Even if you aren’t personally familiar with famed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, you have surely seen his work. The pop artist’s brightly colored signature characters have appeared on everything from limited edition Louis Vuitton bags to Supreme shirts to Vans skateboarding shoes. Having collaborated with celebrities like Drake, Kanye West and Billie Eilish, and
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Under India’s G20 presidency, active discussions around establishing a global framework for cryptocurrencies are underway, India’s minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman has said.  On Aug. 28, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for global collaboration on formulating crypto regulations among G20 (Group of 20) member states, which include 19 countries and the European Union. Modi
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A report released by London-based investment migration consultancy firm Henley & Partners suggests there were more than 40,000 crypto millionaires in the world holding Bitcoin.  According to the “Crypto Wealth Report” published on Sept. 5, Henley & Partners said there were roughly 88,200 millionaires worldwide with crypto holdings, with 40,500 holding Bitcoin (BTC). The report
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Ether (ETH) price surged by 31.3% from March 10 to March 18, coinciding with the U.S. Federal Reserve’s injection of $300 billion to address the insolvency of Silicon Valley Bank.. Since then, Ether’s price consistently maintained a daily closing price above $1,600.  However, investors are now casting doubt on Ether’s ability to sustain this support
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Ripple’s ongoing legal battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is known to have had some negative effects on the company. And now, Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) David Schwartz has given an insight into how much the lawsuit has affected the company. SEC’s Lawsuit Made Ripple Lose Stablecoin Deal Schwartz revealed during
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Sina Weibo, one of the most popular Chinese social media apps with over 258 million daily active users, has removed 80 influencer accounts promoting cryptocurrency activities citing official legislation. According to the Sept. 5 announcement, 80 crypto influencer accounts with over 8 million in total followers had been “proactively removed” by Weibo. The accounts were
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Global payments processor Visa has rolled out support for USD Coin (USDC) payments settled on the Solana blockchain as its stablecoin offering begins to expand. Visa revealed that it is carrying out live and completed pilots with issuers and acquirers, moving millions of USDC tokens between partners across the Etheruem and Solana blockchains to settle
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The Ethereum (ETH) market has been gripped by escalating bearish sentiment as the taker buy-sell ratio, a critical indicator of market dynamics, plunged to a yearly low. This downward trajectory has sparked concerns among investors and traders, highlighting the prevailing pessimism in the Ethereum futures market. ETH’s taker buy-sell ratio, as revealed by a recent
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Solana (SOL) investment products clocked $26 million worth of inflows since the start of 2023, outpacing all other altcoins including Ether (ETH), suggesting it’s the “most loved altcoin amongst investors” according to CoinShares. In a Sep. 4 Digital Asset Fund Flows weekly report, CoinShares’ head of research James Butterfill noted that trading volumes for crypto investment products for
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Harvard legal scholar and Yeshiva University law professor Christine Kim recently published a research paper detailing arguments for not only taxing the metaverse but treating it as “a laboratory for experimenting with cutting-edge policy.” In the paper, dubbed simply “Taxing the Metaverse,” Kim argues that the metaverse allows participants to create and build wealth entirely
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While lacking in performance, micro Bitcoin mining devices should be seen as a stand against the Bitcoin ecosystem’s purportedly biggest flaw, its inventors argue. Micro Bitcoin mining devices — often open-source and pocket-sized — have been serving a niche part of the market, offering buyers a fully assembled device or a do-it-yourself-kit to mine Bitcoin
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