Global investment management firm VanEck has submitted a proposal to the U.S  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for a Bitcoin futures mutual fund.  No Direct Investment in Bitcoin In a Form N-1A filing with the SEC on Monday (June 21, 2021), VanEck stated that the Bitcoin Strategy Fund seeks to...

All might not be gloom and doom for the premier cryptocurrency. Bitcoin (BTC) Could Reach $450,000 by Year-End The crypto markets have been range-bound since the infamous crash in May 2021 which witnessed bitcoin (BTC) touch the $30k support level. Since then, the wider crypto market has been up and...

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Colorado have greenlighted a bill that seeks to empower Universities to study the potential use case of blockchain and other new technologies in water management, according to reports on June 20, 2021. Colorado Tackles Impending Water Shortage  According to the United States Bureau of...

China’s blockchain adoption drive is set for another use case with the government looking to utilize the novel technology in improving security protocols for electronic delivering platforms tasked with managing imported containers. Several state agencies in the country have released detailed decentralized ledger technology (DLT) utilization plans even as China’s...

Among the most popular cryptocurrencies for mining are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Filecoin, Chia. Each has a relatively high investment risk, poor outlook, and questionable use-cases. What if there were a cryptocurrency that had no such weaknesses? Such is the condition of the exclusive and fully integrated privacy coin of the Utopia...

Recently, BTCManager got the opportunity to interview Mr. Emmanuel Goldstein, DeFi Scientist and Founder of Railgun, a privacy system built directly on Ethereum that enables users to interact directly with decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and other decentralized finance (DeFi) applications without having to worry about being spied on by anyone. In...

Members of El Salvador's Farabundo Marti National Liberation (FMLN) have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Bitcoin Law passed by the country’s lawmakers earlier in June. The plaintiff claims El Salvador’s bitcoin (BTC) adoption push is not in the people’s best interest, according to an EL Mundo report...

In preparation for the go-live of the new crypto exchange law scheduled to take effect in September 2021, South Korean exchanges are actively delisting obscure altcoins from their platforms, as the crypto-supporting lenders including NH Nonghyup Bank, and Shinhan Bank, among others, is now reviewing the operations of these exchanges...

 The total crypto market cap erased $309 billion from its value for the last seven days and now stands at $1,305 billion. The top 10 coins were all in red for the same time period with all of them posting double-digit losses. Dogecoin (DOGE) and Polkadot (DOT) were the worst performers...

The total crypto market cap added $17 billion to its value for the last seven days and now stands at $1,687 billion. The top 10 coins were mostly in red for the same time period with some of them posting double-digit losses. Bitcoin (BTC) was the only gainer with a 9.5...

The price of Ether (ETH) plunged to below $2k. At the time of writing, the exact value of Ether was $1.95k, and the charts showed an almost 5% drop in prices in 24 hours. Ethereum's Price Volatility On the 1st of January, the price of Ether was hovering at around...

Vitalik Buterin has hinted that he is very bullish on Eth2 development. The Russian-Canadian programmer says a successful launch of the much-anticipated Eth2 will significantly boost Ethereum adoption by businesses globally.  Buterin Bullish on Eth2 Development  The Ethereum development community has been making significant progress in the journey towards Ethereum...