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Fingers crossed as Dogecoin retreats to the 200-day MA
DOGE has lost by double digits in the past week. The cryptocurrency has been weighed by limited fundamentals around its use on Twitter....
Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Enters Non-Binding Debt Restructuring Deal With NYDIG
The bitcoin mining operation Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. has executed a restructuring deal with NYDIG, according to an announcement...
Ethereum rises 2% as PayPal heads to MetaMask for seamless crypto purchases
ETH rose 2% on Tuesday, becoming the top gainer among the #10 cryptocurrencies. ConsenSys announced the entry of PayPal on MetaMask for...
Sango Coin listing postponed by Central African Republic
The Central African Republic has announced it will delay the listing of cryptocurrency, Sango Coin, on crypto exchanges due to current...
Cointelegraph’s crypto intelligence platform is turning 2
Cointelegraph Markets Pro, a data platform designed to level the playing field for cryptocurrency market participants, has been available...
3 reasons why BNB price risks another 30% decline by January
BNB (BNB), the native token of the Binance crypto exchange, is under threat of undergoing a significant price correction in the coming...
Waves founder announces new stablecoin as USDN depegs
Sasha Ivanov, founder and CEO of the Waves blockchain platform, is planning to launch a new stablecoin amid the ongoing crisis of the...
FTT Breaks $1 Support for the First Time Since FTX Collapsed, Token Struggles With Dwindling Trade Volume
Despite FTX’s collapse last month, the trading platform’s crypto token FTT had managed to not plummet all the way down to zero, and...
‘Forget a pivot’ — Markets won’t see Fed rate cut boost in 2023, says analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) and other bulls will not benefit from a major change in United States inflation policy in 2023, one analyst says. In a...
Blockchain VC funding surpasses 2021 total despite declining since May
It’s been a tough year for crypto, and venture capital activity confirms it. The collapse of FTX in November was the latest and most...
Bitcoin steadies below $17K, but this analyst recommends a key indicator for a reversal
Bitcoin was steady below $17,000 on Tuesday A crypto analyst suggests a crossing of price above the 200-day as a bull signal Bitcoin still...
Biggest Movers: LTC Snaps Extended Bear Run, as LINK Hits 4-Day High
Litecoin snapped a recent bear run on Tuesday, as cryptocurrency prices moved marginally higher. The token was up by nearly 3% in...
My Neighbor Alice Successfully Released Its Game Version 2.0 To Mainstream Audience
Stockholm, Sweden, 20th December, 2022, Chainwire My Neighbor Alice is a blockchain-based social game that has been popular among its...
Bringing community-based solutions to crypto lending can solve trust issues
A type of decentralized finance (DeFi) that allows investors to lend their crypto tokens in return for regular interest payments, the...
Bank of Japan’s Kuroda Shocks Markets by Raising the Benchmark Rate to 0.5% From 0.25%
The Japanese yen is up 3.42% against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday as the Bank of Japan surprised the world by deciding to allow the...
What it’s actually like to use Bitcoin in El Salvador
I attempted to spend two weeks travelling in El Salvador living on Bitcoin. I tried to pay for every single thing with Bitcoin, or...
Lost 100 BTC from scam exchange QuadrigaCX suddenly move
Key Takeaways QuadrigaCX filed for bankruptcy in 2019 after its CEO Gerald Cotten died in mysterious and sudden circumstances Cotten was...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Back Above $1,200 as Bank of Japan Policy Decision Impacts Markets
Ethereum rose back above the $1,200 level on Tuesday, as the dollar rebounded following the latest Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy decision....
Report: Nigerian Lawmakers Set to Pass Law That Diminishes Central Bank Influence on Crypto
Nigeria is expected to designate cryptocurrency as capital for investment if the country’s House of Representatives votes to approve...
Meta Will Continue to Push Metaverse Investments in 2023 According to Head Of Reality Labs
Meta will continue to invest in VR (virtual reality) tech in 2023, according to statements made by Andrew Bosworth, head of Reality Labs,...
Police body cam leaks suspect’s seed phrase during vehicle inspection
While self-custody is considered the ultimate way to secure one’s funds, many fail to acknowledge the risks associated with physically...
