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Currently under the control of mining pools is the largest number of bitcoins in 2021. According to the CryptoQuant company, the reserves of miners have already exceeded the maximum indicators in May. That is, over the past six months, the pools refused to sell all the received cryptocurrency and...

NFT swapping platform MetaSwap was rug pulled. The blockchain security and data analytics company Peckshield tweeted on December 27 that a rug pull happened, with 1.100 BNB, worth around $628.000 at current prices stolen. Peckshield urged users not to stake their holding in the platform and revoke...

Crypto.com CEO Chris Marshalek criticized CoinMarketCap for providing incorrect information on trading volumes. “Merry Christmas, the CoinMarketCap team, which, a week after responding to their poorly worded tweet, arbitrarily downgraded our stock rankings to 14th. On CoinGecko, we are # 2 to #...

Bitcoin exchange Binance has received principal approval from the Central Bank of Bahrain to work as a cryptocurrency service provider. According to the statement, the company has applied as part of plans to become a "fully regulated centralized cryptocurrency exchange." Binance also...

Iranian Ministry of Energy decided to temporarily stop operations of crypto mining hubs. The reason is the high level of electricity usage in winter. Chairman of the country's power grid developer and operator, Iran Grid Management Company, Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi talked about the adopted measures...

2021 turned out to be a record year not only for centralized crypto exchanges but also for decentralized platforms (DEX). The volume of transactions with digital assets on such platforms deployed on Ethereum exceeded $1 trillion from January to December. The CryptoDiffer team presented a rating of...

On Christmas Eve, the founder of the Cardano blockchain protocol, Charles Hoskinson, talked about the crypto sector and the protocol's future plans. After smart contracts՛ going live on Cardano, in September, over 100 dapps have been under active development. Two million assets have been...

Every year, digital assets are attracting more and more interest from ordinary Internet users. This indisputable fact lures a huge number of speculators who want to cash in on incompetent consumers who have just started to join the crypto space. Recently, in some provinces of Argentina, dubious...

The team behind the development of the meme coin Dogecoin, presented its first roadmap "trailmap". It includes 8 points. Among them are Dogecoin protocols library LibDogecoin and development solution GigaWallet. In the announcement, Dogecoin Foundation revealed that Vitalik Buterin...

At the moment, about 1.3 million bitcoins are listed on exchanges, the CryptoRank team said in a statement. This volume of cryptocurrency accounts for 6.3% of the total BTC market supply. In October last year, the exchange balance of bitcoin was 9.5% of the supply of digital currency. Already in...

The local media of Turkey says, according to the country’s president, Recep Erdoğan, crypto law is now ready and it’ll be sent to the Parliament with no setback. He revealed the news in a recent meeting with economics journalists. In his speech, Erdoğan said people will see the guarantee of...

Senator Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming plans to submit a crypto sphere bill next year for consideration by the US Congress. She told Bloomberg that this is a large-scale document designed to stimulate the development of the blockchain industry in the United States and ensure the safety of...

Blockchain protocol Internet Computer added Ethereum integration via a cross-chain bridge. The upgrade was one of the 25 proposals that the community members voted for. It was submitted on December 20, and was adopted as the absolute majority voted yes to...

A total of 51 countries in the world have imposed bans on cryptocurrencies to some extent. What follows from a report from the Office of Global Legal Research (GLRD) of the US Law Library of Congress. GLRD noted that since the first publication of the report, the number of such jurisdictions had...

The president of El Salvador is at the center of discussions for his Bitcoin policy. In September El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender, becoming the first country to do so. Along with this, the government has been adding its BTC holdings. President Bukele's move wasn't perceived well by everyone....

Polygon, a blockchain protocol, focused on increasing Ethereum’s scalability, revealed that leading Ethereum-based DEX UniSwap went live on it. On Nov. 20, the Polygon team presented a proposal to deploy UniSwap on Polygon. Due to the voting process, over 72 M UNI holders voted in its favor....

A digital duplicate of the world's first SMS was traded at an auction in France. SMS with the text "Merry Christmas" December 3, 1992 programmer Neil Papworth sent the leader of the British mobile operator Vodafone Richard Jarvis. An NFT lot includes a copy of the authentic communication...

The next CTO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Andrew Bosworth, plans to build extended interoperability between the firm and blockchain protocols. As per a report by the NY Times, the source of which is an internal message from the executive, Meta is exploring possibilities to partner with...