Cryptocurrency News

The price of Bitcoin fell sharply after Binance, one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, experienced congestion on the Bitcoin network that temporarily led to withdrawals being halted.Bitcoin fell by about 4% to $27,787.05 in Monday’s trading. This ...

The EU Parliament has passed a groundbreaking cryptocurrency bill known as the Markets in Crypto Act (MiCA). The legislation will become law in 2024, putting the EU ahead of the US and UK. The legislation will primarily protect crypto traders by ...

Hong Kong is trying to rediscover its lost status as a financial hub by rolling out the red carpet to mainland-China crypto firms. After bankers and financial services experts left Hong Kong in droves in fear of tight COVID-19 curbs, ...

The price of Bitcoin rose on Tuesday, reaching the important psychological threshold of $30,000, as investors awaited new inflation data later in the week that could have a bearing on crypto prices.Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, jumped more ...

Cryptocurrency prices fell on Monday morning after the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) initiated court filings against Binance, the biggest crypto exchange in the world, for allegedly flouting trading rules. The price of Bitcoin softened 3% to $26,955, while ...

Silvergate Capital Corp., a traditional bank that positioned itself as a key settlement firm in the crypto world, announced last week it was discontinuing its crypto payments network. The firm, which combines fiat money services with digital-asset services, acts as ...

Scammers are taking advantage of the recent craze surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots by launching and selling fake crypto coins named after Microsoft’s chatbot ChatGPT. Blockchain analysis firm Peckshield reported that in the first seven weeks of 2023 alone, many dozens ...

In welcome news for crypto investors starved of positive stories, Tether Limited Inc. reported impressive final quarter earnings for 2022. The stablecoin recorded a $700 million net profit.The company had promised to rid itself of all commercial paper holdings (unsecured ...

Major crypto exchange Kraken has agreed to close its US cryptocurrency staking division and pay a $30 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which lodged enforcement action against the firm, saying it was selling unregistered securities.Staking is ...

Bitcoin edged above $23,000 after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, speaking at an economics forum, said that inflation was lowering.The world’s biggest cryptocurrency climbed 1% to $23,236.80 while Ethereum rose 1.3% to $1,667.63. Bitcoin had been struggling to break back ...

Crypto markets were wobbling as the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting started on Tuesday. Bitcoin suffered its biggest single-day percentage fall in more than two months, sliding 4.5% to trade at around $22,600. Investors are keenly watching central bank policy decisions ...

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, continued its recent climb as opportunistic investors continued to bet that the Federal Reserve will ease its pace of interest rate increases or stop them altogether.The price of the digital currency rose to $23,333.83 on ...

In a sign of increasing scrutiny of the crypto market, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week charged two prominent crypto firms, Genesis Global Capital and Gemini, for selling unregistered securities to investors through Gemini's Earn crypto asset ...

Major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced it will close its operations in Japan and deregister from the country's main financial regulator at the end of January 2023. The company is one of the world's biggest crypto exchanges, with trading volumes in ...

Nervous crypto investors withdrew as much as $3 billion from Binance on Tuesday, as reported by blockchain analytics firm Nansen.The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, confronted by investor jitters amid a stream of negative headlines about the industry, said it had ...