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The Reported Number of Stolen BTC Drops by 92% as ‘Bitcoin Security Appears to Be Improving’
The number of stolen bitcoins that were publicly reported in 2020 dropped to 4,472 coins or 0.02% of the digital asset’s circulating...
Kyrgyzstan Central Bank Is Set to Introduce Bills to Monitor Crypto Exchanges Activities and Forcing Them to Apply for Permits
The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) revealed its new-year plans for the national crypto industry. They are about to introduce...
Onboarding Institutional Crypto Investors- Coinbase Helps Execute ‘One of the Largest Digital Asset Trades in History’
Over the last year, institutional investors have been flocking toward crypto assets like bitcoin and after Microstrategy’s initial...
Skybridge Bitcoin Fund Debuts With $310 Million — Investment Manager Expects Each BTC Worth $535K
Skybridge Bitcoin Fund’s assets under management have risen to $310 million. Expecting the cryptocurrency to become a digital...
Top US Banking Regulator: Banks Are Authorized to Use Public Blockchains and Stablecoins for Payment Activities
The top banking regulator in the U.S. has announced that national banks and savings associations in the country can use public blockchains...
Canaan Launches Submerged Liquid-Cooled Bitcoin Miner, Noiseless Device Boasts 50 Terahash
The publicly listed ASIC mining rig manufacturer, Canaan, has announced the launch of a new submerged liquid-cooled bitcoin miner called...
XLM pumps to $0.17 as Ukraine taps Stellar for its CBDC
Stellar’s price jumped nearly 14% to touch $0.17 on the back of sustained buy-side pressure. Stellar (XLM) has pumped hard over the...
Celo (CELO) sees impressive rally after Binance listing
The Celo governance token jumped 80% to $3.74 after the top crypto exchange listed it for trading Celo (CELO) price shot to highs of $3.74...
$8.2 Million Worth of NFT-Based Artwork Sold in the Last Month of 2020 as ETH Prices Rally
The non-fungible token-based artwork market witnessed a profitable end of 2020 with astonishing trading volume figures monthly compared to...
Chilean Court Orders Two Major Banks to Keep Open Checking Accounts of Crypto Exchange Buda
Chile’s Free Competition Defense Court (TDLC) ruled in favor of the Latin American cryptocurrency exchange Bud after their checking...
The US Dollar’s Share of Global Reserve Currencies Drops as Japanese Yen’s Share Increases
The U.S. dollar’s dominant position as the reserve currency of choice may be in peril, as its share of global currencies held in...
Colombian Financial Watchdog Says Local Firms Can Use Capital to Buy Bitcoin
The Superintendency of Corporations in Colombia has explained in an official note that companies in the country are legally allowed to buy...
Ghanaian Startup Bitsika Africa Processed $40 Million in Crypto Remittances in 2020, up 3,900% Year-on-Year
Bitsika Africa, a crypto startup operating out of Ghana and Nigeria, said Monday that it processed almost $40 million in remittances in...
UK Judge Rejects US Extradition Requests for Julian Assange, Wikileaks Holds $800K in Crypto
On Monday, a British judge rejected the U.S. request to extradite the Australian editor, publisher, and activist Julian Assange. Following...
Bitcoin.com Co-founder Files Legal Action Against Bridge.link Token Project Over Market Manipulation
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin.com Co-founder Mate Tokay is filing legal action against the founders of Bridge.link for failing to distribute a...
Economics Professor Tyler Cowen Says Cryptos Useful as Hedges or Forms of Payments – ‘Not Both’
Tyler Cowen, an economist and professor at George Mason University, has suggested that the key use cases of cryptocurrencies are mutually...
Bitcoin Price Drops 17%, Large CME Futures Gap Filled, BTC Spot Markets Rebound
On January 4, 2020, the price of bitcoin slid to the lowest point of the year dropping from Sunday’s high of $33,800 per unit to...
Ideaology Announces IEO Collaboration and Subsequent Listing of IDEA Token with Bitcoin.com Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. Ideaology, the blockchain-oriented company building a digital ecosystem by energizing the market and utilizing the...
KuCoin Review 2021: What is the KuCoin exchange?
Launched in September 2017, KuCoin is a cryptocurrency exchange that offers a large range of cryptocurrencies and digital assets....
Litecoin rally fades as Bitcoin slides towards $30,000
Litecoin (LTC) has retraced to lows of $140 after touching its highest price level in over a year at $174 Litecoin’s price reached a...
Bitcoin price outlook: record rally sees BTC top $34,000
Bitcoin’s price is sliding after hitting a new all-time high of $34,800 Bitcoin (BTC) price hit a record-high of $34,800 on Sunday,...
