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Despite Negative Mining Malware Press, Privacy-Focused Crypto Monero Jumps 36% in 2 Weeks
The privacy-centric crypto asset monero has seen significant gains during the last two weeks, jumping 36% in value against the U.S....
DAOs are the foundation of Web3, the creator economy and the future of work
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) started out as a simple concept envisioned as organizations, created by an idea and fueled...
Half a Dozen of India’s Crypto Exchanges Searched After Alleged Rupee 700M Tax Evasion Detected: Sources
India’s tax authorities have conducted searches at some of India’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges including “Coinswitch Kuber, CoinDCX,...
Indian Authorities Raid Cryptocurrency Exchanges for Tax Evasion
India’s Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) reportedly raided major cryptocurrency exchanges Saturday. Their offices...
Ex-Head of Crypto Exchange Wex Released in Poland
Former chief executive of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, Dmitry Vasiliev, has been released from arrest in Warsaw earlier this...
Ether drops below $3,800, but traders are unwilling to short at current levels
Even though Ether (ETH) reached a $4,870 all-time high on Nov. 10, bulls have little reason to celebrate. The 290% gains year-to-date have...
Bitcoin starts 2022 at $47.2K as fresh research pins performance on China trader exodus
Bitcoin (BTC) bears lost out at the last minute as 2021 came to an end — and consensus is building around China again being the reason for...
Gold Bug Peter Schiff Claims Bitcoin’s Yearly Gain of 60% Was Achieved in First 5 Weeks of the Year
Gold bug Peter Schiff has claimed that though bitcoin went up by 60% during the past twelve months, most of these gains were achieved...
Oscar-Winning Rapper Eminem Purchases Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for $462K
Award-winning rapper Eminem has joined the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), purchasing one of the non fungible token (NFT) apes Thursday on...
Bitcoin’s $6.1 billion options expiry was not enough to break the bearish sentiment
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has been ranging between $46,000 and $52,000 for 26 days. Despite the large nominal $6.1 billion year-end...
Mexico Announces It Will Issue Its Own Digital Coin by 2024
The government of Mexico announced that the country’s central bank will issue its own digital currency. The statement of the...
Gibraltar Stock Exchange Receives Purchase Proposal by Blockchain Firm
The stock exchange of Gibraltar, a British territory, has received a purchase offer by a blockchain firm called Valereum. The purchase,...
South Korean Lawmaker Says He Will Start Accepting Crypto Donations in the New Year
Lee Kwang-jae, a South Korean lawmaker, recently stated that he will be accepting cryptocurrency donations starting mid-January 2022....
Indian taxman recovers $6.62M from WazirX for evading tax on commission
Indian crypto exchange WazirX has reportedly paid over $6.62 million (49.2 crore rupees) following non-payment of Goods and Services Tax...
Malaysia Seizes 1,720 Bitcoin Mining Machines in Electricity Theft Crackdown
Police in Malaysia have shut down a bitcoin mining operation and seized 1,720 bitcoin mining machines in a major electricity theft...
Bitcoin price fell short of analysts’ $100K target, but what about 2022?
Bitcoin (BTC) is likely to end 2021 well below analysts’ target projections of $100,000. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, who had also projected a...
Grayscale Holds $43B in Crypto Assets Under Management, Down From $60.9 in Early November
Grayscale Investments has $43.6 billion in crypto assets under management (AUM), the digital asset manager tweeted on Friday – a more than...
Canadian Regulator Insists Binance Is Unauthorized, Calls the Crypto Exchange’s Letter to Users ‘Unacceptable’
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) claims that Binance has rescinded its commitment to comply with previously agreed requirements....
Binance Held Talks With Ontario Securities Commission, Says Restrictions on Users Remain
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it had a “constructive meeting” Friday with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), to clarify an...
If You Build It, They Will Come: The Rapid Expansion of GameFi
The blockchain gaming eco-system is rapidly evolving with new developments all the time in crypto (play-to-earn), NFTs (digital assets),...
Twitch Co-Founder Justin Kan Launches Gaming-Centric NFT Marketplace Fractal
The co-founder of Twitch, Justin Kan launched a gaming-centric non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace called Fractal on December 30....
Bitcoin holds $48K as final Wall Street session caps 60% YTD gains for BTC
Bitcoin (BTC) chipped away at its latest gains on Dec. 31 as the final trading session of 2021 opened on Wall St. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Cointelegraph Consulting: Crypto events of 2021 in retrospect
The year 2021 is coming to a close, and if there’s one way to describe how the cryptocurrency industry fared in the past 12 months, it...
