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Bitcoin price drops nearly 10% in 24 hours, dips below $60,000

Quick Take The price of bitcoin has declined nearly 10% in the last 24 hours. It fell below $59,000 but has since rebounded slightly. advertisement The price of bitcoin has declined nearly 10% in the last 24 hours, dipping significantly below $60,000 before bouncing back. The drop seems to be triggered by the infrastructure bill signed by U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday, Darius Sit, co-founder of crypto trading firm QCP Capital told The Block. The bill includes tax reporting provisions that require crypto exchanges to report information to both the

Meet the dETH Token, a HODLable Leveraged ETH

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Do Bitcoin and other cryptos have any added advantages over equities

Bitcoin has shot up in price at the start of the week following a major upgrade to its network. Even the rejection of a spot bitcoin ETF by the SEC appears to have done little to damage bitcoin’s price prospects. At press time, the token, post some correction was trading at the $65.8k mark. Nonetheless, what’s the projected price mark for the largest cryptocurrency. Gareth Soloway, the chief market strategist at stock technical guidance platform InTheMoneyStocks.com believes that the token still had some room to left to record a fresh

Tracking the movement of Bitcoin, Ethereum fund flows from 2020

Over the past couple of years, institutional involvement with major assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum has been a common affair. However, it has been a difficult task to identify all sources of investments. In late 2020, Grayscale’s Bitcoin accumulation was considered the most influential institutional interest. However, it slowed down in 2021. And yet, capital continued to flow from accredited traders. In this article, we will be highlighting every fund which holds Bitcoin and Ethereum and how their activity has created an impact over a longer time period. The long

Gaming Giant Ubisoft Mentions Blockchain in Recent Earnings Report

Ubisoft, one of the biggest gaming companies in the entertainment world, mentioned blockchain as one of the key points of focus for the future of the brand. The company said it is exploring blockchain as an innovative technology to be included in games in its latest earnings report. While blockchain’s play-to-earn trend has experienced a boom this year, the traditional gaming industry still has yet to embrace blockchain as part of a flagship product. Ubisoft to Explore Blockchain for Future Products Ubisoft, the gaming giant known for mega-successful franchises like

Coinbase Acquires AI Customer Support Startup Agara

Coinbase acquired customer service startup Agara, according to a blog post on Tuesday. The deal is worth somewhere between $40 million and $50 million, TechCrunch reported citing two people familiar with the matter. The deal is expected to close later this year, Coinbase said in its post. Agara’s main product is an artificial intelligence-powered voicebot used in for customer support. Coinbase said it will leverage Agara’s tech to “automate and enhance” its customer experience tools. The deal also adds deep learnings and AI expertise to Coinbase’s existing tech capacity, and

Bitcoin Below $60K for the First Time in 10 Days – Should You Buy the Dip?

Bitcoin is below $60,000 for the first time in over 10 days after what many crypto investors saw as an anticlimactic break of all-time highs. After spending 6 months below its previous all-time high just short of $65,000, Bitcoin made it all the way back and managed to break $66,000 before losing steam. At the time of writing, BTC is trading just above $59,000.  Aside from a few select altcoins, almost the entire crypto market followed Bitcoin’s lead today by making a downward move. As is often the case, excess

What is OliveX (BVI)?

DOSE is an ERC-20 token that serves as a reward for players of flagship fitness games of the OliveX gaming ecosystem. The metaverse will soon explode into proportions that no one can even imagine today. In fact, it will likely be even more revolutionary than social media and the internet itself. With the anticipated dominance of this new virtual universe, various companies are rushing to establish their footholds in this growing industry, and one of these firms is OliveX.  Table of Contents Background  OliveX (BVI) is a company that advocates digital

Secreteum: A decentralized encrypted messaging app

Messaging apps are ubiquitous – more than 3.6 billion people worldwide use them, with the average person sending up to 72 messages every 24 hours. Every day WhatsApp alone channels over 100 billion messages, while WeChat transmits 205 million video messages. With this popularity has come a darker side: that of hacked personal data, cybertheft, and government violations of privacy. The way messaging apps are designed, work, and are managed exposes them by default to many risks: Most messaging apps require the user to input sensitive personal data, including name,

Visa develops interoperability concept for central bank digital currency payments

Payments giant Visa has taken a step toward achieving its vision for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It has developed a concept that shows how various CBDCs can be interoperable with each other to make payments.The concept, called "Universal Payments Channel" (UPC), outlines how various blockchain networks can be interconnected to allow the transfer of CBDCs. It shows how Visa can help exchange various CBDCs built on different blockchains in the future. "This is a much longer-term future thinking concept around a way that Visa could potentially help become a

Sports NFTs Are Hot Property: How Blockchain Technology Gives Fans New Ways To Connect With Their Favourite Sport

It’s an exciting time to be a football fan. The sport is embracing new technology that is enabling fans to show their love for the beautiful game in totally new ways. But even as the digital collectible market expands, the crypto community can still offer fantastic physical prizes. Are NFTs the future of football fandom? The big finance firms seem to think so. SoftBank Vision Fund, LionTree, Bessemer Ventures, IVP, Hillhouse and Atomico were all lead investors in Sorare, a European fantasy football platform that offers digital collectibles in the