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Marathon’s first Bitcoin sale in 2 years not the result of distress
3.2.2023
The sale is the first time Marathon Digital has sold its mined Bitcoin since October 2020, but a spokesperson said it wasn't as a result of distress
Bitcoin’s Seventh “Golden Cross” in 10 Years Nears – What This Means for BTC Price?
3.2.2023
In light of the recent rally that has seen it surge more than 40% since the start of the year, Bitcoin is about to experience only its seventh so-called “golden cross” in the last 10 years. A golden cross is a technical event where the 50-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA) crosses to the north of...
Russian Crypto Mining Fraudster Jailed for Four Years
2.2.2023
A Russian man has been sent to prison for four years for crypto mining-related fraud.
Per the media outlet 56 Orb, the man is a 47-year-old resident of Orenburg, a southwestern city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
A court in the city heard that the man duped a local entrepreneur into...
Federal Reserve Raises Benchmark Interest Rate by 0.25%, Disinflationary Process ‘Early,’ Says Powell
1.2.2023
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its benchmark federal funds rate by 0.25% on Wednesday after markets priced in near 100% certainty the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would codify the quarter-point increase. The FOMC statement further detailed that ongoing rate increases are anticipated...
Bitcoin UTXOs Older Than 5 Years Surged During Bear Market
1.2.2023
UTXO or unspent transaction output is the amount of bitcoin someone is left with after executing a transaction
Founder of $7.5M 'brazen fraud scheme' to see 8 years behind bars
1.2.2023
Randall Crater will pay back the millions lost by victims of his fraudulent crypto scheme and spend 100 months in jail followed by a three-year supervised release
Meet The Man Who Got Kadabra Banned From Pokémon For 20 Years
30.1.2023
As we learned last week, spoon-wielding psychic pocket monster Kadabra is returning to the Pokémon TCG after a twenty year absence. I wanted to learn the complete story of why it ever went missing in the first place. What I wasn’t expecting in doing so was to accidentally make friends with a...
SEC Commissioner Calls for ‘Consistent Legal Framework’ for All Asset Classes, Including Crypto
28.1.2023
A commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called for “a coherent and consistent legal framework that works across all asset classes,” including crypto assets. She warned that the SEC’s current enforcement-centric approach would take 400 years to...
Hive Ransomware Network Dismantled by American, European Law Enforcement
27.1.2023
Law enforcement authorities from over a dozen countries in Europe and North America have taken part in disrupting the activities of the Hive ransomware group, the U.S. Justice Department and Europol announced. Hive is believed to have targeted various organizations worldwide in the past couple...
U.K. Man Sentenced to 4 1/2 Years in Jail for Stealing $2.5M in Crypto
27.1.2023
Wybbo Wirsma, a Dutch native who lived in the U.K., was under investigation for five years until he pleaded guilty in an Oxford court on Thursday
This Bitcoin Chinese New Year Trade Has Been A winner for Last 8 Years
22.1.2023
Bitcoin has extended gains over the weekend ahead of celebrations for the Lunar New Year holiday and the Spring Festival throughout Southeast Asia, rallying to its highest level since August....
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Popular Steam Game Raises Price After Seven Years Without A Sale
20.1.2023
Critically-acclaimed base-building hit Factorio is an odd duck. Since its 2016 Steam release, the game has never gone on sale. And now, the developer behind Factorio is changing the price of its popular game, but it ain’t getting a discount. Instead, the price is jumping up $5 next week. The devs...
How Bitget Became a Dark Horse and Earns Market Share and Trust From Millions in Crypto Winter
19.1.2023
2022 was one of the roughest years in the crypto industry, which saw the collapse of Terra LUNA, Celsius, and FTX, consequently wiping out over $2 trillion from the crypto market. However, the dark horse in the face of these ugly events was the crypto exchange – Bitget. Despite the hardships...
6 Years Later, Popular Guilty Gear Game Finally Gets Smooth Online Gameplay
18.1.2023
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, Arc System Works’ 2017 entry in the long-running anime fighting game franchise, is will get an update on January 20. This isn’t just any old update, though, as it makes one crucial change that will benefit everyone who plays online. The game is finally receiving...
Rolling Genshin Impact's Infamous 'Scam' Weapons Banner After Two Years
18.1.2023
There are two sides to gacha in Genshin Impact. One is the normally infuriating and wallet-draining character gacha. Its more sinister brother is the weapons gacha, which is widely considered by the community to be a massive scam, especially for players who aren’t made of gold bricks (Thankfully...
It’s Taken 16 Years For Us To Realize Mass Effect’s Intro Is Literally Top Gun
18.1.2023
The original Mass Effect is coming up on its 16th anniversary this year, but even now, new secrets are being revealed about BioWare’s science fiction RPG. That’s because Series Director Casey Hudson has confirmed the first game’s iconic text intro is actually an homage to the 1986 movie...
UK Court Sentences 4 Men to 15 Years Prison for $26M Crypto Fraud
17.1.2023
The offenders used the internet from the comfort of their own homes to obtain millions, Jonathan Kelleher of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said
fetch with Timeout
16.1.2023
A few years back I wrote a blog post about how write a fetch Promise that times out. The function was effective but the code wasn’t great, mostly because AbortController , which allows you to cancel a fetch Promise, did not yet exist. With AbortController and AbortSignal available...
Today in Crypto: Digital Assets Subcommittee in the US, Iran's and Russia's Gold-Backed Stablecoin, UK Sentences Four to 15 Years in Prison
16.1.2023
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Cryptocurrency Exchange to Sponsor Ukraine’s National Soccer Team
14.1.2023
Ukraine’s national soccer team has secured a sponsorship deal with a player from the industry that wants to engage fans and promote adoption of cryptocurrencies. As part of the agreement, an EU-based coin trading platform will be the team’s crypto partner for the next three years. Whitebit Exchange...