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Bahamas Corrections Commissioner Says FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried Is in ‘Good Spirits’ in the Prison Sick Bay
According to local reports, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is in “good spirits” and is being kept in the maximum security unit in...
Bitcoin targets $16.7K amid fear BNB may ‘drag whole crypto market down’
Bitcoin (BTC) looked set to ditch $17,000 after the Dec. 16 Wall Street open as United States equities continued to fall. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Total crypto market cap takes another hit, but traders remain neutral
The total cryptocurrency market capitalization dropped 8.1% in the past two days after failing to break the $880 billion resistance on...
Why is Ethereum (ETH) price down today?
Ether (ETH) price is down on Dec. 16 and the pre-FOMC rally to $1,350 was obliterated after Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell issued...
Stablecoin BUSD’s Supply Shrunk by 3.24 Billion in 3 Days, Market Cap Is Down 20% Since Last Month
While billions of dollars in crypto assets have been withdrawn from Binance, the world’s largest exchange in terms of volume, the...
Solana Struggles to Remain in the Top 20 as Prior Ties to FTX and Alameda Wounded the Project
Amid the market chaos within the crypto economy and following the climactic FTX collapse, the crypto asset solana has been one of the...
Earn 175% APR Through ApeCoin (APE) Staking on LBank Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Dec 16, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has recently launched ApeCoin...
Biggest Movers: ADA Hits All-Time Low on Friday, MATIC Extends Recent Downtrend
Cardano fell to an all-time low on Friday, as sentiment in crypto markets remained bearish in today’s session. The token fell for a...
Accounting Firm Mazars Stops Proof-of-Reserve Audits for Crypto Firms, Binance Audit Removed From the Web
The accounting firm Mazars Group has stopped doing proof-of-reserves (POR) audits for cryptocurrency exchanges and the recently published...
Build on Bitcoin, ‘a better platform for Web3,’ says Lightning contest founder
Bear markets are for building Bitcoin (BTC) companies. At least, that’s what the Legends of Lightning, a nine-week contest for competing...
Bitcoin dips under $17K as ‘craziest rumors’ over Binance sink BTC price
Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $17,000 on Dec. 16 as traders warned of overreaction to “FUD” involving exchange Binance and others. BTC/USD...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Below $17,000, as ETH Nears $1,200 Breakout
Bitcoin fell below $17,000 on Dec. 16, as bearish pressure continued to intensify following yesterday’s disappointing U.S. retail...
HOOK price defies gravity as Hooked Protocol activity rises
Hooked Protocol is a small but fast-growing platform. Its activity has surged to position 1 in DappRadar rankings. Hooked Protocol price...
Argentine Province of San Luis to Issue Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin and Local Art NFTs
San Luis, a province of Argentina, has approved a bill allowing it to issue a blockchain-based, dollar-pegged stablecoin. The bill, which...
Crypto price predictions: Bitcoin, Cardano, Binance Coin
Crypto prices remained in a consolidation phase this week as concerns about FTX contagion continued. They also reacted to the latest...
NFT Sale Starts December 17, 00:00(EST) | Check out the New KV and Sale Information | Entertainment DAO Project ‘SUPER SAPIENSS’ by Three Directors Representing Japan
PRESS RELEASE. Financie Inc. pleased to announce that the “SUPER SAPIENSS NFT” sales conducted by “SUPER...
Will XLM recover from its recent dip after MoneyGram announced support for Stellar Aid Assist?
XLM has lost more than 3% of its value in the last 24 hours. MoneyGram has announced support for the Stellar Aid Assist The total crypto...
Crypto Futures ETFs Raise More Than $73 Million Ahead of Hong Kong Launch
Hong Kong’s first crypto-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted over $73 million ahead of their debut on the...
Reports Suggest Caroline Ellison Is Working With Feds and Snitching on FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried
Following the arrest of the former FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), spectators continue to wonder where ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline...
ECB Hikes Interest Rates by 50bps; Signals Need for Further Hikes to Fight Inflation
The European Central Bank (ECB) decided to hike three of its key interest rates by 50 basis points (0.5%) as part of its ongoing war...
Web3 Applications Will Increasingly Be Built on Custom Blockchains, Says Ankr’s Head of Product
As blockchain developers compete for traffic and resources for their respective dapps (decentralized applications), the downside to this,...
Stock price for troubled Bitcoin miner Core Scientific surges 200%
Bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific’s stock has soared nearly 200% in the past four days, following the positive reception for a Dec. 14...
