Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped 2.14% on Wednesday, after reaching an all-time high in the previous adjustment on Sept. 14, according […]
Month: September 2022
Hong Kong seeks use case to sell public on retail CBDC
The director of Hong Kong’s de facto central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Eddie Yue Wai-Man, said the […]
Scalability is Ethereum’s post-Merge focus: Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin said the next step for Ethereum after “The Merge” is scalability, speaking to Circle chief executive […]
Cryptocurrency crowd shrugs off market woes at upbeat TOKEN2049 conference
The first day of this year’s TOKEN2049 cryptocurrency conference kicked off Wednesday in Singapore, its second edition as an in-person […]
Bitcoin ‘might double in price’ under CFTC regulation: chairman
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Rostin Behnam said Thursday the crypto industry has “a massive opportunity for institutional inflows […]
Sweden’s central bank to test use of retail CBDC for instant payments
Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, is teaming up with peers in Israel and Norway and the Bank for International Settlements […]
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary to launch Web3 fund Cipher
Kevin O’Leary plans to launch a Web 3.0-focused investment fund called Cipher, the Shark Tank investor told Forkast Editor-in-Chief Angie […]
This Company Aims to Become the Amazon of Lifelong Learning
The Singapore-based company Genius Group has turned some of its attention to the U.S. edtech market recently. It’s making acquisitions, […]
MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era
College in the U.S. mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, […]
India ED freezes US$1.57 mln in crypto
India’s financial crime fighting agency has frozen over US$1.5 million in cryptocurrencies as part of a money laundering investigation against […]