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Crypto Exchange Owner Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Multimillion-Dollar Scheme to Defraud Americans
The U.S. has sentenced a cryptocurrency exchange owner to 10 years in prison. He “knowingly and intentionally engaged in business...
Man Accidentally Threw Away Hard Drive With 7,500 Bitcoins, Offers City $72 Million to Search Landfill
A man has accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins. He is now offering his city 25% of the value of the bitcoins...
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CEO Sentenced to 18-Month Jail Term for Accepting Bitcoin Bribes to List a Cryptocurrency
A South Korean court has sentenced the former CEO of the defunct crypto exchange Coinnest to 18 months in prison. The court also fined him...
Uniswap regains momentum by eclipsing the $3 billion mark
Uniswap has seemingly gotten back on track after eclipsing $3 billion in liquidity for the first time since November The decentralised...
Cosmos price analysis: bullish bias points ATOM towards $10
Cosmos (ATOM) price could jump to $10.00 if bulls manage to keep prices above the upper limit of an ascending parallel channel Cosmos is...
Crypto Mining Hardware Manufacturer Whatsminer Plans to Launch Public Offering in the US
One of the world’s biggest bitcoin mining machine manufacturers is preparing to go public in the United States. China-based...
Ethereum could rocket to $3k as demand outstrips supply
Analysts predict that plummeting Ethereum (ETH) reserves on centralised exchanges could help ETH price soar to $3k in weeks ETH currently...
Coinbase Issues a Public Apology to EU and UK Customers — Did Not Address Its Global Issues
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase published a statement addressing their U.K. and E.U. customers, apologizing for system outages and...
Anchorage Obtains Federal License to Operate as Crypto Bank From the OCC
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted conditional approval to crypto custodian Anchorage to launch the...
Nigerian Youth Propels the Country to the Top of Google Bitcoin Search Rankings
Nigeria, one of the biggest cryptocurrency markets in the world, recently emerged as the country with the highest number of bitcoin...
Etoro Warns Customers to Brace for Suspension of Crypto Buy Orders due to an ‘Unprecedented Demand’
Etoro, a trading and investing platform, has warned its customers to brace for possible limitations on their buy orders this coming...
Oaktree Capital Chairman Warms up to Crypto — Thankful His Son Owns Enough Bitcoin for the Family
Oaktree Capital co-founder Howard Marks is warming up to cryptocurrency. Once a crypto skeptic, he now says “thankfully” his...
Goldman Sachs Sees Bitcoin Market Becoming More Mature
Goldman Sachs’ global head of commodities research sees the bitcoin market becoming more mature. “The key to creating some...
Bitcoin Price Spike Targets the $40K Handle, Crypto Economy Recaptures $1 Trillion Market Cap
Crypto asset markets have seen some significant gains over the last 24 hours recapturing much of the losses suffered a few days ago. The...
Popular Youtuber Ali Spagnola ‘Accidentally Got Bitcoin Rich,’ Decides to ‘Pay It Forward’
On Wednesday, the popular musician and Youtuber, Alicia Dawn “Ali” Spagnola, made a new video and tweeted about how she got...
Survey: The Number of US Financial Advisors Allocating to Crypto in Client Portfolios Jumped 49% in 2020
A survey reveals that the number of U.S. financial advisors allocating to crypto in their clients’ portfolios surged significantly...
Grayscale Investments Terminates XRP Trust Citing Impact of SEC Lawsuit Against Ripple
Grayscale Investments is shutting down its Grayscale XRP Trust and liquidating its XRP holdings in order to distribute cash proceeds to...
Polkadot (DOT) surges 35% to a record high above $12.00
DOT/USD broke above a crucial horizontal resistance level at $10.5 before surging to $12.20 Polkadot (DOT) has surged to a record high of...
Bitcoin climbs above $38,000 amid increased stablecoin inflows
Bitcoin (BTC) price rose to $38,789 on Bitstamp where resistance has slowed down the bulls Bitcoin has once again surged to prices above...
ECB Chief Christine Lagarde Calls for Global Bitcoin Regulation — Says BTC Conducts ‘Funny Business’
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, has called for the global regulation of bitcoin. She said that...
Pakistan to Set up Two State-Owned Bitcoin Mining Farms to Help Boost Economy
The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the third largest of Pakistan’s four semi-autonomous provinces, is setting up two...
US President-Elect Biden to Nominate MIT Blockchain Professor Gary Gensler as SEC Chairman
The U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Gary Gensler as the new chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to...
Bityard Launched Copy Trading System to Benefit Both Copiers and Traders
PRESS RELEASE. Bityard recently launched the copy trading system for CFD (contract for difference) trading, allowing users to copy trading...
