Russia is preparing to enact a ban on the organization of cryptocurrency exchanges in the country via the approval of a bill that regulates mining activities. According to statements made by Russian Duma Financial Market Chairman Anatoly Aksakov, digital financial assets like the digital ruble will be allowed to circulate. State Duma to Enact Ban […] Source
Russia reportedly plans to institute a wide-ranging crypto ban in September. Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, says the country plans to prohibit “organizing the circulation of cryptocurrencies,” according to the National News Service, a Russian media agency. “We are talking about a ban on transactions with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Digital financial assets issued in Russian jurisdiction, digital rubles, will be allowed. The need for a ban is due to the fact that today cryptocurrency is a quasi-currency that replaces the ruble in…
Bitcoin mining is becoming increasingly centralized, BitMEX analysts said. The report says mining has become dangerously centralized, with one organization holding the coins mined by nine major pools, controlling about 47% of the network’s hashrate. The document refers to a publication by a user under the nickname mononaut on X. According to the user, the unnamed custodian accumulated bitcoins from AntPool, F2Pool, Binance Pool, Braiins, BTC.com, SECPOOL, and Poolin. The same custodian controls the entry addresses of ULTIMUSPOOL and 1THash and also receives mining rewards from Luxor. Many participants in these pools provide hashrate…
An analyst has explained what path Bitcoin might need to follow to surge to a new all-time high (ATH) target of $92,190. Bitcoin Needs To Breach This Resistance Barrier To Rise To New ATH In a new thread on X, analyst Ali discussed whether the BTC price has hit the top. The one signal the analyst has pointed out that may point towards the top has been the massive scale of profit-taking that the market has seen recently. Ali is waiting for another confirmation before the top can be confirmed.…
Of this approximately $700 trillion, about $685 trillion is considered an “onshore” asset – that is, they are held by people and entities that are officially and accountably residents in the countries in which they operate or exist. Estimates by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) put all the offshore assets at around $12 trillion. That’s a lot of money, but in the context of global assets, it’s a drop in the ocean, less than 2% of the total. Right now, that 2% is relatively lightly, or not…
According to the Department of Justice, the answer is yes. The Tornado Cash developers didn’t just build an open-source piece of software; they developed an actual business facilitating transactions that the federal government deemed illegal, the DOJ said in both an indictment last year and a filing last Friday. Tornado Cash isn’t just a set of smart contracts released into the world; it’s an entire ecosystem of smart contracts, a front end, a user interface and experience, and so much more. In pursuing this argument, the DOJ is also raising…
CryptoX 20 tracks top digital assets and is investible on multiple platforms. The broader CMI comprises approximately 180 tokens and seven crypto sectors: currency, smart contract platforms, DeFi, culture & entertainment, computing, and digitization. Source CryptoX Portal
Coinbase has announced the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster and cheaper Bitcoin transactions. According to Coinbase’s blog, as of Tuesday, users can access this feature on mobile and desktop platforms and send Bitcoin via the traditional Bitcoin network or the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network, a layer 2 protocol established in 2018, facilitates transactions off the main Bitcoin blockchain, enhancing speed and reducing costs. Coinbase’s adoption of this technology was supported by Los Angeles-based Lightspark, which was founded in 2022 and specializes in enterprise-grade Lightning Network services.…
Bitcoin prices experienced a notable decline on Tuesday, dropping more than 2% against the U.S. dollar in the last 24 hours, following a 7.8% decrease over the previous week. Global trading volumes on spot crypto exchanges have remained subdued, and in the past day, derivatives exchanges saw $271 million in both short and long positions […] Original
Great question. I want to start by saying that it’s very important that it’s a great game, period, whether for Web2 or Web3. It’s easy to lose track of that. But to answer your question, one simple thing comes to mind. Think about working on a database in a game. Think about, for example, all the items I can collect for my character — my gear, my helmet, my weapon, all that stuff. You have a pretty complex database and it has to provide for all this attribution. If I…