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Bitcoin bears base $40K prediction on 'self induced fear' — Samson Mow
7.9.2024
Jan3 CEO Samson Mow reiterated that fear-driven markets “never lasts long” because fundamentals usually “win out over time.”
Mystery Transfer — Unidentified Wallet Sends $1.19 Million in Bitcoin to Satoshi Nakamoto’s Genesis Address
6.1.2024
Two days after Bitcoin’s 15th anniversary, an unidentified wallet transferred roughly 26.917 bitcoin, valued at $1.19 million, into Satoshi Nakamoto’s Genesis wallet. Originating on Jan. 3, 2009, this wallet has primarily accumulated nominal dust transactions. Including the hard-coded...
Nigeria’s Central Bank Rolls Out Regulations For Financial Institutions Dealing with VASPs
4.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued new regulations to guide banks and other financial institutions that offer domestic accounts for virtual assets service providers (VASPs). In an official circular released on its website on Jan 3, the country’s leading banking...
Defi Platform Radiant Capital Loses Digital Assets Worth $4.5 Million After Flash Loan Attack
4.1.2024
Radiant Capital, a decentralized finance (defi) platform, confirmed on Jan. 3, 2023, that it fell victim to an attack which saw the “protocol accruing bad debt in the WETH market, totaling about 1.3% of total protocol TVL” or $4.5 million. Radiant Capital has urged the hackers...
Tuttle Capital Files for Six Leveraged and Inverse Bitcoin ETFs with SEC
4.1.2024
Source: DALL·E Tuttle Capital Management has filed for six new Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On Jan.3, Tuttle Capital filed three separate N1-A filings with the SEC. The company’s proposed Bitcoin ETFs are structured to offer leveraged...
Matrixport Analysis: SEC to Reject ETF Applications in January with Final Approval Pushed to Q2 2024
3.1.2024
Source: Pixabay Cryptocurrency financial services company, Matrixport has projected a possible rejection of spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF applications in January with final approval in the second quarter of the year. In a Jan 3 market research, the firm gave reasons why the Securities and Exchange...
ETF Fever Continues, Gensler Warns Against Crypto’s ‘Wild West’ of Permissionless Exchange, Latam Update — Week in Review
31.12.2023
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has repeated earlier warnings about crypto “non-compliance” being a global “Wild West,” as speculative fever for BTC exchange-traded funds continues to swelter, with monolithic asset manager Blackrock...
Bitwise Plans to Seed Spot Bitcoin ETF With $200 Million, SEC Filing Shows
31.12.2023
Bitwise has revealed in an amended filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a plan to seed its spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with $200 million. This significantly exceeds Blackrock’s $10 million seed commitment for its spot Bitcoin ETF that’s planned...
Blackrock Reveals Plan to Seed Spot Bitcoin ETF With $10 Million on January 3
24.12.2023
Blackrock has revealed a plan to seed its spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with $10 million on Jan. 3. The world’s largest asset manager has engaged in six recent meetings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to address its filing. In response to the SEC’s...
Magic Eden hosting service compromised: Nifty Newsletter, Dec 28–Jan 3
4.1.2023
The wallet address of RTFKT’s chief operating officer got drained of its NFTs through a phishing scam
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty to Criminal Charges, Bond Signees’ Names Remain Sealed
4.1.2023
On Jan. 3, 2023, the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) pleaded not guilty to eight criminal charges that involve two counts of wire fraud and six counts of conspiracy. In addition to the not guilty plea, SBF’s judge Lewis Kaplan granted the defendant’s request to keep the names of his $250...
14th Anniversary of Bitcoin’s Genesis Block: A Look Back at the Birth of Cryptocurrency
3.1.2023
14 years ago on Jan. 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network and block zero at approximately 1:15 p.m. (ET) on a Saturday afternoon. Satoshi’s technology allows “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial...
FTX Co-Founder Faces ‘No-Nonsense’ Judge Next Week, Report Says SBF ‘Expected to Enter a Plea’ in Fraud Case
28.12.2022
According to court documents, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is set to be arraigned by the federal court in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Jan. 3, 2023. The disgraced FTX co-founder plans to enter a plea in his fraud case in front of U.S. judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, according to a report...
Law Decoded: Looking ahead to 2022, Jan. 3–10
10.1.2022
By all appearances, we are in for a busy year in crypto regulation and policymaking
Bitcoin’s rollercoaster ride, Ether shines, XRP mystery: Hodler’s Digest, Jan. 3–9
9.1.2021
The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link!