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More people now own crypto in Australia. A 2021 survey by the Independent Reserve Cryptocurrency Index indicates that the number of Australians owning crypto grew to 28.8% from 18.4% in 2020. Over 2000 people participated in the survey. The results show that 89% of investors profited. 26.6% of...

As per the decision of a Florida jury, announced on Monday Australian computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright did not owe 1.1 m BTC to the family of cyber forensics David Kleiman. Court decided that Wright must pay 100 m in punitive damages over intellectual properspecialistty rights to a...

In a study by the Dune analytics team, it is said that in November, users of decentralized crypto exchanges (DEX) showed very high activity again. Trading on DEX aggregators such as 1inch, Ox, and ParaSwap has grown significantly. The total trading volume on the last week exceeded $ 6 billion. In...

At the end of last week, it became known about a hacker attack on the hot wallets of the BitMart crypto exchange. The attackers managed to withdraw about $ 200 million in various tokens deployed on Ethereum and Binance Chain. The CEO of this platform, Sheldon Xia, promised to compensate the losses...

New-York based crypto platform Gemini partners with Colombia's largest commercial bank, Bancolombia, thus allowing Colombians to trade BTC, Eth, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. Services will become available from Dec. 14. From that day on, a certain group of the bank's users will be able to access...

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried plans to raise a total of $ 1.5 billion in investments for the global derivatives exchange and the American FTX.US platform. According to them, a potential round of funding will bring the FTX valuation to $ 32 billion, and subsidiaries in the US - to $ 8 billion. In...

Crypto volatility escalated on Saturday night, December 4. At the beginning of trading on the American market, the value of bitcoin (BTC) even grew moderately. However, after the end of the session, a massive sale began on the spot exchanges. As a result, Bitcoin and Ether (ETH) fell below $ 45,000...

Chicago-based automated robo-advisor for cryptocurrencies and digital assets, Stacked, raised $35 M in a Series A funding stage. The fundraising was led by Alameda Research, established by crypto influencer Sam Bankman-Fried, and Mirana Ventures. Among other companies that took part were Fidelity...

The computing power of the bitcoin network at the end of last week increased even against the backdrop of a fall in the value of the cryptocurrency. Recall that on Saturday night, the BTC rate fell to $ 43,000 on some trading floors. This was followed by a rebound, and now the cryptocurrency is...

On Saturday, Bitcoin-focused technology and financial services firm NYDIG informed that around $2.5 billion of crypto leveraged positions were liquidated. $1.1 billion of the amount were Bitcoin positions. Bitcoin dropped below $47.000 on December 4 and was traded at around $46.600 according to...

Centralised crypto trading platform BitMart was exploited. On December 5, the founder and CEO of the company, Sheldon Xia tweeted that a major security breach was detected. He informed that the hack impacted one of Ethereum and one of Binance Smart Chain hot wallets. Attackers could withdraw...

Billionaire investor Charlie Munger is in the camp of Bitcoin critics. During the Sohn Conference in Sydney, the businessman said he wished crypto hadn’t been invented. As the Australian Financial Review reports, Munger finds China is right to ban cryptocurrencies, and he admires the move....

Michael Sailor, CEO of software giant MicroStrategy, presents the camp of the so-called "bitcoin bulls". His company periodically purchases cryptocurrency and refuses to sell it, even during a bearish cycle. Sailor stated that the dollar is the world's currency, and bitcoin is a reserve...

Despite the fall in the value of the Shiba Inu (SHIB) altcoin, more than half of its holders are still in profit. About 69% of wallets with different cryptocurrency volumes are in positive territory. The SHIBA token has lost about 3% in value over the past 24 hours and fell to $ 0.00004172. Altcoin...

The crypto has seen a dip today. Bitcoin price fell below $50.000 for the first time since October 6. In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin dropped by over 17.5%. Currently, it trades at around $46.900, with a market cap of $897 billion. Other major cryptocurrencies, Ether, ADA, Binance Coin also declined...

All categories of investors, including whales, took advantage of the drop in the value of Ether (ETH). According to Glassnode, the number of wallets with any amount of ETH reached 69.113 million, a new record in altcoin history. Meanwhile, the cost of Ether continues to fall. On the night of...

Bitcoin is viewed by many in the American establishment as a threat to the country's economy. Recently, Hillary Clinton, who served as head of the State Department in the Barack Obama administration, said that digital currencies undermine the dominant position of the dollar in the global financial...

The native crypto of the Terra blockchain protocol, LUNA hit a new ath of $69.74 today. In the last 7 days, the LUNA price went up by over 73.5%. At the moment, it is the 11th largest crypto with a market cap of over $26.2 bln. The surge happens amid the continuous lawsuit between the Terraform...