Bitcoin and Ether lead $17.8B crypto inflows

Taro Aso, Japan’s finance minister, said blockchain could provide one possible solution to COVID contact tracing, emphasizing privacy. 2042 Total views 20 Total shares Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso suggested blockchain would be key in the world’s battle against the coronavirus pandemic as the technology can be used for contact tracing while ensuring privacy.Aso gave…

Ethereum (ETH) miners are currently voting to expand the block gas limit from 10,000,000 to 12,500,000 gas, according to a recent tweet from Bitfly, the parent company of Ethermine pool.What is gas and the gas limit?Gas is a unit that measures the amount of computational effort required to send a transaction or perform other actions…

Bitcoin (BTC) is attempting to bottom out and whales seem to be helping it do that. Coin Metrics data shows that whale addresses holding at least 1,000 Bitcoin have been accumulating in the past few days. The total supply of these addresses rose from 7.95 million Bitcoin on Jan. 24 to 8.096 million on Feb.…

Ahead of the launch, Binance said it would offer zero maker fees for all FDUSD trading pairs. 285 Total views 2 Total shares The recently introduced stablecoin, FDUSD, which was scheduled to be listed on Binance on July 26, 2023, at 08:00 (UTC), enabling trading for FDUSD/BUSD and FDUSD/USDT spot and margin trading pairs has…

Robinhood shares (HOOD) have fallen sharply on the back of the firm’s Q3 results which posted lower than expected crypto trading revenue.The popular retail trading firm published its Q3 report on Oct. 26, with crypto accounting for $51 million (19%) of the total $267 million worth of transaction-based revenue in the quarter. The release of…

According to Senators Elizabeth Warren and Angus King, the Iranian government has used funds from crypto mining to fund terrorist organizations.

The board includes the CEOs of Adobe, Alphabet, Anthropic, AMD, AWS, IBM, Microsoft and Nvidia, as well as other business, civil rights and academic leaders.

The exchange hinted at difficulties in regulatory clarity across the crypto industry in its decision to not bring its Lend product to the market. 488 Total views 10 Total shares U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced it will not be pursuing its Lend crypto lending program.In a Sept. 17 update to a blog announcing the…

The ASA wants crypto firms to make it clear that past crypto rallies do not guarantee the same scenarios in future. 380 Total views 4 Total shares The Advertising Standards Authority, or ASA, the United Kingdom’s independent advertising regulator, has taken down another batch of cryptocurrency-related ad campaigns promoting several major industry firms.On Dec. 15,…