Bitcoin ditches $16K dip as ‘Leeroy Jenkins’ Bank of Japan flattens dollar
Bitcoin (BTC) recovered from an overnight dip on Dec. 20 as Japan’s central bank sparked chaos on global financial markets. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Crowdfunding gets leg up from Lightning Addresses on Bitcoin
The Lightning Network strikes again. In a small yet significant development for Bitcoin (BTC), a new type of BTC address has been...
Why is MINA outperforming the broader cryptocurrency market today?
MINA is up by more than 5% today, outperforming the broader crypto market. MINA is targeting the $0.60 resistance level. Bitcoin and Ether...
‘Visibly Shaking’ FTX Co-Founder Hammers out a ‘Wasted Day’ in Court as Bahamian, US Legal Team Prep for Extradition
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) had a difficult day in court on Monday according to a number of accounts that said SBF’s local...
IMX surge by 10% after the WAGMI NFT launch on Immutable X
IMX is the best performer amongst the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap today. IMX could break past the $0.50 resistance level in the...
Meta VR Consultant John Carmack Leaves Company; Criticizes Inefficiencies of VR and Metaverse Projects
John Carmack, the founder of renowned company ID Software and executive consultant on VR for Meta, has announced he is leaving Meta. Among...
Indian Government Updates Parliament on Cryptocurrency Bill and Investigations of Crypto Exchanges
The government of India has provided some updates on its cryptocurrency bill and investigations of crypto exchanges in Lok Sabha, the...
Elon Musk Promises to Step Down as Head of Twitter — Edward Snowden Throws His Name in the Hat for CEO
Tesla CEO and Twitter chief Elon Musk has promised to step down as head of Twitter. As the billionaire seeks a new CEO to run the social...
Bank Holdups and Protests Continue to Rise in Lebanon as Depositors Demand Their Own Savings
On Dec. 17, reports detail that residents in Lebanon have been staging sit-ins and protests at banks in order to access their own savings...
BTC price faces 20% drop in weeks if Bitcoin avoids key level — Analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed rigid below $17,000 at the Dec. 19 Wall Street open as skeptical traders feared more downside. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
$16K retest the most likely path for Bitcoin, according to 2 derivative metrics
Bitcoin (BTC) broke below $16,800 on Dec. 16, reaching its lowest level in more than two weeks. More importantly, the movement was a...
Commodity Analyst Mike McGlone Suggests ‘Bitcoin Appears Poised to Resume Its Inclination to Outperform’
Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity analyst, Mike McGlone, believes a “warm spell” is coming in terms of bitcoin markets...
SHIB Community Members and Countdown Clock Hint Shibarium Launch Is Imminent
According to a myriad of social media posts, the meme crypto project Shiba Inu is planning to launch the highly anticipated Shibarium, a...
Learn about OKT, a Cosmos-based altcoin now defying a bear market
OKT token rose by double digits last week The cryptocurrency has been boosted by new partnerships OKT is correcting but remains on an...
Binance coin stabilises, but this analyst thinks BNB is heading the LUNA way
Binance coin recovered slightly on Monday after a losing streak Crypto analyst says Binance could collapse similarly to Terra Luna The...
Back to basics for Chainlink. Bulls have to defend $6 before a further crash happens
Chainlink traded at $6 on Monday, stabilising at the crucial support LINK buyers have always defended $6 against the onslaught of bears...
Binance US Plans to Acquire Voyager Digital’s Assets for $1 Billion in Bankruptcy Bid
According to a Binance blog post, Binance US has entered an agreement with Voyager Digital Ltd., in order to acquire its assets. The...
Shiba Inu nears a demand zone as the SHIB army guesses Shibarium in “countdown”
Shiba Inu recovered 1.21% on Monday after a bearish move The developers teased a “countdown,” as some fans speculate the...
Biggest Movers: SHIB, XMR Extend Recent Gains on Monday
Shiba inu rose for a third consecutive session on Monday, as the meme coin continued to move away from last week’s lows....
Cardano hits a new low despite another milestone
Cardano has lost 13% in seven days to hit a new bottom for the year The blockchain continues to attract new projects as Plutus scripts...
Basel Committee Finalizes Rules for Bank Exposure to Cryptocurrency Assets
The Basel Committee, the organization in charge of setting global bank standards, has finalized its new rules related to banks and...
$4B OneCoin scam co-founder pleads guilty, faces 60 years jail
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, the co-founder of the multi-billion dollar fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin has pleaded guilty to...
‘Wave lower’ for all markets? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the week before Christmas with a whimper as a tight trading range gives BTC bulls little cheer. A weekly close just...
