Month: April 2021

The Internet Archive, an American nonprofit behind major digital archive Wayback Machine, has received a $10 million cryptocurrency donation from the Filecoin Foundation. According to a Friday announcement, the Filecoin Foundation has donated 50,000 Filecoin (FIL) tokens to the Internet Archive, worth more than $10 million at the time of writing. The grant is designed to help the Internet Archive increase access to its online library including books, data, web pages, music and software. In addition to the donation, the Internet Read more …

The Bank of Thailand has set its agenda for a retail central bank digital currency with preliminary testing protocols scheduled to begin in Q2 2022. Thailand’s central bank made this known in a press release issued on Friday calling for public comments on the proposed CBDC roadmap. As part of its plans, the central bank published a preliminary report detailing its CBDC thesis. Explaining its motivation for creating a CBDC, the Bank of Thailand argued that the success of private Read more …

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly hit $60,000 on April 2 in the latest installment of its slow grind back to all-time highs. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: Tradingview BTC price taps $60,000 Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed bullish tendencies remaining overnight for BTC/USD, with local highs of $60,110 on Bitstamp. A correction brought the pair down nearer to $59,000, circling $59,500 at the time of writing.  The sustained higher levels mean that Bitcoin has effectively canceled out the flash crash Read more …

The cryptocurrency space may be helping to spawn its own competitors after a representative of the People’s Bank of China said Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent surge had caused renewed interest in the nation’s digital yuan project. The digital yuan is China’s central bank digital currency, and like all CBDCs its foundational principles are completely antithetical to those of the cryptocurrency space. Core crypto concepts of decentralization and autonomy are dispensed with in favor of centralization and oversight, in an effort by Read more …

In an abrupt move, Binance South Africa announced on March 31 that all South African rand (ZAR) trading pairs will be delisted on April 2. The crypto exchange adds in a statement that “all trade orders will be automatically removed after 10.00 UTC on April 1” in each respective trading pair. Binance concludes by requesting users to withdraw all funds before the 10.00 UTC deadline. ZAR No Longer Meets the Standard In justifying the decision, Binance South Africa states that Read more …

A U.S. federal court has granted authorization to the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, to serve a John Doe summons to fintech firm Circle seeking all information on U.S. taxpayers who traded at least $20,000 worth of crypto assets on its platforms between 2016 and 2020. The summons will apply to Circle Internet Financial Inc. including all “predecessors, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates, including Poloniex LLC.” According to the Department of Justice’s announcement, Judge Richard Stearns concluded there is “reasonable basis Read more …

The founder of Bitcoin.com Roger Ver, and other high profile crypto figures including Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, have won a motion to dismiss an antitrust suit filed against them alleging market manipulation. The amended complaint was filed by crypto company United American Corp in March 2020 against Ver, Powell, Bitmain Technologies and its CEO Jihan Wu, along with Bitcoin Cash developers Shammah Chancellor and Jason Cox. The case has now been dismissed with prejudice due to a lack of evidence. Read more …

Ethereum gained bullish momentum and it cleared the $1,950 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH price tested $2,000 and it is likely to continue higher. Ethereum is extending gains and it recently tested the $2,000 resistance zone. The price is now well above the $1,950 support and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $1,945 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could correct lower, Read more …

Irish police are on high alert due to the rising number of cases related to a bitcoin-related scam targeting high-net-worth people in the country. The situation has become worrisome because suspicious high-value transactions have already been noticed by authorities. Authorities Already Searched One Property Tied to One of the Suspects According to The Irish Times, Gardaí (Ireland’s police) investigates what they consider a major crypto scam whose criminals could be residing in the country. A local bank already raised concerns Read more …

Crypto analytics provider Messari has compiled a report concluding that the fabled “Coinbase effect” — the popular belief that new token listings on Coinbase tend to outperform launches on other exchanges — is true. But the effect is far from consistent, and after controlling for outliers, it’s not as great as many assume. Messari analyzed the performance of 28 new Coinbase listings over five days against 22 Binance listings, 19 FTX listings, 19 Gemini listings, 14 OKEx listings, and 11 Read more …

Former US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton has stated that Bitcoin has not been classified as a security for a long time. But speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on March 31, Clayton warned that its status as a non-security still does not protect it from the imposition of new regulations which, he warned, could be coming soon. “Where digital assets land at the end of the day–will be driven in part by regulation both domestic and international, and Read more …

Bitcoin price is consolidating gains above the $58,000 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC is likely to surge above the $59,500 and $60,000 resistance levels in the near term. Bitcoin is showing a lot of bullish signs, but it is still below the $60,000 resistance zone. The price is trading nicely above the $58,000 support and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a crucial contracting triangle forming with resistance near $59,200 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD Read more …