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Original Bitcoin Wizard Artist Raises Nearly $150,000 in BTC via Lightning, Despite Criticism From Bitcoin Maximalists
On Monday, crypto proponent Udi Wertheimer shared a story on Twitter explaining how he and the Taproot Wizards helped an artist who...
Biggest Movers: BCH Hits Fresh Multi-Month High, Whilst MATIC Extends Declines
Bitcoin cash jumped to a fresh seven-month high on Tuesday, as prices rallied, despite bearish sentiment increasing. Today’s move...
Cointelegraph 2023 Top 100: Diving into the top 10
Feb. 21 lifts the curtains on numbers 4–10 of the most impactful crypto and blockchain sector players, according to Cointelegraph’s 2023...
Gamers made up nearly half of all blockchain activity in January: DappRadar Report
Play-to-earn blockchain gaming experienced a downturn over the last year as gamers prioritized improving the gameplay experience. However,...
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Explore the World with Planeteer Social Crypto News India: People have always been looking for a trustworthy source of information...
Bitcoin Network Difficulty Expected to See Largest Increase of the Year Amid High Hashrate, Shorter Block Times
After a small decrease of 0.49% on Feb. 12, 2023, Bitcoin’s network difficulty is expected to experience a significant increase in...
Hope Finance exploit results in $2M stolen from users’ funds
Prospective users of an Arbitrum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) project have been left out of pocket following a $2 million exploit....
Hut 8 CEO weighs in on the bull and bear markets from a mining perspective
In January 2023, during the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, Jaime Leverton, CEO of Hut 8, a crypto...
Market makers in the crypto industry: party planners or bartenders?
What is a market maker, and how do they differ in the crypto and traditional finance markets? At the European Blockchain Conference in...
Bitcoin active addresses ‘concern’ analyst despite 50% BTC price gains
Research warns that Bitcoin (BTC) still lacks the on-chain volume and active address increases that characterize bull markets. In a frank...
Onecoin Cryptoqueen Killed in Greece in 2018, Report Claims
Ruja Ignatova, founder of the crypto pyramid Onecoin, may have been murdered in Greece a year after her disappearance. According to an...
Green consumers want supply chain transparency via blockchain
Chris Georgen, founder of the social impact-focused blockchain company Topl, believes that many consumers are unaware of the consequences...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Consolidates on Tuesday, Following 8-Month High
Bitcoin retreated from earlier highs during Tuesday’s session, as sentiment shifted following a move to a multi-month high. Prices...
Bitgert (BRISE) forms a symmetrical triangle as popularity wanes
Bitgert price has remained under intense pressure as the platform’s popularity wanes. BRISE, its native token, has plunged to a low...
17% of BUSD supply redeemed this week. What next for Binance, BNB and crypto?
Key Takeaways 17% of the BUSD supply has been pulled from exchanges in the last week BNB has been curiously resilient, above the level it...
Report: South African Startup Momint Seeks to Boost Electricity Generation Using Blockchain-Based Solution
Using a solution that is based on blockchain technology, the South African startup Momint has said the recently launched Suncash...
What is a grid trading bot, and how do you use it?
Grid trading is a quantitative trading strategy that involves placing automated buy and sell orders in an attempt to profit from the...
Bitcoin sees fresh $25K rejection as pre-Wall Street volatility returns
Bitcoin (BTC) matched six-month highs on Feb. 21 as the latest attempt to flip $25,000 to support failed. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Nifty News: PROOF cancels NFT conference, Bitcoin meme creator cashes in $150K and more
‘Less interest than anticipated’ — PROOF cancels NFT event Kevin Rose, the co-founder of the nonfungible token (NFT) collection Moonbirds,...
Edogawa Ward in Tokyo to Use Metaverse Tech to Solve ‘Hikikomori’ Problem
Edogawa Ward in Tokyo plans to use metaverse tech to help social recluses, also known as “hikikomori,” begin to integrate with...
BingChatGPT ‘pump and dump’ tokens emerging by the dozen: PeckShield
Blockchain security firm PeckShield has raised the alarm after finding dozens of tokens purporting to be related to artificial...
Tech Giant Globant Believes the Metaverse Will Have Its Make or Break Moment in 2023
Globant, a Luxembourg-based tech giant with Argentine origins, has referred to the short-term future of the metaverse in its latest Tech...
