Crypto News
Crypto stories without the hype
My favourites from the cryptouniverse in the past month
Advice
↑ = positive, encouraging more acceptance/watch out for FOMO, ↓= negative/watch out for FUD
How to invest in cryptocurrency, from getting a digital wallet to assessing which token you want — inews — 30 April 2022 (LINK)
How to invest in ecofriendly cryptos — cnbctv18 — 30 April 2022 (LINK)
The basics of decentralized finance — venturebeat — 30 April 2022 (LINK)
3commas: How to make your crypto work — 3commas — 28 April 2022 (LINK)
Do Trademarks, Copyrights, and Patents Still Hold While in the Metaverse? — cryptoknowmics — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
A Complete Guide for Newcomers Regarding Bitcoin Cryptocurrency — cryptopolitan — 26 April 2022 (LINK)
Top 7 Crypto Crowdfunding Platforms —cryptoknowmics —21 April 2022 (LINK)
The Top 5 Crypto Adoption Influencers of 2022 — cryptoknowmics — 20 April 2022 (LINK)
Copyright Theft Is A Problem For NFTs — cryptoknowmics — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
Bitcoin Price Analysis: These are the Levels to Watch if BTC Breaks Below $40K — cryptopotato — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
BitMEX Co-Founder Expects 'crypto carnage' in Q2 2022 — cryptoglobe — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
How David Chaum Went From Inventing Digital Cash to Pioneering Digital Privacy — decrypt — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
How Crypto Is Changing Philanthropy — coindesk — 5 April 2022 (LINK)
Is Bitcoin a hedge against inflation? Statistics reveal Bitcoin has worked wonderfully well against inflation, much better than assets such as gold, real estate and stocks. — cointelegraph — 3 April 2022 (LINK)
How To Hide Your Money Under A Virtual Mattress And Earn A Return In The Process — cointelegraph — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
What the media is missing about decentralized autonomous organizations — cointelegraph — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
GateChain —Everything You Need To Know — cryptopolitan — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
Global
Who Received The 5 BTC In Grants From The Human Rights Foundation — bitcoinist — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
GoCrypto Celebrates Ljubljana as Most Crypto-Friendly City in Europe: more than 137 businesses and 584 different locations accept payments, plus 1333 crypto-friendly bars and restaurants, shops, and sports venues — bitcoin — 24 April 2022 (LINK)
US investors realized 6X more crypto gains in 2021 than next country, U.K. —cointelegraph —21 April 2022 (LINK)
Flared-Gas Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Energy Raises $350M —cryptoknowmics —21 April 2022 (LINK)
Blockchain Gaming Skyrockets 2,000% in One Year, Axie Infinity in Downtrend — cryptonews — 20 April 2022 (LINK)
Bitcoin Whale Transactions Spike As $1,046,164,730 in BTC Leaves Crypto Exchanges in Just 24 Hours: "Large increases [in transactions] are what we are looking out for to foreshadow a price bounce after April's retrace" —dailyhodl — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
European Commission receives more than 10,000 public comments amid digital euro consultation — theblockcrypto — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
Bitcoin Price Plummets Below $40,000 As Crypto Market Tallies $440 Million In Liquidations — newsbtc — 12 April 2022 (LINK)
The 4th Edition of Blockchain Economy Summit Will Be Held in Istanbul on 27-28 July — cryptonewsz — 12 April 2022 (LINK)
Crypto exchanges see staggering 360 million rise in visitors — cryptopolitan — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
E.U. Makes Sudden Move Against Crypto 'Threat' After The Price Of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Solana And Luna Make Huge Gains — forbes — 8 April 2022 (LINK)
Mozilla Foundation Brings Back Crypto Donations, but Leaves out Bitcoin ($BTC) and Other Cryptos — cryptoglobe — 8 April 2022 (LINK)
Payments Giant Cash App Unveils New Feature That Allows Users To Get Paid in Bitcoin (BTC) — dailyhodl — 8 April 2022 (LINK)
Forbes Publishes 2022 Crypto Billionaires List (19) — cryptocoin — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
Bitcoin Pioneer Ross Ulbricht Auctioning Original Artwork, NFT Created In Prison — bitcoinmagazine — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
Litecoin Foundation Forms Digital Currency Research Laboratory — cryptoknowmics — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
UN agency accepts first stablecoin donations worth $2.5M to help Ukrainian refugees — cointelegraph — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
As More Russians Support Massacre in Ukraine, Here's How Some Big Crypto Companies Respond — cointelegraph — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
19 Millionth Bitcoin Mined, Only 2 Million Remain — cryptoknowmics — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
Crypto industry fires back after EU vote to block 'unhosted'wallets — cointelegraph — 1 April 2022 (LINK)
IMF Warns Russia Sanctions Threaten to Undermine US Dollar Dominance — news.bitcoin.com — 1 April 2022 (LINK)
Bank of Japan official calls for G7 nations to adopt common crypto regulations to avert potential to skirt sanctions — cointelegraph — 1 April 2022 (LINK)
Crime?
