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The latest round of layoffs at Microsoft, which announced it will cut 10,000 jobs this year, has hit key teams for its VR (virtual reality) and metaverse efforts, according to reports. The company will close two projects in these areas, Altspacevr an...
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Crypto adoption achieved new milestones in 2022, with the number of crypto owners reaching 425 million during the year, a new report by Crypto.com shows. Moreover, the report reveals that the number of bitcoin owners reached 219 million in December w...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Singapore’s senior minister and the chairman of the central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), says there should be just “one regulatory system” for both crypto and traditional finance. In addition, he stressed that re...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) minister of state for foreign trade says that cryptocurrency “will play a major role for UAE trade going forward.” He stressed: “The most important thing is that we ensure global governance when it com...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
With just a few days left before old Nigerian naira banknotes are removed from circulation, some banks have accused the Central Bank of Nigeria of failing to distribute enough new banknotes. Despite growing pressure for it to extend the period for re...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
There is a reason centralized exchanges have dominated despite being antithetical to cryptoβs core tenets.
The following opinion editorial was written by Bitcoin.com CEO Dennis Jarvis.
The gross mismanagement and outright fraud in 2022 by many opaqu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Get rewarded for reaching new levels in the loyalty program by playing games and earning loyalty points.
Casino loyalty programs have evolved through the changing paradigm of the casino industry. Digitalization has provided the arena of ch...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Monday, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published guidance on custodial structures to help protect customers’ money if a crypto firm goes bankrupt. New York’s top financial regulator stressed that businesses shoul...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Ethereum developers have begun finalizing the Shanghai upgrade “shadow fork,” according to software engineer Marius van der Wijden. The “shadow fork” will serve as a testing environment for the Shanghai upg...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. Fluid Finance submitted a proposal to integrate the DAI decentralized stablecoin directly into the traditional financial system. It would be the first time that a stablecoin could be purchased directly from a bank account.
Jessica Walk...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
As investors examine the next move of the Federal Reserve, analysts, economists and market participants are also closely monitoring inflation levels. In Dec. 2022, the annual inflation rate dropped to 6.5%, and many experts predict it will decrease f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Xrp moved to a multi-month high on Jan. 23, as market optimism grew regarding a lawsuit between Ripple and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Following comments last week from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, many have bought th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a research post that suggests using stealth addresses to enhance privacy-preserving transfers. Buterin detailed that stealth addresses can be implemented fairly quickly today on Ethereum and would signifi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin continued to hover around the $23,000 level on Jan. 23, as bullish sentiment remained high in markets. Over the weekend the world’s largest cryptocurrency rose to its strongest level since August, with bulls moving to consolidate these...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has given his opinion about the metaverse and the impact that the tech might have in the future. In a conversation with Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Nadella stated that the sense of presen...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. OpenOcean, a leading Web 3 middleware developer and DEX Aggregator across 19 chains, backed by top investors – Binance Labs, CMS, Altonomy, and more – has integrated with the recently released Verse DEX, Bitcoin.comȁ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The company developing China’s blockchain network wants to create a system for international settlements with stablecoins and state-issued digital currencies. The plan is to establish a platform facilitating the use of these two fiat-based digi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Philippine authorities say that they have rescued alleged victims of a “crypto trafficking ring” who were recruited to work in a call center in Cambodia and scam people out of their cryptocurrencies. The authorities are also investigating...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has seized bitcoin worth millions of dollars from overseas scammers targeting the elderly. The scammers posed as members of U.S. law enforcement agencies and tricked the victims into transferring mone...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have charged an alleged attacker who stole $116 million from crypto trading platform Mango Markets. The defendan...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
After recording $4.26 billion in total non-fungible token (NFT) sales, the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity’s monthly player count has dropped to levels not seen since November 2020, a period of 26 months. Despite the low player count, the proje...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Closing out the third week of January 2023, non-fungible token (NFT) assets saw a 16.39% increase in overall sales. 320,580 buyers participated in the NFT market action this past week, an increase of 43.48% compared to the week prior. $256.69 million...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
After FTX collapsed, the incident prompted many major crypto exchanges to publish proof-of-reserves and lists of known addresses so users can verify the solvency of the trading platforms. While the veracity of these proof-of-reserve lists and asset d...