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As a kid, you might have read about Aladdin’s magic lamp. The lamp had the power to make anyone wealthy. Today, you can authoritatively call and refer to cryptocurrency as “Aladdin’s lamp” because it can open you to…
Stripe Connect partnered with Twitter as its first business partner to allow some content creators on the social media platform to use crypto-based rails to get their earnings from Twitter. News of the partnership comes…
Elon Musk has pitched his favourite cryptocurrency, the Dogecoin, as a payment option for users seeking to avail Twitter Blue services. Musk was replying to a Twitter user from Argentina, who said Twitter Blue's current…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has imposed an N800m fine on three Deposit Money Banks in the country for violating regulations barring customers from transacting in cryptocurrencies. According to a Bloomberg report…
Popular crypto wallet service MetaMask which runs on Web browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers has announced support for Apple Pay, allowing users to buy cryptocurrencies with debit or…
International footballer, Lionel Messi has signed an agreement worth more than $20 million to promote digital fan token company Socios.com. According to the report confirmed by Reuters, Messi has now become the latest…
British tax authorities said on Monday they had made their first seizure of non-fungible tokens in a crackdown on suspected criminal activity to hide money. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs seized three NFTs after…
The Department of Justice has finally found almost all of the billions worth of Bitcoin stolen during the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex — in the hands of a published Forbes and Inc. writer and rapper,…
A museum dedicated to NFTs, the blockchain-based creations that have taken the world of art by storm by opening its doors in the United States. The Seattle NFT Museum features original artworks along with explanations…
On a mission to further deepen crypto adoption in Africa is Nigerian crypto startup Nestcoin which is building out Web3 products. Today, Nestcoin announced that it raised a $6.5 million pre-seed round. Since launching…
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is probing 281 Nigerian personal accounts for possible regulatory breaches. The company has restricted the accounts to ensure the platform’s security and…
Bitcoin fell more than 10% over the past day trading at around $36.3K on the FTX exchange, causing the crypto market to be in a sea of red. Despite the crypto market losing nearly $200 billion in market value since…
The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, has finally confirmed that hundreds of user accounts were indeed compromised by hackers and had funds stolen as a result, though details of the exact method…
The cryptocurrency market is now worth more than $3 trillion. The little more than a decade old market for digital assets has already roughly quadrupled from its 2020 year-end value, as investors have gotten more…
Zimbabwe has been paying attention to the increasing demand for crypto among its people, which it views as a possible avenue for growth. The country has also been receptive to regulating the entire sector. Zimbabwe’s…
Bitcoin rallied to a record, topping $66,000 for the first time, as optimism surged for greater mainstream acceptance in the wake of the successful launch of the first exchange-traded fund for U.S. investors. While the…
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon doubled down on past skepticism of bitcoin in a TV interview with Axios published on Monday, warning investors that the cryptocurrency has no underlying value. "It's got no intrinsic value,"…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will launch a digital currency, e-Naira in October to coincide with the nation’s independence anniversary. Governor Godwin Emefiele has assured that the advantages of the Central Bank…
Data from a recent investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has listed nine areas in Lagos State as hotbeds for suspected internet fraudsters. Most of the areas are in Lekki, according to the data…
The hacker behind one of the largest cryptocurrency heists to date has returned almost half of the $600m (£433m) stolen assets. On Tuesday, the firm affected, Poly Network wrote a letter on Twitter, asking the…
