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A former security engineer, who stole digital assets valued at more than $12 million from two decentralized exchanges, has received a three-year prison sentence. In what has been characterized as the “first-ever” conviction for a smart co...
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A group of Chinese victims of a $6 billion fraud scheme have requested assistance from their country’s foreign ministry in recovering 61,000 bitcoins, seized from a fraudster and her associate. The fraud victims have strongly opposed attempts to tran...
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The United States, United Kingdom, and Germany rank among the top countries holding cryptocurrencies at the government level, according to data from Arkham Intelligence. The crypto analytic firm’s onchain analysis shows that the U.S. governmen...
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Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has explained why he won’t invest in a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). “Just as I own gold and silver coins and mines and own apartment houses, I do not own gold or silver ETFs,&...
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Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments believes that GBTC “has started to reach a little bit of an equilibrium,” says CEO Michael Sonnenshein, noting that some anticipated outflows from the firm’s spot bitcoin exchang...
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The price of bitcoin continued to decline over the weekend, dropping an additional 7.7% in the last 24 hours. It plummeted to a daily low of $61,384 per coin, prompting a significant wave of leveraged liquidations on Saturday. Bitcoin Value Declines...
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As each day unfolds, analysts, economists, Wall Street institutions, and Fed watchers have increasingly postponed their forecasts for when the U.S. Federal Reserve will reduce the benchmark interest rate. Current data suggest that a rate cut in June...
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Following criticism of Ethena’s USDE stablecoin, which brought back memories of the Terra blockchain’s Anchor protocol failure, Ethena backer Arthur Hayes introduced a risk tracker by intotheblock.com that monitors aspects like the toke...
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The competition has notably intensified in recent months for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as indicated by the prediction market platform Polymarket. Just two months ago, former President Donald Trump was ahead with a 52% lead, while incumbent...
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Following the downturn in bitcoin’s price on Friday, the hashprice of bitcoin has declined from slightly above $119 per petahash per second to marginally over $116 per PH/s on a daily basis. Should the prices remain low leading up to the forth...
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Around 70% to 80% of transactions in the crypto secondary market transactions occur between crypto assets and stablecoins. The South Korean government’s welcoming stance, coupled with the high popularity of crypto assets in the country, are among the...
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TON Society announced a proof-of-personhood program targeting Telegram users, who can voluntarily scan their palms in exchange for benefits. The organization allocated 1 million TON for this initiative, distributed among 500 million participants in t...
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The Paraguayan Senate has approved a resolution supporting selling the country’s energy surplus to crypto mining companies, given the price and guarantees that these institutions offer. The declaration criticizes the subpar agreements that sell...
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A new Deutsche Bank survey found that over half of respondents expect cryptocurrencies to become an important asset class and a method of payment. In addition, 10% of respondents expect the price of bitcoin to be above $75,000 by year-end. Deutsche B...
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Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, shattered its record for assets under management (AUM), reaching a staggering $10.5 trillion. This financial behemoth also continues to dominate the U.S. spot bitcoin ETF market with its Ishares Bi...
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Mysten Labs, the company behind the development of Sui, a proof-of-stake blockchain project, has announced it is working on developing Suiplay0x1, a Web3-enabled gaming handheld. The organization did not reveal hardware specs but did state that the d...
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Onchain data indicates that a single custodian now manages the coinbase addresses for at least nine prominent mining pools, which collectively account for 47% of Bitcoin’s total hashrate. The analysis shows that substantial miners’ rewa...
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On April 12, bitcoin briefly reached above the $71,000 threshold, but its value plunged by more than $3,000 after a substantial sell-off at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The price of bitcoin in USD tumbled to an intraday low of $65,230. Over the past 24 ho...
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In the last 12 days of April, the stablecoin sector expanded by $4.46 billion, reaching a current valuation of $155.86 billion. Additionally, the top five dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies experienced an increase in their supplies over the last 30 days....
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As we near the anticipated fourth Bitcoin halving event, there are only 1,133 blocks left until we reach block 840,000, with the milestone expected to occur in about a week. Recent data from theminermag.com’s Miner Weekly on Thursday shows tha...
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PRESS RELEASE. Dubai, April 12, 2024: The Global Blockchain Show is pleased to announce Global Market of Artification (GMA) as its diamond sponsor at the upcoming two-day conference, set to take place at the Grand Hyatt, Dubai. Artworks by renowned m...
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A recent report indicates that spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are poised to receive approval from Hong Kong regulators as early as this Monday, as stated by “people familiar with the matter.” Harvest, Hashkey and Bose...
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The publicly traded bitcoin mining company Cleanspark has exercised its option to acquire 100,000 bitcoin mining machines from Bitmain. The firm initially secured the option last year, and the agreement has now been enhanced to include the latest S21...
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This week, the crypto community on social media has once again been buzzing about a bitcoin wallet called ‘Mr 100’ following a significant deposit of 100 bitcoin on April 10, 2024. Despite numerous assertions that the wallet is associat...
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As of April 12, 2024, bitcoin’s price exhibits resilience, trading at $70,748, with oscillators showing mixed signals while moving averages firmly suggest a bullish trend heading into the weekend. Bitcoin The relative strength index (RSI) on t...