50% of gig workers, otherwise known as freelancers, are open to earning a portion of their pay in bitcoin (BTC-USD), Ethereum (ETH-USD) and other cryptocurrencies, even as the emerging space undergoes a broad cyclical downturn, according to a survey released by digital asset marketplace Bakkt (BKKT). Meanwhile, 38% of respondents said they would opt to […]
Cryptocurrencies hijack most blockchain-related headlines, but their underlying technology’s adoption has been growing rapidly. A blockchain can be seen as a distributed database whose information is stored across every node running the network. Because the database is distributed among those running the network, it guarantees data stored within it is accurate and securely stored. As […]
The American Express executive said that their firm is bullish on crypto and is actively working to incorporate more crypto-related services in the future.Gonzalo Pérez del Arco, the director of government affairs in South Europe for card payment giant American Express, believes that making payments with crypto is not cost-effective at present. Pérez’s comments came […]
Binance.US has decided to eliminate any fees on spot trading of several popular crypto assets. The US branch of the major exchange decided that it will no longer charge any fees for the spot trade of BTC to US dollars and three major stable coins: Tether, USDC and Binance USD. In response, the shares of […]
Whether you’re just beginning to invest in digital assets, or you’ve spent the last decade building up a bitcoin (BTC) stash, the need to assess the security of your holdings is ever present. The surest way to protect your digital assets is to personally store your private keys on something that can’t easily be hacked […]
Cryptocurrencies have come a long way in the recent decade, evolving from a marginalized payment method for questionable transactions to publicly traded instruments on the largest global exchanges. Nonetheless, these drastic changes remain insufficient for fulfilling the “currency” function of the crypto. Specifically, cryptocurrencies are far from competing with fiat currencies for becoming the medium […]
Executives at nonfungible token service provider Finch are planning to open an office in Miami, while many employees of blockchain firm NEAR have gathered in Lisbon. Many Ukraine-based businesses have had to shutter or suspend operations following the outbreak of the conflict with Russia on Feb. 24, but some in the cryptocurrency space have been […]
Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FTS) has joined the debate around crypto regulation in Russia with an unexpectedly blunt proposition — to let Russian companies use digital currencies as a payment method when transacting internationally. On April 20, local newspaper Izvestia reported that the FTS left its official feedback on the draft of the crypto bill […]