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Cleanspark Boosts Bitcoin Mining Capacity With Acquisition of 20,000 Bitmain Rigs
Bitcoin mining operation Cleanspark has acquired 20,000 brand-new Bitmain mining rigs for $43.6 million, the company reported. Once...
GloryFinance and Korean Technology Venture Capital Sign a $3.5m Seed Round Investment Agreement
PRESS RELEASE. Early Jan 2023, in GloryFinance’s Development office, the Project’s Core team and representatives from one of the top...
Crypto price predictions: Filecoin, Gifto, Safemoon
Filecoin price went vertical on Friday amid concerns about its utility. Gifto lost momentum as the rebrand hype died. Safemoon was left...
Square Enix to Use Polygon’s Network in Symbiogenesis, Its Upcoming Web3 Experience
Japanese gaming company Square Enix has announced that it will be using Polygon, an Ethereum sidechain, as a base for Symbiogenesis, its...
Report: FTX Promised High Earnings to African Students That Successfully Recruited Fellow Learners
The collapsed crypto exchange FTX reportedly used the lure of high earnings to convince African university students to become its...
Report Reveals Limited Accounting Records, Commingled Funds at FTX Digital Markets in the Bahamas
PWC, one of the ‘Big Four’ auditors and among the largest professional services networks globally, recently published a report on FTX...
Central Bank of Brazil President States Digital Real Pilot Is Imminent
The president of the Central Bank of Brazil, Roberto Campos Neto, has clarified the status of the development of the Brazilian central...
Terra lawsuit a ‘roadmap’ to attack other stablecoins: Delphi Labs
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) lawsuit against Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon could be...
Binance and Huobi Freeze $1.4 Million in Crypto Linked to North Korea
Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi have frozen cryptocurrencies worth approximately $1.4 million linked to North Korea, according to...
Crypto scammers feel the chill: Revenue drops 46% in 2022 — Chainalysis
Crypto scam revenue was slashed by almost half in 2022 due mainly to falling crypto asset prices, but two scam types managed to stay...
Crypto investors spent $4.6B buying ‘pump and dump’ tokens last year
Cryptocurrency investors funneled as much as $4.6 billion into crypto tokens suspected to be part of “pump and dump” schemes in 2022. A...
Keanu Reeves Says Dismissing Crypto Will Only Make It Better
Famous actor Keanu Reeves says dismissing crypto or criticizing its volatility will only “make it better in terms of how it’s...
Mike Novogratz Says Bitcoin Could Return to $30,000 Next Month
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says he wouldn’t be surprised if the price of bitcoin returns to $30,000 next month. “When...
Terraform Labs and CEO Do Kwon Charged by SEC With Multibillion-Dollar Crypto Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Terraform Labs and its CEO, Do Hyeong Kwon, with fraud, alleging that Kwon...
Federal judge hints at denying Sam Bankman-Fried any internet access as condition of bail: Report
Judge Lewis Kaplan reportedly targeted Sam Bankman-Fried’s internet usage in a hearing aimed at reviewing the former FTX chief executive...
Bitcoin price derivatives look a bit overheated, but data suggests bears are outnumbered
Bitcoin (BTC) price rallied over 12% on Feb. 15, marking the highest daily close in more than six months. Curiously, the movement happened...
Celsius bankruptcy judge authorizes the sale of $7.4M worth of Bitmain coupons
Debtors for crypto lender Celsius Network have the authority to sell coupons for mining firm Bitmain coupons worth roughly $7.4 million...
US Senator Calls for Comprehensive Crypto Regulation to Protect Consumers
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Sherrod Brown, has called for a comprehensive regulatory...
Uzbekistan Allows Foreign Firms to Deposit Funds From Crypto Trading, Restricts Other Operations
The Central Bank of Uzbekistan has permitted foreign-based businesses to open domestic bank accounts and deposit funds received from...
Bitcoin price hits $25K in new 2023 high
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has reached a new 2023 high of $25,000. The milestone comes after a surge in Bitcoin’s price over much of...
Stanford Alumni Revealed as Co-Signers of FTX Co-Founder’s $250M Bond
According to the latest court documents in the fraud case involving former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in Manhattan, the New York judge...
