The much-anticipated ‘Merge’ on the Ethereum network is another step closer to becoming a reality after the final public testnet Kiln launched to put it through its paces. On March 14, the Ethereum Foundation urged network stakeholders to run tests using Kiln “to ensure a smooth transition on existing public …
Read More »Coinjoin BTC mixing tool to block illicit transactions
CoinJoin, a popular Bitcoin (BTC) mixing tool, will block transactions associated or flagged as illegal. The announcement came from the official Wasabi Wallet Twitter account, which Coinjoin is a part of. The zkSNACKs coordinator will start refusing certain UTXOs from registering to coinjoins. pic.twitter.com/X3kBuQwieO — Wasabi Wallet (@wasabiwallet) March 13, …
Read More »Here’s how DAOs are making digital land more accessible to Metaverse denizens
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are individuals that collectively organize in social applications and blockchains to pursue common goals and interests. As the direction of the Metaverse keeps maturing, DAOs are rallying around the prospect of utilizing and investing in the Metaverse. Seeing that Goldman Sachs placed an $8 trillion valuation …
Read More »23-year-old Australian buys $314k property via planned crypto investments
A young resident from Queensland, Australia played the long game of accumulating Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) over several years to eventually overcome the soaring real estate prices during the 2020 bull run and own his dream home. The 23-year-old Loi Nguyen started his journey as an investor back in …
Read More »Goldman Sachs tip-toes into ETH, Mar. 4-10
Wall Street’s embrace of digital assets is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, they don’t even need to tell us about it as the proof is in the fine print. This week, a United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing revealed that multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs …
Read More »Crypto education can bring financial empowerment to Latin Americans
In October 2021, it was estimated that approximately 15% of the world’s supply of Bitcoin (BTC) was in circulation in Latin America. According to a recent report released by Crypto Literacy, however, 99% of Brazilian and Mexican respondents failed a basic assessment on crypto literacy. Crypto adoption is well underway …
Read More »Valkyrie Investments‘ Leah Wald on Bitcoin ETFs and the future of digital assets
Cointelegraph sat down with Leah Wald, CEO of digital asset investment firm Valkyrie Investments, to learn more about the importance of a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) and the future of digital assets. For context, Valkyrie Investments was launched in 2021 and is one of the only asset managers to …
Read More »Republican lawmakers introduce bill targeting China’s CBDC on sanctions, privacy
Nine Republican senators have backed legislation aimed at directing the policy of U.S. government agencies around concerns that China’s digital yuan may be used to circumvent sanctions and compromise users’ personal information. In a Wednesday announcement, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy and Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, backed by seven other Republican …
Read More »16 times oversubscription of its first public sale: Melos Studio enters Phase 2 expansion
According to the official news, Melos Studio conducted its first Melos token Public Sale at Tokensoft on March 1, 2022 at 2:00 pm UTC (10:00 pm BST). The token price was 0.05USD/Mlelos. The minimum subscription fee for each person was 500USD, and the cap was 1000USD, making the total fundraising …
Read More »Ethereum gas fees drop to lowest levels since August 2021
Gas fees for transactions on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain have dropped to the lowest levels since August. But they’re still not cheap. According to data sourced from Coinmetrics and shared by CryptoRank Platform, the seven-day moving average cost of an Ethereum transaction as of March 9 totaled $11.14, placing it …
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