Bank of Russia Moves to Safeguard Crypto Companies Against Sanctions
The Central Bank of Russia has introduced measures to protect entities working with digital assets from sanctions pressures. These...
US Senators Unveil New Crypto Bill — Experts Call It the ‘Most Direct Attack’ on Personal Freedom and Privacy of Crypto Users
Two U.S. senators, including Elizabeth Warren, have introduced a bipartisan bill for the regulation of cryptocurrency. The bill, titled...
Trump Launches NFT Card Collection — Sweepstake Winners Could Dine or Golf With the 45th President
The former 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the launch of his new non-fungible token (NFT) trading cards on...
‘Big Time’ and other Web3 games take home the gold at the inaugural GAM3 awards
The Web3 gaming awards event, the GAM3 Awards, hosted by Polkastarter Gaming, has announced 16 winners at a live event on December 15....
Bitcoin Santa Claus rally unlikely, according to on-chain and derivatives data
As the coldest days of the crypto winter set in, investors’ speculative interest in the crypto market has fallen to pre-2021 levels,...
Court Documents Say FTX Boss Ryan Salame Snitched on SBF 2 Days Before the Bankruptcy Filing
According to court documents associated with the FTX bankruptcy proceedings, on Nov. 9 — two days before the company filed for Chapter 11...
Another Mysterious Person Signs a 2009 BTC Address, Message Shared by Martin Shkreli Mentions Convicted Felon Paul Le Roux
Just recently, the crypto community discovered a bitcointalk.org forum user who signed a message from bitcoin block 1,018, and the signer...
Minxie Launches NFT Project That Aims to Provide the Untapped Creator Economy With Solutions Through Blockchain
PRESS RELEASE. “NFTs aren’t dead, they are going to be everywhere” says Tina Lou, Head of Marketing at Minxie, “and, actually, the bear...
Biggest Movers: DOGE, LTC Near 3-Week Lows on Thursday
Dogecoin was trading close to a three-week low on Thursday, following the release of retail sales figures in the United States. Customer...
Ethics 101: Should crypto projects ever negotiate with hackers?
“A highly profitable trading strategy” was how hacker Avraham Eisenberg described his involvement in the Mango Markets exploit that...
Report: Crypto Exchange Gemini Suffers From Data Breach, 5.7 Million Emails Allegedly Leaked
According to a recent report, the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini suffered from a breach of data and reportedly 5.7 million emails were...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Falls From 5-Week High as Traders Continue to Digest Fed Decision
Bitcoin fell from a five-week high on Thursday, as markets continued to react to the latest Federal Reserve interest rate decision. The...
HEXN․IO: New Opportunity to Earn Passive Income Through Crypto
PRESS RELEASE. Crypto enthusiasts are constantly looking for new options to get passive income with crypto, but this task has become quite...
Metropoly Pre-Sale Raised 300k After Releasing Beta
British Virgin Islands, BVI, 15th December, 2022, Chainwire The Metropoly presale for the METRO token has started successfully, with seven...
Time for Serious Global Crypto Regulation, Germany Says
Germany’s financial watchdog has issued a call for global regulation of the crypto industry in the aftermath of the FTX collapse. The...
Relying on Centralized Databases Makes Dapps Vulnerable to Data Tampering Says Nate Holiday
Decentralized applications (dapps) are prone to data tampering because they “are largely built on top of centralized databases and...
FTX Bahamas co-CEO Ryan Salame blew the whistle on FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
A high-ranking executive at FTX’s Bahamian entity tipped off local regulators of potential fraud perpetrated at the cryptocurrency...
Why has the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust discount hit an all-time high?
Key Takeaways Grayscale is the largest Bitcoin fund in the world Discount to underlying asset (Bitcoin) has reached record levels,...
Bitcoin retreats below $18k as Fed raises interest rate to a 15-year high
Bitcoin has dropped below the $18k once again following its rally earlier this week. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a...
Russian Social Media Giant Vkontakte Launches NFT Service
Russia’s largest social network, Vkontakte, has launched a feature allowing users to upload digital collectibles to the platform. Account...
Bitcoin retraces intraday gains as bears aim to pin BTC price under $18K
On Dec. 14, Bitcoin (BTC) broke above $18,000 for the first time in 34 days, marking a 16.5% gain from the $15,500 low on Nov. 21. The...
Realized losses from FTX collapse peaked at $9B, far below earlier crises
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has attempted to put the FTX collapse into perspective — comparing peak weekly-realized losses in...
