The rapid rise in the value of bitcoin by $500 on Thursday, led to mass liquidations on the BitMEX crypto derivatives exchange. The price of bitcoin has shown rapid growth from $6650, peaking at $7145 around 03:00 AM CT. According to data from analytic company Skew, the sudden movement led to the...
The police began an investigation into the theft of 1 million 660 thousand rubles ($22.000) from a 65-year-old resident of Adygea under the guise of investing in cryptocurrency. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The victim was going to purchase shares of one of...
Cryptocurrency owners most often use them to pay for everyday goods, while every third of those who are not related to them associates digital assets with the purchase of weapons and drugs. Visual Objects have come to such results. Among the 983 respondents surveyed, only 157 had experience buying...
This week, the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange carried out the largest dollar-denominated transaction in the history of Bitcoin in the amount of 161,500 BTC or about $1.1 billion. The transaction fee was only 0.00010019 BTC or $0.68, TheCryptoAssociate writes. The transaction was carried out on...
The China Electronic Information Industry Development (CCID) has published the next 17th cryptocurrency rating in a row, in which EOS still ranked first. Bitcoin (BTC) moved down to rank 14, skipping ahead Cosmos (ATOM), Stellar (XLM) and DASH. The three leaders in comparison with the previous...
The New York-based hybrid powerhouse Greenidge Generation has entered into its first regulated contract to sell computing power for Bitcoin mining. The buyer, who acquired a hash rate of 106 petaheshes, was an unnamed institutional investor. The purpose of such contracts, according to the broker...
Bitcoin receives support from Visa corporation, which started collaborating with the Fold startup to create a credit card with a BTC cashback. CEO of the startup Will Reeves stated that Bitcoin users would be rewarded with up to 10% of purchases made using Fold and Visa credit cards. He believes...
As a result of another recalculation, the complexity of mining of BTC has grown by almost 3.5% from 13.9 to 14.4 trillion hashes. On March 26, the indicator experienced the second-largest decline in history, falling immediately by 15.95%. This was the result of a sharp reduction in the hash rate of...
Numerous crypto exchanges expect a rush in interest in bitcoin thanks to the halving (drop in the reward of miners). A recent statement from the Gemini platform notes that after halving, many people's attitudes toward cryptocurrency will change. They will see that Bitcoin technology is independent...
Paxful’s P2P platform for bitcoin trading has allowed customers to make transactions for the purchase and sale of the first cryptocurrency for physical gold. The company announced this on its blog. Site CEO Ray Youssef sees growing interest in gold as a safe investment in light of the recession...
Analyst Coinmetrics considers that the current market supply of BTC at 18.3 million coins doesn't reflect real liquidity. According to the information, 2.3M BTC is forever lost or concentrated in the hands of long-term investors. These coins did not move for more than five years. A similar...
Bitcoin Depot, the largest Bitcoin ATM operator in the US, disables some of them to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. First of all, this applies to devices installed in places with high traffic to help to distance people in an epidemic. According to the company, about 10% of its ATMs...
The Spanish Tax Agency will send notifications to taxpayers who carry out operations with cryptocoins. The agency noted that over the year their number has quadrupled. This is reported by Europa Press. For the first time, Spanish crypto investors received notifications from the tax last year, their...
The trading volume on standardized crypto derivatives on the background of the rise of BTC to the psychological level of $7000 reached a maximum since mid-March. As a result of trading on Thursday, April 2, the volume of trading in BTC futures at the CME Group amounted to $347 million. At Bakkt,...
Whale Alert Twitter account recorded the transfer of an immense amount - 101,857 BTC ($ 691.3 million at the exchange rate at the time of writing). 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 101,857 #BTC (633,535,530 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown walletTx:...
Mining device manufacturers cut prices ahead of the halving of the first cryptocurrency. In some cases, the cost of miners dropped by 20%. Another reason was the March market crash. MicroBT now has a $2,000 price on WhatsMiner M30S model, while in early February it was $500 more expensive. The...
A sharp drop in the price of Bitcoin against the backdrop of global panic due to coronavirus has reduced activity in the darknet markets. This is stated in the report of the analytical startup Chainalysis. According to researchers, the fall in the price of BTC had a different effect on various...
The American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken intends to expand the state by almost 10% due to increased activity in the cryptocurrency market amid the financial crisis. That was in an interview with Forbes CEO of the platform Jess Powell. “Every day we see more registrations, more requests for...