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Bitcoin Hashrate Slides as Texas Miners Curtail Hashpower to Bolster the Grid
Bitcoin’s total hashrate tapped a low of 170 exahash per second (EH/s) on Dec. 25, as reports noted that bitcoin miners in Texas curtailed...
The 5 most important regulatory developments for crypto in 2022
2022 will surely be remembered as a year of crypto discontent — one when the price of Bitcoin crashed three times, many large companies...
What are Handshake (HNS) domains, and how do they work?
A particular topic of interest in the blockchain space is the emergence of blockchain-related projects in the domain name system (DNS) and...
Bitcoin and these 4 altcoins are showing bullish signs
Cryptocurrency markets lack any signs of volatility going into the year-end holiday season. This suggests that both the bulls and the...
As the Fed Turns 109 Years Old, the US Dollar’s Purchasing Power Eroded by More Than 96% Since It Was Created
109 years ago, the U.S. Federal Reserve was created and ever since that day, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has dropped a great...
BTC Wraps up 13 Consecutive Years of Recorded Market Value, With No Santa Rally in 2022
By the end of this year bitcoin will have 13 consecutive years of recorded market value under its belt. Seven of those years saw Santa...
BTC price foregoes Santa rally as Bitcoin volatility hits record low
Bitcoin (BTC) failed to deliver a Santa rally for Christmas 2023 as Dec. 25 offered even more sideways BTC price action. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Snowden to Musk: ‘I Take Payment in Bitcoin’; Big Short Investor Says Audits of Exchanges like Binance and FTX Are ‘Meaningless,’ and More — Week in Review
Ahead of the holidays and new year, the former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor known to the world as a staunch privacy...
What are reflection tokens and how do they work?
Yield farming, liquidity mining, and staking have become common practices in the crypto market due to the remarkable growth the DeFi...
Sam Bankman-Fried found ‘chilling’ in JFK airport lounge on $250M bail bond
The momentary arrest of former FTX CEOSam Bankman-Fried (SBF) can be attributed to the efforts taken by the crypto community to aid...
US Government Delays Tax Reporting Rules for Cryptocurrency Brokers
The enforcement of a requirement for brokers to report gains made by crypto investors has been postponed by the U.S. Treasury Department...
Russia to Ban Banks From Using Messengers Like Telegram to Contact Customers
Financial institutions in Russia will not be able to communicate with clients through instant messengers based outside the country, local...
JPMorgan: Crypto Is a Nonexistent Asset Class for Most Large Institutional Investors
A strategist at global investment bank JPMorgan says crypto is effectively nonexistent as an asset class for most large institutional...
Jim Cramer Urges SEC to Do a Big Crypto Sweep — Says ‘I Wouldn’t Touch Crypto in a Million Years’
The host of Mad Money, Jim Cramer, says he would not touch crypto in a million years. He called investors who own various altcoins idiots...
Lastpass Data Breach Frightens Users, Some Say Hack ‘May Be Worse Than They Are Letting on’
People involved in financial tech, software programming, cyber security, and cryptocurrencies have been talking about the Lastpass data...
SBF sent home, FTX heads plead guilty, and Binance gets Voyager assets: Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 18-24
Top Stories This Week SBF sent home after his parents put up their house to cover his astronomical bail bond Sam Bankman-Fried will spend...
Crypto can get weird: The 5 strangest stories of the industry in 2022
From Terra to FTX, 2022 has given us many weird crypto stories. While investors have been enduring a bear market that saw the crypto...
Crypto Community Asks: Where in the World Is Ex-Alameda CEO Sam Trabucco?
Following FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest and the statements from his co-workers Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison, the spotlight...
Privacy Coins Take a Beating This Year Losing Over $6 Billion, Anonymity Takes a Back Seat to Defi, NFTs
The last 12 months have been tough on digital currency investors as the crypto winter has caused a large sum of value to leave the...
Public Bitcoin mining companies plagued with $4B of collective debt
The recent bankruptcy filing of Bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific despite a $72M relief offer from creditors raised questions about the...
BTC price levels to watch as Bitcoin limps into Christmas under $17K
Bitcoin (BTC) entered the Christmas holiday period unchanged at $16,800 as an eerie lack of volatility persevered. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Xmas dinner table: What to tell your family about what happened in crypto this year
After a lackluster rise of crypto in 2021, which saw many new crypto millionaires and several crypto startups attain unicorn status, came...
