Bitcoin keeps up the gains with U.S. stocks with hours to go until a decision on rate hikes and comments from Fed Chair Powell. Bitcoin (BTC) set new one-month highs on the Dec. 14 Wall Street open on the day of key events for the United States Federal Reserve. BTC/USD 1-day candle chart (Bitstamp). Source:...Continue Reading

Kumite NFT founder Gareb Shamus chats with NFT Steez about how NFT projects can engage with their respective communities through storytelling. NFT Steez, a new weekly Cointelegraph podcast exploring nonfungible tokens and Web3 projects, spoke to Comic-Con legend Gareb Shamus about how he has used storytelling to build engagement and a “maker world” that grows and strengthens...Continue Reading

Users’ emails, account numbers and partial phone numbers were allegedly leaked. Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini appears to have suffered a data breach on or before Dec. 13. According to documents obtained by Cointelegraph, hackers gained access to 5,701,649 lines of information pertaining to customers’ account numbers, email addresses and partial phone numbers. In the case of...Continue Reading

Despite their popularity, DEXs have a number of drawbacks that may be preventing growth. A new approach, however, has offered a way forward. In May 2022, at the tail of the crypto bull market, economist Eswar Prasad wrote an op-ed for the Financial Times arguing that DeFi’s promise as a means of democratizing finance was...Continue Reading

The first episode of Hashing It Out features Cointelegraph’s Elisha Owusu Akyaw (GhCryptoGuy) and Michael Kimani, Fonbnk’s co-founder and head of growth in Africa. The African continent has been tipped as an important market for crypto adoption due to its young population, lousy economic management by governments and lack of efficient financial infrastructure to connect...Continue Reading

In Latin America, “crypto is functional, it has a real utility.” It can hedge inflation, provide access to dollars and internationalize wealth. With the crypto world still reeling from the FTX collapse, Brazil recently passed legislation that legalized cryptocurrency use for payments in the country. How to reconcile this with all those declarations in the...Continue Reading

Bitfarms has an initial period of 180 calendar days to have its shares trading above $1 for at least 10 days before June 12, 2023. The Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Bitfarms is facing compliance challenges over its listing on Nasdaq due to the ongoing cryptocurrency winter. Bitfarms received a warning notification from Nasdaq on Dec....Continue Reading

A new study by Uswitch revealed which countries are ready to embrace the metaverse by more technical standards, such as fixed broadband speeds and prices. The metaverse and digital reality experiences are barreling toward consumers, whether they are ready or not. However, there are certain places in the world that are more ready to embrace...Continue Reading

CFTC court filing outlines a murky relationship between FTX and Alameda Research, highlighting the latter’s unfair trading advantage and misappropriation of user funds. Court filings continue to shed light on the dubious relationship between FTX and Alameda Research, in which the hedge fund was afforded an “unfair” trading advantage as well as unprecedented access to...Continue Reading

Want more crypto content? Cointelegraph’s new podcast section features four separate shows exploring a variety of impactful topics. Bored on a long drive? Want something to listen to while doing chores? Cointelegraph has something that your ears might enjoy: Cointelegraph Podcasts, a new section of the website featuring crypto podcasts. The section will start out...Continue Reading