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Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini now lets Dogecoin investors earn an interest of 2.25% APY on their holdings.

What Coinbase Going Public Means For Bitcoin Coinbase is set to go public in a highly-anticipated direct listing on the Nasdaq. Heres what the experts say about its potential impact on Bitcoin. In brief Experts have weighed in on what this means for Bitcoin. On April 14, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase goes public via a direct listing on the Nasdaq. For the crypto industry, its a milestone on the road towards mainstream acceptance; the first major cryptocurrency business to go public, with an ...

Grayscale Adds Five Crypto Trusts Including Chainlink, Filecoin Crypto investment giant Grayscale has launched crypto trusts for BAT, Chainlink, Decentraland, Filecoin and Livepeer. Grayscale provides several crypto investment products. Image: Shutterstock. Digital asset investment giant Grayscale has added five new cryptocurrency trusts to its roster, including Basic Attention Token (BAT), Chainlink (LINK), Decentraland (MANA), Filecoin (FIL), and Livepeer (LPT), according to a press release p...

Venezuelas Maduro Says Hes Planning a Digital Currency Surprise Venezuela may soon begin development on a "digital bolivar." The project is being kept under wraps, but regional experts have some ideas on what it will be. In brief The details of the project are not yet known. Regional experts shared with Decrypt a few ideas about what to expect. Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s disputed president, said yesterday that his team is working on yet another "surprise" that is sure to raise eyebrows amo...

Bitcoin Price Breaks $50,000 Barrier on MicroStrategys Plan to Buy More BTC Not long after Elon Musk’s Tesla invested $1.5 billion into Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency has notched up yet another record price. In brief This means Bitcoin has recorded yet another all-time high. The record comes two weeks after Tesla announced a $1.5 billion investment in Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s price has broken the $50,000 barrier, reaching as high as $50,560, on the news that MicroStrategy will sell $600 million o...

Business Russia’s Opposition Leader Has Received 658 Bitcoin to Take Down Putin—Now Worth $32 Million Alexei Navalny has received $300,000 in Bitcoin this year alone. Analysts say it highlights Bitcoin’s role in challenging authoritarian regimes. This year alone, it received about 6 BTC. Analysts say the recent surge is related to the general interest in Bitcoin, Russia’s crypto liberalization, and anger over Navalnys detention upon return to Russia. Russia’s opposition leader Alexei ...

As Ripple push back in the courtroom, XRP’s price hikes. Are the two related? Or is a pump and dump Telegram group behind it?

Analyst Gives Three Reasons Why $1.6 Billion in ETH Just Left Exchanges We get to the bottom of what happened to the $1.6 billion ETH drained from exchanges. More than $1.5 billion of ETH left exchanges this week. An analyst explains that it could have gone to DeFi, ETH2.0 staking snapped up by large investment firms. But his analysis still leaves some mysteries unanswered. Some hefty whales have been detected in the waters of the Ethereumblockchain. The Ethereum balance on top-tier cryptoexcha...

Presidential Candidate for Ecuador Proposes National Cryptocurrency A presidential candidate in Ecuador wants to merge the gold standard with blockchain technology. In brief Geovanni Andrade proposes to mint a gold-backed crypto. But will he have the backing of his party, let alone the electorate? Ecuador is not what you could call a crypto-friendly country. The closest it has come to having a favorable position towards crypto was when it moved from a ban on their use to their acceptance as as...

Pakistan is Now Using Government Funds to Mine Bitcoin The country’s economic growth has slowed down in the past few years. But Bitcoin mining could help partially revive that. It had earlier pushed for favorable crypto laws in the country. Countries like Pakistan and Iran have turned to Bitcoin to revive a failing economy. The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), one of Pakistan’s four provinces, announced the launch of two state-owned Bitcoin mining farms last week, as per a report on l...