CEO of Twitter has announced through his twitter account that Square is considering manufacturing a bitcoin hardware wallet. They have specifically mentioned that its entire code will be made open source and it would be made in collaboration with the community.
There is a strong ongoing rumor about Huobi Global, a popular cryptocurrency exchange stopping its business operations. Folks at theblockbeats have specifically confirmed that Huobi Global is operating normally, just like before and users’ funds on the exchange are totally secure.
(more…)Few months back, Tesla added ability to purchase its vehicles as bitcoin. This was seen as a positive news for most of cryptocurrency world as its CEO, who is also world’s second richest person was basically promoting cryptocurrencies and blockchain to the world. Today, Tesla has announced that it has suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoin.
Many say that Hal Finneys was Satoshi Nakamoto because just after performing first bitcoin transaction with himself / Satoshi, he wrote an email predicting bitcoin price that if bitcoin becomes world currency, its price will touch 10 million dollars.
(more…)Bitcoin Gold and Phala network have joined their hands to bring BTG to Polkadot ecosystem. This makes Bitcoin Gold first asset to be listed on Polkadot ecosystem through Phala.
More and more companies have started adding cryptocurrencies to their company’s balance sheet or as treasury reserve asset. The latest one to add is Meitu which has just announced they have purchased 40 million worth of cryptocurrencies including 380 bitcoin and whopping 15000 ethereum.
(more…)Apple Pay has added support for Bitcoin payments using BitPay. While many are not a fan of Bitpay, Apple approving Bitcoin in any form is neat. This is because Apple used to ban and remove bitcoin wallets years ago, so this shift is newsworthy.
Skybridge Capital has filed an amendment with the SEC which will allow their $3.6 billion fund to start investing in Bitcoin. This amendment was filed on November 13th 2020.
There is a bitcoin wallet with whopping 69000 bitcoins, and equal amount of bitcoin cash, bitcoin SV and bitcoin gold. It is a dat file whose password has been lost so there was no way to access those bitcoins, until now. Someone was able to crack the password of this bitcoin wallet and spend 1 billion dollars that were inside it. Yes, the person behind this wallet is now a billionaire.
All cryptocurrency exchanges in Hong Kong will be required to register with securities regulator, despite not dealing in securities. This was previously optional.
