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Cointelegraph Consulting: DeFi hit by a tsunami of liquidations in May
The savage sell-off that took place in mid-May fueled volatility in markets and triggered liquidations among numerous decentralized...
MicroStrategy stock slides after announcing new $400M debt raise to buy Bitcoin
A lackluster balance sheet, excessive debt load and over-leveraged exposure to Bitcoin have crashed MicroStrategy stock by more than 63%...
Bitcoin.com Games Player Gets Lucky Big Time, Wins 5 BTC on Popular Online Slot
Player cashes out approximately $180,000 after winning it on Sun of Fortune: Hold the Jackpot! Multiple Wins Result in a Total Bank of...
Microstrategy Selling $400M Bonds to Buy Bitcoin — Holding to Exceed 100,000 BTC
Microstrategy will soon hold more than 100,000 bitcoins in its treasury. The company is raising $400 million by selling senior secured...
FinNexus Cross Chain DeFi Project – Where to Buy FinNexus coin
FinNexus has seen a price increase of 100% over the last week due to it trending recently. FinNexus, the cross-chain DeFi options platform...
Infosys Chairman Advocates Regulation of Crypto Assets as Commodities in India
The chairman of major Indian company Infosys says that crypto should be regulated as an asset, like a commodity. He believes that crypto...
Bears batter Bitcoin market sentiment as Bitfinex margin shorts surge 378%
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls should brace for a potential onslaught from bears as the number of margined short positions on Bitfinex jumps by a...
Jigstack (STAK) Token Is Now Listed on Bitcoin.com Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin.com Exchange is ecstatic to announce the listing of STAK, being available to trade on the 7th June 2021 at 10:00AM...
BTC price doesn’t care about El Salvador? 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) begins another week below $40,000 but with two major new landmarks under its belt. After falling over continued FUD from...
Out of Thousands of MIT Students That Got Free Bitcoin in 2014 – 6 Year Holders Saw 13,000% Gains
Over six years ago, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a couple of scholars distributed $100 in bitcoin to 3,100...
Government Cannot Stand in the Way of Crypto Technologies, Iran Minister Says
New technologies, including blockchain and cryptocurrency mining, have helped Iran to increase budget receipts and withstand foreign...
Weibo Cracks Down Crypto Related Accounts as China Strengthens Its Anti Crypto Stance
Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, banned the accounts of several key cryptocurrency and defi influencers in the country...
Unsure about buying the dip? This key trading indicator makes it easier
When an asset enters a bear phase and the headlines are negative, analysts project further downside, and the sentiment shifts from...
Bitcoin FOMO and Paul Tudor Jones Led Stan Druckenmiller to Invest Millions in BTC
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller has shared how he got into bitcoin and it involved famed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones. When...
Norway Finance Minister Sees Great Interest in Cryptocurrency — Says Bitcoin Could See ‘Breakthroughs’
The finance minister of Norway believes that bitcoin may experience “breakthroughs.” He noted that “There is no doubt...
Goldman Sachs Survey: Chief Investment Officers Say Bitcoin Is Their Least Favorite Investment
Investment bank Goldman Sachs recently held two roundtable sessions for chief investment officers of hedge funds. The bank found that they...
Bitcoin Miami mania, Dogecoin bounces back, Eth2 woes: Hodler’s Digest, May 30–June 5
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Clean Water Nonprofit Reveals Celebrity-Fueled Bitcoin Water Trust Initiative
On Friday, the well known nonprofit charitywater.org announced the launch of a celebrity-funded Bitcoin Water Trust initiative. The trust...
TimeCoin(TMCN) Combines NFT and DeFi, VTuber & Game Player Matching Service
PRESS RELEASE. TimeCoinProtocol is the decentralized sharing economy protocol which aims to optimize world resource usage. Various...
National Court of Spain Suspends John McAfee Extradition Hearing
The National Court in Spain has suspended the hearing destined to deal with the extradition request that John McAfee, the well known...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, ADA, SOL, THETA
When the sentiment in the market turns bearish, every bit of negative news, however insignificant, pulls the price down as traders panic...
US Pharmacy Chain Pharmcorx Accepts Cryptocurrency for Fast Covid Testing
Progressive Care, a company that operates a chain of pharmacies in the United States, has announced it’s now accepting...
Square Takes a Swipe at the Bitcoin Energy Debate With $5 Million Solar Mining Investment
As the conversation about Bitcoin’s energy consumption reaches a fever pitch, Jack Dorsey’s payment provider Square has...
Green Bitcoin: The impact and importance of energy use for PoW
While writing the world’s most famous white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto defined the Bitcoin (BTC) mining process. It was established...
