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Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin’s Address Sells Trillions of Airdropped Tokens, Causes Illiquid Coin Prices to Plummet
On March 7, onchain observers noticed that Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, had allegedly sold billions and trillions of...
Fed Chair Warns of Higher Interest Rates Than Previously Anticipated, Faster Hikes
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned that “the ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously...
India-Russia Oil Deals Chip Away at Dollar Dominance in International Trade
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Western sanctions on Russia and oil trading between Moscow and India have started to erode the...
Biggest Movers: XRP Hits 2-Week High, SHIB Marginally Higher
Xrp rose higher for a third straight session on Wednesday, as prices moved to a two-week high. The rise comes despite market sentiment...
Silk Road Bitcoin for sale? US government-linked addresses transfer $1B in BTC
Over 50,000 Bitcoin (BTC), worth $1 billion, were moved from multiple wallets connected to United States Government law enforcement...
The ‘soft shell taco method’ of becoming a hot new NFT artist — Terrell Jones, NFT Creator
Artist: Terrell Jones, Michigan Date minted first NFT: March 28, 2021 Which blockchains? Ethereum, Tezos Influenced by classic gangster...
China’s Wechat Adds Support for Digital Yuan Payments
Chinese social media platform Wechat has introduced support for the state-backed digital yuan in its popular payment app. Over a billion...
Is it safe to buy the Voyager Digital token (VGX) rally?
Voyager Digital token jumped to February highs. The bankruptcy judge accepted that the company could be acquired by Binance. These...
Mizar Launches $MZR Token on Arbitrum and Unveils DeFi Roadmap
London, United Kingdom, 8th March, 2023, Chainwire Mizar, a social trading platform that boasts over 10,000 users and sees daily trades in...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Falls Below $22,000, as Powell Warns of Higher Rates
Bitcoin moved below the $22,000 level on March 8, as markets continued to react to U.S. Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony....
Is it safe to buy Bitcoin after Silvergate Capital’s stock price crash?
Bitcoin price crashed last Friday as Silvergate Capital delayed filling a 10-K report No bounce followed For bulls to have a...
Like Venezuela, Some Retailers in Argentina Are Now Pricing Items in Dollars
Some retailers in Argentina are already pricing imported items in U.S. dollars, according to reports from local news outlets. The idea...
Cathie Wood’s ARK ignores Silvergate, buys Coinbase stock for 6th straight month
Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Coinbase has remained a firm “buy” for ARK Invest throughout its recent price drop. The latest data shows ARK...
Brace for BTC price volatility? Bitcoin ‘coin days destroyed’ metric jumps to 2-month highs
On March 8, the U.S. government moved 49,000 Bitcoin worth $1 billion seized from the Silk Road. The transfer was accompanied by Bitcoin’s...
Solidus – Invest in the Future
PRESS RELEASE. It is incredible to see the utilisation of AI in every industry in some shape or form, but above all else, companies such...
Lawyers’ picnic: FTX counsel and advisers rake in $34M in January
The law firms, investment banks and consulting companies working with FTX on its bankruptcy case billed the crypto exchange a combined...
Hexa Raises $20.5 Million to Take Real Objects to the Metaverse
Hexa, a 3D modeling company, has raised $20.5 million in its latest funding round to facilitate the task of bringing products into the...
India subjects crypto transactions to anti-money laundering law
While there’s nothing new in imposing anti-money laundering (AML) standards on crypto, it is only now that the Indian government has...
BIS Releases Report On ‘Project Icebreaker’ — Develops Cross-Border Retail CBDC Payment Model
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a report summarizing the “Project Icebreaker” trial, which explored...
More than just an airdrop? Arbitrum builds a resilient DeFi fortress with unique primitives
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance applications on Arbitrum, the layer-2 Ethereum network blockchain, has doubled since...
Key Bitcoin price metrics point to BTC downside below $22.5K
Bitcoin (BTC) faced a one-hour $1,420 pullback on March 3 following Silvergate Bank’s 57.7% stock crash, which was due to significant...
Ethereum price action and derivatives data confirm bears are currently in control
The price of Ether (ETH) declined 6% between March 2 and 3, followed by tight-range trading near $1,560. Still, analyzing a wider time...
Hacker returns stolen funds to Tender.fi, gets $97K bounty reward
The hacker behind the exploit of the decentralized finance lending platform Tender.fi has returned the stolen funds for a $97,000 bounty...
