The Kingdom of Morocco is the leader for Bitcoin trading across North Africa in 2021— despite its illegal status. 1290 Total views 28 Total shares Estimates from Triple A, a Singaporean cryptocurrency provider and aggregator, state that 0.9 million people, or roughly 2.4% of Morocco’s total population, currently own cryptocurrency. That puts the kingdom as […]
Bahrain’s central bank initially announced its JPM Coin trial in May 2021. 4030 Total views 119 Total shares Bahrain is the latest nation to explore blockchain technology by American investment bank JPMorgan, with the country’s central bank trialing JPMorgan’s proprietary digital currency. The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has successfully completed a digital payments test […]
According to Nayib Bukele, should the power consumption of the country’s planned Bitcoin City exceed the volcano’s capacity, geothermal energy can be sourced from other sites. 2746 Total views 90 Total shares El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has claimed officials will be able to use geothermal energy from one of the country’s inactive volcanoes to […]
As NFT trading activity remains high in volume, a new wave of NFT trading platforms have begun to crop up in 2022. 1498 Total views 23 Total shares LooksRare, a recently launched nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace, says it wants to index all NFT collections on the Ethereum blockchain. The site went live on Monday […]
Longs have been paying the price since early December, data shows, in a sign that accompanied a market reversal several times last year. 13096 Total views 78 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) has dealt significant pain to bulls in recent weeks, and now, fresh data shows just how much. In a tweet on Jan. 10, on-chain […]
The pilot version of China’s official digital yuan wallet app has become the most downloaded app in local mobile app stores. 1717 Total views 44 Total shares The official digital yuan wallet app that was released as a pilot version to be used in select cities has still managed to top app store charts in […]
As the Bitcoin mining industry matures, it will seek stable political environments and stable energy sources. 5326 Total views 35 Total shares Deputy for the Spanish Ciudadanos political party María Muñoz has proposed a bill to make Spain a Bitcoin mining hotspot following the internet shutdown that caused a mining outage in Kazakhstan. The lawyer […]
The creator of Dogecoin criticized Mozilla for supposedly making its decision based on feedback from the “ignorant, reactionary internet mob.” 1747 Total views 54 Total shares The Mozilla Foundation’s back-tracking on crypto has earned a reaction from the creator of the world’s first meme cryptocurrency. On Dec. 31, 2021, Mozilla, the developers of the Firefox […]
Exactly one year ago, on Jan. 9, 2021, Cointelegraph launched its subscription-based data intelligence service, Markets Pro. On that day, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at around $40,200, and today’s price of $41,800 marks a year-to-year increase of 4%. An automated testing strategy based on Markets Pro’s key indicator, the VORTECS™ Score, yielded a 20,573% return […]
Stablecoins have emerged as a foundational part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem over the past couple of years due to their ability to provide crypto traders with an offramp during times of volatility and their widespread integration with decentralized finance (DeFi). These are necessary for the health of the ecosystem as a whole. Currently, Tether (USDT) […]