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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...

Kenya Based Technology Firm Switches to Pancakeswap, Cites High Gas Fees on Uniswap

In its bid to help users avoid high gas fees on Uniswap, a Kenya-based fintech firm, UTU, recently launched a liquidity pool on the decentralized exchange (dex), Pancakeswap. This launch enables prospective UTU coin buyers to acquire the token “with low fees and fast confirmation times.” In a statement posted on the firm’s blog, UTU, which wants to end the anonymous star ratings, reviews, and scores as the de facto trust mechanisms, says this move had been necessitated by the feedback received from users. The statement explains: You have expressed your concerns about the high gas fees on Uniswap and how much of a hurdle these fees are to purchasing UTU coin. However, the statement still warns users to be on the lookout for scams and fake liquidity pools. In addition, the statement also lists down some of the steps that users must adhere to if they are to successfully buy UTU tokens on Pancakeswap. In the meantime, the tech start-up reveals that as much as $150,000 in see...

Elon Musk hints Tesla may offload BTC, goes to war with crypto Twitter

Tesla’s CEO is duking it out with the crypto community on Twitter after Musk appeared to suggest the electric vehicle manufacturer will dump its BTC holdings this quarter. Elon Musk appears to have again been the catalyst for Bitcoin’s price shedding more than 10% over the weekend after Tesla's CEO appeared to suggest the firm may be planning to dump BTC from its balance sheet this quarter. On May 16, Musk replied to a tweet predicting that Tesla may dump its BTC holdings this quarter. To the chagrin of the Bitcoin community, Musk simply replied: “Indeed.” Indeed — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2021 With Musk’s popularity already dwindling within the crypto community after he criticized the energy efficiency of Bitcoin amid Tesla’s suspension of support for vehicle purchases using BTC , his one-word comment has elicited further condemnation from many leading figures in cryptocurrency. Peter McCormack (who has since changed his handle to “McObnoxious”), the host of the Wha...

Investors Confuse Ethan Allen With Ethereum: Shares up 50% Over Average Price

Ethan Allen, a U.S.-based furniture company, has been getting strange traction in markets this year, due to an interesting coincidence. The company’s stock ticker is the same as ethereum’s ticker, something it shares with one of the hottest cryptocurrencies right now. This has caused confusion among investors, who have bought Ethan Allen without doing research and thinking they are buying ethereum. Ethan Allen Enjoys Ethereum’s Market Ticker Ethan Allen, a Nasdaq-listed custom furniture company based in Vermont, has been getting a special kind of attention in the market this year, as its shares are going up for no apparent reason. But what’s the cause of all this? Confusion it seems. It turns out that Ethan Allen’s shares its ticker ( ETH ) with ethereum , one of the most popular cryptocurrencies in the market right now, making investors ape in furniture company shares rather than in digital currency. And while this might sound incredible to some, the comments on the social board...

Shiba Inu Crypto Investors Turn Multimillionaires After Almost Jobless, Relying on Stimulus Checks

Two brothers have shared the story of how they became millionaires after investing in Shiba Inu, the cryptocurrency nicknamed “dogecoin killer,” for just under two months. Before the investment, the covid-19 pandemic almost killed their business, and the government’s stimulus checks did not last long. Shiba Inu Crypto Investors Become Millionaires Two brothers from Westchester, New York, have shared their story of how they went from nearly jobless, and relying on the government’s stimulus checks, to becoming multimillionaires by investing in cryptocurrency, CNN reported Friday. Tommy, 38, and James, 42, put $200 each into Shiba Inu (SHIB), the ERC-20 token nicknamed “dogecoin killer,” in late February. One Shiba Inu coin was worth a fraction of a cent at the time but one of their friends, whom they called “a crypto expert,” told them that the coin could be a big moneymaker. In just two months, the brothers became millionaires. Before investing, Tommy said: I kind of thought abou...

