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Coinbase Processed $500,000 in Bitcoin Payments That Helped Ex-Nissan Chairman Flee Japan
24.7.2020
Coinbase processed $500,000 in bitcoin payments that aided the dramatic escape of former Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn from Japan, according to Bloomberg. In December, two Americans used a box to smuggle Ghosn out of the Asian country, where he was facing criminal charges for embezzlement...
Ether Leaves Bitcoin Behind With 2020 Gain of Over 100%
24.7.2020
Ethereum's popularity with DeFi projects has likely led to a triple-digit year-to-date price rise for ether. Bitcoin lags well behind with a 34% gain
Carlos Ghosn’s $600K Bitcoin Escape Fee Paid Via Coinbase
24.7.2020
Carlos Ghosn's son paid approximately 63 bitcoin, now worth $608,000, to the two men who smuggled his father out of Japan last December
Opera Brings Crypto Top-ups to UK, Has 170K Monthly Users Of Crypto Wallet
24.7.2020
Source: Opera, Instagram
The Opera web browser said it introduced their Crypto Wallet top-ups to the UK and revealed that the wallet has now more than 170,000 monthly active users globally.
The Norway-based company that claims to have 320 million active users partnered with Ramp, a crypto on-ramp...
This is How Superman29 Laundered Millions in Bitcoin and Got Caught
24.7.2020
Kais Mohammad, a 36-year-old resident of Yorba Linda in California who nicknamed himself 'Superman29', has pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of running Herocoin, an unlicensed cryptocurrency services business that exchanged up to USD 25 million through in-person transactions and a network...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Correcting Gains, Ethereum Outperforms
24.7.2020
Bitcoin price remained in a bullish zone above the USD 9,550 level. BTC extended its rise above the USD 9,600 level and traded to a new monthly high close to USD 9,650. It is currently (09:00 UTC) correcting gains and it might test the USD 9,400 support zone.
Most major altcoins are trading in...
Crypto Bank Hopeful Bitcoin Suisse Raises $48M in First-Ever Round
24.7.2020
Bitcoin Suisse said some of the funding will go on new product offerings if its banking license applications are successful
New Data Debunks Reports of Turkey as Leader in Crypto Adoption
24.7.2020
A new survey shows that Turks may not be trading and using cryptocurrencies as much as previous reports have indicated
Bitcoin Price Can Hit $20K When US Banks Invest 1% of Assets — Analyst
24.7.2020
The increasing institutional interest in Bitcoin is “not hard to see” as U.S. regulators green light custody this week
Crypto Scammers Steal $381 Million in 2020, While Twitter Hackers Direct Funds to Mixers
24.7.2020
Cryptocurrency related scams have taken a total of $381 million from victims so far this year. This figure makes crypto scams the largest category of cryptocurrency-related crimes so far in 2020. Chainalysis data still shows current figures are well below those seen in 2019. In 2019, scams...
pNetwork Launches Yield Farming Programme, Steroids
24.7.2020
The pNetwork, the decentralised ecosystem backing the cross-chain pTokens solution, has announced the launch of its yield farming programme, Steroids. The programme will run for a period of one month and will award Uniswap liquidity providers with up to 10% monthly interest, distributed in pNetwork...
NBA Point Guard Spencer Dinwiddie’s Tokenized Contract Raises $1.3 Million
24.7.2020
NBA player Spencer Dinwiddie has finished the token sale of his contract that is hosted on the Ethereum blockchain. The sale of Dinwiddie’s tokenized contract raised $1.3 million which was only a tenth of what the project hoped to sell ($13.5 million). Even though the Brooklyn Nets guard...
Bitcoin Mining Rigs Are Pouring into Abkhazia…Where Mining Is Illegal
24.7.2020
Illicit crypto mining appears to be booming in the South Caucasus region, with Abkhazia where crypto rigs are reportedly flooding over the border – despite the fact that mining is officially illegal under Abkhazian law.
The largely unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia in the South Caucasus...
New Russian Law Bans Bitcoin Payments for Goods and Services
24.7.2020
Russian lawmakers have passed a bill that gives legal status to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin – but bans them from being used to pay for goods and services. Legislators approved the Digital Financial Assets (DFA) bill on July 22 after its third and final reading. It had already won backing...
Greatest Chess Player of All Time Backs Bitcoin
24.7.2020
The world’s most famous chess player, Garry Kasparov, supports BTC as a means to fight human rights violations
2020 Monsoon Season and Dam Stress Threatens Chinese Bitcoin Miners
24.7.2020
Digital currency proponents have been discussing the 2020 monsoon season in East Asia and how there’s a possibility it could wreak havoc on large bitcoin mining operations located in China. Recent estimates note that China has 50% of the world’s bitcoin mining capacity but if mining...
$500K Bitcoin Paid to Arrange Ex-Nissan CEO's Escape From Japan
24.7.2020
The son of ex-Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, who escaped house arrest in Japan in December, paid for the extraction using Bitcoin
Crypto Race Heats Up: Bitcoin’s Dominance Ratio Drops to Lowest Level in 12 Months
24.7.2020
The largest digital asset by market capitalization, bitcoin has lost a significant share of market dominance during the last few weeks. Bitcoin’s dominance ratio dropped to 61.5% on Thursday, after hovering around 66% for months on end. The last time the crypto asset’s dominance level...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hits 1-Month High; DeFi Value Locked Hits $3.3B
23.7.2020
Bitcoin is making gains, Ethereum’s DeFi value grows. (CoinDesk)
It Might Be 'too Early to Celebrate' Russia’s New Crypto Law
23.7.2020
Russia’s new crypto legislation was finally approved this week, after a delay of over two years – but it might be that the true battle for crypto regulation in the country is yet to begin.
A local expert has hinted that when policymakers decided to divide the “On Digital Assets” bill into two, they...