Binance’s founder, known to crypto followers as CZ, is spending the summer in Santa Barbara’s Lompoc minimum security prison. As crypto markets climb, Forbes reveals the secretive source of his ballooning billions.
Roughly every four years Bitcoin halves. It's part of Bitcoin’s design, helping to reduce crypto introduction. This impacts Rune, Layer1s and Layer2s like Polygon.
There has been a rapid uptick in “sophisticated” money laundering teams using Tether’s USDT, sextortion and fake romance scams known as “pig butchering,” the UN said.
Bullish bitcoin and crypto price analysts have predicted the bitcoin market capitalization could surge into the trillions of dollars in just a matter of years...
On Jan 4, the Africa Stablecoin Consortium (ASC) announced that the Central Bank of Nigeria had greenlit their cNGN Naira stablecoin project under their sandbox.
Legislators, regulators, and the industy are yet to agree on a path forward. But the former SoFi CEO thinks that he has a way. He says that it makes too much sense not to combine these asset classes.
Billionaire Changpeng Zhao is the latest crypto kingpin to fall. Meanwhile crypto markets are rebounding. Here’s how to play bitcoin, ether, solana, bnb and blur.
One feared short seller has warned the countdown to Binance's eventual collapse has begun—with traders already yanking around $1 billion from the platform...
BNB, the native token of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange has fallen 7% amid rumors that the company is preparing to pay a $4.3 billion fine to settle criminal char...
The mythology surrounding the rise of the world’s largest crypto exchange is impressive. However, a Forbes investigation reveals that Binance’s 2017 initial coin offering was a flop, that it quietly took advantage of to amass a lucrative crypto warchest.
As Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong reveals the platform will integrate bitcoin's payment-focused lightning network, Mizuho analysts have warned an "unprecedented" decoupling could be about to cause crypto price chaos...
U.S. president Joe Biden and leaders of other G20 member nations have endorsed the radical, game-changing crypto regulation recommendations of the global Financial Stability Board (FSB)...
Payments giant Visa has said it will ramp up its use of Circle's USDC stablecoin on its network, opening the door to future bitcoin and crypto expansion...
The bitcoin and crypto market is on alert after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a secret, sealed motion in its case against Binance...
The strategy goes against prevailing wisdom in the cryptosphere following the 2022 market crash, which saw altcoins suffer steeper declines than bitcoin.
Ahead of the sharp crypto price crash, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official warned BlackRock's landmark spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) bid is doomed to fail...
Bernstein analysts have called stablecoins the "monster crypto killer-app" that could catapult the $125 billion market to almost $3 trillion in just five years...
A price "glitch" has caused Ripple's XRP to briefly surge to $50 on crypto exchange Gemini, an increase of around 8,000% that gave XRP a greater market capitalization than bitcoin at $2.6 trillion...
The chief executive of crypto exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has revealed the U.S. came dangerously close to crypto Armageddon when the SEC told it to halt trading on all cryptocurrencies except for bitcoin...
A widely-respected crypto developer has outlined how he sees the blockchain industry growing "very, very rapidly by trillions of dollars" as Wall Street giants converge on blockchain technology...
Arkham Intelligence has created a marketplace that allows people to buy and sell blockchain data. That’s bad news for the anonymity-loving world of cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin and crypto are braced for $30 trillion worth of capital hitting the market if any one of the recent flurry of U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) filings are approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
On Thursday July 13, US judge Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York ruled that Ripple Labs’ XRP token is a security when offer...
A leaked European Union draft document has shown the trading bloc wants to create a system of "global governance" to manage the "unprecedented opportunities" of virtual worlds...
Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has issued a 2025 crypto bull run price prediction—dismissing the "threat" to Binance from the likes of BlackRock and other Wall Street giants...
Larry Fink, the BlackRock chief executive who leads the world's largest asset manager that oversees some $9 trillion worth of assets around the world, has said bitcoin and crypto could "revolutionize finance"...
Analysts at the brokerage Bernstein have said they think the probability a U.S. spot bitcoin ETF will be approved is fairly high, calling the SEC's opposition to a spot bitcoin ETF hard to hold...
