Latest News

Bitcoin Investing Made Simple!

Chinese police busts illegal crypto mining farm, seizes 190 miners

The Guangdong province’s Development and Reform Commission has reportedly busted an illegal crypto mining farm secretly operating in an electric vehicle charging station. The secret crypto mining farm was busted in the city of Guangzhou, where law enforcement agencies have constantly been making inspections around cities to enforce and eradicate any form of mining operations…
Read more

Fishing for female empowerment with crypto in West Africa

Mama Bitcoin is the pseudonym claimed by a young Senegalese Bitcoiner called Bineta. Her business, Bleu comme la mer, was the first retailer in Senegal (and possibly West Africa) to accept crypto as payment. She’s also the first generation of her family to read and write proficiently.  The name Mama Bitcoin takes inspiration from the…
Read more

Swiss crypto bank Sygnum secures in-principal approval in Singapore

Sygnum Singapore, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based cryptocurrency bank Sygnum, is expanding services after securing new regulatory approval from local authorities. The company announced Tuesday that Sygnum Singapore received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to offer three additional regulated activities under capital markets services (CMS) license. The CMS license was initially granted…
Read more

VanEck files for new ETF to track crypto and gold mining companies

VanEck, an investment firm with almost $82 billion in assets under management, has submitted an application to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the launch of a new exchange-traded fund that invests in gold mining and Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies. According to the SEC document filed on March 3, the fund will…
Read more

Bitcoin stuck under $40K, but BTC price hits another all-time high vs. Russian ruble

Bitcoin (BTC) recovered from one-week lows on March 8 after a lack of progress in Russia-Ukraine talks sent markets tumbling. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Commodities “trading like meme stocks” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD bouncing at $37,170 on Bitstamp after Monday’s Wall Street open. Overnight progress maintained support,…
Read more

HIVE Blockchain to expand mining operations with new Intel ASIC chips

Publicly traded crypto mining company HIVE Blockchain Technology has signed a deal to buy ASIC chips from semiconductor manufacturer Intel that will be used in their new custom mining devices. HIVE has arranged for the new devices to be made by a third-party custom design manufacturer that will integrate the Intel chips into new air-cooled…
Read more

Total exchange BTC inflows have been net negative since July ’21

Bitcoin inflows across all exchanges have been net negative since last July, but four major exchanges have been running contrary to this trend with nearly an equal amount of net positive inflows. There have been total net outflows of 46,000 BTC (worth around $1.8 billion at current prices) from all crypto exchanges since last July.…
Read more

Bitcoin price rejection at $39K and mounting regulatory concerns tank the market again

Volatility and choppy price action continued to dominate the cryptocurrency market on March 7 and news that United States President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order later this week that will outline the government’s strategy for cryptocurrencies was added to the list of factors weighing down crypto prices.  Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro…
Read more

FinCEN includes crypto in alert on Russia potentially evading sanctions

The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, a bureau of the Treasury Department, has warned financial institutions to consider crypto as a possible means Russia may attempt to use to evade sanctions related to the country’s military action in Ukraine. In a Monday alert, FinCEN reminded U.S.-based financial institutions “with visibility into cryptocurrency”…
Read more

Crypto funds register largest weekly inflows since December

Inflows into cryptocurrency investment funds rose sharply last week, offering cautious optimism that investors are broadening their exposure to digital assets despite geopolitical uncertainty and monetary tightening from central banks. Digital asset investment products registered $127 million worth of cumulative inflows for the week ending March 6, according to CoinShares data. A CoinShares representative told…
Read more