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Challenging Year for Bitcoin Miners as Fewer BTC Mining Rigs Are Profitable at Current Prices

31.12.2022
Bitcoin miners have had a challenging year as the network’s mining difficulty reached an all-time high and the spot market price of bitcoin dropped below the cost of production. Currently, with electricity costs at $0.07 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), only 18 application-specific integrated...

The Stablecoin Economy Shed $28 Billion in 2022 After a Handful of Tokens Lost Their $1 Peg

28.12.2022
2022 has been an interesting year for stablecoin assets as the market capitalization of the entire stablecoin economy lost just over $28 billion in value. Moreover, more than $3 billion has been erased from the stablecoin economy during the last 23 days as BUSD shed roughly 23.3% during the last...

More Than $19 Billion in BTC, ETH, Stablecoins Left Exchanges Since the Onset of FTX’s Collapse

27.12.2022
For more than 50 days or since Nov. 5, 2022, bitcoin, ethereum, and stablecoin owners removed roughly $19.19 billion in crypto assets from centralized exchanges. Between Nov. 5 to Dec. 26, roughly 356,848 bitcoin and 4.48 million ether were withdrawn from a myriad of crypto trading platforms...

Silver and Gold — Precious Metals Stored Value This Year Outperforming Crypto Assets in 2022

26.12.2022
Gold prices are ending the year a hair below the values recorded 12 months ago. Statistics on Dec. 26, 2021, show the U.S. dollar value per ounce of gold was $1,810 per unit, and today gold is $1,797 per ounce. Silver, on the other hand, managed to increase a hair in value since last year, […]

Monthly NFT Sales Are 80% Lower Than Last Year, Digital Collectibles Interest Plummeted in 2022

26.12.2022
Like most crypto projects this year, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) felt the pain of 2022’s crypto winter as sales are down a great deal and blue-chip NFTs have been slashed in value. For instance, last month, there was roughly $534 million in NFT sales compared to the $2.77 billion in NFT sales...

BTC Wraps up 13 Consecutive Years of Recorded Market Value, With No Santa Rally in 2022

25.12.2022
By the end of this year bitcoin will have 13 consecutive years of recorded market value under its belt. Seven of those years saw Santa rallies all the way up until New Year’s Eve, and five of the 13 years saw bearish returns from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31. There’s still six more days left...

Top-five most Googled cryptocurrencies worldwide in 2022

23.12.2022
Bitcoin remains the most-searched cryptocurrency in 2022 by far thanks to its top-brand status and being in a league of its own when it comes to decentralization

US senator Toomey introduces stablecoin bill as congressional session wraps up

22.12.2022
The soon-to-retire senator introduced the new stablecoin bill only a few weeks before the end of the 117th US congressional session

2022’s Market Review: Crypto Economy Loses $1.4T, Top 10 Token Knockouts, Terra’s Collapse

21.12.2022
2022 is coming to an end and during the last 12 months, the crypto economy has lost roughly $1.486 trillion in value against the U.S. dollar. On Dec. 20, 2021, bitcoin was trading for $46,406 and it has lost more than 63% in value year-to-date, while the second leading crypto asset ethereum shed...

Bitcoin.com Games Reveals Top Slots of 2022, Players to Get 50 Free Rounds Every Day for Christmas

20.12.2022
????Bitcoin.com Games to reward free rounds every day to all players until December 31st in Hot Slots of Christmas!???? It’s the holiday season and Bitcoin.com Games has begun unraveling sweet gifts for all its players in the newly launched Hot Slots of Christmas promotion. The premium crypto...

While Miners Deal With Low BTC Prices, Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Target Expected to Increase 3% Higher

18.12.2022
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty target is expected to increase on Dec. 19, 2022, after printing the largest reduction recorded in 2022 on Dec. 5, at block height 766,080. During the last 2,016 blocks, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been around 254.3 exahash per second (EH/s), and block intervals...

US Senators Unveil New Crypto Bill — Experts Call It the ‘Most Direct Attack’ on Personal Freedom and Privacy of Crypto Users

16.12.2022
Two U.S. senators, including Elizabeth Warren, have introduced a bipartisan bill for the regulation of cryptocurrency. The bill, titled “Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act,” is “the most direct attack on the personal freedom and privacy of cryptocurrency users and developers...

Another Mysterious Person Signs a 2009 BTC Address, Message Shared by Martin Shkreli Mentions Convicted Felon Paul Le Roux

15.12.2022
Just recently, the crypto community discovered a bitcointalk.org forum user who signed a message from bitcoin block 1,018, and the signer associated the signature with an address first seen in 2022. Moreover, further investigation and evidence have tied block 1,018 to the now-deceased computer...

Bahamian AG and Prime Minister Announce Sam Bankman-Fried’s Arrest in The Bahamas

13.12.2022
Disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been arrested in The Bahamas, according to local reports citing the country’s attorney general Ryan Pinder. According to Pinder, SBF’s arrest “followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges...

Stats Show Ethereum Transaction Fees Have Remained Under $5 During the Last 175 Days

10.12.2022
Fees tied to the Ethereum network have been under the $5 region per transaction during the last 175 days, according to statistics. Metrics show that on Dec. 10, 2022, the average ethereum transfer is around 0.0023 ether or $2.87 while the median-sized gas fee is around 0.00097 ether or $1.23...

GameStop to drop crypto efforts as Q3 losses near $95M

9.12.2022
The gaming company has stopped its cryptocurrency-related focuses but is seemingly still pushing ahead with its NFT and blockchain plans

Data From October Shows Gold Reserves Held by Central Banks Tapped the Highest Level in 47 Years

7.12.2022
Following the World Gold Council’s (WGC) third-quarter report that shows central banks purchased a record amount of gold, data released by the WGC shows that central banks are buying more gold during 2022’s fourth quarter. Statistics show that the gold held by the world’s central banks is at...