The New York Digital Investment Group, or NYDIG, has launched a benefit program allowing employees of participating companies to convert a portion of their paychecks into Bitcoin. In a Tuesday announcement, the NYDIG said several firms involved with sports, entertainment,…
On Monday, the first cross-chain governance proposal passed on decentralized finance, or DeFi, borrowing and lending platform Aave. According to DeFi Llama, the amount of total value locked on Aave is approximately $12 billion. As told by its developers, an executed…
ConsenSys announced Tuesday that it had acquired MyCrypto, the Ethereum wallet interface provider, adding it to the software company’s product suite. Its intent is to merge MyCrypto with the ConsenSys-owned MetaMask wallet, to “improve the security of all the products…
Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by trading volume, announced its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) reached a $1 billion valuation. The user protection insurance fund was set up in July 2018 to protect users’ interests. Binance committed a…
With roughly nine months until major federal and state elections, New York State gubernatorial candidate Jumaane Williams is making crypto mining an issue in his campaign, criticizing the lack of regulatory clarity. Speaking to climate activists and protestors at Seneca…
In 2020, newly launched NFTs projects experienced costly gas wars that are gas priority auctions where buyers battle to secure their spot on the next block, potentially losing ETH to failed transactions. In 2021 digital scarcity and utility drove the…
Hopium is back on the menu for solo Bitcoin (BTC) miners. An approximately $240,000 reward, or 6.25 BTC, was generated by yet another solo miner on Tuesday morning. This time, the odds were less than 20%, according to Con Kolivas,…
As people all over the globe have become increasingly aware of their privacy rights and how they are constantly being violated by various prominent social media platforms, the need for tangible, decentralized alternatives has continued to grow rapidly. For perspective,…
The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has revealed that it is researching the issuance of a digital currency. The central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be linked to the Jordanian dinar and have legal standing. Adel Al Sharkas, the governor…
Major Bitcoin (BTC) investor MicroStrategy has announced another major BTC purchase during a market dip to collect a total of 125,051 BTC as of Monday. According to an official form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed…