Vitalik dumps $700K worth of shitcoins that he never asked for
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has gone on a shitcoin selling spree, exchanging nearly $700,000 worth of tokens previously airdropped...
Compass Mining Alerts Bitcoin Miners of Changes in Bitmain’s ASIC Design
Compass Mining, a bitcoin mining firm, published a blog post stating that Bitmain, the company behind the application-specific integrated...
Russian Crypto Industry Association Asks Putin to Help With Regulations
The organization representing Russia’s crypto and blockchain sector has urged Vladimir Putin to spur regulatory efforts. The association...
North Macedonia Says Bomb Threats Come From Russia, Crypto Used to Hide Origin
The government of North Macedonia believes that an ongoing wave of false bomb threats against public targets in the country is coming from...
7 blockchain project ideas for women
Blockchain projects not only create new jobs and spur female entrepreneurship but also enhance women’s rights and other...
Fed Chair Powell on Crypto: We See Turmoil, Fraud, Lack of Transparency, Run Risk
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has outlined several risks related to crypto activities during a hearing before the Senate...
Report: Perth Mint Faces $9 Billion Recall From China Over ‘Doped’ Gold Scandal
Perth Mint, Australia’s official bullion mint, currently faces a $9 billion recall from China for allegedly selling...
DeFi lender Tender.fi suffers exploit, white hat hacker suspected
An alleged ethical hacker has drained $1.59 million from the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Tender.fi, leading the service...
Silver Proponent Predicts Medium-to-Long-Term Prices of $125 Per Ounce Thanks to Auto Industry
Silver prices have been hovering just below the $21 per troy ounce mark over the last 24 hours, after jumping above the $24 range in...
Yuga Labs’ Twelvefold Collection of Ordinal Inscriptions Generates 735 Bitcoin, Worth More Than $16 Million
Yuga Labs, the creators of the blue-chip non-fungible token (NFT) collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), announced that the team has...
Biggest Movers: XRP, MATIC Rebound on Tuesday, Following Recent Lows
Xrp rose higher in Tuesday’s session, as prices continued to move away from a long-term support point. Overall, sentiment in...
Crypto turns red as Fed Chair Jerome Powell hints at higher rates
Crypto and stocks reacted negatively to comments about US inflation by Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Bitcoin traded to lows of $22,120 while...
Alameda Research Sues Grayscale Investments Seeking to Unlock Billions in Value for Shareholders
FTX Debtors and affiliate Alameda Research Ltd. have filed a lawsuit against Grayscale Investments, seeking injunctive relief to unlock $9...
Recapping Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s Crypto Winter Recovery Summit
On its live summit, “The Crypto Winter Recovery Plan,” Cointelegraph Markets Pro revealed how traders could have mostly avoided a...
D&D nukes NFT ban, ‘Kill-to-Earn’ zombie shooter, Illuvium: Zero hot take — Web3 Gamer
In this inaugural edition of Cointelegraph’s monthly Web3 gaming column, we highlight some of the top stories and events in the blockchain...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Stall Ahead of Powell Testimony
Bitcoin remained in consolidation earlier in Tuesday’s session, as markets prepared for this afternoon’s testimony from Fed...
Shiba Inu Price Prediction: Murrey Math Lines
Shiba Inu price plunged to the lowest point since January 19 as demand for cryptocurrencies waned and the enthusiasm of the Shibarium...
Shellboxes, an Industry-Leading Cyber Security Firm, Declares Continuous Commitment to Protect Blockchain Projects From the Growing Threat of Cyber Attacks
PRESS RELEASE. Shellboxes, a leading Web 3 company with top-level blockchain security and consulting services, has announced its...
Polygon price prediction: MATIC risks dip to $1 as bears pin Bitcoin under $22.5k
Polygon price faces a potential dump to lows of $0.94 if bears breach a major support area. MATIC is currently below the 50 simple moving...
Crypto Seen as Investment Opportunity in the MENA Region Says Iceberg Capital Executive Chairman
While interest in digital assets has waned in some parts of the world, in the Middle East and Northern Africa adoption of crypto has been...
Argo increases Bitcoin production despite BTC difficulty growth
Publicly-listed Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Argo Blockchain has increased its daily BTC production despite a significant spike in network...
BTC may need to dip to $19.3K to cool Bitcoin profit-taking — new data
Bitcoin (BTC) would need to return below $20,000 to reset a key metric which covers speculative profit-taking, data shows. In the latest...