Proof-of-Work and Yield Farming: Binance and Poolin Launch Tokens Backed by Bitcoin Hashrate
There’s a new type of token gaining popularity in the crypto space with the launch of coins that are backed by a specific amount of...
Rapid Profits: Bitcoin Hashrate Accelerates While Mining Difficulty Touches All-Time High
The Bitcoin network’s hashrate has been operating at very high processing speeds during the last few weeks, as the overall hashrate...
Indian Doctors Warn of Illegal Covid-19 Vaccine Sales for Bitcoin: Citizens Urged to Wait for Government Approved Vaccine
Indian doctors have warned that the sale of unauthorized Covid-19 vaccines on the black market, where vendors ask for bitcoin as payment,...
T-Systems and Validation Capital Partner With Flow Blockchain
PRESS RELEASE. January 13, 2021 – T-Systems MMS, a subsidiary of the largest telecommunications provider in Europe, Deutsche...
Bitfinex Executives Deny Allegations of Issuing USDT to Pump BTC – “Tether Backed by Cash Assets and a Loan”
Bitfinex general counsel Stuart Hoegner has dismissed the notion that only 74% of the tether stablecoin in circulation is fully backed....
Publicly-Listed Lottery Company to Buy $14.4M Worth of Bitcoin Mining Machines
A U.S. listed Chinese sports lottery firm announced that it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire bitcoin (BTC) mining...
SV-Based Taraxa Revolutionizes Legacy Data Auditing With Mathematically Provable Audit Trails
PRESS RELEASE. Santa-Clara, CA – Taraxa’s newly released testnet was just put to use for a process auditing platform that...
Bitcoiner Loses Password to 7,002 Bitcoins Worth $240 Million
A bitcoiner has shared his story of how he lost access to his 7,002 bitcoins, worth about $240 million at the current price. He has lost...
Mastermind of $147 Million Crypto ‘Scam of Epic Proportions’ Sentenced to 10 Years in US Prison
The mastermind of what the U.S. Department of Justice calls a scam of “epic proportions” has been sentenced to 10 years in...
Altcoins poised to rally as next impulse wave targets $550 Billion
Analysts predict a major upside swing for major altcoins as BTC dominance decreases Altcoins could be marching towards a bull run as...
Darknet Giant Darkmarket Shut Down, Alleged Operator Arrested
The authorities in seven countries and Europol have jointly taken down Darkmarket, one of the largest darknet marketplaces. The action was...
IOST in the First Batch of Blockchains to Support HUSD Stablecoin
PRESS RELEASE. IOST, an enterprise-grade, decentralized, and ultra-fast network oiled with the Proof-of Believability consensus algorithm,...
Bearish chart pattern suggests Bitcoin could dump to $20k
If the right shoulder in the H&S pattern fails to complete, the continuation of an ascending triangle could suggest a bullish reversal...
Capital.com Review 2021
With the incredible rally of the crypto market in 2020, more and more people are looking to get into cryptocurrencies for the first time,...
Lawsuit Filed to Stop a Global Cryptocurrency Scam Spreading in India
A class-action lawsuit has reportedly been filed against a cryptocurrency scam that has duped many Indian investors. The scam, promoted in...
New Zealand Watchdog Issues Warning on Crypto Investments Following Bitcoin’s Latest Price Drop
New Zealand’s financial regulator issued a warning alert to local cryptocurrency investors and traders amid the recent...
xSigma DeFi Offers Lucrative Rewards for Liquidity Providers, Whitepaper Released
xSigma is an upcoming stablecoin DEX protocol developed by the first DeFi project backed by a NASDAQ-listed company. In order to attract...
Crypto Industry’s Favorite Messaging App Telegram Surpasses 500 Million Active Users
Telegram, a popular messaging app within the cryptocurrency space, surpassed 500 million monthly active users during the first week of...
Mark Cuban: Crypto ‘Exactly’ Like Dot-Com Bubble — Expects Bitcoin to Survive Bubble Burst, Thrive Like Amazon
Billionaire Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban sees cryptocurrency “exactly” like the dot-com bubble. He says bitcoin and a few...
Kim Dotcom Discusses the Swelling Crypto Economy and His Plans to ‘Accelerate P2P Electronic Cash’
This week, news.Bitcoin.com chatted with Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload and the creator of the...
State-Backed Agricultural Bank of China Launches the First Digital Yuan ATMs
The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of China’s “big four” banks, is embarking on a pilot program to enable the...