Creditor offers Bitcoin miner Core Scientific $72M to avoid bankruptcy
Financial services platform B. Riley has offered Bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific $72 million in financing to avoid bankruptcy and...
Alameda tried to redeem 3,000 wBTC days before bankruptcy: BitGo CEO
Mike Belshe, the CEO of digital asset custodian BitGo has confirmed that Alameda Research attempted to redeem 3,000 Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC)...
Kevin O’Leary Tells US Lawmakers FTX Failed Because Binance Intentionally Killed It
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has told U.S. Congress that he believes the collapsed crypto exchange FTX failed...
Crypto users claim Gemini email leak occurred much earlier than first reported
“Not handled well.” This was how one user described the revelations brought forth by Cointelegraph on Dec. 14 regarding the...
Senate FTX hearing: calls for regulation and crypto criticisms aplenty
United States lawmakers with the Senate Banking Committee had their share of crypto proponents and skeptics in a hearing exploring the...
The Agenda podcast chats crypto and sex work with WetSpace CEO Allie Rae
What do the cryptocurrency and porn industries have in common? As it turns out, both are frequent targets of the traditional financial...
Recently Signed 2009 Bitcoin Block Reward Linked to Hal Finney’s Set of BTC Transactions
At the end of November, an unknown person signed a signature tied to an extremely old block reward mined on Jan. 19, 2009, and the user...
Amid Withdrawals, Binance CEO Warns of Bumpy Months Ahead
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has reportedly told staff to expect some difficult months as the leading cryptocurrency exchange is...
How to trade crypto using Wyckoff accumulation theory
On Dec. 2, independent market analyst Stockmoney Lizards said Bitcoin (BTC) had entered the process of bottoming out inside its current...
Bitcoin bear market 70% dip kills BTC ‘tourists’ as metric screams buy
Bitcoin (BTC) speculators have disappeared from the market and their mood “destroyed,” says popular analyst Philip Swift. In a tweet on...
Nasdaq warns Bitcoin mining firm Bitfarms about share price deficiency
The Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Bitfarms is facing compliance challenges over its listing on Nasdaq due to the ongoing...
Fonbnk’s Michael Kimani sorts out facts on crypto adoption in Africa
The African continent has been tipped as an important market for crypto adoption due to its young population, lousy economic management by...
Bitcoin traders await FOMC, Powell as BTC price hits new 1-month high
Bitcoin (BTC) set new one-month highs on the Dec. 14 Wall Street open on a day full of key events for the United States Federal Reserve....
Reaching the Bitcoin price bottom is a process, says The Wolf of All Streets, Scott Melker
Crypto investor, trader and content creator Scott Melker, also known as The Wolf Of All Streets, joined the new Crypto Trading Secrets...
Here is why Bitcoin price gave back all its intraday gains
On Dec. 14, Bitcoin (BTC) price hit a 1-month high and saw a brief resurgence in bullish momentum, but the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open...
Federal Reserve Hikes Rate by 50bps, FOMC Signals Rate to Rise to 5.1% Next Year
The U.S. central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) convened on Wednesday and raised the federal funds rate by 50 basis...
NFT Sales This Week Jumped 27% Higher, Cryptopunks Rise Above Bored Apes
On Dec. 14, 2022, statistics show that non-fungible token (NFT) sales jumped 27.72% higher than NFT sales recorded last week. The Bored...
Biggest Movers: SOL Hits 3-Week High, as ADA Consolidates Ahead of FOMC Meeting
Solana surged to a three-week high ahead of this afternoon’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting (FOMC). The token rose for a...
SBF to Remain in a Bahamian Jail for 2 Months, Report Claims FTX Execs Had a Covert Chat Channel Called ‘Wirefraud’
On Tuesday, the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), appeared in court with his newly appointed lawyer Mark Cohen, and his legal...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Remain Higher Ahead of Fed Rate Decision
Bitcoin continues to trade close to $18,000 on Wednesday, as markets remain bullish, following the latest U.S. inflation report. Following...
Crypto blame game back on US politicians’ menu following SBF arrest
The arrest of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried by the Bahamian authorities served as a cue for anti-crypto proponents to reignite...
Russia Cracking Down on Crypto Miners Minting in Residential Areas
Russian authorities are now prosecuting miners extracting cryptocurrency using subsidized electricity for the population, according to a...
Is it safe to buy Bonfida (FIDA) today?
Bonfida turned 2 years this week. The volume of Solana Name Service (SNB) purchases has risen. Bonfida price rose slightly as investors...