Hong Kong’s losses to crypto scams doubled to $217M last year: Report
Some countries around the world suffered bigger financial losses to cryptocurrency scams despite a massive bear market in 2022. Losses...
Russian Court Sends 3 Crypto Robbers to Strict-Regime Prison
Three Russians are going to spend time in high-security prison for stealing over a million U.S. dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from...
Meet the person who offered comfy beds for ‘scrappy’ hackers during ETHDenver
Thousands of developers, hackers, and crypto and blockchain enthusiasts descended upon Denver, Colorado in the United States for the...
TeraWulf goes nuclear: 8,000 rigs spool up in Nautilus mining facility
United States-based Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf has fired up a new crypto mining facility in Pennsylvania — solely running on nuclear...
SEC not allowed to punish Voyager advisers over bankruptcy token, says US judge
The United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) won’t be allowed to fine executives involved in Voyager Digital should it end up...
Algodex reveals wallet infiltrated by ‘malicious’ actor as MyAlgo renews warning: Withdraw now
Algorand-based wallet provider MyAlgo has again urged users to withdraw their funds after a February security breach which doesn’t appear...
Spain a Hotbed for Cryptocurrency Real Estate Deals, According to Study
A recent study indicates that Spain is one of the hottest countries regarding real estate offerings that can be paid with cryptocurrency....
SEC Files Emergency Action Against Bkcoin in $100 Million Crypto Fraud Scheme
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an emergency action against Miami-based investment adviser Bkcoin and one of...
Tornado Cash dev says ‘sequel’ to crypto mixer aims to be regulator-friendly
A former Tornado Cash developer claims to be building a new crypto mixing service that aims to solve a “critical flaw” of the sanctioned...
Frax’s shift to a fully backed stablecoin signals the end of DeFi’s algorithmic experiment
The Frax community recently approved a proposal to make its FEI stablecoin fully backed by USD equivalents, rather than maintaining a...
Investor concerns persist as crypto investment products see 4th week of outflows
On March 6, European cryptocurrency investment firm CoinShares published its “Digital Asset Fund Flows Report,” which reveals that...
Meet the person who offered a comfy bed for ‘scrappy’ hackers during ETHDenver
Thousands of developers, hackers, and crypto and blockchain enthusiasts descended upon Denver, Colorado in the United States for the...
Billionaire Mark Mobius Says He Can’t Get His Money Out of HSBC China – ‘They’re Putting All Kinds of Barriers’
Billionaire Mark Mobius, founder of Mobius Capital Partners, says he cannot take his money out of HSBC in Shanghai, China. Citing severe...
Ripple Survey Suggests Latam Merchants Will Adopt Crypto Payments Massively After Three Years
Latam merchants will be slower in adopting cryptocurrency payments compared to merchants in other regions, according to the latest...
Price analysis 3/6: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, MATIC, DOGE, SOL
The United States equities markets are trying to extend their recovery at the start of the new week. One of the reasons that could be...
Bitcoin price enters ‘transitional phase’ according to BTC on-chain analysis
The hopeful optimism of Bitcoin (BTC) traders seemed to dissipate in the first week of March as key on-chain metrics provided resistance....
Terawulf Energizes First Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility in the US, Plans to Expand Operations
Terawulf, a bitcoin mining operation, has announced that it has energized the first nuclear-powered bitcoin mining facility in the United...
Warning sign for ETH price? Ethereum volume profile is down 90% since March 2020
The price of Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), has recovered 78% since June 2022. But this doesn’t guarantee further upside,...
Rollkit Developers Leverage Bitcoin for Sovereign Rollups, Sparking Criticism from Ethereum Proponents
The Rollkit development team has announced that Bitcoin has been integrated as a means for sovereign rollups to store and retrieve data....
Alvey Chain Introduces World’s first Next-Generation Virtual Reality Multiverse Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. London – Alvey Chain, a decentralized Layer 2 Blockchain built on Ethereum Chain, also a leading provider of...
While Bitcoin’s Hashrate Remains Sky-High, Merge-Mined Crypto Asset Networks Benefit
In recent times, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been consistently above 300 exahash per second (EH/s) as multiple mining pools dedicate...
Technical discussions take center stage at Advancing Bitcoin conference in London
Bitcoin bear market builders convened in London for the Bitcoin-only conference Advancing Bitcoin, which ran from March 2–3. Common...
Naira redesign no more: President’s directive canned by Nigerian Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has ruled that the old 200, 500 and 1,000 naira notes remain in circulation until Dec. 31, 2023, effectively...
