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The Kingdom of Bhutan – a landlocked country situated in the Eastern Himalayas – has reportedly used its renewable sources of energy to run a bitcoin mining operation for years. A government representative said the process started when BTC was worth around $5,000. It is worth noting that the primary cryptocurrency reached that level for the first time in October 2017. Another country that has done so is El Salvador. The Latin American nation, which became the first to make...

According to the blockchain and smart contract security firm Certified Kernel Tech (better known as CertiK), crypto-related exploits, hacks, and scams in April resulted in losses worth $103 million. The figures for last month are a lot less than the $211 million worth of digital assets which wrongdoers siphoned throughout March 2023. Summarizing the Incidents in April CertiK estimated that the total amount hackers managed to drain last month from crypto projects was...

Gemini Earn – the Winklevoss-owned crypto exchange’s digital asset lending arm – announced on Sunday that it had agreed with Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group (DCG) on a mediation process to bring their bankruptcy dispute to a close.  The company said that it expects an order from Bankruptcy Judge Lane directing the mediation to arrive as early as Monday.  Gemini’s Final Resolution Per the company’s latest update, the plan arranges for two meetings to take place before...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) players have been left unscathed as the unmonitored control of off-chain capital of centralized crypto entities led to misdeeds and bad trades, and subsequent collapses. Be it multi-billion dollar bankruptcies, fraud allegations, rampant scandals, or plunging crypto-asset prices, 2022 was characterized by tragic events, culminating mostly from CeFis, which, in turn, enhanced the value proposition of DeFi. The decentralization-first purist approach...

Do Kwon – the crypto executive behind the Terra USD collapse that occurred in the summer of 2022 – has been arrested and taken into custody. Do Kwon Has Reportedly Been Taken In Kwon has allegedly been a fugitive these past few months. He was apprehended in the European nation of Montenegro, where he was found to be holding phony passports and documentation. The country’s interior minister Filip Adzic issued the following statement: Montenegrin police have detained a...

After a phase of consolidation and correction, Ethereum’s price has recently arrived at the crucial support level of the 50-day moving average. However, it is currently going through a tight price range between the 50-day MA and the significant resistance level of $2K. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart Analyzing the daily chart, the price previously formed a higher-high pattern before experiencing a significant decline. The 50-day moving average acted as a support...

PEPE’s journey over the last two weeks has been quite intriguing. Most newbie coins with outlandish backgrounds see rapid surges and equally rapid dumps, mostly due to their perceived lack of seriousness. This is not the case with PEPE, whose creation was inspired by the popular internet meme of Pepe the Frog. In fact, this memecoin has only strengthened its rally since its launch in mid-April. PEPE gained another 90% in the last 24 hours and was now trading near its recently...

Binance – the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange per daily market data – gave traders a bit of a scare in late March when it put a temporary halt in place on spot trading, citing system glitches as the reason for doing so. The move only lasted a few hours and trading was quickly restored on the platform, but it had a few people shaking in their boots. Binance Briefly Stopped Trading Over a Month Ago The trading firm issued a statement claiming...

First Republic became another American bank to fail this year as all attempts to resuscitate the ailing platform fell short. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has now taken possession of the First Republic Bank. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was appointed as the receiver by the Californian financial regulator and even JPMorgan’s bid for the bank’s assets. The financial services company, in a press release, confirmed the...

Just a day ago, we talked about how Coinbase was served a Wells notice by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The situation is scary given that Coinbase has met with the SEC over 30 times in recent years, and thus the exchange really doesn’t appear to be in a position of any wrongdoing. The situation just comes off as more evidence that Biden and his nation and innovation-hating cronies will do anything to ensure crypto dies in America and that residents cannot...