Price analysis 2/20: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, MATIC, DOGE, SOL
Bitcoin (BTC) rose more than 11% last week and is trading near the pivotal resistance at $25,000. Monitoring resource Material Indicators...
Bitcoin bulls ignore recent regulatory FUD by aiming to flip $25K to support
It might seem like forever ago that Bitcoin (BTC) was trading below $18,000, but in reality, it was 40 days ago. Cryptocurrency traders...
Modular blockchains could be the next hot crypto market trend in 2023
The public blockchain sector grew from less than a few million dollars in the last decade to a $1 trillion industry. However, one thing...
Ordinals Litecoin fork took one week and was ‘quite simple,’ says creator
A small monetary bounty and an aptitude for coding were all it took to fork the Ordinals protocol to the world’s second-ever...
Chainalysis: Crypto Scam Revenue Dropped 46% in 2022
Revenue from cryptocurrency scams dropped 46% in 2022, according to blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis. “We attribute most...
US State Regulator Launches Crypto Scam Tracker
The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has launched a cryptocurrency scam tracker to help residents...
Next Crypto Bull Run Will Start From the East, Says Gemini Co-Founder
Gemini’s co-founder believes that the next crypto bull run will come from the East. “It will be a humbling reminder that...
Crypto Hedge Fund Galois Capital Shuts Down — ‘We Lost Almost Half Our Assets to FTX Disaster’
Crypto hedge fund Galois Capital is shutting down after losing about half of its assets to the FTX disaster. “Given the severity of...
What is a supernet, and how does it work?
Supernets enable communication among distinct blockchain networks, considerably improving the usefulness of the overall system by enabling...
Expert Predicts Looming Economic Collapse as BRICS Nations Unite Against the Dollar
Andy Schectman, CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments, explained in a recent interview that the five leading emerging...
Ethereum’s Transition to Proof-of-Stake Yields Deflationary Results
After the transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), Ethereum’s annual issuance rate has been reduced to negative...
Bitcoin’s bullish price action continues to bolster rallies in FIL, OKB, VET and RPL
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for the third consecutive week but Bitcoin (BTC) price decoupled and is on track to close the week...
Here’s why crypto companies need to focus on embedded finance
A new study by Decta highlighted the importance of embedded finance features in today’s fintech world. With online shopping and digital...
Bitcoin vs. Nasdaq – An Interesting Correlation
Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 index have a positive correlation The two markets’ performances offer a way to trade Bitcoin Volatility...
TOTHESMART Is Transitioning to Its Own Token What Is the TTS Token Phenomenon?
PRESS RELEASE. TOTHESMART is a PlayToEarn mining farm built on Binance Smart Chain blockchain. The project works on decentralization...
Helium Network Migration to Solana Blockchain in March Drives Significant Gains for SOL and HNT Tokens
Over the past seven days, the crypto asset solana has increased more than 23% against the U.S. dollar after the announcement that the...
Biggest Movers: SOL 11% Higher, BCH Hits Strongest Point Since July
Solana rose by as much as 11% to start the week, as the token moved higher for a fourth consecutive session. Market sentiment has mostly...
World-Leading Cloud-Mining Service Provider BitFuFu Launches ANTMINER Coupons Trading Function
PRESS RELEASE. On 21st February, BitFuFu will announce the launch of the ANTMINER coupons trading function at the WDMS conference....
Ordinal Inscription Collections on Bitcoin Blockchain Grow as Creators Monetize Art
With more than 150,000 Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain, there are now numerous collections as creators and artists have...
Bitcoin market cap ‘flips’ payments giant Visa for the 3rd time
A 48% Bitcoin (BTC) price surge since the start of the year has pushed BTC’s market cap past that of payment processing giant Visa...
A ‘snap back’ to $20K? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the last week of February in a volatile mood as a crucial area of resistance fails to break. After a classic...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: Bitcoin Hits $25,000, Following Moving Average ‘Death’ Cross
Bitcoin was hovering close to $25,000 on Feb. 20, as cryptocurrency markets traded close to recent highs. Markets started the week...
Crypto Dominates as Payment Method for Remote Workers in Latam
Most remote workers in Latam prefer to get paid in crypto, according to the latest report from the Deel Lab for Global Employment. The...