Is the IMF shutting the door prematurely on Bitcoin as legal tender?
There’s been little sunlight this crypto winter, so it may seem odd to present the “Bitcoin as legal tender” argument again. That is, will...
Biggest Movers: ETC Remains Near 2-Month Low, LTC Down by 4% on Monday
Ethereum classic remained near a two-month low on March 6, as a cloud of uncertainty continued to hover over markets. The global crypto...
Bitcoin traders eye $19K BTC price bottom, warn of ‘hot’ February CPI
Bitcoin (BTC) failed to react at the March 6 Wall Street open as consensus formed around a potential violation of $20,000. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Redemption and Reshuffling: BUSD’s Exit From Top 10 Cryptocurrencies Shakes Market Valuations
It has been 21 days since Paxos revealed that it would no longer mint the stablecoin BUSD. Since then, over 7 billion BUSD stablecoins...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: Volatility in BTC, ETH Remains High to Start the Week
Bitcoin consolidated for a third straight session, as markets prepared for a big week of U.S. economic data. Later this week, nonfarm...
Bybit introduces Mastercard-powered debit card days after halting USD transfers
Bybit will launch a new debit card allowing users to make payments and withdraw cash using cryptocurrency holdings. The Bybit card will...
Ethereum price forms bearish flag ahead of a pivotal week
Ethereum price has formed a bearish flag pattern on the four-hour chart. The next key catalysts will be the Fed statement, NFP data, and...
Nigeria Fintech Flutterwave Denies Client Account Hacking Reports
The Nigerian fintech Flutterwave has rejected reports suggesting that hackers have stolen as much as $6.3 million from user accounts. The...
Dubai-Headquartered Crypto Exchange MaskEX Launches Virtual Card for Worldwide Spending and Welcomes Ben Caselin as Vice President to Drive Global Expansion Effort
PRESS RELEASE. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March, 2023 – MaskEX, a rapidly expanding third-generation crypto exchange, headquartered in...
Democratic Senators Push Against Meta’s Idea of Bringing the Metaverse to Teens
Meta, the social network company, is getting some pushback on its plan to market and bring Horizon Worlds, its flagship metaverse app, to...
Crypto funding seen shifting from CeFi to DeFi after major collapses: CoinGecko
Digital asset investment firms poured $2.7 billion into decentralized finance projects in 2022, up 190% from 2021, while investments into...
BTC price ‘in the chop zone’ — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week with consolidation in the air amid some of the least volatile conditions ever. Despite losing 5% in an...
Pakistan banks agree on blockchain-based KYC system development
The Pakistan Banks’ Association (PBA) — a group of 31 traditional banks operating in Pakistan — signed off on developing a...
Kenyan Forex Crisis: Central Bank Orders Financial Institutions to Ration Dollars
Growing shortages of foreign exchange on the interbank market have reportedly forced the Central Bank of Kenya to ask financial...
CoinEx Introduces Strategic Trading to Help Users Set out Sound Investment Plans and Stay Ahead
PRESS RELEASE. In traditional financial markets, the term trading strategy describes a comprehensive plan covering all trading activities,...
NFT Creators Investigated in Israel for Alleged Tax Evasion
Israel’s tax authority is after two creators of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) suspected of failing to report almost $2.2 million in...
Bitcoin ATM firm allegedly profited from crypto scams via unlicensed kiosks: Prosecutor
A Bitcoin (BTC) technology firm and its executives have been indicted for allegedly operating unlicensed crypto kiosks in Ohio...
Brazilian Tax Authority Numbers Reveal Cryptocurrency Market Recovery in January
Numbers from the Brazilian tax authority indicate that the cryptocurrency market experienced a resurgence in January, with trading...
Pakistan Banks to Use Blockchain Technology for KYC
Banks in Pakistan plan to launch an electronic platform for know-your-customer procedures that will be operating on a national level. The...
Snoop Dogg revealed as co-founder of Web3-powered livestream platform
American rapper and actor Snoop Dogg has been revealed as one of the co-founders of a Web3-powered live streaming app called...
Internal documents reveal Australia’s potential timeline for crypto legislation: Report
Crypto legislation in Australia could be dragged out past 2024 and beyond, with the government seemingly wanting to take its time in order...
US Sentences Man to 3 Years in Prison for Defrauding Investors in Crypto Mining Scheme
A U.S. district judge has sentenced a man to three years in prison in a fraudulent cryptocurrency mining scheme. The defendant...