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While Blur Airdrop Price Explodes, These Lesser-Known Altcoins Might 10x This Year
15.2.2023
Markets have ignited with the rockstar release of the highly anticipated $BLUR airdrop. The Blur NFT marketplace officially opened redemptions yesterday.
After a slow initial launch, which saw the Blur project roadmap delayed - the Blur NFT marketplace has been on the up and up.
Currently...
French Court Jails 50-year-old International Crypto Scammer for Four Years
15.2.2023
The 50-year-old mastermind of a “vast” and “international” French crypto scam that duped at least 14 victims out of over $375,000 has been sentenced to four years in prison....
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Ukraine Speeds Up Digital Hryvnia Project, Plans Pilot for This Year
15.2.2023
Ukrainian authorities are speeding up the development of the electronic hryvnia, a high-ranking government official indicated. The executive power in Kyiv is now in talks with the central bank and businesses involved in the project to pilot the digital currency as early as this year. Minister Says...
Report: Flutterwave CEO in Bid to Recover Millions Stuck in Kenya
14.2.2023
According to reports, the CEO and co-founder of the Nigerian fintech Flutterwave, Olugbenga Agboola, recently visited Kenya where he sought to convince the country’s monetary authorities to grant the firm access to funds that have been blocked since July 2022. Agboola claimed that his firm...
Hedera Hashgraph Price Prediction – Can HBAR Reach $10 This Year?
14.2.2023
The hedera hashgraph price has jumped by 6.5% in the past 24 hours, reaching $0.086379 following the news that the Hedera blockchain has processed over four billion transactions to date. This level represents a 27% gain in a week and a 61% surge in the last 30 days, with this rally also caused...
Meta Reportedly Preparing for a New Round of Layoffs
14.2.2023
Meta, the company that owns Whatsapp, Instagram, and Facebook, is reportedly preparing to announce a new round of layoffs in the coming days. According to reports, the company is delaying the finalization of the budget for each one of its teams, causing operational delays and affecting the output...
CBDC Launch ‘May Cost Russian Banks $684m a Year’
13.2.2023
Russian commercial banks will lose $684 million a year if the nation’s Central Bank launches a central bank digital currency (CBDC), experts have claimed.
The Central Bank vehemently opposes the adoption of what it calls “private cryptocurrencies” such as bitcoin (BTC). But the bank wants...
US Crypto Lawsuits Reach All-Time High With 42% Increase in 2022; SEC Cases Dominate Legal Battles
13.2.2023
A new study on digital currency-related lawsuits since 2018 shows a 42% increase in crypto lawsuits in 2022. The highest number of claims in a single year was recorded last year, with 41 total claims in the United States. The research also shows that the majority of lawsuits came from the U.S....
2023 is a make-or-break year for blockchain gaming: Play-to-own
11.2.2023
While the thesis is compelling for crypto gaming, the way forward is unclear. Interoperability is one thorny issue and playability is still yet to catch up to traditional games
While NEO Price Explodes, These 3 Altcoins May 10x This Year
10.2.2023
NEO, the cryptocurrency that powers the smart-contract-enabled Neo blockchain, hs been surging in 2023, and the rally isn’t showing any signs of stopping just yet. NEO/USD was last changing hands slightly to the north of $9.0 per token, up around 47% year-to-date, though the cryptocurrency has...
Nintendo Says New Games Are Still ‘Under Development’ For 7-Year-Old Switch
10.2.2023
Never count Nintendo out. Or for it to do the most obvious and sensible thing. With the Switch entering its seventh year after becoming the third best selling console ever, you’d think it would be the perfect time for a successor. But there’s still no Switch 2 or Switch Pro in sight, and Nintendo...
PayPal Held $604M of Customers' Crypto as of Year-End 2022
10.2.2023
The payments company held $291 million of bitcoin and $250 million of ether, with the rest comprising litecoin and bitcoin cash
Russian Charged With Laundering Ransomware Proceeds in Crypto Pleads Guilty in US
10.2.2023
A Russian national accused of processing cryptocurrency payments from ransomware attacks has pleaded guilty to money laundering in the United States. The man who was extradited from the Netherlands in mid-August, last year, will be sentenced in April. Russian Crypto Launderer Pleads Guilty in...
Central Bank of Brazil to Test Security and Transaction Privacy Levels of the Digital Real
10.2.2023
The Central Bank of Brazil will focus its first digital real tests on determining the levels of privacy and security that can be achieved with the proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC) infrastructure. The tests will be conducted later this year and will set up a simplified operation...
Moonpay and Looksrare Partner to Bring Convenient NFT Purchasing to the Masses
10.2.2023
On Thursday, the fiat-to-crypto onramp business Moonpay announced a multi-year partnership with the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Looksrare. According to the deal, Looksrare will allow marketplace users to buy and sell crypto assets through Moonpay’s services. Moonpay and Looksrare...
While SingularityNET AGIX Price Explodes, These 3 Altcoins May 10x This Year
10.2.2023
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Ordinal NFTs Push Bitcoin Network Activity to Near 2-year High – What This Means for the BTC Price?
9.2.2023
The 14-Day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) of the number of transactions taking place on the Bitcoin network hit its highest level since April 2021 earlier this month, according to data from crypto analytics firm Glassnode. The 14-Day EMA of transactions recently surpassed 300,000, with analysts...
Litecoin Price Prediction as LTC Spikes Above $100 – Can LTC Reach $1,000 This Year?
9.2.2023
The litecoin price has dropped by 5% in the past 24 hours, falling to $96.29 after it rose above $100 yesterday. This current level means that it has gained by 7% in a fortnight and by 17.5% in the last 30 days, pushed up by the Litecoin Foundation's announcement that its Mastercard-powered...
CryptoQuant: Bitcoin Network Activity Spikes to Two-Year High Thanks to NFTs
9.2.2023
Transactions are coming from the popularity of the recently-deployed protocol Ordinals, which allows for NFT-like tokens to be stored on-chain
Musk’s Twitter Payment Vision in Tune With Fiat-Crypto Gateway Alchemy Pay
8.2.2023
Elon Musk’s Twitter has fallen into revenue difficulties, hoping to find new sources of revenue outside the original $5 billion a year advertising business model. According to a recent Financial Times report, Musk is betting this ambition for revenue growth on the payments business. He...