Bitcoin price reverses gains on New Year’s Eve; hodlers continue stacking sats
Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader cryptocurrency market turned lower later in the day on Dec. 31, erasing intraday gains to cap off a highly...
Metaverse NYE Parties: Decentraland New Year’s Eve Bash to Recreate One Times Square, Paris Hilton to DJ in Roblox
There’s a New Year’s Eve fiesta in the metaverse called the Metafest 2022 Global Party hosted by the real estate firm...
Price analysis 12/31: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, ADA, XRP, LUNA, AVAX, DOT, DOGE
Bitcoin (BTC) and most major altcoins are attempting a rebound off their respective support levels, indicating that buyers continue to...
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Adds Crypto Adviser to Executive Staff
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added a number of advisers to Chairman Gary Gensler’s executive staff. Among...
Shiba Inu Launches Beta Version of DAO to Give Users More Authority Over Crypto Projects
Shiba Inu has launched a beta version of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to give users more authority to decide on crypto...
$2.2M Worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs Stolen — Victim Says Incident Was ‘Arguably the Worst Night’ of His Life
According to reports, roughly $2.2 million worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) non-fungible tokens...
Brock Pierce says global financial uncertainty could push BTC to $200K
The Bitcoin Foundation chairman suggests inflation and insatiable appetite by governments to print fiat money could help Bitcoin rally...
Here Are the Top 10 Cryptocurrencies of 2021
The past year’s crypto market can be summed up in three words: to the moon.Bitcoin and Ethereum, which entered the year’s bull run...
Miner Bitfarms Raises $100M Bitcoin-Backed Loan With Galaxy Digital
Bitcoin miner Bitfarms secured a $100 million credit facility with blockchain and cryptocurrency financial services provider Galaxy...
5 Money Themes to Watch in 2022
Happy New Year! Last week’s holiday edition of Money Reimagined offered a look back at the year that was and explored five ways in which...
Jason Yanowitz and Michael Ippolito on the Most Important Stories of 2021
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn the final episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is...
100 NFT Collections Surpass $20 Billion in Volume — Cryptopunks, Bored Apes Capture Top Volumes
Non-fungible token (NFT) assets were extremely popular this year and to date, there’s been more than $20 billion in volume recorded...
Bitcoin gains $1.5K in under an hour as BTC price erases days of downtrend
Bitcoin (BTC) put in an early end-of-year flourish on Dec. 31 as an upward boost saw BTC/USD retake $48,000. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Crypto Needs Centralized Systems to Integrate With Traditional Finance, Binance CEO Says
The crypto industry needs centralized systems in order to integrate with the traditional finance industry, according to Changpeng “CZ”...
SushiSwap’s (SUSHI) 7-day bullish uptrend brings gains of over 35% – price analysis and prediction below
As 2021 comes to a close, SushiSwap (SUSHI) has been one of the top performers in the crypto market for the last week or so. The DeFi...
Volatility Ruled Crypto Markets in 2021, From $69K Bitcoin to Elon Musk’s ‘Dogecoin to the Moooonn’
It was another characteristically unpredictable year in cryptocurrency markets.Bitcoin staged a powerful rally to start off 2021,...
A ‘Best of’ Holiday Special of 2021: India’s Digital Identity System
This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin.For the last day for 2021 and the end of a two-week break for Money...
Korea to Tax Inherited, Gifted Crypto Starting Next Year: Report
South Korea will begin taxing inherited or gifted crypto starting in 2022, according to a report by KBS News.While the country’s plan to...
Donated or Inherited Virtual Assets to Be Taxed by South Korea’s NTS
Starting in the year 2022, donated or inherited virtual assets will be assessed and taxed accordingly, South Korea’s National Tax...
Market highlights December 31: Cryptos see end of year rally, oil headed for biggest gains since 2009
Despite the overall slowdown in crypto markets seen recently, nearly all top 10 cryptos registered gains over the past 24 hours. Oil had a...
Cryptocurrencies Approach New Year in Positive Mood
Cryptocurrencies moved toward the year-end in a positive mood, with bitcoin – the largest by market value – adding about 3% over 24 hours...
Introducing LGB, the token that gained 52% today: where to buy LGB
Let’s Go Brandon (LGB) is a decentralized meme cryptocurrency dedicated to racecar driver Brandon Brown, an underdog who won at...
