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XRP became the second most popular crypto coin among Japanese investors, almost catching up with BTC. This is evidenced by a study of the local BitMax exchange. The trading platform polled 1,498 customers. The favorite cryptocurrency of 26% of respondents is Bitcoin, while Ripple was preferred by...

Shares of the mining giant Canaan on the Nasdaq exchange have updated their historical low, closing below $2 on Monday, June 15th. This is evidenced by Yahoo Finance. On this day, the stock fell to $1.98, losing 3.9% during the trading session. Thus, since November last year, Canaan quotes fell 78%...

The People's Bank of China can launch digital currency (CBDC) based on the country's existing payment foundation. So says Glen Wu, head of the Ledger Vault office in the Asia-Pacific region. He emphasized that the Chinese authorities could take such a step so that people would not notice the...

On June 15, the number of addresses with a balance of at least 0.1 bitcoin exceeded 3 057 754 units. The previous record, 3 057 647, is also recorded today. 📈 #Bitcoin $BTC Number of Addresses Holding 0.1+ coins just reached an ATH of 3,057,754.000Previous ATH of 3,057,647.000 was observed on 15...

BTC hash has almost recovered to levels that preceded halving. It was reported by the analytical company CoinMetrics. After the halving on May 11, about 30% of miners disconnected from the network, and the income of the remaining miners fell by 50%. Despite this, the CoinMetrics CMBI Bitcoin hash...

The former adviser of George Soros said he was "not surprised" by the investments of trader and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones in BTC, given the current monetary policy of central banks, reports Cointelegraph. Takeshi Fujimaki had close contact with Tudor Jones when he was engaged in...

One of the BTC addresses, indicated by Craig Wright's lawyers as belonging to him, contains about 80 thousand BTC (~$756 million) stolen from MtGox in 2011. This was stated by the former CEO of the exchange Mark Karpeles. The 1Feex address contains ~80k BTC stolen from MtGox in March 2011. Craig...

Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes, a reputable business publication, enters the cryptocurrency industry camp. However, the same businessman systematically points out the shortcomings of bitcoin that impede its more active implementation in the global market. In one of his recent interviews,...

Binance announced the launch of quarterly BTC futures. Since 2019, Binance has been offering futuristic futures contracts with no expiration dates. Quarterly contracts expire on the last Friday of the corresponding three-month period. Like perpetual contracts, quarterly futures are offered with...

Tether (USDT) capitalization is now about $ 9.2 billion. According to experts, soon, this figure will reach $ 10 billion, which is a very good signal for the cryptocurrency industry. Paolo Ardoino, technical director of Tether, a development company, said that the increase in the capitalization of...

On June 11, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine registered the draft law "On Virtual Assets", which introduces cryptocurrencies in a regulated plane and obliges exchanges to register with the Ministry of Digital Transformation. The final version of the document has undergone changes. In...

The bankruptcy and subsequent closure of the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange were caused by fraudulent actions by its founder Gerald Cotten. This is evidenced by the results of the investigation of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). The regulator studied data on 368,000 accounts and the...

Several scammers hacked into legitimate YouTube accounts and modified the content to mimic the “SpaceX channel from Elon Mask.” The Channel broadcast archived footage with Mask to ask viewers to send bitcoins to the specified addresses. Also, there were at least 80,000 views of the fraudulent...

According to Etherscan, the number of addresses of the second cryptocurrency reached 100 million. The figure, ten times the number of Internet users in 1995, indicates the promising prospects of the DeFi sector, said Defiant project founder Camila Russo. Ethereum has 100M addresses 5 yrs after its...

The financial regulator of Belarus plans to attract banks to create and implement transactions with tokens. It is reported by Sputnik Belarus. According to the draft decree, financial institutions will be able to issue utility tokens and conduct their initial proposals to attract financing in...

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia sent a letter to the State Duma criticizing a new package of bills regulating digital currencies and assets. According to Kommersant, the ministry believes that a complete ban on the issuance and circulation of cryptocurrencies, as well as the...

The average daily value transferred through the Bitcoin blockchain increased in May from $1.75 billion to $2.25 billion. Ethereum's corresponding figure rose from $1.49 billion to $1.66 billion. This is reported by The Block. The graph below shows that the daily moving value almost reached the...

The capitalization of the most comprehensive stablecoin Tether (USDT) is gradually approaching $ 10 billion. Now, this figure is just over $ 9.2 billion. Paolo Arduino, CTO of the development company, recently said that his team has minted $ 5 billion worth of coins over the past six months. At the...