End of an Era for the Seasonal Tokens Economy: Summer Tokens to Become Scarcer
PRESS RELEASE. Like bitcoin, the four Seasonal Tokens – Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter – are produced by proof-of-work...
Alchemy Pay (ACH) risk/reward seems unfavorable for now
Alchemy Pay’s ACH price has surged by over 480% from its December lows. The company integrated Google Pay for its on-ramp service....
South Korea’s Kimchi premium turns to discount
South Korea’s “Kimchi premium” has flipped to a discount again, meaning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are now cheaper to buy on...
Russia’s Yandex Search Engine Adds Cryptocurrencies to Its Converter
Yandex, the largest Russian search engine, has updated its currency converter, adding cryptocurrencies. The widget now shows the rates of...
Chinese Tech Giants Tencent and Bytedance Plan Cuts in Their Metaverse Divisions
According to reports, Tencent and Bytedance, two Chinese tech giants, are planning to execute a significant number of job cuts in their...
‘Unworkable’ bill to ban blockchain immutability is introduced in Illinois
A recently introduced Illinois Senate Bill has been ridiculed by the crypto community over its “unworkable” plans to force blockchain...
Bank of Russia to Start Testing Digital Ruble With Real Users on April 1
The Central Bank of Russia plans to launch test operations with digital ruble transactions between real customers at the beginning of...
Southeast Asia’s Largest Bank DBS Sees 80% Increase in Bitcoin Trading Volume on Its Crypto Exchange
The largest bank in Southeast Asia, DBS, has revealed that bitcoin trading volume on its cryptocurrency exchange jumped 80% in 2022 while...
Binance US Refutes Reports Comparing It to Fraudulent Crypto Exchanges
Binance US has refuted reports that draw parallels between it and “fraudulent exchanges that have gone bankrupt.” The...
Nearly 3 Billion BUSD Stablecoins Have Been Removed From the Market in 6 Days
Six days ago, a few hours before the blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos announced it would no longer mint BUSD stablecoins, $2.86...
Democrats to Return 2.2% of $45.2 Million Donation Made by FTX’s Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
After the disgraced co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), donated $5.2 million to Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 and more than...
Voyager creditors serve SBF a subpoena to appear in court for a ‘remote deposition’
Representatives for Voyager Digital’s unsecured creditors have requested that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and several top-level...
FTX Warns Community of Phony ‘Debt Tokens’ and Scams Claiming to Be Affiliated With the Bankrupt Exchange
On Friday, debtors who control the official FTX Twitter account warned the community to “be on alert for scams from entities...
Bitcoin Continues to Record Blocks Above the 3.75 MB Range as Ordinal Inscriptions Near 150,000
As Ordinal inscriptions approach the 150,000 mark, blocks larger than 3 MB have become commonplace, with many blocks near the 4 MB range....
Metaverse, AI, and Liquid Staking Tokens Lead Year-to-Date Crypto Asset Gains Among Top 125
In 2023, the leading crypto assets, such as bitcoin and ethereum, have captured decent gains. Bitcoin has increased 17.2% over the last 30...
SEC Clampdown Has Crypto Space Abuzz, Pantera Capital Says We’re in Bull Market, and Much More — Week in Review
There’s been no shortage of news in past weeks when it comes to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) taking...
African Fintech Startups Raised $1.45 Billion in 2022 — Sector’s Share of the Continent’s Total Funding Drops
Despite seeing their share of Africa’s startup funding drop from 48.3% seen in 2021 to 43.4% in 2022, fintech still managed to raise...
San Francisco federal bank eyes CBDC system development, reveals job posting
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (San Francisco Fed) is on the lookout for a software engineer who can help develop and implement...
Zambia Testing Technology to Regulate Cryptocurrency — Government Minister
The Bank of Zambia and the country’s securities regulators are currently testing the technology to regulate cryptocurrencies, a...
Sony and Astar Network Launch Web3 Incubation Program for NFT and DAO-Focused Projects
On Feb. 17, 2023, Tokyo-based Sony Network Communications announced that it is co-hosting a Web3 incubation program with the multichain...
Economist Warns the Fed Can’t Reach Inflation Target Without ‘Crushing’ US Economy
Economist Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz’s chief economic advisor and chair of Gramercy Funds Management, has warned that the Federal...
