Cryptos

Baseball’s hottest player is getting in on the cryptocurrency craze — even if it isn’t his idea. A 22-year-old San Diego Padres fan has created his own bitcoin-style coin in honor of shortstop phenom Fernando Tatis, Jr. called, appropriately, the TatisCoin. Carlsbad native Chad Hamner, a business and economics college student in the San…

Representations of virtual currency are displayed in front of the Libra logo in this illustration picture, June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File PhotoDigital currency group Diem Association, formerly known as Facebook Inc (FB.O)'s Libra project, plans to launch a U.S. dollar stablecoin as it scales back its global ambitions to…

Like many providers in the space, international bitcoin mining services company Compass Mining is on a roll. With the success of BTC and rising mining revenues — now at an all-time high of $60 million per day — this rapidly-growing startup finds itself squarely in the middle of a bull run.Founded in October 2020, Compass has been able to…

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Tesla just contributed to Bitcoin open source software.The car maker disclosed a bug in the open-source Bitcoin payment processor and wallet BTCPay Server, and it also helped the project’s team patch the flaw.The electric vehicle and renewables company informed BTCPay’s team of the bug after reviewing the project’s GitHub last week. It affects…

Billionaire Rick Caruso's eponymous real estate company is jumping into the world of cryptocurrency, announcing Wednesday it will begin accepting bitcoin as rent payment at its residential and retail properties.The privately held firm said it also has invested a portion of its corporate treasury in bitcoin and entered into a partnership with…

The Japanese central bank has launched a proof of concept for its central bank digital currency, or CBDC, according to an official announcement on Monday.Following initial preparations to test the technical feasibility of core CBDC functions and features in early 2021, the Bank of Japan is beginning CBDC testing in its first phase today. During…

Bitcoin market manipulation still exists:The importance of on-chain analytics and blockchain data providers is rising in importance right alongside bitcoin’s price and overall adoption. However, with this increase of importance comes an increase of responsibility. Tens of thousands of traders now use popular on-chain data providers such as…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent gains may be short-lived and “the whole rally in crypto is getting very long in the tooth,” according to Boris Schlossberg, a leading foreign exchange expert.What Happened: “I think we’re very, very close to perhaps an intermediate-term top here. A little bit of a correction is certainly due at this point,” Boris…

As much as 8.2 terabytes of personal information data has allegedly leaked from users of India-based MobiKwik mobile payment’s wallet application and onto the dark web, according to a report from India Times. A white hacker who highlighted the breach called it “probably the largest KYC data leak in history,” per India Times. The leak apparently…