Biggest Movers: SOL Hits 1-Month Low on Saturday, as UNI Extends Recent Declines
Solana fell to a one-month low to start the weekend, as cryptocurrency markets moved lower ahead of Christmas Day. Today’s drop saw the...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Nears $17,000 Ahead of Christmas Day
Bitcoin rose closer to the $17,000 level on Saturday, despite crypto markets mostly consolidating to start the week. The global...
FTX paid $12M retainer to a New York law firm before bankruptcy filing
Defunct crypto exchange FTX paid a retainer of $12 million to bankruptcy lawyers as security for payment of its fees and expenses amid...
Locker Token and Euro Ice Hockey Champs Rögle BK To Host In-Person NFT Event
PRESS RELEASE. Locker Token & Ice Hockey extraordinaires Rögle BK have officially announced an In-Real-Life (IRL) NFT, event set to...
ECB to Decide Whether to Issue Digital Euro in 2023
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a new report on the progress of its investigation into the possible launch of a digital...
Russian Parliament Postpones Adoption of Crypto Mining Bill
Russian lawmakers will consider a draft law on cryptocurrency mining in 2023 despite earlier indications they were going to vote on the...
Judge pulls out of SBF-FTX case citing husband’s law firm’s advisory link
The ongoing legal proceedings around former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) took a new turn as District Judge Ronnie Abrams withdrew her...
Samsung Is Investing More Than $35 Million in Latam-Focused Metaverse Initiatives
Samsung, the Korean electronics behemoth, has revealed it is currently investing more than $35 million dollars in metaverse initiatives...
Bank of England’s Cunliffe Pushes for Crypto Regulation — Sees ‘Real’ Benefits for UK
Bank of England Deputy Governor Sir Jon Cunliffe has revealed that the British central bank is planning to step up its efforts to regulate...
LastPass attacker stole password vault data, showing Web2’s limitations
Password management service LastPass was hacked in August 2022, and the attacker stole users’ encrypted passwords, according to a Dec. 23...
Santas and Grinches: The heroes and villains of 2022
From an outside perspective, 2022 has been a rollercoaster ride for crypto. The market reached a total valuation of $3 trillion during the...
Elon Musk: Recent Fed Rate Hikes Might Go Down in History as Most Damaging Ever
Tesla CEO and Twitter chief Elon Musk says the Federal Reserve’s recent rate hikes “might go down in history as most damaging...
SEC Will Use All Available Tools to Crack Down on Crypto Firms That Aren’t in Compliance With Its Rules, Says Chair Gensler
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has revealed that the regulator will use all available...
What is Wrapped XRP (wXRP), and how does it work?
Wrapped XRP (wXRP) is a crypto asset pegged to XRP (XRP) and can be used on blockchains other than Ripple’s native XRP Ledger. Ripple is a...
Caroline Ellison’s Testimony Claims FTX Boss SBF Directed Her to Co-Mingle Customer Funds Since 2019
On Dec. 23, 2022, Matthew Russell Lee from the Inner City Press published the recently unsealed guilty plea transcript of Caroline...
Report: SEC Heightens Probe Into Auditors Servicing Crypto Exchanges
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Paul Munter, the agency’s acting chief accountant, the U.S. regulator is...
FTX Attempts to Freeze Robinhood Shares as Creditors Swarm to Scoop $450M in HOOD Stock
Court filings show that debtors from FTX Trading Ltd. and Alameda Research want 56 million shares of Robinhood stock frozen after multiple...
Price analysis 12/23: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, DOGE, ADA, MATIC, DOT, LTC, UNI
Bitcoin (BTC) is on track to end the year with a loss of about 65%. This would mark the third negative year for Bitcoin with the other two...
Bitget’s KCGI 2022: Football Edition Celebrates the World Cup With Record-Breaking Participation
PRESS RELEASE. Victoria, Seychelles (December 23 2022) – Leading crypto exchange, Bitget, announces the conclusion of its biannual...
While anticipation builds for GPT-4, OpenAI quietly releases GPT-3.5
By Kyle Wiggers Image Credits: OpenAI Released two years ago, OpenAI’s remarkably capable, if flawed, GPT-3 was perhaps the first to...
Three inflection points for emerging tech in 2022 – Carbon removal, satellite broadband, and generative AI all had breakout years.
By Hayden Field, Jordan McDonald, and Grace Donnelly Every year has its breakout technologies, and 2022 was no different. Here’s a...
Biggest Movers: ADA, XRP Rebound From Recent Losses on Friday
Cardano climbed for a second consecutive session on Dec. 23, as the token surged to its highest point since Monday. Overall, crypto prices...
