Cryptocurrency News

Business magnate, the person of 2021 by Time magazine, Elon Musk talked about crypto, in particular Bitcoin and Dogecoin, pointing out their advantages and use cases. Musk was a co-founder of digital payments company PayPal and says the nature of money is one of the things that is possible to...

As of December 12, 90% of bitcoins were mined, according to data from the Blockchain.com service. Mining pools have managed to mine 18.89 million coins from 21 million BTC so far. Recall that Bitcoin mining will stop after the mining of 21 million coins, this is the concept formed by the creators...

Movie star Keanu Reeves, who is widely known as the lead actor in the movie "The Matrix," admitted that he represents the camp of cryptocurrency holders. He spoke about this in an interview and noted that he is not professionally engaged in trading, but only holds a certain amount of...

Over the last day, the crypto market cap dropped by over 5%. Currently, it stands at around $2.13 trillion. Prices of most cryptocurrencies have seen significant losses in the last 7 days. The lowest price of Bitcoin in the last 24 hours, was $45,894.85 according to CoinMarketCap. In that...

Mubadala Investment Company, the National Wealth Fund of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, is considering investing in a cryptocurrency ecosystem. This was stated by its CEO Khaldun Al Mubarak. “Crypto is a business that was worth $ 200 billion two years ago, and today has reached $ 2.5 trillion. While...

Myanmar’s National Unity Government accepted the largest stablecoin Tether (USDT) for internal use. The Burmese government in exile was formed in 2021, by those who are against the current regime and support the arrested Aung San Suu Kyi, who previously was State Counsellor of Myanmar. NUG...

Hackers exploited a critical vulnerability in the Java-based Apache Log4j logging library to install hidden miners and other malware. An exploit called Log4Shell allowed attackers to download Mirai and Muhstik malware onto devices. Later they were used to launch Kinsing cryptominers, organize...

Leading international bank BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) unveiled it has expanded its crypto services. The Swiss franchise of the bank now allows customers operations with Ethereum. BBVA Switzerland presented BTC trading and custody service this June, and revealed intentions to introduce...

The owner of the non-fungible token (NFT) Bored Ape Yacht Club #9452 sold it at 4337 times the purchase price - for 347 ETH. “I bought my monkey for 0.08 ETH on minting night and just sold it for 347 ETH. I can't find the words right now. I'm crying. Thanks to the Bored Ape Yach Club for...

Today (Dec. 13) Binance Singapore has unveiled cancelling its application for a license to run crypto services. Binance.sg published a press release, saying the platform will fully stop functioning till February 13. In the announcement, the team informed that some functions are already unavailable....

At the end of last week, another cryptocurrency platform was hacked. This time, the hot wallet of the AscendEX exchange was hacked. In a statement from the administration, it is noted that hackers were able to steal digital currencies totaling up to $ 77 million. ERC-20 tokens were stolen from the...

Attackers targeted the Twitter account of Indian PM Narendra Modi. On Sunday, Dec. 12, they spread fake news that India has adopted BTC. Also, the hackers wrote that the country acquired 500 coins to distribute to India’s residents. The office of the PM of India informed Twitter about the hack,...

Chainalysis analytics platform announced support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) micropayment network with its transaction tracking solution from February 2022. "VASPs, including cryptocurrency exchanges that use Chainalysis KYT (Know Your Transaction) to monitor transactions in...

One of the most crucial events in the crypto industry, the lawsuit between the SEC and Ripple continues. On Dec. 10, the parties filed a motion, requesting from the Court to extend the deadline of an expert discovery by three days. For now, the discovery is set to close on January 14, 2022. In the...

The human rights non-profit organization Empower Oversight has demanded that the SEC disclose documents regarding a potential conflict of interest in the actions of former high-ranking officials. The lawsuit is filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff is requesting access to...

ARK Invest CEO and CIO Cathie Wood is bullish about the future of crypto, despite the current price decline. During a recent interview with CNBC on December 9, Wood shared her predictions. She reiterated her view that if more institutional investors choose Bitcoin, the price of the coin will...

Business analytics software provider MicroStrategy acquired an additional 1,434 BTC for about $ 82.4 million. According to the report, the average purchase price was approximately $ 57,477. Trades were made between November 29 and December 8, 2021. The funds spent correspond to the proceeds that...

PepsiCo has announced the Pepsi Mic Drop NFT collection on Ethereum. Tokens will be received by members of the waiting list, registration for which will open on December 10. The collection consists of 1,893 tokens - in honor of the year the company was founded. According to the press release, the...