Bitcoin bulls aim to hold this week’s BTC gains leading into Friday’s $675M options expiry
While the U.S. Federal Reserve (FED) continues to monitor the overheated economy, the most likely scenario is further interest rate hikes...
The Blur Airdrop Unveils NFTFi on CoinEx: The DeFi Platform That’s Taking NFTs to the Next Level
PRESS RELEASE. On February 14, the highly anticipated Blur airdrop was finally kicked off. According to Dune Analytics, as of February 15,...
Total Value Locked in Defi Surpasses $50 Billion Mark for First Time Since FTX Collapse
Crypto prices have surged in value over the past few days, and the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has surpassed...
Tether market cap nears $70B as SEC crypto crackdown hurts stablecoin rivals
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to sue Paxos for issuing and listing its Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin,...
Biggest Movers: MATIC Hits 10-Month High as AVAX Extends Recent Gains
Polygon rallied to a ten-month high on Thursday, as the token rose for a third straight session. Overall, cryptocurrency markets rebounded...
BIS-funded regulator to probe DeFi entry points like stablecoins
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the financial regulator funded by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), is pushing...
Groceries to luxury cars: The state of crypto adoption in Dubai
The city of Dubai has been very welcoming to the crypto space, providing much-needed regulatory clarity to help the industry thrive. While...
How to buy and sell NFTs on Polygon
While cryptocurrencies have been quite the rage over the past couple of years, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have risen as an alternate asset...
10 emerging technologies in computer science that will shape the future
Technology is a powerful force that has significantly influenced the future. It has enriched our lives in innumerable ways, from boosting...
How to evaluate any crypto project using fundamental analysis
Fundamental analysis is the process of finding the intrinsic value of an asset, with the goal to determine whether the asset is overvalued...
Ethereum price prints ‘death cross’ after losing 13% versus Bitcoin from 2023 peak
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), has printed a death cross technical pattern versus Bitcoin (BTC) for the first time since May...
BTC price cools on latest US data as Bitcoin liquidates $80M in shorts
Bitcoin (BTC) trended toward $24,000 at the Feb. 16 Wall Street open after fresh macroeconomic data from the United States overshot...
Bitcoiner Simon Dixon on bankruptcies and Elon Musk: Hall of Flame
Name: Simon Dixon Anonymous: No Twitter Followers: 109.1K Known for: Co-founder of Bank To The Future and the dude who wrote the...
Crypto Lender Celsius to Be Acquired by Novawulf, Exiting Chapter 11
Crypto lender Celsius’ committee of unsecured creditors has chosen the digital asset investment firm Novawulf Digital Management to...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Nears $25,000, Whilst ETH Hits $1,700
Bitcoin moved significantly higher on Feb. 16, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency hit its strongest point since last August....
ETH/USD technical analysis and why the market may still rally
ETH/USD technical analysis and why the market may still rally $1000 acted as solid support for Ethereum A triangle as a reversal pattern...
Oman Capital Markets Regulator Plans to Establish a Virtual Assets Regulatory Framework
The Oman Capital Market Authority (CMA) has said it plans to establish a regulatory regime to govern as well as develop the...
Bitget Announced Panda Farm (BBO) Token Sale on Its Re-launched Launchpad Platform
PRESS RELEASE. Victoria, Seychelles, February 16, 2023 – Bitget, the world’s largest crypto copy trading exchange, announced the...
Is it safe to buy Bitcoin now that it has made a new high for the year?
Bitcoin investors must be thrilled as the leading cryptocurrency trades close to $25k. It is a new high for the year and a significant...
Ethereum price sits at key level as shorts liquidations rise
Ethereum joined the broader cryptocurrencies rally on Friday. More short-sellers continued to liquidate their positions. Ethereum...
Court to Try 2 Russians for Stealing 86 Bitcoins From Crypto Miner
Two residents of the Russian city of Tomsk will be tried for “large-scale robbery” involving the theft of cryptocurrency...
Swiss Crypto Company Taurus Raises $65 Million From Credit Suisse, Other Banks
Digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus has secured millions of U.S. dollars in investment from major banking institutions. The...
SEC-retly Failing: How the SEC Is Letting Crypto Down
When Gary Gensler (ex-Goldman Sachs investment banker) was announced as the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in...
