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- MPs have urged the government to treat retail investment in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as a form of gambling.
Their value could change dramatically and consumers risked losing their entire investment, characteristics closely resembling gambling, the Treasury Select Committee found.
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman nears $100mn funding for Worldcoin crypto project
Start-up plans to create global identification system through iris scans to enable access to free global currency
- Bitcoin Dips Below $27K, Reversing Post-CPI Rally
The BTC/USD trading pair on Coinbase was trading as low as $26,800 before regaining some ground.
- Two men arrested following seizure of Bitcoin crypto-cashpoints in Chatham High Street
- Crypto stocks drop after Binance halts bitcoin withdrawals for hours
- Industry Giants Respond to UK’s Consultation on Crypto Policymaking
Binance, a16z, Polygon and Circle all issued a response to the UK’s February consultation on the “future financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets”
- The Ethereum network has continuously evolved during the past few years, and the recent successful completion of the Shanghai upgrade has boosted optimism within the community. However, the Federal Reserve’s upcoming meeting and a potential interest rate hike may affect the ETH price.
- Bitcoin Price Prediction as Bloomberg Analyst Says BTC Could Hit $100,000 if History is Right – Time to Buy?
- A drug dealer who stashed millions of pounds in cryptocurrency by supplying drugs via the dark web will be forced to hand it over to authorities.
- Hamas Announces Will No Longer Use Bitcoin Cryptocurrency for Fundraising
Hamas had endorsed crypto as a fundraising method for years, previously developing sophisticated tactics to solicit bitcoin donations, however, developments in technology that track the movement of crypto on the blockchain ledger have made it easier for authorities to identify those behind transfers
- Ripple Sold $336M Worth of XRP Tokens in Q1, Reports Strong XRPL Growth
The firm has continued to sell XRP only in connection with its international transaction product.
- Binance Official Says Crypto Exchange Has Ousted North Koreans
"They recognized Binance was not the place for them," said Tigran Gambaryan, head of financial crime compliance at Binance.
- Bitcoin Tumbles as Wild Crypto Market Swing Causes $310M Losses From Liquidations
The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI), which tracks the performance of the broader crypto market, plummeted 5.6% in an hour.
- NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), whom they accuse of insider trading.
- Ether Erases All Gains From Shanghai Rally as Bitcoin, Other Crypto Prices Also Fall
The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has dropped to its lowest point since April 9, CoinDesk data shows.
- Ontario Teachers fund steers clear of crypto after $95mn FTX loss
Head of $190bn pension plan wary of lightly regulated sector after member feedback
- Intel just killed its crypto chip after less than a year / The company wouldn’t even tell Tom’s Hardware if the business is alive or dead. It plans to ax LTE and 5G modems, too.
- Starbucks Odyssey Launch ‘Getting Closer’ With New NFTs, Rewards
The coffee giant will drop its second NFT collection this week, and teased the public rollout for its Web3 platform.
- Crypto collapse: Treasury comes after DeFi, SEC comes after crypto exchanges, stablecoin bill, FTX first interim report
- Twitter partners with eToro to let users trade stocks, crypto as Musk pushes app into finance
- Billionaire crypto bull Mike Novogratz says the US is headed for a credit crisis and a dramatic economic slowdown that will make bitcoin's investment case stronger
- S. Korean Crypto Exchange Gdac Hacked for Nearly $13M
The exchange said hackers transferred the crypto assets from a hot wallet to an unidentified wallet.
- Investors are finally set to gain access to more than $33 billion of ether this week under a planned revamp of the blockchain.
A new software upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, dubbed Shapella, will let market players redeem their "staked ether" - coins they have deposited and locked up on the network over the past three years in return for interest.
- Bitcoin Approaches $30K, Reaching Highest Price Since June
The roots of an hour-long surge were difficult to pinpoint, according to one analyst, but investors have recently been more optimistic about the crypto’s prospects following last month’s banking crisis.
- The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.
- Thanks Sam! How FTX Led to World’s Worst Crypto Policy
Washington’s “war in crypto” continues to occupy minds in the crypto industry. This week, CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey tackles the apparent rise in hostility from U.S. regulators from a different angle: revenge.
- Apple has hidden a bitcoin manifesto in every Mac since 2018, says a tech blogger who discovered it by accident. Wow this is crazy.
- Dogecoin Futures Liquidations Jump to $26M After Twitter Displays Token's Logo for Some Users
The figures are higher than usual for the popular meme coin.
- Binance's BNB, Bitcoin Tumble After Crypto Twitter Personality Cobie's Wild Guess
@cobie's encrypted message read: "Interpol Red Notice for CZ," Binance's CEO. After someone cracked the code, the post spooked markets, even though it was just a rumor.
- Bitcoin Drops to $27.5K While Dogecoin Spikes After Twitter Logo Change
BTC needs a catalyst to break the $30,000 threshold, says an analyst. DOGE spikes after Twitter changes its platform's logo to the dogecoin symbol from the blue bird.
- I just voted "Yes" on "Make Velodrome the STG Hub on Optimism" https://snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth/proposal/0xd78c441994d140edde34131051113479651c593ab83badebc537a347ba86b705 #snapshotlabs
- Internet Computer Issues ‘Liquid Bitcoin,’ for Faster and Affordable BTC Transactions
ckBTC brings layer-2 capabilities to Bitcoin, providing faster and cheaper transactions on the Internet Computer network, while also ensuring greater security and decentralization than other BTC-pegged tokens.
