Asian cryptocurrency exchange HashKey is set to start offering Bitcoin and Ether crypto trading services to retail customers in Hong Kong starting on August 28, according to a local media report. Investors will only be allowed to invest up to 30% of their net worth into cryptocurrencies when using the platform HashKey became the first…
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Peer-to-peer Bitcoin (P2P) marketplaces remain an important cog in allowing users to move money across borders, but their future depends on becoming permissionless and unstoppable according to Paxful’s Ray Youssef. Youssef, alongside Nicolas Gregory and Antoine Riard, is driving the development of CivKit, a P2P marketplace that will leverage the technology of Nostr and the…
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There are some passions that are larger than life, some so expansive that they cover the seven seas. For Rémi, a captain from Brussels, this is the case. Rémi discovered Bitcoin (BTC) in early 2021 and has been on a mission to combine this with his longtime love of sailing. Cointelegraph reporter Joe Hall met…
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Roman Storm, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash who was arrested on money-laundering and other charges on Aug. 23, was released on bail soon after he was detained by the United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ), his lawyer said. Storm’s lawyer Brian Klein took to X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 24 to…
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Spain became one of the first countries in the European Union to establish its own task force for regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) should guarantee, along with the national digital strategy, that the AI development in the country will be “inclusive, sustainable, and citizen-centered.” On Aug.…
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Bitcoin (BTC) is still worth $20,000 nearly six years after first reaching it — if adjusted for inflation. According to data from sources including U.S. Inflation Calculator, BTC price performance has de facto stayed static since 2017. BTC price “barely above” 2017 old all-time high While criss-crossing the $20,000 mark since tapping it as an…
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Global payment giant Mastercard is reportedly ending its cryptocurrency card partnership with Binance crypto exchange next month, according to a Bloomberg report. The report didn’t divulge the reason for the change, but implied it might be due to increased regulatory scrutiny of the beleaguered crypto exchange. Mastercard and Binance will end their four crypto card…
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Investment firms ARK Invest and 21Shares have teamed up to apply for two Ethereum futures exchange-traded funds after reports emerged last week that the United States securities regulator could soon begin approving applications. The two proposed Ethereum futures ETFs are “ARK 21Shares Active Ethereum Futures ETF” (ARKZ) and the “ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy…
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The upcoming $1.9 billion Bitcoin (BTC) monthly options expiry on Aug. 25 is key to defining whether the $26,000 support level will hold. One could pin the recent cryptocurrency market sell-off to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission decision to delay the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF), but there’s also the macroeconomic perspective. If the U.S.…
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ARK Invest and Glassnode have released white papers describing a proposed framework for analyzing Bitcoin on-chain metrics. The new method is called Cointime Economics and introduces a new measure – the coinblock – to represent the state of the Bitcoin (BTC) network. Cointime Economics can be used to represent Bitcoin’s economic state in place of…
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