Study: 55% of Americans Believe They Will Lose It All if a Recession Hits the United States
According to a recent study by Clever, a real estate data company, nearly three out of four Americans worry there will be a recession this...
SEC proposes tougher rules as part of its crypto custody crackdown
A five-member panel of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted 4-1 in favor of a proposal that may make it more...
Ex-Stanford dean says SBF’s parents helped his family battle cancer
A former dean of Stanford Law School who co-signed Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail said he did so because SBF’s parents have been “the truest of...
Wyoming lawmakers pass bill to prevent forced disclosure of private keys
Wyoming lawmakers have passed a bill that will prohibit courts in the state from forcing someone to disclose their digital asset private...
Galaxy Digital CEO ‘wouldn’t be surprised’ if Bitcoin hit $30K this quarter
Galaxy Digital Holdings CEO, Mike Novogratz, believes there’s a chance Bitcoin (BTC) could return to $30,000 or above before the end...
Industrial Giant Siemens Issues €60 Million Digital Bond on Blockchain
German conglomerate Siemens has for the first time issued a blockchain-based digital bond denominated in euros. In an announcement, the...
Berkshire’s Charlie Munger Says ‘Ridiculous’ Anybody Would Buy Crypto — ‘It’s an Absolute Horror’
Warren Buffett’s right-hand man and the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, says people who oppose banning...
SEC Chairman Proposes Amending Federal Custody Rules to Cover ‘All Crypto Assets’
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has proposed amending federal custody rules to cover “all crypto...
Why zero-knowledge KYC won’t work
The emergence of blockchain technology presents an opportunity to reexamine and innovate solutions used in our day-to-day life....
FDIC warns CEX.IO and its reviewers to remove potentially false claims about insurance
The United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has sent a letter to executives of cryptocurrency exchange CEX.IO warning...
US lawmakers reintroduce bill to remove roadblocks for crypto investments in retirement accounts
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville has reintroduced legislation aiming to allow United States 401(k) retirement plans to include exposure to...
FTX Bankruptcy Judge Denies US Trustee’s Request for Independent Examiner
The judge presiding over the FTX bankruptcy case has denied the U.S. Trustee’s request to appoint an independent examiner for the...
Bitcoin Ordinal Inscriptions Surge Past 100,000 Mark, Spurring Development of Supporting Infrastructure
According to the latest statistics, more than 100,000 ordinal inscriptions have been added to the Bitcoin blockchain since the start of...
Paying the way for Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador: Video
The Bitcoin (BTC) white paper title describes Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system.” So how is Bitcoin being used as a means...
SEC enforcement action creates a silver lining for GMX, Lido (LDO) and Maker (MKR) price
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has started ramping up its crackdown on the crypto industry and recent...
Price analysis 2/15: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, MATIC, SOL, DOT, LTC
Bitcoin (BTC) is leading the cryptocurrency markets on the path to recovery. Although the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) print...
France’s top museum to display NFTs: Nifty Newsletter, Feb 8–14
In this week’s newsletter, read about how France’s top contemporary art museum will display nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Find out why a...
Napster Expands Into Web3 Music Space With Acquisition of Mint Songs
On Wednesday, Napster, the music streaming service originally launched in 1999, announced that the company has finalized a deal to acquire...
Polygon ecosystem development and upcoming zkEVM launch add to MATIC’s bullish momentum
Matter Labs, the firm managing Polygon (MATIC), announced that the beta version of its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM)...
El Salvador Considers Opening Second Bitcoin Embassy in Texas to Boost Economic Exchange
On Feb. 14, 2023, Milena Mayorga, the Salvadoran ambassador to the United States, announced that her country is considering opening a...
Can you trust crypto exchanges after the collapse of FTX?
On Oct. 25, 2022 — about two weeks before the collapse of the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX — prominent DeFi...
Bitcoin price eyes $23K despite US dollar strength hitting 6-week high
Bitcoin (BTC) hit its highest in almost a week on Feb. 15 as “extremely positive” economic data boosted risk asset sentiment. BTC/USD...
Neon Link’s Gaming-Focused Neon Coin Presale Begins
PRESS RELEASE. LONDON, ENGLAND – February 15th, 2023 – Neon Link, the new blockchain gaming ecosystem consisting of a...