BlackRock—which looks after around $10 trillion on behalf of clients—has triggered a flood of U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications that combined boast $27 trillion in assets under management...
When the SEC targeted Binance and Coinbase in lawsuits, the fallout cost more than a dozen of cryptos about $5 billion in market value. Some believe stablecoins and DeFi could be next.
The chief executive of the stablecoin issuer Circle, Jeremy Allaire, who oversees the $28 billion USDC stablecoin, has said he sees "enormous demand" for digital assets in emerging markets, with China and Asia at the "center"...
A survey by Laser Digital, the digital assets subsidiary of major banking giant Nomura, has revealed 96% of professional investors managing almost $5 trillion are keen to invest in crypto...
The SEC released a barrage of supporting evidence in its complaint that the world’s largest crypto exchange ignored U.S. securities laws. It makes for interesting reading.
Crypto's latest crash comes as one of the top global credit rating agencies, Moody's, dropped its outlook on embattled bitcoin and crypto exchange Coinbase from stable to negative—signaling further declines to come...
The SEC's complaint against Binance could be setting a precedent for a similar lawsuit against Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange that listed shares in 2021...
The powerful financial regulator accused Binance and its billionaire chief Changpeng Zhao of misusing investor funds and of weaving an “expansive web of deception.”
Exchange insists its tokens are not securities, and claims it is the victim of a regulatory turf battle. Company silent on allegations of strategy to evade U.S. regulation.
Technology investor Balaji Srinivasan has explained the rationale behind his $1 million bitcoin price bet, telling a bitcoin and crypto conference that he's "burning a million to tell you they're printing trillions"...
After the U.S. dumped $215 million worth of seized bitcoin on the market last month, bitcoin and crypto traders are braced for another $1 billion bitcoin sale this year...
Bitcoin's huge 2023 price surge, adding around $200 billion to the combined crypto market, has triggered a wave of bullish price predictions—from $100,000 to a staggering $1 million bet...
The U.S. Federal Reserve is under pressure to ease back on its inflation-busting interest rate hike program—something that could push the bitcoin price and crypto market even higher...
The crisis at startup lender Silicon Valley Bank, where stablecoin issuer Circle held a part of its USDC cash reserves, is threatening to wipe out the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization...
Fears are swirling around whether Silvergate, the crypto bank once described by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried as a major game-changer, is teetering on the verge of collapse...
Crypto-related crime reached its highest-ever level in 2022, according to blockchain data platform, Chainalysis, cumulatively reaching $20.6 billion in illicit funds transferred. This marks a 15% growth from 2021, and a 145% increase from just two years ago.
The cofounder of bitcoin and crypto exchange Gemini, Cameron Winklevoss, has issued a "bull run" price prediction—warning the U.S. can either "embrace [crypto] or be left behind"...
A former Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley analyst who correctly called the 2020 bitcoin price boom has predicted bitcoin is poised to go "parabolic"...
Paxos’ pressured departure from U.S. BUSD business is spurring shifts. Some large investors appear to be moving money off Binance, while others are taking up positions in tether (USDT)
Binance coin dropped to its lowest value in more than one month today after markets responded to news that Paxos will stop issuing new units of Binance USD. What else drove this volatility? Analysts weigh in.
Fed chair Jerome Powell is set to give a speech tomorrow in which he may deliver a shock wake-up call to bitcoin, ethereum, crypto and stock markets...
Former chief executive of bitcoin and crypto exchange BitMex Arthur Hayes has warned a "disastrous global financial meltdown" could be about to crash the bitcoin price and crypto market...
Staking can be a valuable way to support network health and earn additional yield on crypto, but in the past users have been forced to sacrifice liquidity for this opportunity. A new crop of providers is looking to eliminate that tradeoff.
Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have rocketed higher this week, adding almost $200 billion to the combined crypto market—with some betting the rally is just getting started...
The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Chanpeng Zhao indicated last month, and its become considerably more severe since then, a Forbes analysis shows.
Like stock certificates sprinkled with pixie dust, inflated exchange tokens were at the core of FTX’s spectacular collapse. They are still in widespread use at major cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. Will they be crypto’s undoing?