- Citi Says Mass Adoption of Crypto Will Be Driven by CBDCs, Tokenization
Crypto is approaching a "point of inflection," say analysts at Citi, pointing to the rise of tokenization and CBDCs around the world.
- Bitcoin hits milestone as number of addresses holding 1 BTC nears 1M
The BTC Shrimp cohort displays strong stacking behavior, the third-highest rate in five years — BTC Crab cohort growing exponentially.
Future looks bright for all crypto lovers.
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- Shiba Inu's Testnet 'Puppynet' Sees Rising Activity Ahead of Shibarium Mainnet
More than 700,000 transactions have been conducted on the test network so far, although that isn’t extremely large relative to the hype
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- Ethereum's Shanghai Is Nearing, but When Can I Withdraw My Staked ETH?
Even though the Ethereum blockchain’s Shanghai hard fork (also known as Shapella) will go live April 12, you might not receive your rewards immediately if you have staked ETH with a staking service or a staking pool.
- British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice
Consultation with the Treasury puts non-fungible token proposals under review
In what can only be described as a typically British piece of dithering, the Treasury said it has decided to put plans for the Royal Mint to launch an NFT — announced with great fanfare last year — on hold.
- First Mover Asia: China’s State-Owned Banks Are Soliciting Hong Kong Crypto Business, but Opening an Account Is Hard
Plus: Are bitcoin traders shrugging off the CFTC's action against Binance? Or is there just not enough liquidity to go around?
- Cryptocurrency companies are rushing to Hong Kong in the hope that the city’s high-profile push to become a hub for digital assets will help them to capture demand from mainland China to buy and sell tokens.
Hong Kong is perceived by some companies to be more crypto-friendly than rival Singapore, which cracked down on the sector last year after several high-profile collapses in the industry. The city is planning a new regulatory regime for exchanges and legalising crypto trading for retail investors.
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- Crypto 'prodigy', 23, is abducted and TORTURED after 'scamming' investors out of $29M before blowing $12M on fleet of supercars, luxury vacations and a private jet
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- I just voted "yes" on "Proposal to Bootstrap liquidity for Stargate USDT pools on Pendle" https://snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth/proposal/0xb89734985fddc3bc70404eaa6d62100ddeeea26c54c0ea55f66a089f79dde3ca #snapshotlabs
- Crypto Pundits Romance the Hyperinflation and Dollar Death Narrative. Is It a Real Scare?
Coinbase's former CTO, among others, has predicted that bitcoin will reach null million as the dollar fades, but these doomsayers are ignoring other historical precedents. Narratives among crypto bulls are ephemeral except one: Bitcoin (BTC) is an antidote to unconventional Federal Reserve monetary policies.
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- I just voted "yes" on "Proposal to Approve Stargate Deployment to BASE, zkSync, Polygon zkEVM and ConsenSys zkEVM" https://snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth/proposal/0xb850477539d006f12feb53c1ef7d1ebc967cb5424a39dd6c6b2da3c57af05695 #snapshotlabs
- Do Kwon: Fugitive 'cryptocrash' boss arrested in Montenegro. South Korea police say that Do Kwon, the fugitive cryptocurrency boss behind the $40bn (£32.5bn) collapse of the terraUSD and Luna tokens, has been arrested in Montenegro. He has since been charged with fraud by prosecutors in the US.
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- Lindsay Lohan, Akon and Ne-Yo fined thousands of dollars after illegal crypto promotion
A group of celebrities paid US regulators more than $400,000 in fines after promoting cryptocurrency companies to their millions of followers on social media.
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- Magic Eden Launches Ordinals Marketplace for Bitcoin NFTs
The top Solana NFT marketplace continues its multi-chain expansion with the addition of support for Ordinals assets.
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- March 21 (Reuters) - As crisis stalks the traditional world of stocks and bonds, bitcoin is suddenly looking like a safe haven.
The infamously volatile cryptocurrency seems positively hale and hearty, just as a banking meltdown drives markets into the arms of a recession.
Bitcoin has risen 21% this month, while a choppy S&P 500 has lost 1.4% and gold has gained 8%.
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- A new PlayStation NFT patent covers cross-platform use and trading
USERS COULD POTENTIALLY USE AND SELL NFTS ACROSS DIFFERENT GAMES AND SYSTEMS A newly published patent shows Sony Interactive Entertainment has been exploring ways that it could use NFTs and blockchain technology in games.
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- Crypto at a crossroads: Some provinces are wary of the technology's vast appetite for electricity B.C. energy minister says province must put its power to the best use Proponents of cryptocurrency mining say the industry's future in Canada is hanging in the balance after several provinces moved to restrict new projects earlier this year in response to concerns about their electricity usage.
- Bitcoin Breakout Puts $28K in View
The cryptocurrency's swift move above a resistance level dating back to August 2022 has strengthened the case for a continued rally.
"Bitcoin has now the chance to climb to the next technical level, which is situated at $28,000," Markus Thielen, head of research and strategy at crypto financial-services firm Matrixport, said.