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Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up The Lebanon Police Department has been successful in tracking down a customer’s crypto funds that ultimately fell into the hands of a scammer. Lebanon Police Know What They’re Doing Richard Norris – supervisor of the Cyber Crimes Unit at the Lebanon Department – explained in an interview: Our unit handles...

Wise saw its shares dip Monday after management announced that long-serving CFO Matt Briers would leave the company early next year.  Shares of British fintech firm Wise (LON: WISE) slipped 4% on news of CFO Matt Briers’ resignation next year. The London-based company’s stock slide also comes amid reports of CEO Kristo Kaarman’s paternity leave which begins in September. Wise’s shares are changing hands at 590 GBX after management made the announcements. Briers’ pending departure in 2024...

After five years of service, Hotbit joins Paxful and Bit4You to exit the crypto market. Hotbit, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange (CEX), has suspended its business operations. The company announced the decision on May 22, 2023, citing several factors including the change in crypto market trends, the depegging of stablecoins from their $1 benchmarks, and the deterioration of operating conditions. Hotbit was founded in 2018 and quickly became one of the most popular exchanges in the...

Gemini seeks to exact its owed payment sum from Genesis parent DCG and is working with several creditors on a forbearance plan. Gemini Trust Company LLC recently said that Genesis parent DCG missed a $630 million loan payment last week. This development is the latest occurrence in the ongoing dispute between the Cameron Winklevoss-run crypto custodian and digital currency VC firm. In January, Gemini CEO Winklevoss threatened to sue his DCG counterpart Barry Silbert, and the entire company,...

The ban on Micron Technology has drawn a response from US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo who said America will not sit back and firmly oppose restrictions that are not backed by proper facts.  The chip and semiconductor industry is likely to see its next major distortion following the labeling of United States-based chipmaker Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ: MU) as a threat to its National security infrastructure. As reported by CNBC, China’s Cyberspace Administration said Micron failed to...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Stellar lumen price is struggling below the $0.0920 resistance zone against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading below $0.0900 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0900 on the 4-hour chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Ripple price started a downside correction from the $0.4700 zone against the US dollar. The price is now trading above $0.44 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break above a key contracting triangle with resistance near $0.430 on the 4-hour chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from...

A Russian man has been charged by US authorities for his alleged connection to multiple ransomware schemes that netted him and other attackers nearly $200 million – much of which came through crypto.  Some of the victims of those ransomware attacks included hospitals, schools, and police departments.  $200 Million in Ransomware Payments The culprit – Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev – was part of three ransomware gangs: Lockbit, Babuk and Hive. Collectively, they have obtained...

Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) is being hailed as the world’s first comprehensive set of rules that aims to bring the largely unregulated cryptocurrency markets under government regulation. It is part of a broader digital finance package, aka ‘Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA),’ which aims at protecting the financial services sector from fraudulent activities and is likely to become law in July 2023, setting the wheels in motion for the rules to take effect by...

In a recent interview, the former partner of Sam Bankman-Fried doubled down on his belief that the FTX founder is the crypto spin-off of Bernie Madoff. Nevertheless, Scaramucci added that he is sticking with crypto and bitcoin and provided his company’s intrinsic BTC value at the moment. The former White House Director of Communications for the Trump administration entered the cryptocurrency space shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and has become a permanent member...