The Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami set the stage for the announcement followed by a panel with athletes Serena Williams, Odell Beckham Jr. and Aaron Rodgers. At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami on Thursday, Cash App announced a new feature for U.S. customers that will allow them to automatically invest a portion of their...Continue Reading

The U.S. bank insurer has concerns over the ability of the institutions it supervises to assess crypto risks adequately, and it’s none too sure about its own abilities. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the United States government corporation that insures depositors at U.S. commercial and savings banks, issued a financial institution letter Thursday. The letter...Continue Reading

The U.S. dollar index could rally further in the coming weeks, which is typically bad news for Bitcoin. The U.S. dollar’s ability to continue its rally in Q2 could prove fatal for Bitcoin (BTC), which has demonstrated an inverse correlation with the dollar since January 2022. BTC/USD daily price chart featuring correlation with DXY. Source:...Continue Reading

This is the largest fund the HBAR foundation has launched to date, a statement of intent for their aspiration in the tokenized economy and metaverse space. The HBAR Foundation, a not-for-profit independent organization of distributed ledger firm Hedera Hashgraph, has announced the establishment of a $250 million dollar metaverse fund to drive consumer brand adoption of tokenized...Continue Reading

No official public announcement was made regarding the large sum donation. As told by Aid for Ukraine, a joint initiative created by the Ukrainian government, FTX, Everstake and Kuna to rally crypto donations for the country, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin made $5 million worth of ETH donations to Ukraine in early April. According to...Continue Reading

“Digital asset exchanges and other digital native intermediaries — they should be subject to appropriate forms of oversight,” said Janet Yellen. United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen listed stablecoins as one of the major policy concerns in the digital asset space for regulators, currently subject to “inconsistent and fragmented oversight.” Speaking to attendees at American...Continue Reading

Veteran trader Scott Melker breaks down his crypto portfolio and explains why layer-1 protocols should play a central role in everyone’s investment strategy. Scott Melker, veteran trader and pocaster, is convinced that major layer-1 protocols should be part of everyone’s investment portfolio. Instead of picking individual crypto projects, such as NFTs or blockchain games, Melker...Continue Reading

Little market celebration accompanies the start of the Bitcoin 2022 conference as macro fears seep into sentiment. Bitcoin (BTC) kept disappointing hodlers on April 7 as the Bitcoin 2022 conference got underway to a limp BTC price performance. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Fed prepares $95 billion monthly balance sheet shrink Data from...Continue Reading

Semiconductors are making headlines again this year but to what extent can the shortage be attributed to crypto miners? Over the last couple of years, the world has been grappling with the lack of semiconductors, which are the substances that conduct electricity between metals and isolates. The most famous semiconductor is silicon.  If correlating this...Continue Reading

Sports and crypto have gone hand in hand over the past couple of years as most sporting companies across various niches have onboarded crypto firms as their brand partners. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the popular mixed martial arts organization, will be paying out fan bonuses to its fighters in Bitcoin (BTC). The fan bonus will...Continue Reading