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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,...
The Psychology of Meme Coins, From Actual Investors
Everyone wants to believe in something. Enter memes, the supposed future of money according to enthusiastic crypto investors and, of...
MicroStrategy Buys Another $94.2 Million of Bitcoin
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), the business-intelligence software company that’s taken to accumulating bitcoin, said it bought 1,914...
Brian Kelly on 3 “under-the-radar” metaverse tokens to watch in 2022
The investor says Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, and Decentraland could explode again amid network growth and the metaverse hype. “Fast...
Russia’s Largest Bank Introduces First Blockchain Focused ETF in the Country
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has introduced what it said is the country’s first exchange-traded fund (ETF) to provide exposure to...
Cardano vs. Ethereum: Can Ada Solve Ether’s Problems?
Cardano is a decentralized, open-source blockchain network that launched in September 2017. Like Ethereum, Cardano supports smart contract...
Iran Allows Renewable Power Plants to Supply Crypto Miners With Electricity
Authorities in Iran have decided to permit power generation plants using renewable sources to sell electricity to licensed cryptocurrency...
Algorand Surges as Foundation Incentivizes DeFi Activity on Algofi
Tokens of Algorand (ALGO) have added as much as 10% in the past 24 hours, becoming one of the few gainers on Thursday morning even as the...
Market highlights December 30: Cryptos seen lower, US markets edge higher
The crypto market as a whole is bearish as the year comes to an end. It was in the red over the past 24 hours, as the top 10 cryptos were...
First US Bitcoin ETF a ‘dud’ in 2021 as GBTC discount stays near record lows
Bitcoin (BTC) institutional demand is conspicuously wanting at the end of the year as data flags the “underperformance” of the...
You can now buy Tezos, the network with the most advanced infrastructure: here’s where
Tezos is a smart-contract based blockchain network, which aims to offer infrastructure that can evolve and improve over time without the...
Cardano, Avalanche Lead Crypto Decline in Volatile Trading Session
Cryptocurrencies continued this week’s slide on Thursday, with tokens of some of the largest blockchains by market capitalization falling...
Celo is bringing crypto to smartphone users: here’s where you can buy Celo now
Celo has been gaining value after a successful series of events, including an eToro listing. The live Celo price today is $4.74 with a...
Monero rising steadily, gained 7% today: top places to buy Monero today
Monero has been rising steadily since it made good on its promise of a decentralized exchange built on privacy, speed, and low fees. If...
Where to buy Cosmos, the token that gained 6% in 24 hours
The creators of Cosmos describe it as a project that solves some of the “hardest problems” facing the blockchain industry....
Bitcoin Investors Protect Against Even Lower Prices Ahead of New Year
Purchases of put options on bitcoin increased as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization fell under the $46,000 level...
Meet QRDO, the perpetual gainer: best places to buy the QRDO token today
The live Qredo price today is $6.52 with a 24-hour trading volume of almost $37 million. Qredo is up 1.87% in the last 24 hours. If you...
Over 20,000 Bitcoin ATMs Installed in a Year
The number of cryptocurrency ATMs around the world has grown exponentially in 2021, with over 20,000 new installations made since last...
Hong Kong Arrests 2 Suspected of Laundering $384M Through Banks and a Crypto Exchange
Hong Kong’s Customs and Excise Department arrested two people suspected of laundering about $384 million through personal bank accounts...
Hong Kong Authorities Arrest Two Siblings Accused of Laundering $384 Million via Banks, Crypto Platform
Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested two individuals accused of laundering about $384 million using various avenues including a...
Brock Pierce and Tom Lee tip $200K BTC in 2022, despite missing the mark in 2021
Despite missing the mark with their $100,000 Bitcoin price predictions in 2021, Former Chief Strategy Officer at Block One Brock Pierce...
Polygon upgrade quietly fixes bug that put $24B of MATIC at risk
Ethereum-based layer two scaling network Polygon has quietly fixed a vulnerability that put almost $24 billion worth of its native token...
Investment Adviser Warns It’s a Mistake to Ignore Crypto Assets, Predicts Cryptocurrencies Will Outperform Equities
Blueprint Capital Advisors CEO Jacob Walthour says it’s a mistake to ignore crypto as an asset class. He also predicts that crypto...
5 ways derivatives could change the cryptocurrency sector in 2022
We‘ve all heard stories of billion-dollar future contracts liquidations being the cause of 25% intraday price crashes in Bitcoin (BTC) and...