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Former Bithumb Chairman Acquitted in $100M Fraud Case in Second Trial
18.1.2024
The former chairman of Bithumb Holdings and Bithumb Korea, Lee Jeong-hoon, has been acquitted for the second time in the $100 million fraud case. The recent decision by the 5th Criminal Division of the Seoul High Court follows Lee’s earlier acquittal in January 2023 on comparable charges...
‘$3.5m Nursing Care Fund Crypto Thief’ Extradited to South Korea
18.1.2024
Source: S…/Adobe South Korean law enforcers have extradited a man suspected of stealing $3.5 million from a nursing care fund to buy cryptoassets before fleeing abroad. The man, surnamed Choi (aged 46), is a former National Health Insurance Corporation middle manager. He was arrested in...
Hong Kong Licensed Crypto Exchange Hashkey Operator Raises $100M With $1.2B Valuation
16.1.2024
In a recent funding round, HashKey Group, the operator of one of Hong Kong’s two licensed crypto exchanges, successfully raised close to $100 million with a valuation of over $1.2 billion. Hashkey Group announced the completion of the series A funding round earlier today in a statement...
Game Over for NFTs? Will the Market Recover in 2024
15.1.2024
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have faded into the background with all the chatter and excitement around a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund being approved in the US market. Earlier today GameStop revealed it has shut down its NFT marketplace, signaling its withdrawal from the cryptocurrency space....
Across-the-Board Crypto Stock Declines Erode Earlier Profit Streaks
13.1.2024
Although spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds saw substantial trading activity on Thursday and Friday, publicly-listed crypto companies faced a different fate, with several equities experiencing significant losses when the market closed on Friday. For instance, Marathon Digital Holdings’ shares...
India Blocks Websites of Offshore Crypto Exchanges After Non-Compliance Warning
13.1.2024
  India blocked access to websites of several offshore crypto exchanges, including Binance, Kucoin, OKX , Gate.io and many others on January 12 . This action followed the removal of these platforms from the Apple App Store in the country just a few days earlier. The move is a consequence...
Terra Luna Classic Price Prediction as LUNC Bounces 30% From Recent Bottom – Where Next for LUNC?
12.1.2024
Despite falling around 5% on Friday, the Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) price remains over 20% up versus the lows it printed earlier in the year near $0.00010. The Luna Classic price was last around $0.00012, having reversed sharply back from earlier session highs in the upper $0.00013s. LUNC’s...
Vendetta Games Beginners Guide: Hunting bounties in the Wild West metaverse?
12.1.2024
Vendetta Games’ flagship game, Chalk River Metaverse, blends the wild-west, open-world combat genre with NFTs and web3. Users made the first alpha tests available for the public earlier last year, but the game has come a long way since then. While we wait for its upcoming token generation...
XRP Price Prediction as Bitcoin ETF Goes Live – Will XRP Get an ETF Next?
11.1.2024
The XRP (XRP) price predictions remain bearish in the short term as spot Bitcoin ETFs go live in major US financial markets. The XRP price was last around $0.60, roughly flat on the day. The cryptocurrency earlier found strong resistance at its 21 and 50DMAs, which reside at $0.6060 and $0.6160...
Apple Store Removes Binance and Other Global Exchanges’ Apps in India Amid Wider Crackdown
10.1.2024
Source: Pexels The mobile applications of several global cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, Kraken, Mexc, and Kucoin, have disappeared from Apple’s App Store in India. This move comes within two weeks of these exchanges being flagged for operating “illegally” in...
Solana Price Prediction as Total Value Locked Declines by 20% – Is Demand for SOL Weakening?
8.1.2024
Following an earlier retest of last week’s lows in the $85s, Solana price (SOL) is attempting to rebound, though declining total value locked (TVL) remains a concern for the bulls. SOL/USD was last changing hands around $94, with the SOL price up around 5%. Solana has been moving higher on Monday...
Ethereum Price Prediction with Major Gains Expected in 2024 – Can ETH Surpass Its All-Time High?
5.1.2024
Source: Dall•E 3 The Ethereum price has gained by 2% today, rising back to $2,260 as the wider market recovers from a sharp selloff earlier in the week. ETH’s current price means that it has lost 4% in a week and 0.5% in the last 30 days, yet the biggest altcoin in the market remains...
Senator Thom Tillis Adds Voice in Opposition to Warren’s Anti-Crypto Bill
4.1.2024
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has voiced his opposition to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) recently proposed anto-crypto bill, according to a letter published by Satoshi Act Fund CEO and co-founder, Dennis Porter. Tillis’ “significant concerns” Tillis’ letter, originally published by Porter to...
Is It Too Late to Buy Hedera? HBAR Price Rallies Over 10% and This Other Coin Could Explode Next – Here’s Why
4.1.2024
HBAR price breaks out to new highs, but analysts debate if the rally will continue or a pullback is due. Image by Fareed Mindalano, DALL-E 3. Bitcoin sank to around $40,500 earlier today amid rumors of a possible rejection for a spot Bitcoin ETF, dragging the broader crypto market down with...
Shiba Inu Price Prediction as $175 Million in Volumes Come In – Where Next for SHIB?
2.1.2024
Shiba Inu Price Prediction as $175 Million in Volumes Come In – Where Next for SHIB? Shiba Inu (SHIB) has reversed sharply from an attempt earlier in the day to push to the north of the upper $0.000010s and an increase in trading volumes as traders return from New Year celebrations. Having been...
ETF Fever Continues, Gensler Warns Against Crypto’s ‘Wild West’ of Permissionless Exchange, Latam Update — Week in Review
31.12.2023
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has repeated earlier warnings about crypto “non-compliance” being a global “Wild West,” as speculative fever for BTC exchange-traded funds continues to swelter, with monolithic asset manager Blackrock...
Bonk Price Prediction as BONK Falls More Than 50% From Peak – Can It Recover From This Significant Decline?
28.12.2023
Bonk! Chart / Source: TradingView The Bonk! ($BONK) pullback continues to gather pace, with the $BONK price having now fallen more than 60% from the record highs it hit earlier in the month near $0.000035 per token. $BONK was last trading just above $0.0000135 and is below its 21DMA for the first...
Indonesia to Require Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Register with Country’s National Digital Asset Bourse
28.12.2023
Image Source: Pixabay The Indonesian government has announced that all cryptocurrency exchanges operating within the country will be required to register with the newly established Commodity Future Exchange (CFX). Launched earlier this year, the CFX is the world’s first national bourse...
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Sells off Entire GBTC Holdings, Allocates $100 Million to Bitcoin Futures ETF BITO
28.12.2023
Source: Adobe Stock Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest has reportedly offloaded its entire Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) holdings, following a recent trend of divestment. Earlier this month, the asset management firm liquidated nearly $45 million in GBTC shares and over $150 million in Coinbase...
Solana Price Prediction as SOL Drops 10% – Time to Buy the Dip?
27.12.2023
Solana. Source: Adobe The price of SOL, the native cryptocurrency of the smart-contract-enabled layer-1 Solana blockchain protocol, continues to cool following a meteoric rise in the past few weeks. SOL was last changing hands around $112 per token, down roughly 10% from highs printed earlier...