Bitcoin inched closer to its $61,711 all-time high price over the weekend amidst strong adoption and favorable sentiment for the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Booming Bitcoin and uptrending charts Several companies have dipped into the asset last year, with names like business analytics firm MicroStrategy and electric maker Tesla picking up billions of […]

Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan says India must enable cryptocurrency payments and related services for its citizens on several government-backed applications, as per a blog post over the weekend. He proposed adding cryptocurrencies to ‘IndiaStack,’ a set of national APIs for payments, identity, KYC, e-signature, and document verification that is used by government applications to […]

MicroStrategy board directors will now be paid in Bitcoin, CEO Michael Saylor said in a tweet today. “The Board of Directors of  MicroStrategy is now paid in Bitcoin,” the tweet read. The board of directors is a panel of high-profile individuals who are elected to represent and protect shareholder interests and managing corporate oversight. The […]

Ethereum-based decentralized poker platform Virtue Poker has completed a strategic investment round of $5 million, as per a report on tech publication VentureBeat today. The project was one of the first protocols to have received backing from the Ethereum incubator ConsenSys, with founder Joseph Lubin foreseeing blockchain technology and smart contracts to play a big […]

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Decentralized Finance is crypto’s big thing at the moment. Over $44.7 billion is locked up in different DeFi protocols. The growth is largely fueled by a multitude of non-custodial financial products, built around the idea of decentralization. These products offer rewards to encourage more users to try them. But, first, users must have DeFi wallets […]

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Amidst the ongoing boom, as crypto-based collectibles and artwork trade for thousands of dollars, NFT airdrops are garnering immense attention. By selling digital art as NFTs, artists are getting due recognition, as well as remuneration, for their creations.  Beeple, for instance, caused ripples in the NFT scene by selling his artwork for a whopping $69 […]

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