Crypto adoption is making substantial progress in Africa, with ownership of crypto, trade volume, and regulation all heading towards greater adoption. A recent report by Arcane Research and Luno found that Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya. And these are often among the top ten countries searching for the word “Bitcoin” by Google. The […]
CoinPayments Crypto Payment Processor Partnership means enhanced compatibility for Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify digital asset payments. “Shopify is a natural fit for us,” Jason Butcher, CEO of CoinPayments, told Cointelegraph via email, adding: “As they look to bring new features to their merchant base and CoinPayments works to drive cryptocurrency adoption globally, it makes sense […]
Mexican crypto-currency exchange Bitso and crowdfunding site Donadora joined forces to introduce a crypto-based donation program. The network would support the neediest families impacted by the COVID-19 crisis to collect funds to buy food. Each pantry delivered will be worth 150 Mexican pesos, according to a report published by El Heraldo de México on May […]
Tether’s USDT in market capitalization has just surpassed XRP. Becoming the third-biggest cryptocurrency in the moments leading to the bitcoin halving. Sitting with an $8.79 billion market value, it is now higher than XRP, whose market cap is approximately $8.6 billion. Currently, USDT is second only to Ether (ETH) as the largest altcoin in the […]
Despite the Bitcoin halving only four days away, CV Lab. An incubator and co-working room for blockchain companies, along with Cointelegraph, welcomed a group of eight Swiss Crypto Valley experts to a live panel discussion on May 7th. Experts in the Crypto Valley have concluded that this bitcoin block reward halving will be different from […]
What better way to celebrate World Password Day (May 7) than getting around weak passwords. And phishing attacks with a new approach from the crypto world? The lnurl-auth protocol allows users to sign in to various accounts by receiving a special message with a QR code. This allows them to use a public key linked […]
Bitmain, a Chinese mining hardware company, has admitted having issues with some of the Antminer S17 units. A Bitmain spokesperson told on May 6: “Antminer is paying close attention to the issues of some products from the 17 series, which has recently been mentioned by the media,” Also added: “During this process, we have begun […]
Many Chinese miners expect a huge influx of new buyers of Bitcoin (BTC) within the next six months. On May 4, 57 percent of Chinese miners expect a significant number of new Bitcoin buyers to enter the market in the foreseeable future, according to a survey by crypto services company RockX. RockX says 42 famous […]
A recent South Korean wallet provider Childly survey showed that 66 percent of respondents are in favor of taxing crypto-assets. The poll of more than 5,750 users of crypto worldwide showed that only one in five users of crypto are opposed to taxation of digital properties. Crypto ecosystem warms to taxation 48 percent of respondents […]
While not all altcoins rally in tandem yet, some of the top crypto assets have outperformed late in the day. Case in point: CoinMarketCap data from the time of writing this post, XRP — market capitalization’s third-largest cryptocurrency — is up 10 percent in the past 24 hours, outpacing the relatively mild 0.5 percent increase […]