Blockchain & crypto news from India
Want to join the Web3 revolution? Set up your wallet, get some Bitcoin or Ether and welcome onboard. A little wallet tucked on the browser’s tool bar is bringing about the next great revolution in the world wide web, or loosely called, the internet. Not everyone is impressed though, and least of all, the founder…
Blockchains will create the next generation of financial instruments with its decentralized and P2P based model. While traditional banks are gearing up to embrace blockchains, the Swiss bank UBS AG has launched what it says is the world’s first digital bond. The issued bond has a tenure of three years, and carries a 2.33% return….
Eric Jardine talks about how thieves were able to profit on the changeover of the second-largest blockchain and how $2 million in ether was taken. According to Eric Jardine, the cybercrimes research lead at Chainalysis, there were about $2 million worth of frauds prior to, during, and following Ethereum’s Merge, the blockchain’s switch from a…
The nation will host the G-20 meeting the following year, therefore it will influence the agenda. How to regulate crypto assets, according to Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, should be a top concern on the global stage and will be a major topic of discussion at the summit that will kick off India’s one-year presidency…
After Amazon’s AWS service taking a good share of blockchain operation by running a significant number of Ethereum nodes, Google Cloud too entered the node hosting space. The Blockchain Node Engine will be a fully-managed node hosting service that will support Web3 development beginning with Ethereum. Web3 has become the buzz word for 2022 after…
The P2P payment app MoneyGram has begun accepting cryptocurrency for payment and trading in the US. The app will let users transfer bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum. The company had earlier been involved in a deal with Ripple that was subsequently quashed. MoneyGram’s announcement on Twitter: MoneyGram announces the launch of a new service enabling consumers…
Some Argentinian holders of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies may need to revise their tax returns to accurately reflect their financial status. The AFIP is the Argentinian tax authority, and reports suggest it has found discrepancies in some IT returns, based on information gained from local cryptocurrency exchanges. The number of such letters sent is said to…
The Merge on September 15 has been rather a damp squid, though not much was expected either. Staking is now the official way to run validator nodes and earn rewards. How much rewards can stakers expect to earn? What determines how much yield to expect? The following answers these and other questions. Some major Ethereum…
The cryptocurrency markets is showing signs of life, though some describe the current range-bound prices as making for a rather trading experience. For the first time since the Merge, the price of Ether went above $1600. The uptick could be the result of some positive news of abatement in rise in interest rates. Cointelegraph in…
Friedrich Hayek was a well-known economist of the Austrian School, and the author of several important works, including ‘Law, Language and Liberty’, a multi-volume edition that carries important ideas on the evolution of social institutions. The basic premise of his ideas is that laws, language, morals, and other such social phenomenon, are natural and spontaneous…