Massive Exodus of Bitcoin Continues to Leave Exchanges, Over 87,900 BTC Withdrawn in 30 Days
Despite the bitcoin price high, there continues to be a massive exodus of bitcoin leaving exchanges. Onchain data shows exchanges are...
Cannabis Dealer Forfeits $3 Million in Bitcoin — 6,000 More BTC Still Missing
A cannabis dealer has forfeited bitcoins worth about $3 million after they were seized by the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau. However, a...
Kim Dotcom’s Next-Generation Content-Monetization Service K.IM Announces Bitcoin Cash Integration
PRESS RELEASE. Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom announced this month to use Bitcoin Cash for his newest innovation, K.IM, a suite of tools to...
Mayor Considers Putting Some of Miami’s Treasury Reserves in Bitcoin
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is exploring putting a percentage of his city’s treasury reserves in bitcoin. Miami is currently working...
Economist David Rosenberg Pleads Ignorance on Bitcoin After Predicting Massive Bubble
Economist David Rosenberg has pleaded “ignorance on bitcoin” after saying that the cryptocurrency was in a massive bubble. He...
Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset Model
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about it" - William Lawrence Bragg...
Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down: Meme Token Dogecoin Spiked Over 500% This Year
The leading cryptocurrency bitcoin has crossed new all-time highs (ATH) in 2020 and into 2021 as well. However, many other digital assets...
1,000 Decade-Old Dormant Bitcoins Moved Today on Bitcoin’s 12th Anniversary
12 years ago, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto launched the network after revealing the cryptocurrency concept via the white...
Microstrategy’s BTC Holdings More Than Double in Value to $2.4 Billion Four Months Later
The continuing bitcoin price rally has seen the value of Microstrategy’s total holdings of the digital asset go up by 100%....
Crypto Economy Spikes More Than 11%, Entire Market Cap Captures Over $800 Billion
Digital currency markets have seen decent gains this weekend as bitcoin touched another all-time high (ATH) on Saturday afternoon....
While Bitcoin Tapped New Price Highs, 78,000 Short Positions Worth Over $800 Million Got Liquidated
While bitcoin has crossed a new all-time price high in 2021, traders are leery toward shorting the crypto asset. Data from Bitfinex shows...
BTC to Gold Exchange Rate Surges to New All Time High of 17 Ounces per Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s record-breaking rally is continuing into the new year with the bitcoin to gold exchange rate touching a new all-time high...
Bitcoin Value Leaps Over the $31K Handle, BTC Sees an All-Time Price High in 2021
The price of bitcoin has crossed a new all-time high on Saturday morning (EST), spiking over $31k per coin. At around 8:43 a.m.,...
Data Shows 78% of the Circulating Bitcoin Supply Is Illiquid, Only 4.2M BTC in Constant Circulation
Onchain statistics show 78% of the circulating bitcoin supply is illiquid and barely accessible according to Glassnode research. Data...
Pro Football Star Receives Half of His $13 Million Salary in Bitcoin
Carolina Panthers offensive lineman Russell Okung said he has been paid in bitcoin after asking to be paid in the cryptocurrency for...
9 Trillion vs. 100 Trillion: Billionaire Mike Novogratz Asks Which Cryptocurrency Will Win the Payments Race
On December 31, billionaire investor Mike Novogratz asked his Twitter followers which blockchain coin has the best chance of winning the...
‘Noxious Poison’ – Bitcoin’s Market Cap Surpasses Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Valuation
For many years, the business tycoon Warren Buffet has condemned bitcoin as an investment telling people that the crypto asset is nothing...
FinCEN to Impose New Regulation for Crypto Holdings at Foreign Exchanges
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has announced that it will soon propose new regulation affecting cryptocurrency holdings...
183 Violations: US Government Fines Bitgo for Allowing Users to Bypass Sanctions With Cryptocurrency
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control has fined Bitgo for failing to prevent users in sanctioned countries from using its crypto...
Number of Addresses Holding ETH Reaches a New All-Time High at the End of 2020
A new milestone has been reached in the crypto sphere, as the number of addresses holding Ethereum hit an all-time high of over 51.4...
Record-Low Electricity Prices in Sweden Make It ‘a Lucrative Place’ to Mine Bitcoin, Says Report
Bitcoin miners are finding the Nordic lands a profitable opportunity to boost their revenues due to a plunge in electricity prices at the...
NYT Study: Coinbase Underpaid Female and Black Employees at Much Larger Rates Than Those in the Technology Industry
An analysis performed by the New York Times of internal pay data at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase unveiled disparities in salaries,...
South African Court Grants Order to Liquidate Mirror Trading International After Investors Fail to Withdraw Their BTC
A South African High Court recently granted a provisional liquidation order against Mirror Trading International (MTI) following an...
