El Salvador to Issue $1 Billion Bitcoin Bond to Fund ‘Bitcoin City’
President Nayib Bukele, of El Salvador, announced yesterday he would issue a $1 billion “Bitcoin Bond” to build the first Bitcoin City in the world. The city would feature no…
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El Salvador to Build a Bitcoin City: Will Buy $500M More BTC
Just months after adopting BTC as legal tender, the small Central American country plans to create a Bitcoin City with the help of Blockstream and Bitfinex. Separately, the country said…
Two firms account for the majority of Tether received: Report
A new study by Protos claims that Tether flow is dominated by just two firms, Alameda Research and Cumberland.
BTC Futures Open Interest Continues to Rise Following Bitcoin ETF Listings Last Month
Bitcoin futures open interest continues to remain high after the launch of the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on October 22. While Binance commands $5.81 billion and leads the pack,…
MetaMask integrates with Bitfinex Pay amid growing demand for crypto payments
MetaMask has played a pivotal role in onboarding millions of new users to the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets.
As the Crypto Economy Nears $3 Trillion, Top 10 Crypto Exchanges Hold Over $206B, More Than 7%
The crypto economy has come awfully close to nearing the $3 trillion handle as far as the value of all 10,000+ crypto assets is concerned. Today, crypto market aggregation sites…
CFTC Fines Stablecoin Issuer Tether and Crypto Exchange Bitfinex $42.5 Million
On Friday, October 15, 2021, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had ordered the company Tether Holdings Limited and Ifinex Inc., the parent company of Bitfinex,…
CFTC slaps Tether and Bitfinex with a combined $42.5 million fine
The settlement triggered concerns that the CFTC's role in stablecoin regulation could be misunderstood by the public.
Tether and Bitfinex Ordered to Pay $42.5 Million Fine by the CFTC
The United States Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Tether and Bitfinex to pay fines worth $42.5 million. In a release from today, October 15th, Tether Holdings Limited,…
Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain Criticized Over Long Outage — Block Signing Issue Related to Upgrade
On Tuesday, cryptocurrency supporters on social media and forums discussed Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain product as block signing had been down for over 20 hours. While Blockstream had noted the sidechain…