Author: Crypto Insider

El Salvador announced Saturday plans to create a “Bitcoin City” near a volcano funded by the cryptocurrency, the President said. Also, the country plans to partner with Blockstream, a digital assets infrastructure company, to raise about $1 billion via a “Bitcoin Bond.” The Central American nation plans to build a “Bitcoin City” near the Conchagua…

A critic of non-fungible tokens has created The NFT Bay, a site that mimics the Pirate Bay, to distribute NFT images in bulk. It was started by digital nomad Geoffrey Huntley to state the shortcomings of NFTs. The NFT Bay has only copied publicly available images; still, the copyright issues around this are unclear. As…

One of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, Gemini, has secured $400 million in a recent investment round led by Morgan Creek Capital. The funding round values the company at $7.1 billion. Gemini also plans to invest heavily in alternative metaverse proposals. Gemini, the cryptocurrency platform and exchange founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has…

After a fantastic price run hit a new all-time high of over $69,000 on November 10, Bitcoin’s price to drop to $55,705 just 9 days later. Though, Marcel Pechman sees 3 reasons why that significant drop may have been the local bottom. Bitcoin has been on a fantastic price run since the announcement of the…

Acala, an Ethereum-compatible DeFi protocol for scaling DApps, has secured first place in Polkadot’s parachain auctions, with over 81,000 stakeholders locking up their funds in the crowd loan. As a result, the upcoming Polkadot DeFi hub raised nearly $1.3 billion from approximately 25,000 contributors in its token ICO. The first coveted Polkadot parachain slot was…

Although the Bitcoin price dropped by nearly 20% in the last seven days, long-term Bitcoin investors, who bought at 2017 highs, have still not sold, data shows. According to the Hold Waves metric data, coins that last moved in the past six to 12 months now make up the most significant portion of the BTC…