One of the most powerful DDoSes ever targets cryptocurrency platform — arstechnica — 30 April 2022 (LINK)
Cryptocurrency hackers steal $77 million in DeFi attack — cryptopolitan — 30 April 2022 (LINK)
Etherium sidechain Gnosis Chain makes key upgrade to prevent potential security attacks after last month's $11m theft — thecoinrise — 20 April 2022 (LINK)
Kraken Shuts Down Headquarters Due To San Francisco Crime Spike — coinquora — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Punjab Congress Twitter Account Hacked as Hundreds of NFT-Linked Tweets Go Live — blockworks — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Cybersecurity Specialist Robs $576,000 Worth of Crypto From Florida Client's Wallet — thenewscrypto — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Axie Infinity creator raises $150M led by Binance to reimburse stolen funds — cointelegraph — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
Ecuadorian Police Seize Assets of Fortunario Due to Alleged Illegal Money Collection Operations — bitcoin — 5 April 2022 (LINK)
Trezor investigates potential data breach as users cite phishing attacks — cointelegraph — 3 April 2022 (LINK)
Prosecutor Seeks Thousands of Years of Prison for Missing CEO of Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex — news.bitcoin.com — 3 April 2022 (LINK)
Coins
Why Fantom's Cryptocurrency Is Crashing Today: down roughly 79% from the high it hit last October — fool — 30 April 2022 (LINK)
Edward Snowden reveals he was one of six who helped launch Zcash — cointelegraph — 28 April 2022 (LINK)
Conquering Terrain: Terra's Stablecoin UST Is Now Crypto's Third Biggest — cryptopolitan — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
Algorand Commits $15M Over 5 Years to Environmental Nonprofit Climate Ride — dailycoin — 18 April 2022 (LINK)
MicroStrategy Will Buy More Bitcoin: Michael Saylor — cryptopotato — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
Play-to-earn Axie Infinity sees 'no signs of buyers' as AXS price tumbles 30% in two weeks — cointelegraph — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Ark Invest drops PayPal for CashApp — cryptopolitan — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Grayscale Adjusts Cryptoassets: adds AVAX, DOT and ATOM, sells off SUSHI and SNX — blockworks — 6 April 2022 (LINK)
FTX Takes Stake in Stock Exchange IEX to Strengthen Crypto Markets — coindesk — 5 April 2022 (LINK)
MorningStar: We've Downgraded ARK, Here's Why — morningstar — 4 April 2022 (LINK)
BitMex Founder Predicts Ethereum (ETH) Price To Break $10k This Year — coingape — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
The world has synchronized on Russian crypto sanctions — cointelegraph — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
National
Crypto Bahamas Kicks Off As Country Solidifies Plans To Become 'Leading Digital Asset Hub' Amidst Market Uncertainty — forbes — 28 April 2022 (LINK)
Why Crypto Companies Are Choosing the Bahamas to Set Up Shop — blockworks — 26 April 2022 (LINK)
Brazil Is Set to Introduce First Law on Bitcoin, Other Cryptos, the first S. American country to adopt crypto laws — coinquora — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Cuba's Central Bank Legalizes Cryptocurrency Related Services — dailycoin — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Central African Republic officially adopts Bitcoin as legal tender — finbold — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Gibraltar rolls out new virtual asset regulation to combat market abuse — cointelegraph — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Here is why Germany is ranked the most crypto-friendly country — cointelegraph — 24 April 2022 (LINK)
Russia Is Losing a War Against Hackers Stealing Huge Amounts of Data — coindesk — 22 April 2022 (LINK)
PM says Government aiming to make The Bahamas leading digital assets hub — ewnews — 21 April 2022 (LINK)
Bahamas to Allow Citizens to Pay Taxes With Digital Assets — coindesk — 21 April 2022 (LINK)
German Bank Commerzbank Applies for Crypto Custody License —cryptoknowmics —21 April 2022 (LINK)
UAE-Based Grocery Service Now Accepts Cryptocurrencies: USDT, USDC — coingape — 20 April 2022 (LINK)
Spain: Real estate investing soars 400% in 2022 fueled by crypto and stocks payments — finbold — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
CoinDCX Raises $135 Mln to $3bn Despite India's Crypto Limbo — coingape — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
Ireland to ban crypto donations to political parties citing foreign influence during elections — cryptopolitan — 18 April 2022 (LINK)
Venezuelans will be Able to Pay for Taxi Services with Cryptocurrencies — dailycoin — 17 April 2022 (LINK)
Binance Creates Jobs for the Youth in El Salvador To Help Tackle Gang Issues — ethereumworldnews — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