G7 Finance Chiefs to Publish Common Rules for State-Issued Digital Currencies This Year
The G7 finance ministers and central bank governors have met and agreed to work towards common principles for state-backed digital...
Tony Hawk Purchased Bitcoin in 2012 After Reading About the Silk Road Marketplace
Tony Hawk, the American professional skateboarder often referred to as ‘Birdman,’ discussed bitcoin at the Bitcoin 2021...
GBTC premium stays negative, suggests Bitcoin price sentiment still low?
Bitcoin (BTC) is facing difficulty breaching the $40,000 mark again after briefly crossing it on May 26. The cryptocurrency is currently...
Vulcan Forged Launches NFTs Designed by the Godfather of Fantasy Art
PRESS RELEASE. Vulcan Forged has secured IP rights to several artists’ work to bring fantasy-themed NFTs to the VulcanVerse....
Study Shows 36% of Nigerian Adults Are Financially Excluded — Digital Financial Services Bolsters Inclusion
Nearly 36% of Nigeria’s 106 million adults lack access to both regulated and unregulated financial services, according to the...
Shanghai to Hand Out $3 Million in Digital Yuan Lottery
As part of government efforts to get the digital yuan going, authorities in Shanghai will distribute $3 million worth of the central...
African Fintech Start-up Chipper Cash Raises $100 Million — CEO Says No Crypto Services for Nigeria
Chipper Cash, an African fintech firm that specializes in facilitating cross-border payments, recently closed a $100 million Series C...
‘Blogger by Day, Trader by Night,’ Binance Runs Advertising Campaign in Major Ukrainian Cities
An advertising campaign across some of Ukraine’s most populous cities is now aiming to attract new traders to the world’s...
Earn up to 50% APY by Staking $GLQ on GraphLinq App
PRESS RELEASE. The newest utility token to offer staking to its users/holders is GraphLinq Protocol’s $GLQ. As of this article, $GLQ...
Anonymous Targets Elon Musk for Destroying Crypto Holders’ Lives, Trying to Control Bitcoin
The decentralized group Anonymous has published a message for Elon Musk in a video where they called the Tesla CEO “nothing more...
Miami Mayor Confident Crypto Regulatory Issues Will Be Resolved — Says ‘Buy the Dip’
The mayor of the U.S. city of Miami, Francis Suarez, explains how he plans to make his city the capital of bitcoin. He believes that...
The NFT bubble may have popped, but the sector is still primed for expansion
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) took the world by storm in March and April of this year with an onslaught of daily headlines about...
Why Bitcoin’s next breakout may not be an altcoin season signal
On April 14, Bitcoin (BTC) reached a $64,900 all-time high after accumulating 124.5% gains in 2021. However, a 27.5% correction followed...
‘Bitcoin Going to the Moon’ — Bitmex Sending Physical Bitcoin to Lunar Surface in Q4
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitmex is sending bitcoin to the moon. A one-of-a-kind physical bitcoin will be minted and delivered to the moon...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Plans to Declare Bitcoin Legal Tender Next Week
At the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, appeared via a Zoom presentation and noted that he...
FTX Lands Naming Deal With Esports Giant TSM for $210 Million
On Friday, FTX Exchange announced signing a naming rights deal with U.S. professional esports organization TSM for $210 million. The...
Floyd Mayweather Gets Booed at Bitcoin Event for Saying ‘Another Crypto Will Be Just as Big as BTC’
The undefeated professional boxer Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather recently spoke at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami and was...
SHIB vs. DOGE – Who Is the Top Dog in Crypto Land?
Over the last few months two distinct dog cryptocurrencies, shiba inu and dogecoin, have been making waves within the crypto economy....
New Crypto Asset Hits $593,000,000 Market Cap at Launch – Here’s the Buzz on Mina Protocol
Daily Hodl Novel blockchain platform Mina Protocol (MINA) has captured nearly $600 million in valuation shortly after its launch. The...
Bitcoin drops below $36K as century-old financial model predicts big BTC crash
Overconfident Bitcoin (BTC) bulls would need to battle more than just Elon Musk as a price prediction model — created by technical analyst...
Forecasting Bitcoin price using quantitative models, Part 3
This is Part Three of a multipart series that aims to answer the following question: What is the “fundamental value” of Bitcoin? Part One...
De-Dollarization: Russia Removing All US Dollar Assets From Its $600 Billion National Wealth Fund
Russia has reportedly announced that U.S. dollar assets will be removed from its National Wealth Fund as U.S. sanctions on Moscow...
