlimaDAO Japan to launch carbon credit marketplace with Progmat
KlimaDAO and the Japanese stablecoin issuer may eventually trade carbon credits internationally.
Bitcoin On The Verge? Analyst Breaks Down What A $71,500 Weekly Candle Close Means For BTC
Both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum appear to currently be the center of attention in the crypto market so far, with Bitcoin recently hitting just above a 24-hour high of $71,650 mark, marking a 6.4% increase in the past 24 hours and nearly 20% over…
Uniswap Labs Urges SEC to Drop Pending Enforcement Action in Wells Response
Uniswap Labs moved Tuesday to quash a looming regulatory battle over Ethereum's dominant decentralized crypto exchange, imploring the Securities and Exchange Commission in legal filings that its planned lawsuit wasn't worth the fight.
Public Bitcoin miners secured $2B in financing ahead of halving
Miners’ equity funding activity is expected to be lower in the second quarter of 2024, with less than $500 million invested as of mid-May.
Second Ethereum Foundation Researcher Acknowledges Advisory Deal Paid in EIGEN
The news set off a debate on the social-media platform X about whether advising the EigenFoundation might constitute a conflict of interest – given the flagged risks to Ethereum from restaking protocol EigenLayer.
How to Power the Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Revolution – HyperCycle CEO Toufi Saliba
HyperCycle was founded in October 2022 following discussions between CEO Toufi Saliba and Ben Goertzel, founder of SingularityNet, at the global AGI summit in 2021. The company focuses on developing a General Purpose Technology supporting a…