Bitcoin Coders Deliberate Over Future of $1 Billion Memecoins Such as Pepe

Bitcoin Coders Deliberate Over Future of $1 Billion Memecoins Such as Pepe

The coders who maintain Bitcoin’s blockchain are clashing over whether to stamp out the meme tokens swarming the network. A torrent of speculative coins led to a record number of transactions and an 11-fold spike in processing fees on the blockchain in May, creating a logjam and forcing the Binance…

RBI Deputy Governor Asks Banks to Gear for Blockchain Future as India Awaits Crypto Rules

RBI Deputy Governor Asks Banks to Gear for Blockchain Future as India Awaits Crypto Rules

Mahesh Kumar Jain, the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has predicted that technologies like blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) would be part of the future of finance. The RBI recently met with the directors of Indian banks. The aim of this meeting was to address concerns…

Binance Pulls Out of Canada Amid Tightened Crypto Regulations

Binance Pulls Out of Canada Amid Tightened Crypto Regulations

Binance said on Friday it was withdrawing from Canada, weeks after the country issued a series of new guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges including investor limits and mandatory registrations. Canada has tightened regulations for crypto asset trading platforms in recent months, with the introduction of a pre-registration process. The companies that…

Coinbase Crypto Exchange Posts Smaller Quarterly Loss After Costs Cuts

Coinbase Crypto Exchange Posts Smaller Quarterly Loss After Costs Cuts

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global posted a smaller-than-feared loss in the first quarter, benefiting from cost cuts and diversification of revenue sources, sending its shares up 7 percent in extended trading on Thursday. The company has benefited from its deal for One River Digital Asset Management to ramp up product offerings…

Israel Seized Binance Crypto Accounts to ‘Thwart’ Islamic State, Claims Document

Israel Seized Binance Crypto Accounts to ‘Thwart’ Islamic State, Claims Document

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country’s counter-terror authorities show. Israel’s National Bureau…

Bhutan Seeking Investment for $500 Million Fund for Green Crypto Mining in Himalayas

Bhutan Seeking Investment for $500 Million Fund for Green Crypto Mining in Himalayas

Bhutan’s investment arm and Nasdaq-listed company Bitdeer Technologies Group plan to seek investors for a fund worth up to $500 million (roughly Rs. 4,100 crore) that will be used to develop green crypto mining in the Himalayan kingdom. Fund raising targeting institutional investors will begin at the end of May…

Malicious Links Costed Crypto Investors Upto $4 Million in Losses: Google Ads Data

Malicious Links Costed Crypto Investors Upto $4 Million in Losses: Google Ads Data

Crypto investors have lost up to $4 million (roughly Rs. 35 crore) by engaging with hoax links, sprawled all over the web, according to the information extracted from analysing Google Ads data. Unfortunately, the web is flooded with such malicious links, which when interacted with can drain the hard-earned savings…

European Parliament Backs EU’s First Set of Regulations for Crypto Assets; Rules to Roll Out in 2024

European Parliament Backs EU’s First Set of Regulations for Crypto Assets; Rules to Roll Out in 2024

The European Parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly backed the European Union‘s first set of rules to regulate cryptoasset markets. Parliament voted by 517 in favour and 38 against to approve the world’s first comprehensive set of regulations for issuing and trading cryptoassets such as bitcoin. “This regulation brings a competitive advantage…

Ethereum’s Shapella Upgrade to Unlock Around $33 Billion of Staked Ether

Ethereum’s Shapella Upgrade to Unlock Around $33 Billion of Staked Ether

Investors are finally set to gain access to more than $33 billion (roughly Rs. 2,70,900 crore) of ether this week under a planned revamp of the blockchain. A new software upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, dubbed Shapella, will let market players redeem their “staked ether” – coins they have deposited…

Terraform Founder Do Kwon Charged for Forging Documents by Montenegrin Police

Terraform Founder Do Kwon Charged for Forging Documents by Montenegrin Police

Montenegrin police on Friday formally charged Do Kwon, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion (nearly Rs. 3,29,500 crore) or more last year, for forging official documents after arresting him on Podgorica airport. Do Kwon, a South Korean national, and a second suspect have been…