CRYPTO

Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraoh.com,

Ferrari, the Italian luxury sports car producer, is preparing to expand its cryptocurrency payment system to Europe following a successful launch in the United States.

Ferrari will extend its crypto payment feature to its network of European dealers from the end of July 2024, the firm officially announced on July 24.

At the time of the announcement, most of Ferrari's European dealers had already adopted or were in the (more…)

Authored by Omid Malekan via Medium.com,

Satoshi Nakamoto had multiple insights, but the most profound may have been the use of circular logic to address an unsolved problem in the decades old field of distributed consensus.

Before Bitcoin, there was no known way to secure a permissionless system where participants were free to come and go. Nakamoto Consensus does it with incentives, the economics of which are circular.

Why is the decentralized Bitcoin network secure? Because the (more…)

Authored by Alex O'Donnell via CoinTelegraph.com,

After years of regulatory pushback and countless amended registration filings, spot Ether  exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are finally hitting the market. 

For the first time, shares of publicly-traded Ethereum (ETH) ETFs will be listed alongside the likes of Apple Inc (AAPL) and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) on some of the United States’ most popular brokerage platforms.

The anticipated listings are a defining moment for cryptocurrency markets and an opportunity for millions of US institutional and retail investors. Here’s what you need to know to make the most of it.

When will spot Ether ETFs be available?

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) confirmed July 23 as the launch date for the five ETFs assigned to trade on its platform: 21Shares Core Ethereum ETF, Fidelity Ethereum Fund, Invesco Galaxy Ethereum (more…)