Biggest Movers: DOGE, SHIB Surge as Elon Musk Tweets Dog CEO Pictures
Dogecoin rallied on Feb. 15, as Elon Musk tweeted a picture of a Shiba Inu dog, with the caption: “The new CEO of Twitter is...
Former FTX Executive Accused of Fueling a Charity Through Discounted FTT Purchase
A former executive of FTX allegedly earned profits for a charity by purchasing discounted FTX tokens, FTT, before they became available to...
3 reasons why Binance’s BNB token risks sliding further by March
On Feb. 13, BNB (BNB) recorded its worst daily performance since November 2022, falling 8.5% to below $285. BNB’s price has since...
El Salvador to open a ‘Bitcoin Embassy’ in the United States
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), is connecting more countries as the government of El Salvador is opening a “Bitcoin...
Education is key to financial freedom, says Bitcoin advocate Najah Roberts
Can Bitcoin help Black Americans build wealth in a country that has historically and intentionally prevented them from doing so? The...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Extend Gains Following US Inflation Report
Bitcoin traded above $22,000 on Feb. 15, as markets continue to react to the latest U.S. inflation report. The consumer price index rose...
Only 4% of Companies in Spain Have Moved to Offer Services in the Metaverse
Only 4% of the companies in Spain have managed to apply the metaverse to their operations, according to a survey conducted by ISDI, a...
Litecoin price is ripe for a 40% jump – technical analysis
Litecoin price has been in a strong bullish trend this week. The daily chart analysis points to a 40% jump. Litecoin price has made a...
NFEX Raises $3M Seed Round to Build NFT Derivatives DEX
PRESS RELEASE. NFEX has completed a $3 Million seed round led by ABCDE Capital and included investment from other well-known institutions...
Celsius creditors committee proposes suing Mashinsky, other Celsius execs
The official committee of Celsius creditors is proposing to sue Celsius co-founder Alex Mashinsky and other executives for “fraud,...
What does BUSD shutting down mean for the crypto industry? A deep dive
Key Takeaways The SEC is suing Paxos, the issuer of Binance’s stablecoin, BUSD The stablecoin is to be phased out, with no new...
83% confess attraction to crypto fanatics on Valentine’s Day survey
Showing an interest in cryptocurrencies might just be the key to attracting a romantic partner, according to a Valentine’s Day survey...
Polygon sets late March launch date for its zkEVM mainnet beta
The long-awaited scaling upgrade from Ethereum layer-2 solution provider Polygon (MATIC) has been announced, with the beta launch of its...
Bitcoin eyeing ‘next big move’ which could see $19K retest — analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) is headed to either $28,000 or $19,000 and this week could decide all, fresh analysis says. In Twitter comments on Feb. 15,...
Ethereum supply plunges 37% on crypto exchanges post the Merge upgrade
Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has seen a constant decline in exchange supply over the past six...
South Korea’s Second-Largest City Aims to Become a Crypto Hub
South Korea’s second-largest city, Busan, is making efforts to become a crypto hub. Busan has been designated by the Korean...
FLOKI, DOGE and SHIB price soars after Musk tweeted photo of his dog
Elon Musk has made several tweets of a dog seated on his CEO seat. There has been anxiety around the broader crypto community that Twitter...
Income Movement Rightfulshare Says It Has Launched ‘First Unconditional’ Crypto UBI in South Africa
Rightfulshare, an income equality advocacy movement, recently said it has launched what it describes as the “first...
Sen. Warren vows reintroduction of AML bill that extends to DAOs and DeFi
A bi-partisan anti-money laundering (AML) bill that covers “decentralized entities” such as decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and...
UK Payments Company Wirex Becomes Visa Global Partner, Extends Crypto Card Program Reach to Over 40 Countries
Wirex, a London-based digital payments company, has announced it has become a global partner of Visa, to allow the company to bring its...
GRT rallies by 16% following The Graph’s launch on Arbitrum
GRT is one of the best performers amongst the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap today. The coin rallied after The Graph Network...
Ukraine Speeds Up Digital Hryvnia Project, Plans Pilot for This Year
Ukrainian authorities are speeding up the development of the electronic hryvnia, a high-ranking government official indicated. The...
US lawmakers and experts debate SEC’s role in crypto regulation
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission and its chair Gary Gensler were the targets of many lawmakers and witnesses at a...