After announcing a rescue acquisition of FTX, Binance has pulled out of the deal citing concerns about their business practices and ongoing investigations from US regulators.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has unsettled the crypto market with a Twitter campaign against rival FTX that appears to be a smokescreen for issues at the world’s largest digital-currency exchange.
The billionaire chief executives of the major crypto exchanges Binance and FTX, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao and Sam Bankman-Fried, have begun a public war of words after what CZ called "recent revelations" about the health of FTX's balance sheet—warning he's learned from the terra luna meltdown...
The Pyth network, a decentralized oracle that brings financial data across asset classes on-chain–is working to bring institutional grade price feeds to the world of crypto.
With two weeks left to the midterms, Biden’s administration could prop up the equity markets to create a positive economic environment to boost midterm polls.
Investor and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary has predicted a long-awaited piece of regulation could be poised to catapult bitcoin and crypto into the S&P 500—warning, "you either join the wave or get lost"...
The recent BNB hack resulted in the theft of $570 million worth of the crypto due to a vulnerability in the blockchain. We look at what happened with this recent crypto hack, and what this means for investors who are still bullish about crypto.
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have crashed this year in the face of the Federal Reserve's "brutal" interest rate hikes as it battles against soaring inflation...
A top U.S. regulator has said the bitcoin and crypto market could be headed for a price boom if a comprehensive regulatory framework is put in place...
Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies are still struggling despite a wave of bullish announcements and an eye-popping bitcoin price prediction...
CoinShares is introducing an automated trading product for retail crypto investors, aiming for a market niche not well served by existing robo advisors.
Bitcoin was this week rocked by news $10 trillion asset manager Fidelity is gearing up to offer bitcoin trading to its 34 million retail investor base...
Traders are braced for the European Central Bank (ECB) to follow the Fed in hiking interest rates on Thursday and the latest U.S. inflation data next week...
Solana's sol token declined recently, approaching $30. What's next for this cryptocurrency in the short-term and long-term? Several analysts offer their perspective.
Blockchain data is currently is enormous and siloed, creating an access efficiency problem. On-chain data providers are necessary to make data across multiple chains accessible.
Bitcoin might be the world’s strongest decentralized network, but is it the best candidate for hosting DeFi? Bear markets were made for building and all eyes are on The Merge. When the market rallies again, we’ll know whether DeFi and Bitcoin have a shared future or are destined to remain estranged.
Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies could be heading into a dicey September with a looming so-called "black swan" event, ethereum's major upgrade and another Federal Reserve interest rate hike piling pressure on a buckling crypto market...
Payments giant Mastercard has announced a partnership with world’s biggest crypto exchange Binance to launch bitcoin and crypto payments in-store and online—while Mastercard rival Visa has also seen a ramping up of its crypto payments cards...
There’s one telltale sign that hints at the culprit of this flash crypto sale. Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, XRP, solana, cardano, luna, shiba inu, and dogecoin crash.
Bitcoin dropped to a three-week low after dropping more than 7% in value over 24 hours, most of which was lost in the space of a few minutes Friday morning.
Another crypto lender is fending off forced liquidations, and more firms laid off hundreds of workers this week—marking the latest casualties of a bear market that continues to leave a path of destruction in the digital currency sector.
BlackRock has suddenly launched a spot bitcoin private trust, opening up the bitcoin and crypto market to the $10 trillion asset manager's U.S. institutional clients...
"A catalyst for a path to $250,000+ [bitcoin] is becoming clear,” says bilionaire fund manager Dan Tapiero. Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, XRP, solana, cardano, luna, shiba inu, and doegoing skyrocket.
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $10 trillion in assest under management, has partnered with major crypto exchange Coinbase to provide its institutional clients with access to bitcoin...
The much-awaited crypto redistribution may be near. Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, XRP, solana, cardano, luna, shiba inu, and dogecoin rebound
A Senate committee has introduced a bill that would give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) "exclusive" oversight over a newly-created asset class called digital commodities that includes bitcoin and ethereum...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has shaken up the crypto community with yet another bombshell. Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, XRP, solana, cardano, luna, shiba inu, and dogecoin rebound.
Vitalik Buterin has said he still doesn't think ethereum's long-awaited merge upgrade is fully "priced in"—predicting that "once the merge happens, morale is going to go way up"...