Crypto Prices Show Signs of Recovery, Market Analyst Says ‘Bitcoin Remains in a Healthy Place’
Bitcoin and a number of other cryptocurrencies have regained some of the percentage losses they suffered this past Monday, as various...
A Different Look at Stablecoins: Elastic Supply Tokens
Decentralized finance has brought new types of blockchain-based financial products into the cryptocurrency space. One such innovation in...
Traders Complain About Exchange Issues and Downtime During Bitcoin’s Volatile Price Swings
As bitcoin and a number of digital assets saw deep losses on Monday, a few crypto-asset exchanges had difficulties. Traders have been...
Fat-BTC Review 2021: What is the Fat-BTC exchange?
FatBTC is a cryptocurrency exchange that was founded in 2014 in the Seychelles. The exchange offers a large range of cryptocurrency...
Stacks 2.0 Advances Bitcoin Into the Age of DeFi and Creates a New Way to Earn BTC
Stacks 2.0 is set to revolutionize the internet itself by empowering a decentralized and user-owned ecosystem built on top of the most...
NEM price analysis: XEM ready for liftoff ahead of Symbol (XYM) snapshot
XEM/USD is struggling to break above $0.21 but could pump to $0.50 around the launch of Symbol (XYM) NEM (XEM) is trading lower on the...
Whales are manipulating the market as Bitcoin (BTC) dips
The leading cryptocurrency posted a massive slump over the weekend after enjoying an impressive rally Bitcoin touched an all-time high...
XRP could recoil again despite bouncing to the $0.33 range
XRP/USD looks vulnerable as bears target break below a crucial 200-SMA support level Ripple (XRP) bounced to highs of $0.33 on Monday but...
UK Government Asks Crypto Industry to Provide Insights on Its Regulatory Approach
Her Majesty’s Treasury in the U.K. issued a document that details a series of proposals addressing the crypto community. With the...
Bitcoin.com Exchange Announces Public Sale of the IDEA Token on January 26, 2021
PRESS RELEASE. January 12, 2021 – Bitcoin.com Exchange, one of the leading authorities in cryptocurrency exchanges announces the...
JP Morgan Warns of Falling BTC Price With Bitcoin ETF Approval in US
JP Morgan’s analysts say that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approving a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) is...
Central Washington Raises Concerns Over Possible Bitcoin Mining Boom
A region in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is on high alert because of concerns about a possible invasion of bitcoin (BTC)...
Investment Manager Guggenheim Has Some Advice as BTC Sheds Billions — ‘Bitcoin’s Parabolic Rise Unsustainable’
Guggenheim Investments’ global chief investment officer has some advice on what investors should do as the price of bitcoin...
Crypto Markets Suffer Heavy Losses, Bitcoin Price Sinks More Than 25% in 24 Hours
Cryptocurrency markets have suffered significant losses during the last 24 hours, as the entire crypto market cap has dropped below a...
Emerging DeFi Platform YFDAI Finance Launches SafeSwap and Launchpad, More Products to Follow
PRESS RELEASE. YFDAI Finance, a prominent decentralized finance (DeFi) project has recently announced the launch of two prominent products...
Two New York City Bars up for Sale for a Total 25 Bitcoins
Two New York City bars are up for sale for a combined 25 bitcoins or 800 ether – over $800k at current prices. Bar owner Patrick...
EOS dives 30% as Block.one CTO Dan Larimer resigns
EOS price plunged to lows of $2.42 even as the rest of the market struggled with widespread sell-offs EOS has nosedived to lows of $2.42,...
Reddit User Finds 127 Old Bitcoins at Grandpa’s House – Pockets Over $4 Million After Selling
A Reddit user says he (or she) recently regained access to the keys of 127 bitcoins eight years after last accessing the coins....
Ethereum plunges to $1,000 following weekend sell-off
ETH/USD rose to highs of $1,352 before sell-off pressure pushed it to a major support level at $1,000 Ethereum (ETH) corrected to the...
The CFTC Asks Court to Issue Fines in Excess of $100M Against Mastermind of a Fraudulent Crypto Scheme
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a motion with the New York Southern District Court that seeks heavy penalties...
Crypto Advocates Think Joe Biden’s $3 Trillion Stimulus Plan Will Bolster Bitcoin
According to various reports, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning to create another $3 trillion for Covid-19 relief and...
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer Advises How to Invest in Bitcoin, When to Sell
Mad Money host Jim Cramer has some advice on how to invest in bitcoin and when is a good time to sell. He said, “I’m a bitcoin...
Bank of America Predicts ‘Mother of All Bubbles’ for Bitcoin
Bank of America’s chief investment strategist sees “the mother of all bubbles” in bitcoin. He compared the...
