Digital Money Times (2024)

15/07/2023

How This New Interpol Team Will Crackdown On Crypto Crime

How This New Interpol Team Will Crackdown On Crypto Crime October 18, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment On the 90th Interpol General Assembly hosted in Delhi, India, the Secretary General for this organization Jurgen Stock, announced the creation of a new team dedicated to crypto crime. The divisi...

14/07/2023

Bitcoin Joins The Guinness Book Of World Records

Bitcoin Joins The Guinness Book Of World Records October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Bitcoin now has multiple entries in the Guinness Book of World Records, including most valuable and the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has officially entered the Guinness World Records for a...

13/07/2023

Crypto Wallet BitKeep Hacked, Loses More Than $1 Million

Crypto Wallet BitKeep Hacked, Loses More Than $1 Million October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The crypto wallet, BitKeep, has recently been attacked by hackers. Asia’s most popular cryptocurrency wallet is BitKeep Wallet. According to a tweet from PeckShield, a blockchain security and d...

12/07/2023

Bitcoin Beats 3 Of America’s Biggest Banks In Terms Of Market Cap – Find Out Here

Bitcoin Beats 3 Of America’s Biggest Banks In Terms Of Market Cap – Find Out Here October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, will most likely enter next month having a trading price that is significantly lower than its $...

11/07/2023

Possible Price Dump for Axie Infinity Coming on October 25? Here’s Why

Possible Price Dump for Axie Infinity Coming on October 25? Here’s Why October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Crypto winter has also hit the popular blockchain-based online video game sector in recent months. On one hand, the user numbers of the most popular platform, Axie Infinity (AXS),...

10/07/2023

Metaverse Market Dominance Raises Competition Worries, EU Antitrust Officials Say

Metaverse Market Dominance Raises Competition Worries, EU Antitrust Officials Say October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The European Commission has been targeting big tech firms for unfairly controlling online markets and will be looking in detail at the regulation of virtual online worlds...

09/07/2023

Coinbase And Industry Leaders File Amicus Brief In Support Of Grayscale Spot Bitcoin ETF

Coinbase And Industry Leaders File Amicus Brief In Support Of Grayscale Spot Bitcoin ETF October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The brief calls attention to the SEC’s continued denial of spot bitcoin ETF while the regulator simultaneously approves bitcoin futures products. Coinbase filed ...

08/07/2023

Guinness World Records Adds Bitcoin Under Cryptomania Category

Guinness World Records Adds Bitcoin Under Cryptomania Category October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The 2023 edition of the Guinness World Records was launched last month. This latest edition included a wide range of different achievements from many sectors, it recognized the crypto space...

07/07/2023

Uplifting Sign For Bitcoin? 48k BTC Leaves Coinbase Wallets

Uplifting Sign For Bitcoin? 48k BTC Leaves Coinbase Wallets October 19, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Bitcoin on-chain data shows a total of 48k BTC have been withdrawn from crypto exchange Coinbase’s wallets during the past day, a sign that could be bullish for the price of the crypto. Bitc...

06/07/2023

How to Guide: Debunking ESG

How to Guide: Debunking ESG October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Those who decry Bitcoin’s use of energy fail to acknowledge that all things in life require energy, and there is no such thing as free lunch. This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine's “The Orange Party Issue”. Cli...

05/07/2023

Japan Slackens Crypto Rules On Listing Of Tokens

Japan Slackens Crypto Rules On Listing Of Tokens October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Japan’s crypto regulator has planned to ease the rules which surround the listing of coins and tokens. This move will make the listing of virtual coins a lot easier. At the moment, crypto exchanges tha...

04/07/2023

Bitcoin Fail – 80% Of El Salvador’s People Believe President’s Crypto Program Is A Disaster

Bitcoin Fail – 80% Of El Salvador’s People Believe President’s Crypto Program Is A Disaster October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Bitcoin took the internet by storm in 2021 when El Salvador – the smallest country in South America – announced it will make the cryptocurrency a lega...

03/07/2023

Fidelity Digital Assets Starts Ethereum (ETH) Trading for Institutional Clients on Oct 28

Fidelity Digital Assets Starts Ethereum (ETH) Trading for Institutional Clients on Oct 28 October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment A leaked email reveals that Fidelity Digital Assets will offer not only Bitcoin (BTC) but also Ethereum (ETH) to its institutional clients starting October 28. Th...

02/07/2023

Bernstein: la adopción institucional continúa a pesar del invierno cripto

Bernstein: la adopción institucional continúa a pesar del invierno cripto October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Algunos grandes administradores de activos continúan construyendo su estrategia de activos digitales, según el informe. CoinDesk Filed Under: Crypto Tagged With: adopción, B...

01/07/2023

$9 Billion European Digital Bank N26 Enables Bitcoin Trading

$9 Billion European Digital Bank N26 Enables Bitcoin Trading October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Users cannot transfer funds off the platform due to the bank not supporting custodial wallets, but there are lower fees for bitcoin than other digital assets. N26, a $ 9 billion European digi...