What is crypto market capitulation and its significance
Capitulation literally means concede. In the financial sphere, this term reflects a period of aggressive selling when the last of the...
Crypto investment firm CoinShares debuts trading on Nasdaq Stockholm
Major cryptocurrency investment firm CoinShares has debuted trading on Nasdaq Stockholm, the primary securities exchange of the Nordic...
Bitcoin addresses with 100+ coins reach new one-year high
Bitcoin addresses with 100 or more coins hit 16,120 on 19 December 2022. Each address is worth $1.67 million at current prices, increasing...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Consolidate as Markets Prepare for Christmas Break
Bitcoin continued to consolidate to start the week, as market volatility remained in place ahead of the Christmas holidays. The...
Ethereum bulls wake up after four years to transfer 22,982 ETH
At a time of bear market-induced uncertainty, crypto investors often tend to stick with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to evade impermanent...
Shiba Inu leads the charge as the broader cryptocurrency market slowly recovers
SHIB is the best performer amongst the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap on Monday. It is up by more than 2% today and could rally...
Chinese Zhejiang Province Aims to Build a $28.7 Billion Metaverse Industry by 2025
Zhejiang, a coastal province of China, has presented a metaverse development plan that seeks to build a metaverse hub in its territory....
Is Ether set to capture the $1,250 resistance level soon as bulls slowly take control?
Ether is up by less than 1% but could rally higher in the near term. ETH has been trading below the $1,300 resistance level in recent...
Bitcoin price recoils as hopes for a Santa rally fade
Bitcoin price has moved sideways in the past few weeks. The Federal Reserve sounded more hawkish than expects. It has formed a rising...
Toko Token price prediction as TKO volume spikes
Toko Token is the crypto for Tokocrypto, a leading Indonesian exchange. The token has come to the spotlight following Binance acquisition...
Web3 Privacy Layer Aztec Raises $100 Million in Series B Funding Round to Produce an Encrypted Version of Ethereum
Aztec, a Web3 privacy layer, has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by the Andreessen Horowitz subsidiary a16z crypto....
Government Agencies Need Crypto Wallets and Access to Exchanges, Russian Prosecutors Say
Russian authorities are finding it hard to cash out digital assets they have gotten hold of, prosecutors have warned. They have also urged...
SEC Chairman Says Important to Regulate Crypto Issuers and Intermediaries
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has stressed the importance of bringing...
Shark Tank Star Kevin O’Leary Defends Support of Crypto Exchange FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has defended his support of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its former CEO...
Federal Prosecutors Probe Democrats Over Donations From Sam Bankman-Fried
Several members of the U.S. Democratic Party and campaign committees are reportedly being probed by federal prosecutors over donations...
New FTX CEO Told Members of Congress SBF’s Family ‘Certainly Received Payments’ From the Business
According to multiple reports, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents face scrutiny over their reported involvement with their son’s...
While Miners Deal With Low BTC Prices, Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Target Expected to Increase 3% Higher
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty target is expected to increase on Dec. 19, 2022, after printing the largest reduction recorded in 2022...
Gemini Forms Creditors Committee With Houlihan Lokey to Resolve Genesis Liquidity Issues
Roughly two weeks ago a report from the Financial Times (FT) claimed Genesis Global Capital owed $900 million to Gemini customers and the...
Donald Trump Trading Card NFTs Skyrocket in Value Despite Being Mocked for His ‘Major Announcement’
After the former 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump revealed his non-fungible token (NFT) trading card collection,...
Onecoin Co-Founder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges in US
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, a co-founder and operator of Onecoin, has pled guilty to his part in building the notorious crypto pyramid. The...
Crypto Twitter Speaks Up for Hal Finney’s Account, SBF Was Reportedly Told by Binance CEO: Stop Causing ‘More Damage’ — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review
Bitcoiners on Twitter recently pleaded with the CEO of the social media platform, Elon Musk, to preserve the account of late computer...
OKX cites intermittent outage amid Alibaba Cloud equipment anomaly
Crypto exchange OKX witnessed service disruptions after primary infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud announced a hardware failure in...
Binance to Help Azerbaijan With Crypto Regulations
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has offered to support Azerbaijan in efforts to establish regulations for digital assets. The leading coin...
