Key facts: NFTs, the metaverse, and GameFi were the highlights of 2021, according to KuCoin Labs. Web 3.0 and other innovative solutions are likely to be developed by 2022. The year 2021 has been an exciting one for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Coins like bitcoin and ether posted a new all-time high. And the emergence of the metaverse and the development of DeFi (decentralized finance) marked a before and after in the ecosystem, as the KuCoin Labs report shows. This report also predicts some of the most important trends of 2022. KuCoin Labs 2021 Report Highlights The KuCoin Labs…
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The prosecutor’s office of the province of Córdoba in Argentina today issued an international arrest warrant against Leonardo Cositorto, promoter of the Zoe Cash token and CEO of Generación ZOE, who was charged last week for alleged fraud. The capture of another eight people was also ordered. linked to the investment organization accused of operating under a pyramid scheme. Gabriela Álvarez was arrested from this group, while Maximiliano Javier Batista is still being sought, registered in the AFIP games of chance category and the partner of Zoe’s leader. The rest of the defendants are people from the Cordoba city of…
Key facts: PayPal notes that dollar inflation has had a negative impact on its performance. Other financial alternatives, such as Square, Klarma and Bitcoin, have taken PayPal away from customers. PayPal currently registers one of the worst daily performances that the company has ever reported in its entire history. With its shares trading today at prices they had achieved three years ago, all indications are that investors in the electronic payments giant are disappointed by the company’s performance and its less than optimistic forecasts. But what is the reason for this collapse? The slide into the red began for PayPal…
Key facts: Public employees and retirees receive payments in petro. The price of the cryptocurrency rose in the secondary markets, but not due to an increase in demand. Since 2017, the word “petro” has been part of the Venezuelan collective imagination and one more piece of its financial system. At that time, the Venezuelan government presented the national cryptocurrency as the solution for the country’s battered economy, which was suffering from the devaluation of the bolivar, hyperinflation, internal political-commercial tensions, and international sanctions. The idea was to have a digital currency backed by the country’s oil, gas, gold and diamond.…
A group of Blue Wallet users is collecting bitcoin (BTC) satoshis (sats) with the intention that the developer company add BIP47 to this wallet. In this way, when the PayNyms function is added, which allows operating under pseudonyms to strengthen the user’s privacy, the person in charge will be able to claim the amount collected. As of February 18, 2022, only Samourai Wallet has this functionality, but there are users of other wallets interested in having it as well. Therefore, Those who use BlueWallet had the idea to collect a “bounty” to reward whoever develops this function for the wallet…
Key facts: The real estate company plans to sell more homes with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela, buying homes with cryptocurrencies is a reality. A house was purchased in the south of Chile using bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), a cryptocurrency native to Ethereum, and dogecoin (DOGE) as a means of payment. Although the identity of the owner is unknown, what is known is that it was a young Chilean who for 3 years he saved on digital assets. The acquisition was made at the end of last year, but it was not until now that the…
Key facts: Dulce believes that working as a Bitcoin developer is an alternative for Latino professionals. About 200 people applied to participate in Satoshi’s Bookstore. Helping Spanish-speaking professionals prepare to work full-time in Bitcoin is one of the goals proposed by the educational project La Librería de Satoshi. Its creator, Dulce Villarreal, told CriptoNoticias details of how she plans to achieve this goal. The Satoshi Bookstore is designed as an online learning space, focused on expanding and consolidating the technical knowledge about Bitcoin from the Spanish-speaking community. As CriptoNoticias reported, the project started on February 9, with an initial workshop…
Key facts: The arrival of the million dollars for bitcoin could be sooner than you think. The entire prediction is based on the history of Apple, the Internet and mobile telephony. Will bitcoin (BTC) ever reach a million dollars? Right now, with the cryptocurrency barely holding onto $40,000 per unit, it seems impossible. But estimates by Jurrien Timmer of asset management firm Fidelity Investments put that price on the horizon. It’s not so soon, yes. Timmer published this Thursday, February 17 a series of appraisals on the behavior of bitcoin in the market and how its network effect could give…
1 What makes Bitcoin (no last name) the original? Bitcoin was born as a project — let’s say, officially — in October 2008. It was then that Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudonym) published the White Paper where he explained his invention. “Bitcoin: A User-to-User Electronic Cash System”.Advertising After that introduction to the world, came the Genesis Block. The first in the entire history of Bitcoin accounting, the one that It has become popularly known as the Bitcoin blockchain. That is, blocks of information chained with the entire history of transactions and coins issued on the network. What is known today as…