The market it is braced for the Fed to go "bigger and longer" in its battle to fight red-hot inflation as it accelerates the reduction of its $8.9 trillion balance sheet...
Ethereum cofounder and the project's spiritual leader Vitalik Buterin has revealed his plans for ethereum following the "merge" upgrade—with the "surge" next in a series of improvements designed to make the network more secure and decentralized...
A closely watched Bank of America survey of investors who oversee almost $800 billion in assets revealed the stock market could be close to "full capitulation"...
The chairman of Wall Street's top regulator has said the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will consider exempting crypto firms from some regulatory requirements in an attempt to tame the crypto "Wild West"...
Warren Buffett’s right-hand man Charlie Munger has warned people to "never buy" bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies—branding those in the crypto industry "either delusional or evil"...
The managing director and chairman of Rockefeller International, Ruchir Sharma, has warned the bitcoin price could see further declines over the next few months...
Research has shown there is $140 billion "ready to be deployed into bitcoin and altcoins" after the rapid growth of crypto’s four largest stablecoins by market cap...
If this regulation becomes the global standard, it will defeat the original promise of crypto. Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, XRP, solana, cardano, and dogecoin rebound.
Former stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose financial crimes through the 1990s inspired the movie The Wolf of Wall Street, has issued a bullish bitcoin price prediction...
Reports have emerged the Biden administration could pass crypto legislation governing so-called stablecoins such as the recently collapsed terraUSD and its support coin luna as soon as this year...
Wall Street giant Deutsche Bank has issued a bullish bitcoin price prediction—forecasting the $2 trillion crypto crash could be coming to an end and comparing bitcoin to the $72 billion-a-year diamond industry...
Rick Rieder of Blackrock thinks "bitcoin and crypto are durable assets", and in two to three years, crypto will be higher than it is today. Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, XRP, terra’s luna, solana, cardano, dogecoin turn mixed.
Arthur Hayes, the influential co-founder of the bitcoin and crypto exchange BitMEX, warned of "massive selling pressure" if the bitcoin price breaks below $20,000...
Some economists are predicting the U.S. Federal Reserve could accelerate its planned interest rate hikes—potentially causing more pain for bitcoin and crypto...
Cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Celsius are forcing users to hold their investments as they pause withdrawals while broader cryptocurrency markets drop 14% over the last day.
One closely-watched crypto analyst has predicted bitcoin will be "one of the best assets on the planet" once risk assets begin to recover and the Fed turns dovish...
Bitcoin-supporting senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) has said she's finally ready to unveil the details of a long-awaited crypto bill—a proposal she claims will "fully integrate digital assets into our financial system"...
Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have suffered a brutal crash over the last few months—with investors told to brace themselves for an economic "hurricane"...
JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon has warned investors need to brace themselves for an economic "hurricane"—predicting market volatility as the Fed implements its policy of "quantitative tightening"...
Scott Minerd, the chief investment officer at $252 billion asset manager Guggenheim, has revealed just how far he thinks bitcoin could fall before it hits an "ultimate bottom"...
Michael Saylor has predicted the bitcoin price will eventually go "into the millions"—calling regulation that's now expected as a result of the recent stablecoin terraUSD (UST) wipe out "good for the industry"...
As bitcoin and crypto traders come to terms with the huge price crash that's wiped $1 trillion from the combined crypto market since April, fears are mounting that more pain could be on the way if stock market contagion spreads...
Following the successful integration with Coinbase’s newly launched NFT marketplace, the San-Francisco-based startup plans to dabble further into the NFT tech and decentralized finance.
A proposed modification of how Ethereum miners are being compensated will result in a profit decrease as high as 60%. Miners started to organise online forums to oppose the change, with minor effects so far.
Binance Coin is the cryptocurrency of the Binance platform. It is a trading platform exclusively for cryptocurrencies. The name "Binance" is a combination of binary and finance.
Thus, the startup name shows that only cryptocurrencies can be traded against each other. It is not possible to trade crypto currencies against Fiat. The platform achieved an enormous success within a very short time and is focused on worldwide market with Malta headquarters. The cryptocurrency currently has a daily trading volume of 1.5 billion - 2 billion US dollars and is still increasing.
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