Monday, October 16th, 2023 – After the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declined to request an appeals court reconsideration of the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF, the Bitcoin price has exploded – triggering a scramble for Bitcoin alternatives such as Bitcoin Minetrix ($BTCMTX).Allured by the prospect of this new tokenized Bitcoin…

The largest stablecoin issuer, Tether, has announced the freezing of 32 addresses associated with criminal funds related to incidents in Israel and Ukraine, amounting to $870,000.On October 16, Tether stated that they had been working with the Israeli crime control authority, NBCTF, to counter cryptocurrency-funded terrorism and warfare. Tether says…

Bitcoin pumped from under $28,000 to $30,000 within minutes earlier on Monday as unverified rumors that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had approved asset management giant BlackRock’s iShares spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) application began circulating across social media.In a now-deleted tweet, Cointelegraph’s Twitter account first reported…

Tokenization protocol BarnBridge’s BOND token surged in price over the weekend after the project announced its intention to comply with unspecified demands from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).According to BarnBridge’s legal counsel, the project has been under investigation since at least July this year, although very few details…

The XRP price has risen by 1.2% in the past 24 hours, climbing back to $0.494007 on a day when the wider cryptocurrency market has also recovered a little from last week’s damage.XRP remains down by 1% in a week and by 5.5% in the past fortnight, with the altcoin…

Dogecoin (DOGE) is fighting for life amid rock-bottom price action following a -3.5% drop last week – leaving some panicked bag-holders asking ‘is Dogecoin going to zero’?This comes despite efforts by Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus to trigger optimism in the DOGE community – with a play on Ferrari’s recent decision…

Recent reports indicate that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has chosen not to appeal the Grayscale decision, as Bloomberg’s ETF analyst, James Seyffart, weighed in on the matter, suggesting that spot Bitcoin ETF approvals are now highly likely, deeming it a “done deal” in his October 13 post.In…

Data from a new South Korean tax report has revealed details of hundreds of crypto whales with millions of USD worth of coins on overseas crypto exchanges.New tax rules that came into force this year require crypto holders to declare their holdings on foreign crypto platforms.Per the South Korean media…

Luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari has announced the acceptance of cryptocurrency payments for its vehicles in the United States, with plans to extend the offering to Europe in response to customer requests. The decision comes after electric carmaker Tesla briefly accepted Bitcoin as payment in 2021, only to halt the practice due to environmental concerns.However, in an interview…

Popular Ethereum wallet MetaMask was briefly removed from Apple’s App Store on Saturday before being restored. “FYI: We’re aware that MetaMask isn’t currently available for download on the App Store,” the team said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “This is and not related to anything malicious and our team is working…