While Bitcoin’s Price Dips in Value, Crypto Assets Like Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash Shine
The price of bitcoin has dropped on Sunday losing more than 6% during the last 24 hours, but a myriad of other coins have seen significant...
Sleeping Bitcoins Worth $40 Million Move- Mystery Miner Spends Another 1,000 BTC From 2010 Block Rewards
On January 10, another strange string of 20 bitcoin block rewards from 2010 was spent after sitting idle for over ten years. The spending...
CoinSpot Is Ideal Starting Point for Australian Investors to add Crypto to Portfolios in 2021
PRESS RELEASE. As the most trusted platform to buy, sell and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 230 other cryptocurrency tokens for...
MTI Bitcoins Sent to Privacy Mixers as New Data Breach Exposes the Ponzi Scheme’s Top Earners
In another twist to the Mirror Trading International (MTI) bitcoin Ponzi scam, the blockchain intelligence firm Whitestream says bitcoins...
China Launches Digital Yuan ‘Hard Wallet’ Card Pilot Program
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) have green lighted a physical card-wallet pilot to test its digital yuan. Coffee shop staff in a...
ETH Fees Surge to All Time High After the Crypto Passed the $1,000 Mark
After the ether token surged past the $1,000 mark on January 3, the average transaction fee on the network similarly soared to a new...
Russian Oil Giant Provides Excess Gas to Operations Powering Bitcoin Mining Devices
The firm Gazpromneft, an oil subsidiary of the Russian natural gas and global energy company Gazprom, is giving bitcoin mining operations...
This Bitcoin Ransomware Rakes in $150 Million in BTC
A new report by two cybersecurity firms has revealed that one ransomware family is particularly successful, raking in over $150 million in...
Economist Discusses What Would Happen if the Masses Ditch Fiat Currencies for Bitcoin
American economist Brian Wesbury has shared his thoughts on what would happen if the masses were to ditch fiat currencies and adopt...
Morgan Stanley Massively Increases Bitcoin Exposure Through Microstrategy
Global investment bank Morgan Stanley has increased its bitcoin exposure manyfold by investing in Microstrategy, the Nasdaq-listed company...
Bitcoin ‘Going Through the Roof’ Unlike Assets Controlled by Government, Says Former Fed Governor
Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh is bullish on bitcoin. He sees all assets that are not controlled by the U.S. government...
Big Tech’s Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media
During the last few days, the world has watched the Big Tech and social media crackdown after the incident that took place at Capitol Hill...
Ripple’s CEO Addresses Key Allegations by US SEC — Legal Response Coming Soon
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has addressed some of the allegations made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against his...
Crypto User Loses Over $100K in Bitcoin While Transferring His Wallet
A bitcoin user has shared his story of how he lost more than $100,000 in BTC during a wallet transfer. The bitcoiner attempted to transfer...
Spanish Police Detain Four People Allegedly Involved in a $15M Crypto Ponzi Scheme
The Spanish police detained four people of different nationalities this week for allegedly running a $15 million crypto Ponzi scheme....
New Bitcoin Quest Contest Gives People a Chance to Locate Crypto Seeds Hidden in Pictures
There’s an online-sleuthing contest starting on January 21st called “Bitcoin Quest,” where individuals can leverage...
Major South Korean Bank Shinhan Is Set to Offer Crypto Custody-Related Services
A major commercial bank in South Korea is entering the crypto business by allocating an equity investment in the Korea Digital Asset Trust...
Six-Digit Bitcoin Prices: Stock-to-Flow Creator Says BTC Value Model ‘On Track Like Clockwork’
Bitcoin prices have gone parabolic and the value is seemingly following along with the controversial stock-to-flow (S2F) model, according...
Bitcoin Now Larger Than Facebook’s Market Cap — ‘Money Network More Valuable Than Social Network’
The surge in bitcoin’s price on Friday has propelled the cryptocurrency past Facebook’s market cap. Next, bitcoin stands to...
Bitcoin Price Taps $41,970, Morgan Creek Partner Says ‘BTC Is a 10x Improvement on Gold’
Bitcoin’s price continues to move northbound, as the crypto asset’s value has touched another all-time high (ATH) this week...
Could NFTs Become 2021’s Biggest Crypto Trend?
Even at this point in Bitcoin’s evolution, it’s still relatively rare for cryptocurrencies to hit mainstream news headlines...
Yearn.finance sees $39,000 as trading volume spikes 168%
Yearn.finance (YFI) price could jump to $43,000 if prices remain above the neckline of a key price pattern Yearn.finance (YFI) has had a...