Banking System Uses Significantly More Energy Than Bitcoin, Research Shows

A new report shows that the banking system consumes more than twice the amount of energy that bitcoin does. The authors analyzed bitcoin’s energy usage and compared it to the banking and gold industries. Banking System Consumes Much More Energy Than Bitcoin Galaxy Digital published a report last week entitled “On Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption: A Quantitative Approach to a Subjective Question.” The authors described, “This report took a quantitative approach, comparing Bitcoin’s energy usage to that of other industries.” Within the report was an energy consumption comparison between the banking system, gold, and bitcoin. According to the report, the Bitcoin network consumes an estimated 113.89 TWh/yr in total. The estimate comprises miner demand, miner electricity consumption, pool electricity consumption, and node electricity consumption. While the report estimates that the gold industry utilizes roughly 240.61 TWh/yr, it says that the banking system consumes the most energy. ...

Bitcoin crisis, Elon Musk criticized, Ether thrives, Dogecoin survives: Hodler’s Digest, May 9–15

Bitcoin crashes after Tesla abandons the cryptocurrency as a payment method, the crypto world criticizes Elon Musk and DOGE staves off competition from a furry rival. Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Bitcoin loses 6% in an hour after Tesla drops payments over carbon concerns Already losing dominance in the crypto rankings as altcoins were gaining strength, things went from bad to worse for Bitcoin this week as Elon Musk made a shock announcement. On Twitter, the billionaire CEO declared that purchases of Tesla cars using BTC had been stopped amid concerns about the cryptocurrency’s impact on the environment. Although Musk said Tesla had no plans to sell any more of its Bitcoin, he confirmed that the company is looking at other cr...

Elon Musk Doubles Down on Dogecoin, Tweets About Ideal Improvements

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Spacex, has doubled down on its bet that dogecoin can become a currency able to address Tesla’s new set of environmental requirements. The entrepreneur has tweeted he is now working with Dogecoin developers to improve the currency, hoping it can evolve to be more energy efficient in the future. Elon Musk’s Dogecoin Vision Elon Musk is at it again. Having raised awareness about the energy consumption and the carbon footprint of the Bitcoin (BTC) network, he has now presented a contender of his own to fulfill the role of a green, sustainable currency for the future: Dogecoin. Earlier this week, Musk revealed he was working with Dogecoin developers to find a way of making improvements to the currency to make it more efficient. This would be in line with what Tesla expressed in its press release when it announced it would not accept bitcoin payments due to environmental issues, stating it was looking other at cryptocurrencies that used less than 1% of Bit...

Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, XRP, DOT, XLM, SOL

Bitcoin price remains under pressure but select altcoins like XRP, DOT, XLM and SOL are showing signs of resuming their uptrend. Bitcoin ( BTC ) has been struggling to rise above the $50,000 mark, which could have resulted in traders dumping their Bitcoin positions to invest in altcoins. Glassnode data suggests that whale addresses owning more than 1,000 BTC have reduced from about 2,500 in February to 2,100. If large investors continue to sell, Bitcoin could witness a sharp correction until institutional investors step in and buy at lower levels. While MicroStrategy announced the purchase of 271 Bitcoin on May 13, other existing institutional investors appear to be adopting a wait and watch approach. Crypto market data daily view. Source: Coin360 In an interview with Financial NewsSquare, Square chief financial officer Amrita Ahuja said, at this point, the firm does not have any plans to add Bitcoin to its existing haul of roughly 8,027 Bitcoin purchased in October 2020...

Bitcoin slips below $46K as correction deepens; institutions keep accumulating

After failing to reclaim the $50,000 level, BTC faces renewed selling pressure in the short term. However, short-term headwinds don’t negate the bull market. Bitcoin ( BTC ) price slipped below $46,000 on Sunday for the second time in four days , raising the specter of a deeper short-term correction for the flagship digital currency. Bitcoin fell to a session low of $45,127.01, according to TradingView, before staging a modest recovery to around $45,400. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is down 5% on the day and over 20% in the last seven days. The Bitcoin price braces for short-term volatility. Source: TradingView The selloff in BTC contributed to a market-wide correction for crypto assets, as Ethereum ( ETH ) fell 7%, Polkadot ( DOT ) declined 10% and Binance Coin ( BNB ) edged down 3%. The crypto selloff intensified on Sunday, as the total market capitalization of all assets fell from a high of $2.3 trillion all the way down to $2.1 trillion. Source : C...

