Digital Currency

Cryptocurrencies are banned in Morocco, but peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC, -5.01%) trading platform LocalBitcoins is reporting all-time trading highs this year. February 2021 was the platform’s “best month ever” in Morocco in terms of trading volumes, according to LocalBitcoins Chief Marketing Officer Jukka Blomberg, who said approximately $900,000 worth of bitcoin was traded on the platform through the month. LocalBitcoins also saw a 30% increase in user registrations between 2019 and 2020, with over 700 new accounts created, Blomberg said. Bitcoin purchases are rising despite a ban on cryptocurrencies in the North African country. In November…

Cryptocurrency fund inflows declined by roughly 58% to $99 million last week. Lower investor appetite for digital asset funds could reflect uncertainty over bitcoin’s price, which recently has traded in a range between $53,000 and $61,000. “Since the February price highs and heightened volatility, we have seen a steady decline in appetite amongst investors,” according to a report by CoinShares, a digital asset management firm. “We have also seen a decline in bitcoin investment product trading volumes to $713 million per day last week, versus $1.1 billion per day for 2021,” wrote CoinShares. Fund flow…

Bitcoin stabilized near $54,000 early Tuesday after posting its worst daily loss in almost a month. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $54,680 as of 12:50 UTC (8:50 p.m. ET), after falling late Monday to around $53,715, the lowest since March 16. The largest cryptocurrency fell 5.8% over the previous 24 hours, for its largest daily decline since Feb. 23, according to Bitstamp exchange data. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $53,795.15-$58,407.62 (CoinDesk 20). BTC’s 4-hour chart shows seller volume has been building alongside a falling price, a bearish signal for market technicians. BTC 4-hour…

Prominent users of Crypto Twitter have suddenly discovered they have another profile on a new social network called BitClout, except over there some people are buying and selling tokens representing their identities. It does not matter whether the people behind those profiles have ever touched the social network. “The core insight behind BitClout is that if you can mix speculation and content together, you can not only get a 10x product that creates innovative ways for creators to monetize, but you also get a new business model that’s not ad-driven…

In March of spring flowers, south of the motherland, the blockchain industry kicked off the year with a heavyweight event, the New-DeFi Autonomy Consensus Forum, held at the Luneng Hilton Hotel in Haikou. The forum was co-sponsored by the Blockchain Ecological Alliance Committee and the EGG Community Autonomy Committee, with joint support from EFTalk Crypto Social, Golden Finance, Non-Small, Fireball Finance and Coin World, and supported by nearly 100 partner communities and media. The forum was arranged to be live-streamed on four separate channels, with over 300,000 views, while the…

Cloud hashrate mining has become the mining choice of more and more miners in the past two years. Especially in the current period when currency prices continue to soar and break new highs continuously, Cloud hashrate mining has become an important magic weapon to seize the Bitcoin bull market. Cloud hashrate mining, as the name suggests, usually refers to the computing power leasing service provided by large mining farms. Miners users can purchase computing power contracts on the mining platform, thereby earning the bitcoins mined by the corresponding computing power. www.bi-fans.com…

MTM is a blockchain project jointly built by the tally foundation, which is invested by the famous American investment company tally capital. Tally foundation, located in Chicago, USA, was founded in 2008 with abundant capital. It has a wide range of business, covering many fields, such as medicine, education, architecture, entertainment and so on MTM is a team composed of high-end researchers, professional medical professionals, dedicated investors and innovative engineers to create a unique platform. MTM is an important application scenario based on blockchain technology to solve stem cell traceability…

At 23:00 UTC on March 17, 2021, Adam, the person in charge of cow Asia Pacific region, tweeted that “According to the proposal of community governance of cow, cow will enter wave field ecology through parallel chain. Imtoken tokenpocket and other wallets will support the cross chain of cow-trc20 protocol on April 1, 2021.This will be the first time that cow has entered the defi ecosystem of landing applications.”     Then in the forum, some informants released their opinions to understand that tcow, the new eco token mentioned in…

On the afternoon of March 17, Beijing time, CoinFans (bi-fans.com) held the “2021 Digital Mining Summit” entitled “Win-win for the future” in Shenzhen.   At the meeting, CoinFans CEO James Cao and many other executives attended the meeting. In addition, more than 50 industry elites, customers and strategic partners, including BTC.COM CEO Zhuang Zhong, Antpool co-founder Tian Xin, Shanghai Wayi co-founder Li Peicai, and Guihua Technology co-founder Xiao Guihua, gathered at the summit.   At this 500-person summit, James Cao and other well-known companies delivered live speeches and shared the…