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Hyderabad: A woman advocate lost Rs 55 lakh to fraudsters who lured her with high profits in cryptocurrency trading. The victim, a resident of Secunderabad had found nearly a month ago that a woman Ammie added her to a WhatsApp group where regular updates about crypto business were posted. For a few days, she followed […]
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San Francisco: Top cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) further nosedived to around $21,000 per coin on Tuesday, a level it saw some five years ago. It was hovering around Rs 20,000-Rs 21,000 per BTC as the global crypto market crashed owing to the weak macroeconomic environment and systemic risk from within the crypto space. Bitcoin has fallen […]
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San Francisco: Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday partnered with artist Shawn Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z, to launch The Bitcoin Academy — an educational initiative in New York. The initiative is a 12-week free educational course, both online and in person, for residents of the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn, where Jay-Z […]
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Hyderabad: An increasing number of millennials and Gen Z are viewing Bitcoin as a means of exchange rather than an asset class. According to a report by global peer-to-peer platform Paxful, users in Hyderabad grew by over 135 per cent in the last year alone. And between 2019 and 2020, user sign ups grew by […]
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New Delhi: Bitcoin on Sunday witnessed another round of free fall, slipping below $35,000 per coin, as the global crypto market went through a massive slump of over 4.5 per cent in the past 24 hours to $1.66 trillion. All cryptocurrencies were weighed down as central banks globally tried to control inflation by raising interest rates. […]
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Helena: For the past year a company that “mines” cryptocurrency had what seemed the ideal location for its thousands of power-thirsty computers working around the clock to verify bitcoin transactions: the grounds of a coal-fired power plant in rural Montana. But with the cryptocurrency industry under increasing pressure to rein in the environmental impact of […]
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The last year has seen an incredible boom in the blockchain gaming sector, a genre of games where players can spend their time and resources to collect rewards that can then be traded using cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum) channels. Axie Infinity, a game designed by Vietnamese developers Sky Mavis is one of the most popular blockchain […]
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Hyderabad: Crypto is the new black and could be here to stay. Even though the world of crypto is still volatile with no clarity on the legality of the digital asset, many youngsters are willing to take the risk, albeit with small amounts. For many, after the stock market, investing in cryptocurrency seems to be […]
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Hyderabad: A man from the city was cheated to the tune of Rs.25 lakh in the guise of bitcoin investments for high returns. The victim, who is a resident of Sanathnagar and a private employee, was approached by the suspects Mallikarjun and Manikanta, who promised high returns for investments for his investments in their company […]
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Bitcoin, which nosedived below $34,000 when the war began on Thursday, was flat on Saturday at nearly $39,000 per coin, compared with a 5 per cent gain in XRP digital asset and a 10 per cent rise in Terra's LUNA token, reports CoinDesk.
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Come Back Alive, a Ukrainian GO that raises crypto funds for the Ukrainian army, received more than $400,000 worth of digital tokens in the past day, according to data from blockchain and crypto analytics firm Elliptic.
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company’s supercharging station will accept cryptocurrency Dogecoin as payment. Santa Monica Supercharger will officially accept Dogecoin as payment, making it the first Supercharger in Tesla’s network to accept the crypto as a payment method. “Of course, you can pay in Doge (sic),” said Musk in […]
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New Delhi: Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum will never become a legal tender, Finance Secretary TV Somanathan told ANI adding only the digital rupee issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would be the legal tender. Speaking to ANI, Finance Secretary said, “Digital rupee will be backed by RBI which will never default. Money […]
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According to data acquired by financial news portal Finbold, between October and January, the number of Bitcoin addresses holding over $1 million has reduced by 28,186 or 24.26 per cent.
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San Francisco: Leading cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has finally admitted that 483 users on its platform lost almost $34 million in various digital coins owing to a compromise in two-factor (2FA) authentication. Overall, the unauthorised withdrawals had over $15 million worth of etherum, $19 million worth of Bitcoin and $66,200 in “other currencies”. The platform said […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based blockchain startup Kling Trading India and Cosmea Financial Holdings’ joint venture Torus Kling Blockchain IFSC on Thursday has signed an MoU with India INX to launch India’s first Bitcoin and Ethereum Futures ETFs and Metaverse US listed Large-cap Discount Certificates. This Bitcoin / Ethereum Futures / ETFs, a press release said, will be […]
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Hyderabad: BTCS, a US-based publicly traded company focused on blockchain infrastructure and technology, has three days ago announced the first-ever dividend payable in Bitcoin by a Nasdaq-listed company. The company refers to this as Bividend (dividend in Bitcoin). Following this, its stock on the Nasdaq has zoomed more than 44 per cent to end at […]
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New Delhi: With a view to empowering knowledge on crypto and blockchain ecosystem, CryptoWire, a global crypto super app which is a special business unit of TickerPlant, Monday announced the launch of India’s first index of Cryptocurrencies – IC15, which is a rule-based broad market index by market capitalisation. The IC15 tracks and measures the […]
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Hyderabad: Dogecoin saw a huge leap of 19.31% after Tesla boss Elon Musk took to twitter to announce that the company would accept the meme coin for purchase of merchandise. Musk’s tweet saying “Tesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,” helped the meme coin gain immensely. The Tesla CEO […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter handle was restored after getting “very briefly compromised,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a tweet on Sunday, after it shared a link promising a bitcoin giveaway. “The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account […]
