Cryptocurrency News

Financial services company Block (previously Square) is looking for specialists to launch the next-gen bitcoin mining ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) system. The company posted several job announcements on Linkedin looking for a custom digital design lead and digital product...

The Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is investigating possible links between Binance and a multi-million dollar crypto scam in the region. The FIA's cybercrime division has asked regional manager Hamza Khan to clarify its position on the company's ties to deceitful mobile apps for...

MalwareHunterTeam specialists have uncovered a malicious version of the dnSpy debugger that installs hidden miners and Trojans on victims' computers. dnSpy is commonly used by researchers and developers to adjust and decompile programs. The software is also popular with cybersecurity professionals...

During a recent episode of the podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience ”with his fellow podcaster Adam Curry, the host said that he had a lot of hope for crypto. The two media personalities talked about the crypto industry among other subjects. In Rogan's opinion, crypto ether will fall apart, or it...

In-app stores for devices based on Android and Apple operating systems, the RMB transaction service ranked first in the number of downloads in China. This program is currently still in the testing phase. However, according to the results of the first week, after the application appeared in the...

Lympo, a subsidiary of game development company Animoca Brands, focused on creating a sports NFTs ecosystem, was hacked. As announced, exploiting the hot wallet security vulnerability, the hacker managed to withdraw 165.2 M of the platform’s native utility LMT (Lympo Market Token) cryptos,...

Many large financiers are gradually changing their attitude towards bitcoin and are beginning to view it as a tool for hedging inflationary risks. For example, this point of view is shared by Paul Tudor Jones. Back in 2020, he admitted that he invested part of his capital in BTC. Now billionaire...

The US SEC chair Gery Gensler was asked whether he finds Ethereum is a security or not during a recent Squawk Box program. To the question of his views on Ether and XRP, which the regulator argues is security, Gensler said that he wasn't going to speak about a certain project during a public forum....

Bitcoin could break down $40,000 if inflation further exceeds market expectations. Economist Alex Kruger outlined a similar scenario amid the Fed tightening monetary policy. Sensitivity to macroeconomic news is due to changes in the Fed's monetary policy, Krueger is convinced. He recalled the...

The Brazilian military police have arrested the founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency pyramid Mirror Trading International (MTI) Johann Steinberg, who was wanted by Interpol and the FBI in 2019. Law enforcers began spying on the suspect immediately after receiving information about his location in...

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin self-mining company Bitfarms announced adding 1000 Bitcoins for $43.2 M to its holdings. Presently, the company owns more than 4300 coins. With the recent acquisition, Bitfarm's holdings of bitcoin went up by 30%. In the published press release, the mining operations provider...

San Francisco resident Siraj Raval uses his 2018 Tesla Model 3 to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. According to the crypto enthusiast, he launched free mining software on an Apple Mac mini M1 computer by connecting it to the car's center console. Five graphics cards are powered by a Tesla battery....

The police of Kosovo disclosed seizing 300 BTC mining machines on Jan. 8. In a release published by the country's police, it’s said that performing legal duties, officials together with the regulator Kosovo Customs found BTC mining hardware ANTIMER in the region of North Mitrovica. In another...

Thanks to a fairly reasonable price for electricity, Argentina has been and is a very attractive country for companies that are mining bitcoin. But regular media reports suggest that this is about to change as state-owned electricity wholesaler Cammesa is planning to raise its price for mining...

Changpeng Zhao, The CEO and founder of Binance, the leading crypto exchange by trading volume, is among the richest billionaires globally. According to a report by Bloomberg, with a fortune of $96 bln, CZ is now ahead of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founder Larry Page, and ranks 11th....

The countdown to the official listing of DhabiCoin (DBC) has started on six exchanges, three of them already at launch. In nine months of the ICO phase, DhabiCoin accomplished a feat never seen before in the crypto-actives market, overcoming the market's distrust and becoming one of the main bets...

The cryptocurrency market is still in a bearish phase, with Bitcoin dropping below $ 42,000. At the time of publication of this review, the leading digital currency was trading at around $ 41,653. BTC capitalization collapsed on January 7 to $ 789.936 billion. Of the top ten altcoins, the largest...

Yosuke Matsuda, President and CEO of the Japanese computer games company Square Enix, wished all users a Happy New Year and spoke about the company's plans for the coming year. Matsuda called 2021 "the year of the metaverse" because the interest in it is extremely high. Large corporations...