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Researchers from the Chainalysis company found that in 2020 the share of the illegal use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has significantly decreased. However, such tools are still very popular among criminals because they can be used to send funds anonymously, the analysts said in a report....

British financial firm Ruffer Investment believes institutional investors will gradually move into bitcoin. That is stated in the review of the giant, dedicated to assessing the market situation over the past six months. The authors noted that as early as last year, there was a tendency in which...

Tether's founder and the cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex's owner iFinex Inc turned to the New York Supreme Court. The request is to reappoint the expected trial day one month later. Within the period, the company will present all the necessary papers to the legal authority. Initially, the...

Open-source cryptocurrency mining firm HIVE purchased 6,400 BTC mining devices from venture capital firm Canaan. Using the instruments will allow Hive's full hashing power to reach 1,229 PH/s (quadrillion 'peta' hashes per second). Last year the firm brought only 3500 such machines. The first...

Central Bank of France published the CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) test results. The experiment took place on December 17. During it, the first time performed CBDC transaction had success. The bank used a private blockchain of the French fund administration platform called IZNES. Blockchain...

The price of the largest altcoin by market cap surged to $1,439 on Bitstap. The previous all-time high dates back to 2018. The market cap of the cryptocurrency surpasses $163 B at the moment. Recently the Ethereum network's daily transaction volume has also been rising noticeably. At the moment it...

Iranian law enforcement agencies have confiscated another batch of underground mining equipment. According to the local news agency Tasmin, this illegal mining farm stole electricity from the state-owned company Tavanir. In the Islamic Republic, power engineers, together with law enforcement...

On January 18, 2021, the Binance Coin (BNB) rate rose to a record high: the coin rose to $ 46.18. Today, the token retreated as part of the correction and fell to $ 45.46. Cryptocurrency capitalization on Tuesday, January 19, fell to $ 6.474 billion, but BNB is still in the top ten altcoins. Over...

According to the latest data, open interest in futures contracts on ChainLink (LINK) has surged to a new high. Researchers from the Bybt.com team found that this figure reached $ 287.72 million at the end of this week. The surge in interest in LINK-futures is observed against the backdrop of...

On January 15, cryptocurrency manager Grayscale Investments surged $700 M. The increase has started in the final quarter of the last year. The CEO of the company Michael Sonnenshein tweeted about it. Grayscale accumulated $3.3 B through its cryptocurrency investment instruments in Q4 2020. This...

Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that bitcoin will not collapse, its price will continue to rise in the long term. “The cryptocurrency looks much more resilient after the price set a new record and then declined,” he said. Summers believes that the reason for the continued...

SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been active in Bitcoin-related discussions lately. Recently, the author of the book "Bitcoin Billionaires" Ben Mezrich tweeted that, in the future, he will never give up receiving payments in Bitcoin. In response to a tweet from Mezrich, Musk...

Polkadot's price has seen a huge growth in the last week. It went up by 60% and trades above $16 at the moment. The market cap of the asset surpassed $14 B, getting ahead of XRP. Now Dot is the 4th largest asset, coming after Tether. On the other hand, XRP faces difficulties after the SEC filed a...

On January 15, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced suspending the XRP token trading for users from the US. The termination will enter into force on January 30, at 1 a.m. UTS. The decision doesn't concern customers from other countries. The company mentioned the reason for the suspension to be...

Popular American rock group Portugal. The Man announced releasing its social token "PTM coin" on the Ethereum-based Rally Network. The group's followers can spend the token on selective music, video, and merchandise. The token holders will have the advantages of accessing various...

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are thinking about the possibility of the Gemini crypto exchange entering the stock market. In an interview with Bloomberg, the twins, who founded the exchange in 2013, said entering the stock market is one option they are now considering in the context of the company's...

By August 2021, Bitcoin will be able to skyrocket to $ 115,000, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead said. Moreover, he expressed this point of view earlier. Back in August last year, the CEO of Pantera Capital said that the largest digital currency would periodically renew highs. We are now entering...

Fake advertisements for the sale of COVID-19 vaccines are spreading on the darknet, for which they ask for payment in bitcoins. Specialists found more than 340 similar ads on 34 sites. According to Check Point's calculations, there were eight such pages back in December. The average cost per dose...