The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (ASME), an industry advocacy group that represents wholesale market participants in Europe, called for the inclusion of the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector within the recently passed markets in crypto assets (MiCA) regulations. MiCA is considered the first potential comprehensive crypto legislation that is set to come into effect…
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In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Natalie Brunell, a podcast host, educator and media commentator in the Bitcoin space. Her podcast, Coin Stories, consistently ranks among the top 50 to 100 on Apple podcasts. She has over 300,000 Twitter followers, and is an award-winning TV journalist and former investigative reporter. Brunell explains how Bitcoin…
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The creation of nonfungible token inscriptions on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain has led to over $210 million of trading volume for Bitcoin Ordinals, according to the latest quarterly report from DappRadar. The data, which has been independently verified by Cointelegraph, shows that Bitcoin Ordinals’ booming popularity led to a sharp increase in trading volume through the…
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The chief financial authority of Canada, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), has confirmed its trust in the regulated futures market for crypto, which “promotes greater price discovery”. Apart from the United States, the Canadian market hosts a number of crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs). On July 6, the CSA issued guidance to help fund managers comply…
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Bitcoin (BTC) teased more rangebound moves on July 7 as traders recovered from a day of volatility. BTC/USD 1-day chart. Source: TradingView BTC price gets a bid after volatile 24 hours Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price action hugging $30,000 overnight. Bitcoin bulls had hoped that new yearly highs the day…
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BarnBridge DAO members have been told to pause “all work” related to the project after a reported probe by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a July 6 post to the platform’s Discord channel, Douglas Park, a lawyer for the decentralized autonomous organization revealed the news to members. “I am letting you…
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Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network development firm Lightning Labs unveiled a new set of tools for artificial intelligence to send and receive BTC on the network’s layer-2 solution. On July 6, Lightning Labs announced the toolkit which helps enable AI applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to interact with the Bitcoin network to send, receive and hold…
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The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) reportedly searched the home of Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell in March as part of an investigation into claims he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit arts group. It is claimed that Powell interfered with computer accounts by blocking access to emails and other messages from contributors of Verge…
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A recent report released by the United Kingdom Law Commission could weaken a central argument brought by Craig Wright in his controversial lawsuit against 12 Bitcoin core developers, argues the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund (BLDF). In a 300-page report on digital assets published in late June, the UK Law Commission — an independent body that reviews and…
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Bitcoin mining companies outperformed BTC price by a huge margin amid the recent bullish price action in the top cryptocurrency. The average year-to-date gains in 2023 across the stocks of top nine public Bitcoin mining firms by market capitalization stood at 257.14%. The figure is almost three times higher than BTC’s gain in the same…
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