No, Madeira is not making bitcoin legal tender — theblockcrypto — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
Binance chooses Turkey to launch its first customer service center — thecoinrise — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
Indian crypto exchanges' volume plunges as 30% tax goes into effect — cointelegraph — 12 April 2022 (LINK)
Study Finds third of Nigerian Adults Hold or Have Traded Crypto in Last 6 Months — bitcoin — 12 April 2022 (LINK)
U.S. FDIC Asks Thousands of Banks to Disclose Crypto Plans — bitcoin — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
ChickenFast Builds New Crypto Mining Facilities in the US (Texas) — thenewscrypto — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Binance Gains In Principle Approval in Abu Dhabi — decrypt — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Germany Shuts Down Hydra Market, Seizes Servers and Bitcoin — bitcoin — 5 April 2022 (LINK)
India's Crypto Trading Volume Plummets as New Tax Rules Enter Into Force — news.bitcoin.com — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
Indonesia to tax crypto transactions starting next month — finbold — 2 April 2022 (LINK)
Newly Introduced U.S. Bill Aims to Bring Transparency to the Stablecoin Marketplace, seen as anti-Tether — coindesk — 1 April 2022 (LINK)
Switzerland
Swiss National Bank not ready to hold bitcoin as reserve currency: Reuters — theblockcrypto — 30 April 2022 (LINK)
World's First ETP With Combined Bitcoin, Gold Exposure Launches on SIX Swiss Exchange — cryptopotato — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Study: Switzerland Has 'the Most Profitable Bitcoin Traders' Worldwide, While France 'Is the Best Bitcoin Trading Nation' —bitcoin —21 April 2022 (LINK)
Shiba Inu Accepted as Means of Payment by Swiss Consulting Firm Fidinam — cryptopotato — 20 April 2022 (LINK)
Ethereum Foundation releases first-ever report about its treasury — thecoinrise — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
Swiss public exchange lists two new carbon-neutral crypto ETPs — cointelegraph — 11 April 2022 (LINK)
Cardano Foundation and the University of Zurich expand academic blockchain research — cointelegraph — 5 April 2022 (LINK)
Business, Exchanges
One year after embracing the blockchain, Time has earned more than $10M in profit — digiday — 28 April 2022 (LINK)
Robinhood Lays off 9% of Its Full-Time Employees — cryptoknowmics — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Rain raises $6 million to build the web3 American Express — theblockcrypto — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Bybit launches latest Crypto expansion for traders with USDC — cryptopolitan — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Coinbase NFT Marketplace Launches in Beta, Plans to Move Beyond Ethereum — cryptonews — 20 April 2022 (LINK)
Moonbirds tops among NFTs, sells over $290M within four days — thecoinrise — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
CoinShares Leads Crypto Industry Protest Against EU Policies — coingape — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
UK Crypto exchange Exmo sells part of its business in Russia and Belarus — thecoinrise — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
Binance chooses Turkey to launch its first customer service center — thecoinrise — 16 April 2022 (LINK)
Meta Begins Testing 'Tools' for Metaverse 'Digital Asset' Sales — cryptonews — 12 April 2022 (LINK)
White Star Capital raises $120M for Ubisoft-backed Web3 investment fund — cointelegraph — 12 April 2022 (LINK)
Philippines' fintech achieves unicorn status after embracing crypto payments — cointelegraph — 12 April 2022 (LINK)
NFT Marketplace Opensea to Add Credit Card, Apple Pay Support via Moonpay — news.bitcoin.com — 1 April 2022 (LINK)
Polygon, Circle Help Japanese Blockchain Games Startup Raise $24 Mln — coingape — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Author Margaret Atwood Wants Students to Envision Future Utopias—And Mint Them as NFTs: she will teach a utopia-themed online class on learning platform Disco that includes Tezos NFTs co-created with students — cryptopolitan — 27 April 2022 (LINK)
Seized Silk Road Bitcoin will Clear Ross Ulbricht's $183M Debt — coindesk — 22 April 2022 (LINK)
Top 15 Most Expensive Streets Have Owners Already, DecentWorld Creators Say: In the DecentWorld metaverse, one can become a certified owner of almost any street in the world, be it Wall Street, Rodeo Drive, Champs-Élysées or Abbey Road —the only question is, how quick you are to make a move. —dailycoin — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
People Are Rushing to Pay $50,000 for Digital Owls — cryptobriefing — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
Game of Silks Raises $2 Million To Bring Thoroughbred Racehorses Onto The Blockchain — bitcoinist — 19 April 2022 (LINK)
Catch Up
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