AAVE is one of today’s biggest winners with added value of 14%: best places to buy AAVE now
The live Aave price today is $272.41 with a 24-hour trading volume of $591.8 million. Aave is up 13.58% in the last 24 hours. If you want...
Cosmos is surging, up 14% in the last 24 hours: the top places to buy ATOM
The live Cosmos price today is $31.75 with a 24-hour trading volume of $1.14 billion. Cosmos is up 13.60% in the last 24 hours. If you...
Kazakhstan Mulls Nuclear Power to Deal With Electricity Shortages Blamed on Crypto Miners
The government in Kazakhstan is considering building a nuclear power plant to overcome an electricity deficit allegedly caused by the...
Is Verasity the future of advertising? Top places to buy VRA
The Verasity ecosystem aims to build a fair system for creators to earn from their work and for advertisers to gain value for their ad...
Fractal: 110K join Discord of Twitch founder’s new NFT gaming marketplace
Twitch co-founder Justin Kan launched a new blockchain gaming-focused NFT marketplace yesterday dubbed Fractal. Fractal’s Discord group...
Bitcoin sees ‘non-stop’ end-of-year buying as 10K BTC leaves Coinbase in a single day
Almost 10,000 Bitcoin (BTC) left major United States-based exchange Coinbase on Dec. 30 in a sign that investor appetite is returning to...
Gnosis is skyrocketing, up 14% in 24 hours: here’s where to buy GNO today
The live Gnosis price today is $566.96 with a 24-hour trading volume of $40.7 million. Gnosis was up 14% at the time of writing in the...
Bitcoin Treasuries List Claims 59 Companies and a Handful of Countries Hold 1.49 Million BTC
304 days or roughly nine months ago, 42 companies held bitcoin on their balance sheet with an aggregate total of 1,350,073 bitcoin on...
Indian Regulator SEBI Wants Mutual Funds to Stay Away From Crypto Investments Until Legislation Is Finalized
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has reportedly asked mutual fund companies not to get involved or invest in any type of...
DAO treasuries surged 40X in 2021: DeepDAO
The total combined value of treasuries, or assets under management (AUM) for the use of decentralized autonomous organizations, increased...
El Salvador to Build New National Stadium in Collaboration With China, Bukele Says in ‘Surprise’ New Year’s Eve Tweet
El Salvador will build a new national stadium in a collaboration with China, President Nayib Bukele said in a Spanish-language Twitter...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Praises Dogecoin, Criticizes Bitcoin, Guesses Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto
Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk says dogecoin is “fundamentally better than anything else” he has seen while he criticizes...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Sees Out the Year Near $47K Amid Low-Volume Spot Trading
(Edited by Greg Ahlstrand and James Rubin)Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Market moves: Bitcoin recovered some losses, charts turned...
Microstrategy Buys More Bitcoin, Now Holding 124,391 BTC
Nasdaq-listed Microstrategy has bought more bitcoin for its corporate treasury. The latest purchase for 1,914 coins has raised the...
Sushi Tries to Pick Up the Pieces: A DeFi Governance Case Study
After months of public infighting and turmoil, popular DeFi platform Sushi has passed an ambitious governance overhaul designed to...
Institutional tax-loss harvesting weighs on the Bitcoin price as 2021 comes to a close
2021 has been a breakout year for the cryptocurrency market as a whole despite the year-end struggles that have kept the price of Bitcoin...
Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin ETF Rally Proved Short-Lived, and $100K Dreams Faded
Hi, Market Wrap readers! During the final two weeks of 2021, we’re using this space to recap the year’s most dramatic moments in...
After Identity Theft, Salvadorans Now Report Funds Disappearing From Chivo Wallets
In the last few weeks, dozens of Salvadorans began to report on social media the disappearance of money from their Chivo wallets, the...
Top Layer-2 Coins to Buy
Layer-2 blockchains are third-party protocols operating on layer-1 blockchains to help solve any of the blockchain trilemma-...
5 Reasons to buy Solana over Ethereum
While both cryptocurrencies have nice worths, their values go beyond being cryptocurrencies to their underlying blockchains. Solana (SOL)...
Gobierno de México confirma que planea emitir una moneda digital para 2024
El Banco Central de México (Banxico) planea emitir una moneda digital de banco central (CBDC, por sus siglas en inglés) para 2024, según...
