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Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Tron price started a fresh increase from the $0.0670 level against the US Dollar. TRX price is now trading near $0.0692 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0694 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Bitcoin price started a fresh decline below the $29,000 pivot level against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $28,500 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break below a key bullish trend line with support at $28,400 on the 4-hour chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from...

After pleading guilty earlier this year, former Coinbase Product Manager Ishan Wahi has been sentenced to 2 years in prison in a landmark case for insider trading with cryptocurrencies.  The sentence exceeds the 10-month prison sentence of Ishan’s brother – Nikhil Wahi – with whom he conspired for the crime.  Two Years for Crypto Insider Trading According to a report from Reuters, Ishan Wahi was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in a Manhattan Federal court on...

Coinbase has called for certain modifications to the proposed rule regarding registered investment advisers’ (RIA) obligations to hold client assets at qualified custodians. Even as the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deemed Coinbase Custody as a “qualified custodian,” the crypto exchange believes the revised RIA rule makes “unwarranted assumptions about custodial practice.” Revisions Needed The chief legal officer of the San Francisco-based company,...

The lawyers of the American basketball legend – Shaquille O’Neal – reportedly asked a federal court to block a recent summons served regarding his interaction with FTX. They claimed the documents were “tossed” at the front of his moving car: an entirely different version than the one presented by attorney Adam M. Moskowitz who supposedly served the sportsman in his home. Failed investors have claimed that O’Neal and many other celebrities used their popularity to promote the...

Popular peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace Paxful is back online after shutting down services in April 2023. While the platform was suspended, the Paxful Wallet remained active. Paxful, in a blog post on May 8, announced the resumption of the marketplace a month after the platform closed down. An excerpt from the announcement reads: “We know it has been a difficult time for many of our users, who were understandably surprised by the sudden suspension, however, we are delighted...

Galaxy Digital turned profitable in the first quarter of the year as the markets improved. Its founder and CEO, Michael Novogratz, revealed that the crypto financial services firm ended Q1 2023 with a liquidity position of $814 million. According to an official press release, Galaxy Digital reported $134 million in net income for the same period as compared to a net loss of $288 million in the fourth quarter of 2022. The income was attributed to the gains on digital assets as...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Social media star and boxer Jake Paul has recently settled crypto-related charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Paul had initially been hired by blockchain network Tron to promote a new digital currency, though he had allegedly failed to reveal he was being paid to engage in the promotion....

The acquisition of Credit Suisse by the bigger bank has been viewed using different lenses by industry observers. Swiss multinational investment banking firm UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG) has announced that Ulrich Koerner, the CEO of Credit Suisse, will be joining the executive board of the new joint entity. The update comes a few weeks after an emergency purchase of Credit Suisse by UBS was facilitated by regulators. UBS confirmed the announcement according to a news release, emphasizing that...

Ordinal inscriptions are on fire. Users are continuously flooding the Bitcoin network with images, video games, and other content. There are now more than 5 million inscriptions. Over the past seven days, the total inscription count has more than doubled from 2.5 million. Ordinals Skyrocket According to data from Dune Analytics, text-based inscriptions, also known as the BRC-20 token standard, accounted for a vast majority of the Bitcoin ordinal inscription. At the time of...