Lawsuit Accuses Korean Crypto Exchange of $3.5 Billion Scam, Tens of Thousands Defrauded
A class action lawsuit has been filed in South Korea accusing cryptocurrency exchange V Global of defrauding investors. The police...
Norton Crypto Mining: Antivirus Software to Mine Cryptocurrency
Norton has added a cryptocurrency mining feature to its antivirus software. Users will be able to mine ethereum while their computers are...
Popular Philippine Mobile Wallet Gcash Explores Letting Users Buy, Sell, Store Cryptocurrencies
A popular mobile wallet in the Philippines, Gcash, is considering offering its users the ability to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies...
Kalashnikov Eyes Digital Ruble Settlements as Russia Aims to Replace ‘Dirty Money’
Kalashnikov Group, the Russian firearms manufacturer, is ready to transition to settlements in digital currency. The announcement came...
AquaGoat: Saving the Oceans One EcoCoin at a Time
AquaGoat is an ecological social cryptocurrency with a purpose: saving the planet’s oceans. AquaGoat aims to help fund and donate to...
Amundi Executive Pascal Blanque Calls Cryptocurrencies a Farce
Pascal Blanque, CIO of Amundi, one of the biggest asset managers in Europe, has stated that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a...
To IPO or Not to IPO? SPAC is the question
An initial public offering is the classic way to take a company public, but many crypto companies bypass the regulatory scrutiny with a...
Altcoin Roundup: Post-crash prices give investors a chance to build a diversified portfolio
Welcome to Cointelegraph Market’s Altcoin Roundup, an in-depth newsletter that focuses on investing from the perspective of fundamental...
Localbitcoins Adds Bitcoin Cash and Other Cryptocurrencies as Payment Methods
Localbitcoins, one of the biggest P2P exchanges in the world, has added Bitcoin Cash and other cryptocurrencies as payment methods to...
South Korea’s Financial Regulator Holds Closed-Door Meeting With 20 Crypto Exchanges
Regional reports disclose South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) had a closed-door meeting with roughly 20 different...
Ethereum options data shows traders’ mixed opinions on ETH’s future
After reviewing Ether (ETH) options for June 25, one might think that traders either became overly optimistic or ultra-bearish. Currently,...
PlanetWatch Announces the Listing of the PLANETS Token on Bitfinex Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. Planetwatch, a French start-up which decentralizes and incentivizes environmental monitoring, announced that its utility...
Payments Firm Square May Build a Hardware Wallet, Dorsey Heckled at Bitcoin Conference Over Censorship
The cofounder of Twitter and the CEO of the payments firm Square, Jack Dorsey, has revealed his firm is contemplating creating a bitcoin...
Price analysis 6/4: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, DOGE, XRP, DOT, UNI, ICP, BCH
Bloomberg senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone believes Bitcoin (BTC) is more likely to turn up and rally to $100,000 rather than...
Alternative Mining Algorithms Reap Higher Profits Than Bitcoin Mining in 2021
Cryptocurrencies have jumped quite a bit in value over the course of the year and miners who verify transactions and earn digital assets...
We tracked down the original Bitcoin Lambo guy
Jay is the Bitcoin OG who created a meme by buying a Lamborghini with the cryptocurrency. He went from a poverty-level existence to...
Bitcoin bulls give ‘conservative’ 10 year estimate for hyperbitcoinization to hit
Bitcoin (BTC) may be just ten years away from seeing mass adoption in an event known as “hyperbitcoinization.” That’s...
Forget Elon, here’s why Bitcoin traders should be watching the US Dollar Index instead
Bitcoin (BTC) prices fell by almost 5% on June 4, continuing the decline into the Friday session as investors grappled with Elon...
Biden Makes Cryptocurrency a Focus of New Anti-Corruption Directive for National Security
Cryptocurrency is a point of focus in President Joe Biden’s new directive aimed at combating corruption as a core national security...
Institutions Gobbling Up Cardano and Two Additional Altcoins During Crypto Market Plunge: CoinShares
Daily Hodl Staff Digital assets manager CoinShares says institutional investors are buying Cardano (ADA), XRP and Polkadot...
Filecoin ignores Elon Musk’s Bitcoin FUD as FIL price rockets by 17%
FIL, the native crypto asset of the Filecoin network, was among the best performing digital assets Friday as it maintained its gains...
India’s Central Bank RBI Still Has ‘Major Concerns’ About Crypto After Saying Ban No Longer Valid
The governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shaktikanta Das, has clarified the central bank’s position regarding...
