Bitcoin new high set for late 2024, Binance to lose top spot, predicts VanEck

    Bitcoin will hit a new all-time high in late 2024 on the backdrop of a long-feared United States recession and regulatory shifts after the next U.S. presidential election, asset manager VanEck predicts. On Dec. 8, VanEck made 15 crypto predictions for 2024, including price forecasts, timings of a spot Bitcoin ETF launch, the impact of the…

    Global policymakers are still pushing CBDCs despite their failures

    Despite the risks and the failures associated with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), global policymakers are pushing forward to make them a reality. In November alone, officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bretton Woods Committee, and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued rallying calls for governments to push forward on CBDCs with courage and determination….

    ‘If I was the government, I’d close it down’ — JPMorgan CEO on crypto

    JPMorgan Chase chair and CEO Jamie Dimon told several United States lawmakers that if he had the authority in government, he would try to shut down crypto. In a Dec. 6 hearing of the Senate Banking Committee on oversight of Wall Street firms, Dimon responded to questioning from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who claimed North Korea had…

    Journey to the center of DeFi: MetaMask creator introduces Linea Voyage

    Layer-2 solutions increase the practical use cases of the blockchain infrastructure by lowering gas fees and increasing network bandwidth. Consensys, the creator of the MetaMask wallet, introduced its layer-2 ecosystem Linea to streamline the onboarding of more users to Web3. The growth of the blockchain ecosystem accelerates the need for a bigger, better, faster infrastructure. As new…

    Bitcoin futures open interest on CME nears 2021 all-time high

    Bitcoin futures open interest has reached $5.2 billion on the global derivatives giant Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), $200 million shy of its late October 2021 all-time high. Open interest in CME’s Bitcoin futures has grown from $3.63 billion to $5.20 billion over the last 30 days, according to Coinglass data. The open interest surge has run parallel…

    Bitcoin maxis vs. multichains: Two opposing visions of crypto’s future

    Jan3 CEO Samson Mow has said that comparing Bitcoin to crypto is like comparing “an aircraft to a paper airplane.” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said, “It will be a multichain world.” These opposing statements are the latest front in the longest-running feud in cryptocurrency — the battle between Bitcoin and everything else that followed. For the…