With bitcoin interest rates rising, trading volumes have gone down, a Bloomberg report says. The aggregate 30-day moving average volume for bitcoin, taken into account across Coinbase, Bitfinex, Kraken and Bitstamp, the report says, was at its lowest levels since August 2021, per data from...
Bitcoin-based payments firm Strike last night announced deals that will bring crypto payments to NCR point-of-sale terminals, Shopify and prepaid payments provider Blackhawk Network. The announcement brings bitcoin, originally designed as a peer-to-peer payments tool, back to its roots as a potentially serious alternative in...
Payments network Strike announced its integration with Canadian eCommerce platform Shopify, which will allow global merchants to accept bitcoin payments, according to a Thursday (April 7) press release. The integration aims to make things easier for merchants by allowing them to accept the digital currency...
Two members of Congress introduced the Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act to lower potential risks to the U.S. that could arise from El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender. Rep. Norma J. Torres, D-Calif., chair of the Central America Caucus, and...
You can buy a bottle of wine, a movie ticket, a laptop, a cruise with bitcoin. Now, you can buy a small piece of a parking garage, a warehouse or a cold storage facility — properties that broadly fall into the supply chain logistics category...
The growth of new bitcoin ATMs that let people buy and sell cryptocurrencies slowed in the first two months of the year, with just 1,817 installed, compared with 2,435 in the same period last year. That’s despite news like bitcoin ATM operator LibertyX’s acquisition by...
It’s hard to argue that the case for bitcoin as a store of value that, like gold, provides a hedge against inflation has been badly battered in recent months. Having plummeted as much as 50% in the past three months, the price of bitcoin has...
Investors have committed a half-billion dollars to El Salvador’s forthcoming bitcoin bond, according to Blockstream Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow. Mow, who developed the novel bond, told industry news site BeInCrypto that “the bond had received more than $500 million in verbal commitments at the...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate Tuesday (Feb. 15) to diminish risks to the nation’s financial system by El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender. The Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act was introduced by Sen. James...
