Crypto had started to bull in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. Most thought that the financial markets would suffer greatly when most of the world went into lockdown, this would turn out to not be the case. Although the various markets had experienced price crashes at the beginning of the pandemic. Then, markets…
Galaxy Digital has announced the launch of passive cryptocurrency indexes with Alerian. These passive crypto indexes are eight in number; they will be weighted equally and re-balanced monthly. Galaxy Digital Holdings has partnered with S-Network Global indexes and Alerian to launch eight blockchain indexes focused on crypto. Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd is a financial services and…
Recent research reveals that US cryptocurrency investors have an average allocation of $1,107 in digital assets. About 37% of the investors confessed non-liquidation of their crypto holdings even for important bills or other payments. However, there’s this discovery that Elon Musk has a great influence on the crypto-related decisions of most respondents. A survey of…
David Marcus, an executive in Facebook, released the regulatory information concerning Novi. The update states the current status of Diem’s crypto wallet. Through a recent blog post, Marcus confirmed the approval for Novi in almost every state in the United States. Also, he revealed that it will not be launched in places where it has…
Solana, with its fast-growing ecosystem, has found a position at the forefront within the crypto space. By hitting $314 million in its private token sales, Solana crept the headlines in early June. Polychain and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered the Solana token sales. This funding impacted greatly in developing the fast-growing ecosystem of Solana. This pushes it…
Crypto has recently been suggested as a fix for the woes popular adult content platform OnlyFans has been going through. The company had announced last week that it planned to remove all of its adult content by October first. Speculations were that this was due to payment processors Visa and MasterCard making payment harder for…
The government of Sweden has found itself in the unusual situation of paying out around $1.5 million worth of Bitcoin to a drug dealer, whom they convicted and then jailed. Authorities are being forced to pay the man 33 BTC, after his illegally obtained bitcoin appreciated while behind bars. A Swedish Prosecutor’s Mistake Two years ago,…
The percentage of illegal crypto transactions, according to this Chainalysis report, is about 2% of total transactions. Although the majority of cryptocurrency transactions is not illegal, it is increasingly being used for criminal activities. As part of a dark web operation, Australian police have conducted a massive cryptocurrency seizure. The total value seized was about $6…
When it comes to software piracy platforms, the top performers remain for the office productivity suite and Windows operating system. So it’s not a surprise that the developer of the two products, Microsoft, takes its moves in creating Ethereum backed anti-piracy measures. Microsoft’s research department released a recent document involving contributions of other researchers from…
Presently, the staking contract of Eth2 has become the largest holder of Ethereum. Moreover, it is compliant with ERC-20 standards and leads the other projects using the same tokens. The blockchain analytics source Nansen carries that the staking contract of Eth2 has exceeded that of WETH (Wrapped Ethereum) and is now the largest single Eher…