Withdrawals resumed about 25 minutes after the stoppage was announced, before being disabled and then resumed again. Binance, the worldâs largest crypto exchange, temporarily disabled all crypto withdrawals for a time on Monday due to a large backlog. Withdrawals were resumed about 25 minutes after the stoppage was announced to customers on its Twitter account Monday. Twenty minutes after that...
Hundreds of Salvadorans say hackers opened Chivo Wallets with their ID numbers to claim the $30 bitcoin incentive dangled by Nayib Bukeleâs government. At first, Cynthia Gutierrez refused to download Chivo, the digital wallet developed by El Salvadorâs government for the use of bitcoin throughout the country and released on Sept. 7. She decided to open the app on Oct....
After a swoon in recent days, the largest cryptocurrency bounced back after the Central American country bought the dip. Bitcoin (BTC) is making a recovery, its price up 4% in the last 24 hours and trading at around $61,000. This follows El Salvadorâs government buying more bitcoin for its official account. 0 seconds of 1 minute, 31 secondsVolume 90% âToday...
A new force is behind shiba inuâs most recent price surge. Shiba inu, the self-proclaimed dogecoin killer, briefly surpassed DOGE in market value on Wednesday, according todata from CoinGecko. Both coins now have a market cap of over $31 billion and are toggling between 10th and 11th on CoinGeckoâsrankings page, as of press time. 0 seconds of 9 minutes, 57...
If one wants exposure to bitcoin, the purest play is buying bitcoin itself. Everything else comes with its own idiosyncrasies. Last weekâs launch of the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) was a smash hit by any measure. Yet it may be that at least part of its success could in part be the result of how the instrument is structured...
The retail giant is offering bitcoin through 200 of its Coinstar kiosks in a tie-up with crypto ATM firm Coinme. We made sure itâs real. Walmart, the worldâs largest company by revenue, is letting customers buy bitcoin at dozens of its U.S. stores. Shoppers can purchase the cryptocurrency at Coinstar machines inside the retailerâs cavernous big box stores. A CoinDesk...
According to ProShares, the fundâs sponsor, the new ETFâs assets shot to $570 million from $20 million on its first day of trading. The first-ever exchange-traded fund (ETF) backed by bitcoin futures hauled in some $570 million of assets on its first day of trading, a sign of just how hungry investors remain for bets on the cryptocurrency as prices...
It becomes the stablecoinâs sixth network as a key part of a $2.5 billion HBAR initiative. USDC, the dollar-backed stablecoin used to grease the wheels of cryptocurrency trading, has made its way into the Hedera Hashgraph ecosystem. Hashgraph, an alternative to blockchains that usesdirected acyclic graphsto time-sequence transactions without bundling them into blocks, sees the introduction of USDC opening the...
The key cryptocurrencyâs price shot past $59,000 late Thursday. Bitcoin rallied late Thursday following a Bloomberg report that a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) will clear the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The top cryptocurrency was up 3.5% in less than an hour, nearing $60,000 for the first time since May, according toCoinGecko. The SEC is reviewing around 40...
âCrypto is a brand new team at Stripe,â one job post says. Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. The team â described in LinkedIn posts and job listings â will be run byGuillaume Poncin, Stripeâs former head of engineering for banking and financial products. He is looking to hire...