Daily Crypto News | 24.02.2021
1- Bitcoin retests $50,000.
2- All of the FED’s services are down.
3- Central Bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefiele has said, “Cryptocurrency is not legitimate money. Cryptocurrency has no place in our monetary system at this time and cryptocurrency transactions should not be carried out through the Nigerian banking system.”
4- Canadian VersaBank announced its plan to launch a CBDC project dubbed VCAD, pegged to the Canadian dollar.
5- ChainLink has launched an upgrade for its oracle network “Off-Chain Reporting”, reducing the gas fees by ten times.
6- Crypto.com has published its report estimating that there are 100 million cryptocurrency users in the world.
7- Opera & Simplex integration is live..
8- MicroStrategy acquires $1B worth more Bitcoin.
9- European digital asset manager CoinShares has launched its physically-backed ethereum ETP.
10- The Reserve Bank of India prepares to launch its own CBDC by emulating the digital yuan project of China.
11- PDAX asks users to return their Bitcoins bought at $6K caused by a glitch.
12- Brave Browser unveils its plans to integrate DEX and NFT functionalities.
13- Elon Musk is no longer the richest man on earth.
14- U.S. Congress National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy subcommittee suggests that Bitcoin might have helped the Capitol incidents.
15- Citigroup & HSBC of India require their users to provide information about their crypto-related activities.
16- It has been revealed that BitcoinPaperWallet.com has a back door in its code for the back-end developers which lets them access private keys generated.
17- Craig Wright is claiming that his 110K $BTC was stolen from him from the Mt. Gox hack, he demands access to two wallets containing 110,957 $BTC in total.
18- Former London Stock Exchange CEO Xavier Rolet says that the UK should consider adopting crypto after Brexit.
19- JPMorgan Chase had been testing blockchain transactions using satellites in earth’s orbit.
20- Lawsuit against Bancor is dismissed.
21- Bitcoin is up 4.4% at $49,034.
22- BitMax Token (BTMX) is the highest gainer in the top 100 list with a 57.7% daily profit.
23- cDAI (cDAI) is the highest loser in the top 100 list with a 2.1% daily loss.
24- $BTC = $BTC | 1 Satoshi is 1 Satoshi.