Top-five most Googled cryptocurrencies worldwide in 2022
Cryptocurrencies have suffered immensely in 2022 from the onslaught of a hawkish Federal Reserve and the implosions of crypto platforms...
BTC price ignores US PCE data at $16.8K as Bitcoin rejects volatility
Bitcoin (BTC) saw a flicker of volatility around the Dec. 23 Wall Street open as the latest United States inflation data came in line with...
Bitcoin Miners Discovered 53,240 Blocks This Year, Foundry Led the Pack, Hashrate Tapped an All-Time High
As the new year approaches, more than a dozen bitcoin mining pools still dedicate a total of 238 exahash per second (EH/s) toward the...
OpenSea blocks Cuban artists from the platform due to US sanctions
Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has been banning artists and collectors from Cuba, citing United States sanctions as the key...
Helium token jumps 36%. Is this a bull trap?
Helium token rose by 36% on Thursday before correcting Helium powers IoT devices through its “hotspots” The cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin struggles but Okcoin CEO thinks 3 catalysts will make it bullish
Bitcoin has steadied above $16,000 Okcoin CEO expects Bitcoin’s bear market to be driven by key developments The cryptocurrency...
Astar Network Named ‘Product of the Year’ At the JBA Annual Blockchain Award
Tokyo, Japan, 23rd December, 2022, Chainwire Astar Network, the smart contract platform for multichain, has been awarded the Product of...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Nears $1,230 Resistance, Following Strong US GDP Data
Ethereum edged closer to a key resistance level of $1,230 on Dec. 23, as markets continued to react to better than expected U.S. GDP data....
Crypto price prediction: Lisk (LSK), Metal Pay (MTL), Litentry (LIT)
Cryptocurrency prices recoiled this week as investors reflected on the actions of the Federal Reserve and the collapse of FTX. Bitcoin...
Nigerian Central Bank Increases Cash Withdrawal Limits After Receiving ‘Feedback From Stakeholders’
Barely a month after announcing the restricting of cash withdrawals to under $50 per week, the Central Bank of Nigeria said on Dec. 21...
MANA price needs a miracle to recover: Here’s why
Decentraland is one of the biggest players in the metaverse. But its population is less than 1,000 people. The metaverse is dead! MANA...
Should you buy KAVA after its integration with Axelar?
Kava has integrated with Axelar to make it easier for users to transfer assets across blockchains. KAVA is up by less than 1% today but...
Sheikh Hamad Salem Becomes a MaskEX Shareholder as Both Parties Collaborate to Develop a Smart City in the UAE
PRESS RELEASE. Sheikh Hamad Rakadh Salem Hamad Alameri, a well-known Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) member of the Royal Family in Abu Dhabi,...
Ether could end the week above $1,300 as the bullish sentiment increases
Ether maintained its price above $1,200 over the past few days and could rally higher soon. The total crypto market cap could reach the...
President of Brazil Sanctions Cryptocurrency Law
President Jair Bolsonaro has approved law 14.478, which regulates cryptocurrency-related operations and virtual asset service providers...
Uniswap allows crypto purchases using credit cards, but how is UNI price behaving?
Uniswap partnered with Moonpay for crypto purchases using a credit card and debit card. Uniswap token is under bear pressure amid slight...
Litecoin settles at $65 support. Who has a chance now?
Litecoin has corrected back to the $65 support LTC is nearly entering the bearish territory The cryptocurrency needs to recover above key...
XRP fails to mount a comeback despite whale accumulation. Here is the next target
XRP has been correcting as the SEC case drags Whales have been accumulating the cryptocurrency XRP could continue sliding to find support...
Polygon’s MATIC defends support as the last testnet launches with a huge milestone
Polygon announced the second testnet before going live on mainnet MATIC has consolidated at $0.8 for the past week The token could...
Axie Infinity breakout on a symmetrical triangle incoming after Google Play Store win?
Axie Infinity has lost 95% of its value from its ATH The cryptocurrency trades on a symmetrical triangle A breakout could shape the next...
Will Dogecoin build on its intraday 6% surge to finish the year strong?
Dogecoin rose 6% on Friday, with a slight increase in trading volume The cryptocurrency is moved by the slightest of positive news DOGE is...
Italy and Albania Bust €15 Million Crypto Investment Scam
Authorities in Italy and Albania have hit a fraud scheme enticing victims with promises of low-risk investments in cryptocurrencies....
The most eco-friendly blockchain networks in 2022
2022 saw the continued advancement of green crypto projects as more industry companies focused on sustainability to reduce carbon...