30/06/2023

Third Quarter Report Shows Tesla Is Still Holding On To Its Bitcoin

Third Quarter Report Shows Tesla Is Still Holding On To Its Bitcoin October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The second quarter of 2022 had been set ablaze with speculation after automotive manufacturer Tesla reported that it had sold 3/4 of its bitcoin holdings. The value of its bitcoin hold...

29/06/2023

How This Coinbase Feature Could Make USDC A Universal Currency

How This Coinbase Feature Could Make USDC A Universal Currency October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Crypto exchange Coinbase wants to boost the adoption of stablecoin USDC. The company will support free trading commissions for users buying the digital asset. According to an official annou...

28/06/2023

Hodlonaut Defeats Craig Wright In Norwegian Court Case For Defamation

Hodlonaut Defeats Craig Wright In Norwegian Court Case For Defamation October 20, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Wright must pay for court costs, and the court determined there is sufficient evidence for Hodlonaut to debate whether or not Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto. Hodlonaut, a pseudonymous Bi...

27/06/2023

Did Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Just Resurrect Meme Coins?

Did Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Just Resurrect Meme Coins? October 21, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Meme coins have fallen into a certain level of obscurity since the bear market began. It is an effect of the market-wide decline in interest in all things cryptocurrencies since prices of....

26/06/2023

Will A Fractional Reserve System Exist On A Bitcoin Standard?

Will A Fractional Reserve System Exist On A Bitcoin Standard? October 21, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The free banking era is the closest example of how banking might look on a bitcoin standard, but will credit and fractional reserves be part of that system? This is a transcribed excerpt of....

25/06/2023

Why This Metaverse Casino Was Ordered By 4 U.S. States To Halt Operations

Why This Metaverse Casino Was Ordered By 4 U.S. States To Halt Operations October 21, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The Metaverse, while it has tremendous potential to provide legitimate business opportunities, can also serve as a window for scams that target unsuspecting individuals. That’s...

24/06/2023

Some, Not All, Crypto Token Screenings Will Be Scrapped, Japan’s JVCEA Official Says

Some, Not All, Crypto Token Screenings Will Be Scrapped, Japan’s JVCEA Official Says October 21, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment The legally approved self-regulatory body wants to streamline pre-screenings for tokens that are already listed on local exchanges while keeping existing standards f...

23/06/2023

Bitcoin’s Utility Is Easy To See When Traveling Around The World

Bitcoin’s Utility Is Easy To See When Traveling Around The World October 21, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment When visiting emerging markets, it’s easy to observe bitcoin being used by locals. Sometimes it takes getting outside our comfort zone to shed our biases. This is a transcribed excerp...

22/06/2023

Nansen Enables Direct Messaging Between Crypto Wallets With This Web3 App

Nansen Enables Direct Messaging Between Crypto Wallets With This Web3 App October 21, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment On-chain analytics firm Nansen launched an extended version of their Web3 app, Connect, to everyone with a crypto wallet. The new version of the Web3 app follows a close beta pha...

21/06/2023

SHIB, BONE, And LEASH Payments Now Available For Amazon And Netflix

SHIB, BONE, And LEASH Payments Now Available For Amazon And Netflix October 22, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Most of the utilities of SHIB have manifested in the form of the meme coin being used as a form of payment. This was the case through the last year when even prominent merchants had be...

20/06/2023

Bitcoin Allows You To Discover The Genius Within

Bitcoin Allows You To Discover The Genius Within October 22, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Bitcoin enables a treasure hunt for the inherent skills that make each person unique. This is an opinion editorial by Nozomi Hayase Ph.D., who has a background in psychology and human development. “We ...

19/06/2023

Hong Kong Is Planning To Permit Crypto Retail Investment Trading

Hong Kong Is Planning To Permit Crypto Retail Investment Trading October 22, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Hong Kong is now contemplating changing its crypto trading requirements, in a way attempting to be different from China on the all-out crypto ban. It is now planning to take action as it....

18/06/2023

Global Energy Consumption From Bitcoin Mining Is Just Over 0.10%

Global Energy Consumption From Bitcoin Mining Is Just Over 0.10% October 22, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment One major argument against Bitcoin is the amount of energy used in mining new blocks. Regulators have gone all out to curb the proof-of-work blockchain’s energy consumption and reduce i...

17/06/2023

How This Elon Musk-Based NFT Collection Launched As A Web3 Cultural Movement

How This Elon Musk-Based NFT Collection Launched As A Web3 Cultural Movement October 22, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Social commerce platform Basic.Space revealed its role in the launch of the Elon Musk-inspired non-fungible token (NFT) collection Elon.Space. Created as a cultural experiment...

16/06/2023

Market Wrap: Bitcoin, Ether Continue Their Sideways Moves as the World Twists and Turns

Market Wrap: Bitcoin, Ether Continue Their Sideways Moves as the World Twists and Turns October 22, 2022 By Mark Lyford Leave a Comment Inflation remains stubbornly high, the global economy is stuttering and the U.K. can’t find a decent leader. But bitcoin keeps purring above $ 19K. Market Wrap is...

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