5 Reasons why you should buy Litecoin
Litecoin (LTC) has the potential to make you rich in 2022 Investing in cryptocurrency is slowly gaining traction in the modern world....
SEC Chair Gary Gensler Hires Senate Banking Aide to Advise on Crypto Policy
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has hired a senior advisor specializing in cryptocurrency, according to a...
Top 10 cheapest cryptocurrencies to buy right now
Cash doesn't have to limit you from trading cryptocurrencies. No matter how much you earn, with as low as a few cents, you can begin your...
Tether’s Market Cap Nears $80B, USDT Represents 46% of the Stablecoin Economy
This week the stablecoin giant tether reached a market capitalization of roughly $78.2 billion according to data. Over the last 30 days,...
Binance Still Not Authorized to Operate in Ontario, Securities Commission Says
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance still isn’t registered under Ontario’s securities law, the province’s securities commission said in a...
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Says Washington Doesn’t Need a New Crypto Regulator
Forming a single regulator to oversee crypto would not be a panacea for the industry’s regulatory woes, said U.S. Securities and Exchange...
Frax Share, Swipe and Gnosis lead the altcoin market as Bitcoin recovers to $47.5k
Volatility is once again the major theme across the cryptocurrency market on Dec. 30 as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) bounced back from an...
21 Predictions for Crypto and Beyond in 2022
2021 has been the cryptocurrency industry’s biggest year ever. Not just because token prices went up, which some did by thousands of...
Pakistan Freezes Over 1,000 Accounts and Cards Used For Crypto Trading
Authorities in Pakistan have reportedly moved to seize hundreds of bank accounts and cards belonging to cryptocurrency traders. According...
Bitcoin ‘died’ 45 times in 2021 as media still eager to post BTC obituaries
As Bitcoin (BTC) was hitting new historical highs above $68,000 this year, global cryptocurrency naysayers were increasingly blasting BTC...
Bitcoin gains after $46K drop as ‘bottoming out’ continues into 2022
Bitcoin (BTC) recovered from fresh lows on Dec. 30 as markets remained undecided on their end-of-year trajectory. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
MicroStrategy purchases 1,914 Bitcoin, now holds almost $6B in crypto
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has added $94 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to its holdings after purchasing the crypto asset at...
Little forkers: BCH and BSV get crushed by Bitcoin price in 2021
Bitcoin (BTC) looks set to beat its forked versions Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) in terms of price-performance in 2021, market...
Justin Kan’s Gaming NFT Platform Goes Live, Rebounding From $150K Discord Exploit
Since announcing plans to launch his gaming NFT marketplace Fractal earlier in December, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan has been one of the...
2021’s Digital Asset Shuffle: A Myriad of Crypto Market Cap Positions Moved Chaotically This Year
2021 has been a bullish year for crypto assets. While prices have risen a great deal, the top ten and top twenty rankings in terms of...
NFT Project Bored Ape Yacht Club Spawns ‘Left-Facing’ Copycats
It’s a Bored Ape face-off.On Wednesday, two Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) parody projects gained momentum on crypto Twitter, igniting...
Privacy Coin Issuer: Nothing’s Encrypted Until End Points Are Encrypted
Roughly $13 billion is afloat in the privacy coin market, but are holders of these tokens really getting what they’re paying for? That...
Mexico Plans to Issue a CBDC by 2024, Government Confirms
The Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) plans to launch a CBDC by 2024, the Mexican government confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday...
Gamers Rally Behind ‘More Than Gamers’ NFT Project and Its Metaverse Roadmap
With non-fungible token (NFT) trading volumes back on the rise, project More Than Gamers (MTG) is garnering buzz for its ambitious...
Tom Shaughnessy on the Big Metaverse Bet
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by...
Umee Buckles Down for Mainnet With $32M Token Sale on CoinList
Umee raised $32 million from community members who piled into the chain-hopping network’s UMEE token ahead of mainnet launch, slated for...
Blockchain stays even if most projects fade, says Reddit co-founder
Alex Ohanian says that even if a majority of crypto projects and companies disappear, the underlying blockchain will remain and power the...
One Big Regulatory Question Holds Advisors Back From Crypto
The biggest regulatory question for advisors concerning digital assets today is: Are they securities or not?Digital assets are still quite...
Close to $50 Million in Bitcoin From 2011 Moved for the First Time in 10.5 Years
On December 29, two addresses from 2011 containing 500 bitcoin each transferred 1,000 coins for the first time in 10.5 years. Furthermore,...