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“The auditors are being significantly more challenging now, because they’re getting beaten up by their regulators,” an individual familiar with Revolut's situation reportedly said. 1901 Total views 36 Total shares The United Kingdom’s Financial Reporting Council has reportedly found flaws in the audit of cryptocurrency-friendly payments app Revolut that included an “unacceptably high” risk of…

Bitcoin transactions are in rapid decline as the cryptocurrency market continues to shed value since its recent peak. 6129 Total views 5 Total shares The global crypto market lost $200 billion overnight leading into Tuesday morning, adding to $300 billion losses for the week. Momentum pushed the global market cap down since Bitcoin (BTC) hit…

Joe Weisenthal, the executive editor of news for Bloomberg Digital, said that blockchains are essentially inefficient and that “Bitcoin is for making transactions The Man is against.”The ManThe comments come from Bloomberg’s Markets newsletter, which Weisenthal reproduced in a tweet on Oct. 17. He elaborated that transactions would not be possible without individuals willing to…

Longevity Science Foundation accepts crypto donations and aims to use technology to advance healthy human longevity. 372 Total views 35 Total shares Scientists are continuously pursuing ways to lengthen the human lifespan, and blockchain might have been a missing part of the puzzle. The Longevity Science Foundation, a Swiss entity launched by a consortium of…

In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Crypto Valley Association President Daniel Haudenschild said that central bank digital currencies are “the next logical stage.”Haudenschild explained to Cointelegraph that he believes CBDCs are the next stage “in evolution for decentralized finance.” He also claimed that there are currently 34 CBDC projects. According to him, such digital currencies…

Thursday’s market meltdown left MakerDAO (MKR) with a $5 million hole that the project is now scrambling to fill. As this is just the latest in a series of hard blows to decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, some are wondering if the ecosystem can defend itself from collapse.Cointelegraph contacted a variety of industry experts and DeFi…

This could help raise cryptocurrency education, insulate consumers against scams and increase the potential for wealth generation in crypto. 195 Total views 1 Total shares A trio of researchers from the University of Cincinnati recently developed a crypto literacy scale (CLS) to help standardize and measure economic and financial knowledge as it relates to consumer…

American digital asset manager Grayscale announced that out of the firm’s $2.1 billion of assets under management, $1.97 billion resides in its bitcoin investment trust. The firm tweeted the figures on May 28.According to the published data, the bitcoin (BTC) trust is responsible for nearly 94% of the firm’s total assets under management. Meanwhile, the…