Solana (SOL) has been among the top gainers for the past weekend. This was due to the bullishness that followed the announcement that Google was now running Solana nodes. As expected, the price of the digital asset rallied in the time following the announcement, rising more than 15% to finally cross the $38 mark for…
Before the recent selloff, Bitcoin was positioned as the next big thing. Investing and trading legends like billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones say it is like investing in Steve Jobs’ Apple early, or like getting in on the ground floor on Google. A new comparison suggests that even the latest price action is very much…
Another day, another massive company entering the cryptocurrency space. Google is making moves to boost up the profile of their Google Pay service, and, of course, crypto is in the mix. The company hired Arnold Goldberg, ex-Senior Vice President at PayPal, “to run its payments division.” That’s according to Bloomberg, who broke the story. “The…
A few years ago it was an executives’ dream to work at Google, Amazon, Apple, and the other Big Tech firms of Silicon Valley, but now that dream has evolved into crypto startups. Whether it is to join a blockchain-related company or start a new one, high-paying executives and engineers are leaving the valley of…
Attackers are exploiting poorly configured cloud accounts to mine crypto, Google warned users in a recent report. Cryptocurrency mining is a computationally intensive activity. And Google Cloud customers can access it at a cost. However, miners are now hacking Google Cloud accounts for mining purposes.In the report titled “Threat Horizons,” Google’s cybersecurity team assessed various…
Search engine turned tech behemoth Google is adjusting it’s advertisement policy around cryptocurrency wallet and exchange services, according to a web announcement from the company today. Changes are set to take effect in August. Let’s take a look at the brass tax around the new policy, and how it differs from Google’s stance over the…
Google Trends can be a helpful tool to watch to spot sudden changes in crypto market sentiment. For example, searches for Bitcoin peaked back in 2017 when the asset ballooned to $20,000 before the bubble popped. Nearly three full years later, search queries for the term “buy crypto” has reached the highest level since the…
The cryptocurrency market is on fire again, after spending several years locked in a cold and painful crypto winter. Bears came out of hibernation and swatted down valuations, and with it, interest plummeted. But with a new dawn here, search interest in the asset class is suddenly springing up once again according to Google Trends…
All across the cryptocurrency community, there’s buzz once again about an altcoin season. But it may not only be current market participants driving the current surge in altcoins.Google Trends shows that search queries for “altcoins” have reached the second-highest point in all of 2020. What’s this mean for the crypto market?Is Alt Season Upon Us?…
What goes up, must come down. That saying just applied to the cryptocurrency named Theta, which recently became a topic of hot discussion due to a supposed Google partnership.Details about the “partnership” however bring up questions about if there’s any validity to the claim, or if Theta is simply a client of the tech giant.…