Author: Donald Munn
European crypto-exchange Bitpanda is set to launch its new staking service, offering gains of up to 27% initially on 11 different cryptocurrencies. New staking service is now live on Bitpanda Bitpanda is joining the exchanges offering the staking service, launching Bitpanda Staking today. Here’s the Twitter announcement from a few hours ago: Are you ready for one click, automated staking, featuring weekly rewards from the very first week, without waiting through pesky warm-up periods? Bitpanda Staking now allows you to be as flexible as you want, without stringent lock-in periods. — Bitpanda (@bitpanda) May 10, 2022 “‘But Bitpanda, you always…
According to CoinGecko‘s data, in the last 24 hours, the crypto markets saw a trading volume of $133 billion for Tether (USDT). Tether sets new trading volume record USDT, the most capitalized stablecoin in the market, sets a new record in trading volume Compared to the total market capitalization of around $83 billion, this is 1.6 times higher. This is similar to the value on 2 November 2021, which was a few days before the prices of many cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, hit all-time highs. To use another important metric of comparison, it is enough to mention that in…
Yesterday was a black day for MicroStrategy, which risks a margin call due to the collapse in the price of Bitcoin. Bitcoin in the red, MicroStrategy close to a margin call Due to the collapse of Bitcoin, Microstrategy risks the margin call on the loan requested some time ago While Bitcoin’s price lost 12%, MicroStrategy’s share price marked -25%. The problem is not only the drop in the price of Bitcoin per se, to which MicroStrategy shares are now obviously correlated, but especially the risk of suffering a margin call. The fact is that a few days ago the president…
Changpeng Zao, the founder of Binance, met a delegation of the Five Star Movement (M5S). After Mark Zuckerberg, Changpeng Zhao also visited Italy Binance’s expansion into Europe The Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of the Five Star Movement, Manlio Di Stefano, announced the meeting with a delegation of the M5S with the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, who arrived in Italy yesterday. Using these words contained in a long Linkedin post, he said: “It was a great pleasure today to meet Changpeng Zhao, CEO and founder of Binance, the world’s largest platform by cryptocurrency exchange volume as well as a global…
Today the price of Bitcoin marked new lows, touching the lowest level in the last three months. New lows for the price of Bitcoin New lows for the price of Bitcoin since the beginning of 2022 BTC fell below $32,900, and then continued to hover around the $33,000 mark. To find a similar price we have to go back to 24 January, when it touched $32,900. This is therefore the lowest price level in all of 2022, for now. Since then the price had almost always been above $35,000, with peaks above $48,000 at the end of March. In reality,…
A research conducted by Qualtrics on behalf of Coinbase revealed that in Italy 33% of people are convinced that crypto will have a positive impact in society. One in four, on the other hand, have already bought some, especially after 2019 Italian crypto survey from Coinbase Italy turns out to be a pro-crypto country, according to the study conducted by Coinbase The survey was carried out in several EU countries on a sample of adults, including over 8,000 Britons and 1,200 Italians. For Italy, it also turns out that 25% of the sample has already invested in crypto. In addition,…
On Thursday, 5 May 2022, in Portugal, an apartment was purchased for the first time in Bitcoin. The property in question is located in Braga, in the north of the country, near Porto, and was sold for 3 BTC, or about $100k. Real estate sold entirely using Bitcoin in Portugal Braga, the city in Portugal where the first real estate transaction concluded in Bitcoin took place The most important point of this event lies in the direct purchase in BTC, skipping the usual step of converting the cryptocurrency into fiat. This is an important “first”: the first purchase and sale…
The CEO of Coinbase has warned its Russian users in recent days about the possibility of their accounts being blocked. CEO of Coinbase against users in Russia Coinbase’s Russian accounts may be blocked shortly Following the announcement in March a few days after the outbreak of the conflict, the CEO and founder of Coinbase, taking up the invitation of the Ukrainian Minister of Technological Innovation Mykhailo Fedorov, had announced that they would block 25,000 Russian users, now the company seems determined to expand the block to other Russian citizens. 8/ Some ordinary Russians are using crypto as a lifeline now…
Uniswap’s AMM boasts more liquidity than leading exchanges like Coinbase or Binance, while the UNI token is flying. The Uniswap DEX is more liquid than Coinbase and Binance UNI, the Uniswap governance token, exploited by the potential of the DEX In an ad-hoc analysis, it was found that the leading centralized platforms, namely Coinbase and Binance, are not leading the way in terms of liquidity, with Uniswap‘s DEX reigning supreme. According to this analysis, Uniswap leads this special ranking, which does not take into account the trades, where the balance of power remains unchanged. Adjusted for this, Uniswap trades $1.7…
PRESS RELEASE Milan, 10th May 2022, Global football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic is about to drop his second NFT collection. The Laws of Adrenaline will drop on MakersPlace, May 12, 2022, at 6 PM CET. Appointment not to be missed. The Zlatan Ibrahimovic NFT collection A triptych of artists and their works is set to illuminate the international marketplace specializing in NFT, which accepts both traditional payments (credit cards) and cryptocurrencies. Davide Petraroli with his superb digital painting “Project Zeus-Zlatan” condenses all the sensitivity and determination of the Swedish phenomenon into a refined compendium of virtual brushstrokes; the singer High Snob…