In episode 11 of Hashing It Out, Cointelegraph’s Elisha Owusu Akyaw speaks to Steven McClurg, the chief investment officer of Valkyrie Investments, about the state of Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and the way forward. Regulators in the United States have mounted stiff opposition against listing Bitcoin spot ETFs even though Canadian and European regulators
Ether (ETH) stakers who have had their holdings locked up during the Ethereum Merge event might soon have access to “unstaking.“ Coinbase has announced in a tweet that unstaking requests on its platform may take the protocol weeks or months to process. According to the tweet, it expects a flood of staking withdrawal requests after
European lawmakers are moving forward with the introduction of a European Union-wide digital wallet by passing a plenary vote on moving the initiative to interinstitutional negotiations. The European Parliament on March 15 voted in favor of negotiating a mandate for talks with the EU member states on the revision of the new European Digital Identity
Stablecoin issuer Circle says it has cleared “substantially all” of the redemption and minting requests for its stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC). In a March 15 operational update, Circle said between the morning of March 13 to the close of banking business in the United States on March 15, it had redeemed $3.8 billion USDC and
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in South Africa has rejected former Monero lead maintainer Riccardo Spagni’s bid to have it declare his extradition from the United States to South Africa illegal. In its ruling, the Supreme Court of Appeal insisted that Spagni did not sufficiently argue for the voiding of the extradition process. Spagni
Bitcoin (BTC) is setting up a classic trading move, which could see it hit $100,000, one analyst says. In a tweet on March 14, Charles Edwards, founder and CEO of investment firm Capriole, called BTC price action in 2023 a “bump & run reversal.” Edwards on BTC price: The “bottom is back” Having passed $26,000
The United States is headed for a credit crunch and now is the right time to buy gold, silver and Bitcoin (BTC), says Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Michael Novogratz. “We are going to have a credit crunch in the U.S. and globally,” Novogratz said in an interview on CNBC. “You want to be long gold
Web3 URLs — enabled with the launch of ERC-4804 — have made it onto Ethereum, allowing internet users to access Ethereum applications and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) without worrying about centralized censorship. The new Ethereum standard, titled “Web3 URL to EVM Call Message Translation,” was first proposed on Feb. 14, 2022, and was co-authored by ETHStorage founder
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Treasury have been holding private meetings with executives from Coinbase, with discussions revolving around the future of crypto regulation in Australia. Responding to Cointelegraph’s request for comment, an RBA spokesperson confirmed recent reports that these private meetings had occurred, stating that Coinbase met with the RBA’s Payments Policy
Michael Burry, a hedge fund manager renowned for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, has drawn parallels between the current banking turmoil and the Panic of 1907. He noted that three weeks after J.P. Morgan made a stand, the panic was resolved and the markets bottomed. “A stand was made this past weekend,” the famous investor
Bitcoin (BTC) kept bears sweating near $25,000 on March 15 as encouraging macroeconomic data combined with concerns over banking crisis contagion. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView PPI offers “great signs” on Fed pivot Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD recovering from a 24-hour comedown to see highs of $25,273 on
On this episode of Decentralize with Cointelegraph, United States policy reporter Turner Wright and opinion editor Rudy Takala speak to listeners about their experiences at the ETHDenver conference from Feb. 24 to March 5. Wright arrived in time to interview industry experts, check out a “hacker house” and watch developers go through BUIDLWeek. Takala talks
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the more prominent anti-crypto voices in the United States Congress, has called on Jerome Powell to recuse himself amid an internal probe at the Federal Reserve. Speaking to reporters in Washington D.C. on March 15, Warren said Powell had led “the de-regulatory movement” at the Fed potentially touching upon
Lark Davis, a self-described “cheeky” and “sarcastic” personality, has been actively involved in the world of cryptocurrency since 2017. With his bold price forecasts, educational content and witty memes, the popular influencer has amassed an impressive social media following, boasting over 1 million followers on both Twitter and Instagram. Although, if Davis’ Twitter and Instagram
The United States equities markets tumbled on March 15 after Saudi National Bank, Swiss Bank Credit Suisse’s largest investor, said it will not be able to provide any more funding to Credit Suisse due to regulatory limitations. Investors are nervous because Credit Suisse, which has large U.S. and global operations, warned on March 14 that
The previous six months should have been extremely beneficial to Ether’s (ETH) price, especially following the project’s most significant upgrade ever in September 2022. However, the reality was the opposite: Between Sept. 15, 2022 and March 15, 2023, Ether underperformed by 10% against Bitcoin (BTC). ETH/BTC price ratio on Bitfinex, 2-day. Source: TradingView The ETH/BTC