Darknet Giant White House Market Drops Bitcoin, Supports Monero Payments Only
The prominent darknet marketplace, White House Market, has dropped bitcoin payments and now accepts monero only. The darknet marketplace...
Chinese Miners Migrate to Nordic Regions, Mining Exec Says Hashrate Migration One of the ‘Biggest Developments’
China has the largest concentration of bitcoin miners worldwide with estimates noting the country captures anywhere between 50-65% of the...
Vaneck Files New Bitcoin ETF Proposal With SEC Under New Administration
After successfully launched a bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, Vaneck has now filed a new proposal for a bitcoin exchange-traded...
Low Circulation and High Demand at Opening of SCU Trading
PRESS RELEASE. Securypto trade will open on Bilaxy on 1 January, 2021 and all indicators say that it will start off strong given the high...
Bitfinex CTO: Tether Is Registered and Regulated Under FinCEN- USDT Not Next Target of the US SEC
The CTO at Bitfinex Paolo Ardoino has pushed back against rumours that the company’s Tether stablecoin may be the next target of the...
Ethereum sees 31-month high amid increased whale activity
ETH/USD could break above $800 and target the $1,000 psychological level The price of Ethereum (ETH) has reached a 24-hour high of $759,...
Gold Bug Peter Schiff’s Understanding of Money is Flawed, Says His Pro-Bitcoin Son
Gold bug Peter Schiff has been publicly confronted by his 18-year-old son, a bitcoin proponent, on the topic of value. Calling his...
Price Analysis: BTC flashes sell signal as bulls seek $30K
Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new all-time high around $29,321 but could fall sharply in a blow-off top pattern BTC/USD remains in an uptrend...
CyberGhost VPN Will Shield Your Bitcoin Transactions With a Special 83% off New Year’s Offer
The crypto world is full of malicious hackers and other serious threats to your digital assets. CyberGhost VPN, which is trusted by over...
Production of $2.7 Million-per-Episode: South Korean Crypto-Related TV Drama Series Is Set to Start in 2021
A major South Korean TV series with crypto and blockchain-related topics is set to launch its production stage at the beginning of 2021,...
Nasdaq Listed Greenpro Capital to Set up Bitcoin Fund Using a $100 Million Loan
The Nasdaq listed Greenpro Capital Corporation has revealed plans to set up a bitcoin fund using $100 million in borrowed funds. In...
Ripple Assails the SEC, Claims the $1.3 billion Lawsuit is an ‘Attack on the Entire Crypto Industry Here in the United States’
Ripple has hit back at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), accusing it of creating more uncertainty and failing in its duty...
Elon Musk Endorses Cryptocurrency for Martian Economy
Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, widely believed to be the man taking humanity to Mars and building a permanent settlement there, tweeted...
US Treasury Warns of Increasing Ransomware Campaigns Against Coronavirus Vaccine Research Institutions
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a warning that alerts financial institutions in...
Blockchain Projects Detoken and Anyhedge Launch Bringing Defi to Bitcoin Cash
On December 30, the decentralized finance (defi) platform Detoken and the firm General Protocols announced the launch of Anyhedge, the...
Bitcoin Miners Earn Over $1 Million per Hour — Revenue Increases 185% Since the 2020 Halving
Bitcoin miners have been yielding a very profitable year in monthly revenues, as the latest onchain data shows significant figures at its...
Bitcoin Price Touches $28,600, Crypto Asset’s Value Gains Over 288% in 2020
The price of bitcoin touched an all-time high at 3:12 a.m. (EST) during the early morning trading sessions reaching $28,600. The crypto...
Attackers Drain Millions From Cover Protocol, Token Holders Attack Compensation Plan
Decentralized finance insurance project Cover protocol briefly suffered losses when an unknown attacker minted over 40 quintillion Cover...
Publicly-Listed Bitcoin Mining Operations See Shares Skyrocket, Riot Blockchain Market Cap Reaches $1B
While bitcoin’s value has captured new all-time price highs, a number of publicly listed bitcoin mining operations have seen...
Analysis: Polkadot surges as Binance hypes DOT/BUSD pair
DOT price surged closer to $8.00 before slowing down, but will likely increase if bulls hold above $7.00 The price of Polkadot (DOT) has...
Litecoin eyes strong end to 2020 amid Bitcoin resistance
Litecoin needs sustained upward pressure above $130 to target its highest price level since June 2019 Litecoin (LTC) has faced strong...
Nomura and Ripple Partner SBI Holdings Support XRP, Reject Token’s Categorization as Security
As XRP continues to plummet in value due to Ripple’s turmoil with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the token seems...
Physical Crypto Bank Opens in India — These 14 Locations Offer In-Person Banking, Lending, Crypto Exchange
A crypto bank has begun opening physical branches in India through a joint venture between Cashaa and United Multistate co-op society....