Caitlin Long reveals the 'real reason' people are selling crypto

"Markets now can safely predict Bitcoin and crypto prices will likely exhibit high correlation with credit markets," said Long. The founder and CEO of Avanti Financial is claiming Tether’s recent disclosure about the stablecoin's reserves may have contributed to the altcoin selloffs last week. In a series of Saturday tweets, Caitlin Long said that Tether Holdings Limited’s breakdown of Tether’s ( USDT ) reserves were not invested in “short-term, lower-risk, liquid securities,” but rather credit assets of “who-knows-what quality.” The Avanti CEO claimed traders may have felt compelled to sell other cryptocurrencies to reduce their total risk exposure, given that the stablecoin — ranked sixth with a $58 billion market cap — has the potential to bring down other tokens amid a credit market correction. “If Tether stays a de facto credit hedge fund by investing reserves this way, markets now can safely predict that Bitcoin and crypto prices will likely exhibit high correl...

Mark Cuban to Elon Musk: Accepting Bitcoin Will Actually Benefit the Environment

Shark Tank star and the owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, has made an argument that accepting cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, will actually help the environment. He told Elon Musk, whose electric car company Tesla has suspended accepting bitcoin, citing environmental problems. Mark Cuban vs Elon Musk Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has a message for Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO announced that his electric car company has suspended accepting bitcoin for payments. Cuban tweeted Wednesday: We at Mavs.com will continue to accept BTC / ETH /DOGE because we know that replacing gold as a store of value will help the environment. Tesla cited environmental issues as the reason for the suspension of bitcoin payment acceptance. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” Tesla wrote . In his tweet to Musk, Cuban cited an article ...

Norwegian Billionaire: Bitcoin Becoming Mainstream Is Inevitable — Elon Musk’s Comments ‘Haven’t Changed Anything’

Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke says bitcoin becoming mainstream is inevitable. Unlike Tesla, which stopped accepting cryptocurrency, Rokke’s company is now considering accepting bitcoin as a means of payment, emphasizing that Elon Musk’s comments about the cryptocurrency’s environmental issues have not changed anything. Norwegian Oil Mogul Dives Deeper Into Bitcoin Norwegian oil billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke believes that bitcoin could be worth millions of dollars. He owns almost 70% of the industrial investment company Aker ASA, which owns oil producer Aker BP that recently branched out into green technology and renewable energy. Rokke’s enthusiasm for bitcoin has made an impact on Aker, which now says it is open to the idea of accepting payments in BTC , Bloomberg reported Saturday. “We’re curious about this technology,” Aker CEO Oyvind Eriksen was quoted as saying. He explained that the payment system has not been configured to accept cryptocurrency yet, but noted that...

Solana pumps to all-time high as Bitcoin, altcoins lag

SOL was one of the top-performing cryptocurrencies on Sunday, outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum by a considerable margin. Solana’s native SOL token is charting new highs on Sunday, gaining in U.S. dollars and in Bitcoin ( BTC ) on the back of growing network adoption and a key technical breakthrough.  The SOL token peaked at $52.42 on Sunday, according to TradingView, having gained 24% over the 24-hour trading cycle. That marked a new all-time high for SOL and the first definitive break above the psychological $50 level. As Cointelegraph previously reported, Solana rallied to a high of $49.99 on May 2 before losing some of its momentum. The $50 target had remained elusive over the previous two weeks.  At the time of publication, SOL was trading above $51.00. Solana has been a positive performer for much of 2021. Chart: TradingView At current values, Solana has a total market capitalization of $13.9 billion, placing it in 15th spot on the crypto market cap rankings,...

The regulators are coming for crypto: What investors need to know

Increasingly sophisticated and constructive regulation of digital assets promotes innovation and helps economies to flourish. Just this week, Ether ( ETH ) breached the $4,000 mark while Bitcoin ( BTC ), the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, recently hit another all-time high at over $63,000. Meanwhile, Dogecoin ( DOGE ) continues its roller-coaster ride after "Dogefather" Elon Musk's appearance on Saturday Night Live and news about digital artwork fetching eye-watering prices in the form of nonfungible tokens is all over the airwaves. Crypto is hot, whether you like it or not. Still, not everyone is convinced. Janet Yellen, the newly-minted United States secretary of the treasury, previously questioned the legitimacy and stability of cryptocurrency as a store of value. After all, it was only three years ago when we saw the last Bitcoin bubble burst. After a meteoric rise in 2017, which saw BTC crest the $20,000 mark , a 2018 sell-off cratered the asset and att...