BTC miner Core Scientific gets interim nod for $37.4M bankruptcy loan
A U.S. bankruptcy court has granted Bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific interim approval to access a $37.5 million loan from existing...
Buenos Aires to Tax Cryptocurrency Mining in 2023
The province of Buenos Aires in Argentina will begin taxing cryptocurrency mining and possibly staking, in 2023. A new proposal modifies...
BNB Chain now has more unique addresses than Ethereum, developer says
Unique addresses on the Build and Build (BNB) Chain have now surpassed Ethereum, according to a Dec. 22 statement from the developer. BNB...
India’s Central Bank Chief: Cryptocurrencies Will Cause Next Financial Crisis if They’re Not Banned
The governor of India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has warned that the next financial crisis will come from...
US Senator Introduces Bill to Regulate Payment Stablecoins
A U.S. senator has introduced a bill to “establish the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins.” The...
‘We’re already living in the Metaverse’: Yat Siu — Big Ideas
Magazine:Animoca was a successful mobile gaming company, with 10 million downloads and various apps in the top 10 on Apple’s App Store....
Free Talk Live Co-Host Ian Freeman Found Guilty in Federal Crypto Trial
After close to two years, following the U.S. federal government accusing the Crypto Six of unlicensed money transmission, the case is...
SEC Charges Against FTX, Alameda Execs Wang and Ellison Reveal Key Findings, US Regulator Says FTT Is a Security
On Dec. 21, 2022, members of U.S. law enforcement detailed that FTX co-founder Gary Wang and ex-Alameda Research CEO have pleaded guilty...
Twitter Adds Crypto Price Charts to Search Results
Twitter is now providing price charts with search results for major cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ether. This new feature is...
Bitcoin low volume sparks BTC price warning as metric hits ‘value zone’
Bitcoin (BTC) price action may be “unsustainably high,” as one metric hits its highest levels in seven months. Data from on-chain...
Crypto trader regrets not catching the top of the bull run
Are crypto traders playing “god?” The world of cryptocurrency trading can be highly uncertain, yet many are actively looking for...
Still bullish: 40% of survey respondents plan to buy crypto in 2023
Despite the gloom of the ongoing cryptocurrency winter, coupled with failures of crypto giants like FTX, the community appears to remain...
Immunefi says it has facilitated $66M in bug bounty payouts to whitehats since inception
According to a new report released on Dec. 21, blockchain security firm Immunefi said that it has processed more than $65,918,994 crypto...
5 cryptocurrencies to keep an eye on in 2023
It has been a tumultuous year for the crypto investors who have witnessed the total crypto market capitalization tumble from about $2.2...
Financie Commenced to Prepare for the IEO of Entertainment DAO Project “SUPER SAPIENSS” Led by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Katsuyuki Motohiro, and Yuichi Sato
PRESS RELEASE. ”SUPER SAPIENSS NFT” Public-Sale on December 24. Financie, Inc. (headquarters, Tokyo; CEO, Hironao Kunimitsu; hereinafter...
Bitcoin dips below $16.7K as US GDP meets fresh BTC price ‘death cross’
Bitcoin (BTC) fell at the Dec. 22 Wall Street open as United States equities reversed previous gains. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
North Korean hacking activity ceases after regulators implement KYC – Report
According to a new press report published by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), North Korean hackers have stolen...
3 FTX Execs Have Snitched on SBF, Now Scrutiny Is Aimed at Nishad Singh and Ramnik Arora
On Dec. 21, U.S. law enforcement officials from the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),...
Biggest Movers: DOGE Rebounds on Thursday, LTC Nears 1-Week High
Dogecoin rebounded from Wednesday’s decline, as the meme coin moved away from a key support level. Prices have been hovering close...
Yat Siu’s Big Ideas: We’re already living in the Metaverse
Magazine:Animoca was a successful mobile gaming company, with 10 million downloads and various apps in the top 10 on Apple’s App Store....
Rate Hikes Needed to Reduce Eurozone Inflation Despite Recession, Top ECB Official Says
Interest rates will continue to rise while the euro area falls into recession, a high-ranking executive at the European Central Bank (ECB)...
2022: Looking back at the top 10 coins one year ago today
Key Takeaways Crypto was crushed across the board, with all of the top 10 coins getting hammered LUNA was the worst as it death spiralled...
Here is why Terra Classic is up by more than 6% in the last 24 hours
LUNC is up by more than 6% in the last 24 hours, outperforming the broader crypto market. The rally comes after the team revealed that the...