Betting Your Coins Online? Be Sure to AskGamblers First
Visit AskGamblers.com before ever wagering your hard-earned coins in an online casino. AskGamblers is the internet’s largest and...
Large Bitcoin Futures Gap Causes Temporary Trading Pause, ETH Open Interest Hits All Time High
CME Group temporarily paused trading of bitcoin futures after the market opened to a large gap of over $3,000 between the derivatives and...
Is Defi Coming to Bitcoin Cash? An Overview of Detoken and the Anyhedge Protocol
Maybe you’ve heard of Anyhedge. Last April, news.Bitcoin.com published an article about its announcement, but what is it really?...
New York Approves Its First Publicly Available Japanese Yen Stablecoin
The New York State Department of Financial Services, the Bitlicense regulator, has authorized GMO to issue U.S. dollar and Japanese...
Augmented Reality Firm Nextech AR Joins the Bitcoin Treasuries Bandwagon, Buys $2 Million BTC
On the heels of the Canadian company Mogo purchasing bitcoin for treasury reserves, the British Columbia-based augmented reality firm...
Okcoin and Coinbase to Halt XRP Trading Due to the US SEC Lawsuit Against Ripple
Two major cryptocurrency exchanges joined the XRP trading suspension campaign in the wake of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
Bitcoin price sees new all-time high above $28,000- Analysis
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) rose to highs of $28,387 against the US dollar Bitcoin is trading around $26,300, slightly lower from its new...
Industry Experts Speculate on the Future of Bitcoin Under Biden
As we look to the new US administration following the November election, we asked a roundtable of experts from the cryptocurrency and...
Ripple (XRP) sees 60% fall as major exchanges halt trading
The price of XRP has dropped to lows of $0.22, more than 60% lower since the US SEC brought a lawsuit against Ripple and as major...
India Considers 18% GST on Bitcoin Transactions
The Indian government is reportedly mulling over imposing an 18% goods and services tax (GST) on bitcoin transactions. According to the...
Crust Network Launches Crust Storage Market, Decentralized Cloud Service Built on Polkadot
PRESS RELEASE. One of the star projects of the emerging Polkadot ecosystem, Crust Network, recently completed a several million dollar...
Spanish Municipality Creates Its Own Cryptocurrency to Boost Economy Hurt by Coronavirus Crisis
A municipality in the province of Sevilla, Spain, has launched its own cryptocurrency, which aims to encourage residents and merchants to...
Digital Currencies Could Outshine SWIFT System, Says Central Bank of Russia’s Deputy Governor
The first deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has been vocal in a recent online meeting, reported by Russia Today (RT),...
The Bitcoin Treasuries List Exceeds $30 Billion – 29 Companies Hold BTC Reserves
More than 1.1 million bitcoin or over $30 billion worth of the crypto asset is held by a myriad of companies, according to the web portal...
Legal Battle Between Bitmain Co-Founders Appears to End With Micree Zhan Taking Control of the Company
The long-lasting legal battle between co-founders of China-based Bitmain seems to have seen the light at the end of the tunnel after both...
Vauld Raises $2 Million to Establish Stronghold in India
Singapore-based crypto bank Vauld is working hard to elevate crypto to the status of a separate, viable asset class. It combines the...
Central Bank of Iran Official Says Cryptocurrencies Have ‘Made No Contribution to Bypassing Sanctions’
An official with the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has claimed that cryptocurrencies have played no significant role in Iran’s sanction...
Marathon Settles Record-Breaking ASIC Acquisition, Buys 70,000 High Performance Bitcoin Miners
On December 28, the publicly listed firm Marathon Patent Group announced the purchase of 70,000 Antminer S19 bitcoin miners from Bitmain...
CoinDeal Obtains in-Principle Approval for Maltese Class 4 VFA License
PRESS RELEASE. CoinDeal is pleased to announce that it is now the first publicly known company to have obtained a Class 4 Virtual...
China’s Coal Standoff Causes Power Shortages, Chinese Bitcoin Miners ‘Heavily Affected’
Regional reports from China detail that bitcoin miners located in certain areas in South China are running short on electricity. The...
$200 Billion in Fines: Mega Banks Rack up Penalties From Illegal Activities
Top U.S. banks have racked up almost $200 billion in fines and penalties over the past 20 years from illegal activities in 395 major legal...
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Warns Regulators Will Come Down Hard on Bitcoin — ‘It Will Be Brutal’
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, has warned about regulators coming down hard on bitcoin. In addition, he...
Financial Guru Dave Ramsey Doubts Bitcoin Can Be Cashed Out — Advises BTC Investor to Sell Now
Personal finance guru Dave Ramsey has given advice about bitcoin to a man who made over $100,000 by investing just $1,500 in the...