Dvision Network Announces Dvision World 2․0 Release In Beta Mode
PRESS RELEASE. As part of their ongoing development, Dvision Network has announced the launch of their upgraded Dvision World 2.0 in Beta...
Optimism price has rocketed by 15%: Will it retest $2 soon?
Optimism price has risen by about 15% in the past 24 hours. Its DeFi TVL has crashed to $674 million from over $2 billion. Optimism price...
Immutable X’s new trading reward design could push IMX past $0.50 soon
Immutable X has introduced a new Trading Rewards design. IMX has added 5% to its value today and could rally higher over the next few...
Bitso Partners With Felix Pago to Offer Whatsapp-Based Remittance Services Between Mexico and US
Bitso, a Latam-focused cryptocurrency exchange, has partnered with chat-based payments provider Felix Pagos in order to offer...
Binance Coin Price Prediction: A Mountain of Red Flags
Binance Coin has been on edge following the collapse of FTX. Binance holds most of the BNB coin in circulation. There are too many red...
How Ukraine Became a Crypto Innovation Hub – Alex Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation
Alex Bornyakov is the Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about...
Mobile Payments Outpacing Debit Cards in Argentina According to Central Bank Reports
Mobile payments are thriving in Argentina, leaving behind other traditional payment methods, including credit and debit cards. According...
Is DeFi back? GMX rallies toward all-time high and LOOKS price gains 30%
In a recent blog post, cryptocurrency legend and former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes mentioned he holds sizable bags of GMX and LOOKS tokens....
US Lawmaker Calls on SEC Chair Gensler to Testify About His Crypto Regulatory Failures
U.S. Congressman Tom Emmer has called on the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, to testify before...
FTX Co-Founder Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan, Bahamian Magistrate Denies SBF’s Bail
On Dec. 13, 2022, the Southern District of New York (SDNY) prosecutor’s office and SDNY attorney Damian Williams revealed that the...
Ethereum rallies to $1,350, but derivatives metrics remain neutral to bearish
Ether (ETH) rallied 6.3% to $1,350 on Dec. 13, mimicking a similar failed attempt that took place on Nov. 10. Despite reaching the highest...
‘You can commit fraud in shorts and T-shirts in the sun,’ says SDNY attorney on SBF indictment
Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the investigation leading to charges against former...
CFTC Follows SEC by Filing a Lawsuit Against Disgraced FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
On Dec. 13, 2022, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), FTX Trading LTD.,...
Binance net withdrawals topped $3.6B over the last 7 days: Report
Binance appears to be suffering from a decline in liquidity. A report from crypto analytics firm, Nansen, indicates that Binance has had...
Bahamian Government Officials Allegedly Asked SBF to Mint Millions of Dollars in New Tokens Amid the FTX Collapse
On Monday, court documents from lawyers involved with the FTX Trading LTD Chapter 11 bankruptcy case allege that the government of The...
FTX hearing: US lawmakers criticize use of Quickbooks, creepy dough, and ‘conscientious stupidity’
Though Sam Bankman-Fried could not attend the congressional hearing virtually due to his recent arrest in the Bahamas, United States...
Amid Speculation and Rumors Surrounding Binance, Exchange Token BNB Suffers Losses From the Alleged FUD
Following the FTX collapse, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume, Binance, has been surrounded by rumors and speculation in...
Zogi Labs Enters Partnership with Cronos to Launch The Legends of Bezogia
Dubai, December 13th – Zogi Labs, a pioneering crypto company & gaming studio famously known for the BEZOGE token and the...
Coinbase launches USDC trading on Avalanche – AVAX is up by 8% today
Crypto exchange Coinbase now supports the native trading of USDC on Avalanche. AVAX is the best performer amongst the top 20...
Biggest Movers: AVAX Hits 1-Week High, as LTC Also Climbs Following US Inflation Data
Avalanche rose to a one-week high on Tuesday, as markets reacted to the latest inflation report in the United States. Consumer prices rose...
Decentralized solutions for climate change are key as COP disappoints
Climate change has become one of the most pressing issues in the modern world with mounting pressure on companies to develop and implement...
Bitcoin sees CPI volatility as lower inflation sends BTC price to $18K
Bitcoin (BTC) hit new one-month highs on Dec. 13 as United States inflation data sent a surge of optimism through markets. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Can Bitcoin survive a Carrington Event knocking out the grid?
“In a massive solar storm, which would be hugely damaging to a modern economy’s infrastructure, the blockchain parts might well be the...