Historically accurate Bitcoin metric nears the next ‘potential’ price peak
Bitcoin (BTC) losing over 50% in a month may have a big silver lining as lower prices set up a classic bull flag. On Thursday, Philip...
‘Largest Bitcoin event in history’ Bitcoin 2021 kicks off in Miami
Bitcoin 2021, the biggest Bitcoin event in history with a sold-out crowd of at least 12,000 attendees in Miami, is kicking off with some...
Crypto E-Commerce Giant Shopping.io Supports eToro Social Impact Non-Profit, GoodDollar
PRESS RELEASE. Shopping.io – Los Angeles, CA the premier crypto E-commerce platform will donate $50,000 to eToro’s flagship...
Crypto Consolidation Continues — Bitcoin’s Attempt to Rise Above Psychological Levels Falls Short
Digital currency markets have slid in value over the last 12 hours as the entire crypto-economy has lost over 7% during the last 24 hours....
Bitcoin Dips as Elon Musk Tweets Broken Heart Emoji
The price of the leading cryptocurrency took a hit after billionaire Elon Musk mentioned Bitcoin in a new tweet hinting at a breakup....
Bitcoin price slumps $2K on Musk’s ‘in the end’ tweets
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has brought more stress to the cryptocurrency markets by posting another series of cryptocurrency-related tweets on...
Bloomberg report calls Bitcoin ‘refreshed and discounted’ as BTC price bounces at $36K
Bitcoin (BTC) bounced off a predicted floor on June 4 as the dust settled on the latest market collision with Elon Musk. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Crypto CFDs Are Popping Up Like Mushrooms – Here’s Why
Thanks to its high volatility and price momentum, cryptocurrency is an increasingly popular asset class amongst retail day traders. CFDs...
Bank of Ghana ‘in the Advanced Stages of Introducing a Digital Currency’— Governor Repeats Anti-Cryptocurrency Claims
The governor of Ghana’s central bank, Ernest Addison, has said his institution is now “in the advanced stages of introducing a...
Filipinos Can Now Cash in Crypto Without Fees Through Moneybees OTC Outlets
PRESS RELEASE. With cryptocurrency adoption increasing in the Philippines, Filipino users are looking for ways to convert their digital...
Survey Finds Gen Z More Likely to Invest in Cryptocurrencies and Memes Over Traditional Investments
A recent study published by Gambler’s Pick notes that Gen Zers are less likely to invest in traditional investments like equities...
UK Regulator Extends Temporary Registrations Regime as Crypto Firms Fail to Meet AML Rules
Many companies operating with cryptocurrencies are not meeting anti-money laundering regulations, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct...
Study Shows NFT Sales Plummeted 90% Over the Last 30 Days, NFT Wallets Dip 70%
According to a recent study, non-fungible token (NFT) sales have dive-bombed 90% since the market’s record sales on May 3. Market...
ECB: Digital Euro to Boost Global Appeal of European Money, Fight ‘Artificial Currencies’
The digitization of traditional currencies like the euro has the potential to increase their international appeal, the European Central...
Ethereum has strong fundamentals, so why are pro traders bearish on ETH?
Ether (ETH) has outperformed Bitcoin (BTC) by 32% since May, and even though there has been a steady flow of bullish reports from JPMorgan...
Curve (CRV) sees 150% rebound as DeFi bottoms and ETH gas fees drop
DeFi tokens and protocols took a heavy hit on May 19 as Bitcoin price dropped to $30,000 and while BTC has entered what some analysts...
Vitalik Buterin Says People Difficulties Not Technical Difficulties Slowed the Ethereum 2.0 Rollout
The cofounder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, recently discussed the highly anticipated full transition from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus...
Data Shows BSC Dapps Lost $167 Million Last Month From Flash Loan Attacks
Binance Smart Chain (BSC) decentralized applications (dapps) have been hit with a number of flash loan attacks in recent weeks. According...
Here’s 3 ways the relative strength index (RSI) can be used as a sell signal
A trade is profitable only if both the purchase and the sale are done at the right time. Many times, traders sell their positions too...
Binance Extends Blockade of Zimbabwean Crypto Users to Include Non-Resident Traders
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has reportedly extended its blockade of Zimbabwean users to include non-resident citizens....
Ron Paul Wants Bitcoin Totally Legalized to Compete With Dollar and Let the People Decide
Former U.S. congressman Ron Paul says that he wants to legalize the dollar’s competition, including bitcoin, and let the people...
Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM) skyrocket in price after attracting $30M in funding
Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM) rose in tandem on June 3 as traders assessed a venture capital firm’s major investment into their...