Robert Kiyosaki Warns About Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds — Says Bitcoin Best for ‘Unstable Times’
The famous author of the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, has warned that investing in a well-diversified portfolio...
Custodia Bank CEO slams Washington’s ‘misguided crackdown’ on crypto
The CEO of Custodia Bank, Caitlin Long, has slammed regulators and lawmakers in Washington D.C. for their “misguided crackdown” on the...
Bitcoin faces do-or-die weekly, monthly close with macro bull trend at stake
Bitcoin (BTC) is leaving traders guessing as the bull market’s future depends on the last week of February. In multiple tweets on...
SEC sues Do Kwon, Paxos ready to litigate, SBF’s VPN: Hodler’s Digest, Feb. 12-18
Top Stories This Week Paxos ‘categorically disagrees’ with the SEC that BUSD is a security The United States Securities and Exchange...
Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS Share Predictions About Further Fed Rate Hikes
Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and UBS have shared their predictions about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates further....
Onecoin Cryptoqueen’s Ex-boyfriend Gets 5 Years in Prison
A former boyfriend of Ruja Ignatova, the mastermind of the Ponzi scheme Onecoin, has received five years in prison. The sentence is for...
NFT Sales Surge Over 43% in Past Week, Topping $397 Million
Sales of non-fungible token (NFT) assets over the last seven days rose 43.97% compared to the previous week, according to statistics...
Opensea Drops Fees to Zero and Announces New Creator Earnings Model in Response to Shifting NFT Landscape
The largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Opensea, has announced major changes to its fee structure and policies in response...
CleanSpark boosts computing power by 37% with thousands of new Bitmain rigs
Bitcoin miner CleanSpark is growing its mining capacity in the United States with the purchase of 20,000 new Antminer S19j Pro+ units for...
Ethereum on-chain data suggests ETH sell pressure could be a non-event after the Shanghai upgrade
The upcoming Ethereum Shanghai hard fork is slated to occur in March 2023, and the upgrade will cap off the network’s move to...
Bitcoin price rally to $25K followed by total crypto market cap retest of the $1.13T resistance
The total crypto market capitalization rejected at $1.13 trillion on Feb. 16, but there was no change in the month-long ascending channel...
The economics of cryptocurrency mining: Costs, revenues and market trends
Mining refers to the process of verifying and adding new transactions to a blockchain network, such as in the case of Bitcoin (BTC) or...
Custodia CEO Slams US Government Over Broad Crackdown, Lack of Regulatory Clarity in Crypto Industry
Caitlin Long, CEO of crypto bank Custodia, criticized the U.S. government for its handling of a massive crypto fraud that occurred months...
Biggest Movers: DOT Remains Near Multi-Month High, as LINK Hits 9-Day High
Polkadot remained close to its highest level since September, as bullish sentiment rose to start the weekend. Following a move above $7.00...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Back Above $1,700, as Markets Rebound on Saturday
Ethereum was once again trading above $1,700 to start the weekend, as cryptocurrencies rebounded from Friday’s decline. The global...
Nigerian Crypto Payment Gateway Fluidcoins Acquired by Seychelles-Based Crypto Exchange
The Nigerian crypto payment gateway Fluidcoins was recently bought for an undisclosed sum by Blockfinex, in a deal which the...
Brazilian Government Preparing New Decree to Clarify Cryptocurrency Rules
The Brazilian government is preparing to release a decree to fill the blank spaces that the recent approval of the cryptocurrency law has...
Norwegian Authorities Seize Crypto Worth $6M From Axie Infinity Heist With FBI’s Help
Norwegian authorities, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), have...
Binance Expects to Pay Fines to Settle With US Regulators for Past Conduct: Report
Crypto exchange Binance expects to pay fines to U.S. authorities to settle regulatory and law-enforcement investigations over its past...
Coinbase CEO Urges Congress to Pass Clear Crypto Legislation — Warns America Risks Losing Financial Hub Status
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has called on Congress to pass clear crypto legislation, warning that the U.S. risks losing its status as a...
Report: Former FTX Director of Engineering Nishad Singh Negotiating Plea Deal with Prosecutors
Another member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle allegedly plans to plead guilty to criminal charges for his role in the alleged...
Bill Allows Russian Financial Platforms to Operate Blockchains, Issue Digital Assets
A draft law filed in the Russian parliament permits operators of platforms providing financial services to also run blockchain platforms....
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