Ghanaian Cedi Appreciates by More Than 30% in 4 Days — Currency Recovery Follows IMF Loan Announcement
Just a few months after it became the world’s worst-performing currency, the Ghanaian cedi’s exchange rate versus the U.S....
Bahrain Telecom Operator Starts Accepting Crypto Payments
Stc Bahrain, a subsidiary of the Bahrain telecoms operator Stc Group, recently said its partnership arrangement with payment service...
CoinEx: To Embrace a New Crypto Future by Making Crypto Trading Easier in the Next Five Years
PRESS RELEASE. In December 2022, CoinEx will celebrate its fifth birthday. Since its inception, the crypto exchange has gone through bulls...
National Bank of Kazakhstan Publishes Whitepaper for Digital Tenge
The central bank of Kazakhstan has completed the second phase of testing for its digital currency and published a whitepaper. The studies...
G20 Countries to Build Crypto Policy Consensus for Better Global Regulation
The G20 countries aim to build a policy consensus on crypto assets for better global regulation. “After the crypto meltdown which we...
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer: I Trust My Money More in Draftkings Than I Would Binance
The host of Mad Money, Jim Cramer, has cast doubt on the trustworthiness of crypto exchange Binance. “Why can’t people in...
SBF risks 115 years in jail, Binance’s FUD, and auditors quit crypto: Hodler’s Digest Dec. 11-17
Top Stories This Week FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested, set to be extradited to US Sam Bankman-Fried was taken into custody by the...
US Senator: Cryptocurrency Cannot Be Stopped, FTX Collapse Isn’t an Indictment of Crypto
U.S. Senator Pat Toomey says illegal actions by crypto exchange FTX must be separated “from perfectly lawful and innovative...
Report: FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried Plans to Surrender to US Extradition Request
Disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has reportedly reversed his decision to contest his extradition to the United States....
Software Firm Consensys Partners With Paypal, Metamask Users Can Use Payment Processor to Buy ETH
On Dec. 14, the Ethereum software firm Consensys announced that the company has teamed up with the payment processing giant Paypal. The...
TVL in Defi Slides Under $40 Billion, Tapping a Low Not Seen Since February 2021
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has fallen below the $40 billion mark for the first time since the first week...
Bitcoin still lacks this on-chain signal for BTC bull market — David Puell
Bitcoin (BTC) only needs one more key on-chain signal for a classic bull market to begin, analyst David Puell says. In a tweet on Dec. 17,...
UNHCR Launches Blockchain Payment Solution to Support Ukrainians Displaced by War
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently said it has launched a blockchain payment solution for digital cash...
Capgemini: Nine out of Ten Consumers Interested in the Metaverse
A report issued by Capgemini, a consulting firm, has found that most consumers are at least curious about the metaverse and what it might...
FTX Collapse Has Rekindled Security and Reliability Concerns for Web3 Projects Says Marketing Expert
The fallout from the collapse of failed crypto exchange FTX is forcing Web3 brands, and projects previously focused on managing the...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Drops Below $1,200 to Start the Weekend
Ethereum fell below $1,200 to start the weekend, as prices continued to trade close to a multi-week low. This decline comes as market...
Biggest Movers: ADA Hits Fresh Record Low, BNB Down for Seventh Straight Day
Cardano fell to a fresh all-time low on Saturday, as prices plunged by over 10% to start the weekend. The move saw the token drop for a...
Gemini Customer Data Leak Was Advertised for Sale on Hacker Forums for 30 BTC in September
On Dec. 14, 2022, the crypto exchange Gemini revealed that some Gemini customers have been the target of phishing attacks that the firm...
Bitvavo to prefund locked DCG assets worth $296.7M amid liquidity crisis
The Digital Currency Group and its affiliates (DCG), which manages $296.7 million (280 million euros) in deposits and digital assets of...
Brazil Could Launch Its Defi-Integrated Digital Real in 2024
Roberto Campos Neto, president of the Central Bank of Brazil, has stated that the digital real project, the Brazilian central bank digital...
Industry execs confident in DeFi adoption despite security flaws: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you...
Bitcoin and Ethereum gave back their gains, but has anything actually changed?
Crypto markets threw a nice head fake this week by rallying into resistance on a “positive” Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, before...
Big Short Investor Michael Burry Says Audits of Crypto Exchanges Like Binance and FTX Are ‘Meaningless’
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, says the problem with auditing cryptocurrency...