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The recovery plan for lost funds due to the collapse of the Terra project should give priority to holders of small amounts. This opinion was expressed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. On May 8, the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) lost its peg to the US dollar. This happened against the...

Terra blockchain ecosystem founder Do Kwon said he's heartbroken about the pain his invention caused the community. Kwon tweeted that in the past few days, he has held phone calls with Terra blockchain engineers, community members, employees, friends, and family that have been devastated by the...

Entrepreneur, the author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", Robert Kiyosaki finds that Bitcoin crashing is great news. A recent tweet by Kiyosaki says that he continues to wait for BTC to crash to $20,000. The entrepreneur mentioned then he would wait for the coin to drop to $17,000. Kiyosaki plans...

Norway’s Parliament said no to the proposal to prohibit energy-intensive crypto mining in the country. The proposal was made by Norway's political party Rødt (Red Party) in March. Rødt finds that it is better to use Norway's natural power sources for other purposes than crypto mining saying...

Users of the crypto exchange Coinbase were reporting difficulties while withdrawing holdings amid the significant fall in crypto prices. On May 12, Coinbase Support tweeted that the team is aware that some customers are having issues trading and using accounts on Coinbase and Coinbase Pro. The...

Terra announced officially halting at block 7607789 as UST continues to be below its peg and LUNA is 99% down. The tweet published by the company says that validators have stopped the network to build a plan to recover operations. The Terra blockchain has officially halted at block 7607789.Terra...

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who owns the basketball team Dallas Mavericks expressed his opinion about the current crypto market weakness. Currently, Bitcoin trades at around $29,000, and Ether hovers over $2,000. In the last 24 hours, the total crypto market cap fell by around 8% and now is $1.25...

The Shanghai High People's Court has mentioned that Bitcoin is a digital asset protected by Chinese law, adding that the coin has economic value. According to local media, the declaration was made in connection with a court hearing. A person called Cheng Mou filed a lawsuit demanding that another...

The Ministry of Finance (BMF) of Germany has updated its crypto policy. According to new rules, the sale of bought digital assets like bitcoin and eth won't be taxed if held longer than a year. It is the first time that Germany issues a nationwide uniform and instructions on cryptos. In addition to...

Prices of cryptocurrencies continue to decline. Bitcoin dropped below $28,000 and currently trades at around $27.900. The lowest price was around $26,350. Bitcoin's market cap stands at above $529 billion. Ether trades at around $1,880. The total crypto market cap decreased by over 13% in the last...

Blockchain investigation firm Chainalysis attracted $170 M in the recent investment round. Thus, the company's valuation hit $8.6 bln. A report by The Information says that the company raised the amount in Series F led by Singapore-based investment management company GIC. In June 2021, Chainalysis...

The price of LUNA, the native governance coin of the Terra blockchain fell by more than 94% in the last seven days. Although, in general, the crypto market sees difficulties now, LUNA's price drop was the most significant. LUNA hit its lowest price in a year falling below $1 and trading at $0.8...

SEC Chair Gary Gensler criticized crypto exchange platforms, saying some of them have rules that may be against their customers. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, he said that the agency is examining most of the digital assets and trading venues and finds they should register with the...

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz finds crypto prices will remain volatile at least for the coming quarters. In the company's earnings call on May 9, he said that more damage is expected to be done and the BTC price could fall below $30,000. Galaxy Digital, a financial services firm focused on...

Terra blockchain's UST stablecoin fell below its $1 price peg. At the moment of writing, UST trades at around $0.92. On May 9, the stablecoins dropped as low as 68 cents according to data by CoinMarcetCap. UST is an algorithmic stablecoin created by Terraform Labs in 2018. Terra uses complex codes...

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele announced that the country added $15.5 M worth of Bitcoins to its balance sheet at an average price of $30,744. El Salvador just bought the dip! 🇸🇻500 coins at an average USD price of ~$30,744 🥳#Bitcoin— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) May 9,...

In February, Google's parent company Alphabet announced that the future plans of the conglomerate include blockchain technology and Web 3. And now, the Cloud group of Google is starting a team to offer their services to blockchain app developers. Thus, the company aims to meet the growing...

Top GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) company Nvidia was fined for not reporting details on how crypto mining impacted the company's gaming business. The US SEC published a press release saying that Nvidia agreed to pay a $5.5 M penalty for not reporting that crypto mining was a part of the company's...