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Privacy Coins Take a Beating This Year Losing Over $6 Billion, Anonymity Takes a Back Seat to Defi, NFTs
24.12.2022
The last 12 months have been tough on digital currency investors as the crypto winter has caused a large sum of value to leave the once-bustling economy. The privacy coin economy, for instance, shed more than 55% against the U.S. dollar as it dropped from $11.7 billion in Jan. 2022 to the current...
New Report: North Korea has Stolen In Excess of $1 Billion Worth of Crypto Assets
24.12.2022
Hackers sponsored by the North Korean government have stolen over $1 billion worth of digital assets since 2017.
South Korea’s main spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, has revealed that North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in crypto assets over...
Bitcoin Price Prediction as $14 Billion Trading Volume Comes In – Here’s Where BTC is Headed Next
22.12.2022
Bitcoin's price remained relatively stable, near $16,750 on December 22. The BTC/USD pair began trading at $16,845 and reached a high of $16,873 and a low of $16,800 on Thursday. The BTC/USD trades sideways due to low trading volume and volatility....
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Defi More Scalable Than Traditional Finance, New Study Says
22.12.2022
Despite the market conditions that prevailed in much of 2022, decentralized finance (defi) still demonstrated its greater scaling potential than that of the traditional financial industry, a new report has said. Even though the total value locked dropped from the peak of $180 billion in Dec. 2021...
See You on the Otherside: How Yuga Labs Is Bringing Its Billion-Dollar Business Into the Metaverse
21.12.2022
Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow certainly didn't set out to create one of the most successful NFT projects to date and build a $4 billion empire in just under two years. Now, with a dedicated community of collectors supporting them, they're setting their sights on the metaverse
Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Firm Plans to Continue Mining Bitcoin to Pay Down Debt
21.12.2022
On Dec. 21, 2022, one of the largest bitcoin mining operations in the industry, Core Scientific, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of Texas. According to the filing, Core Scientific has roughly 1,000 to 5,000 creditors and its estimated assets are worth between...
FTX locates $1 billion in assets with $720 million in cash amidst the bankruptcy
21.12.2022
FTX continues to fight for a rebound amid its bankruptcy issue. Meanwhile, the new management has announced allocating $1 billion in assets with $720 million in cash. The objective is to resolve the financial shortcomings of the platform by accessing several bank accounts. As per the shared update...
Binance.US Announces $1 Billion Acquisition of Bankrupt Crypto Company Voyager Assets – This is What You Need to Know
20.12.2022
Binance.US, the American franchise of the global crypto exchange Binance, will buy up remaining assets from the now-bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital as part of a newly announced and surprising deal.
The deal between the two companies values Voyager at about $1bn, and means that Binance.US...
Binance US Plans to Acquire Voyager Digital’s Assets for $1 Billion in Bankruptcy Bid
19.12.2022
According to a Binance blog post, Binance US has entered an agreement with Voyager Digital Ltd., in order to acquire its assets. The announcement details that the acquisition “sets a clear path forward for Voyager customers’ funds to be unlocked as soon as possible.” Binance Reveals U.S. Subsidiary...
Chinese Zhejiang Province Aims to Build a $28.7 Billion Metaverse Industry by 2025
19.12.2022
Zhejiang, a coastal province of China, has presented a metaverse development plan that seeks to build a metaverse hub in its territory. The plan aims to entice the creation of a $28.7 billion metaverse industry and construct an ecosystem of several companies integrating this tech as part of...
TVL in Defi Slides Under $40 Billion, Tapping a Low Not Seen Since February 2021
17.12.2022
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has fallen below the $40 billion mark for the first time since the first week of Feb. 2021. On Dec. 17, 2022, the TVL in defi is roughly $39.53 billion after dropping more than 4% in value during the past 24 hours. Value Locked in Defi...
Hal Finney’s Wife Fran Activates Her Husband’s Twitter Account to Protect It From ‘Being Purged’ by Elon Musk
17.12.2022
Roughly seven days ago the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, disclosed that the social media platform planned to purge 1.5 billion Twitter names if they were inactive or the accounts haven’t logged in for years. After the statement, bitcoiners grew concerned that the now-deceased computer...
Stablecoin BUSD’s Supply Shrunk by 3.24 Billion in 3 Days, Market Cap Is Down 20% Since Last Month
16.12.2022
While billions of dollars in crypto assets have been withdrawn from Binance, the world’s largest exchange in terms of volume, the stablecoin BUSD has seen its coins in circulation drop considerably during the last three days. While 20% of BUSD’s supply was drained since last month...
Alex Connolly, CTO of Immutable, on Onboarding 3.5 Billion People to Web3 Gaming | Ep. 187
16.12.2022
In an exclusive interview with cryptonews.com, Alex Connolly, CTO of ImmutableX, talks about onboarding the next million gamers to web3 and how ImmutableX is powering digital asset ownership....
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$300 Billion Investment Firm Guggenheim Partners Says More Crypto Companies Will Collapse Soon – Here’s Why
16.12.2022
The major investment firm Guggenheim Partners says the crypto industry will see more companies collapse as central banks decisively end the era of “easy money.”...
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Ethereum Price Prediction as ETH Sees $8.3 Billion Trading Volume Come In – Here’s Where It’s Heading Next
15.12.2022
ETH trading volumes remain elevated, with $8.3 billion worth of tokens changing hands in the last 24 hours according to CoinGecko, as the cryptocurrency continues to pull back from Wednesday’s pre-hawkish Fed meeting highs in the $1,350 area. At current levels in the $1,280s, ETH/USD has now pulled...
Amid Withdrawals, Binance CEO Warns of Bumpy Months Ahead
15.12.2022
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has reportedly told staff to expect some difficult months as the leading cryptocurrency exchange is seeing customer withdrawals. The warning comes while the crypto industry is facing challenges after high-profile bankruptcies and amid tightening regulations....
Binance Sees Over $3 Billion in Customer Withdrawals in 24 Hours – Here’s What’s Happening
14.12.2022
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has seen more than $3 billion of net withdrawals over the past day as rumors about alleged problems at the platform spread like wildfire.
According to DeFi TVL aggregator DefiLlama, Binance saw over $4 billion in withdrawals on Tuesday. Prior...
New FTX CEO: $1 Billion Worth of Assets Have Been Recovered – This is What You Need to Know
14.12.2022
John Ray III, the new CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has revealed that the new leadership has managed to recover $1 billion worth of assets.
On Tuesday, Ray, a bankruptcy expert who previously oversaw the aftermath of the collapsed energy giant Enron, testified with the US House Committee...
Group Arrested in China for Laundering $1.7 Billion in Cryptocurrency – This is What Happened
13.12.2022
Police in China arrested 63 people accused of laundering ¥12 billion ($1.72 billion) via crypto.
The Public Security Bureau of Inner Mongolia’s Tongliao city in northern China stated that, starting from May 2021, this criminal group converted the proceeds from illicit sources - including pyramid...