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Aside from a brief pump and dump of around $500 yesterday, bitcoin has remained relatively stagnant at just under $27,000. Although generally more volatile by nature, the altcoins have also failed to produce any significant moves in the past day. Injective is among the few exceptions. Bitcoin Stalls Below $27K After the enhanced volatility at the end of last week, which resulted in BTC dumping to a two-month low of under $26,000, the cryptocurrency has been trading with a lot...

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, May 19th, 2023] Quantitative trading bot ATPBot has announced that it has connected to the Binance API. As a result, users of the highly effective AI trading bot have greater opportunities for trading a broad range of cryptocurrencies that are listed on Binance. Integration with Binance via the exchange’s API provides greater proof of ATPBot’s efficacy, since users can now test it on the world’s largest exchange, with deep liquidity and...

Strike – a Bitcoin payments company and remittance app – announced Friday that it is now available for download to over 3 billion people worldwide, including dozens of new countries. The international expansion will allow wallet users in India, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and other countries to remit payments to one another in both USD and BTC.  Targeting the Global South Speaking at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami, Strike CEO Jack Mallers explained that the company’s expansion efforts...

As Hong Kong takes center stage in the regional crypto business, local firms are trying to expand their customer base. One such firm, HashKey Group, is reportedly raising up to $200 million in funding to tap new opportunities. HashKey Eyes $200 Million in Funding Targeting a more significant share of the Asian crypto market, Hong Kong-based crypto financial service provider HashKey Group plans to expand its operations. The crypto investment fund is reportedly in early-stage...

Bitcoin-friendly Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis doesn’t think the Biden Administration’s proposed 30% excise tax on Bitcoin miners isn’t likely to make it through the House.  On stage at Bitcoin Miami 2023, the politician remained supportive of miners, and believes the industry’s proliferation throughout the United States is a matter of national security.  Mining: Dirty or Clean? During the interview, Lummis spoke about the excise tax with Perianne Boring, a member of the...

The ordinals are coming in dank this week. Bitcoin Frogs was the #1 selling NFT collection for the 24-hour period on Wednesday. Frogs sales outpaced Bored Apes Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, and other popular collections for the day. The BRC-20 memecoin project describes itself as “10,000 unique frog collectibles minted directly on the Bitcoin Blockchain.” As of publication time, 3,700 frogs had owners. Meanwhile, hundreds were listed for sale on NFT marketplaces. That gecko that...

Global payments giant Visa has deployed experimental smart contracts on Ethereum’s Goerli testnet to pilot gasless transactions through account abstraction. The two sets of smart contracts, dubbed Paymaster, will simplify user interaction with the Ethereum network by performing complex tasks and managing transaction costs on behalf of other accounts. Visa Tests Paymaster for Frictionless Transactions Account abstraction is a proposal to increase flexibility in the management...

Ether holders are rushing to stake their tokens with network validators. This has pushed the deposit activity to the highest level since the Shapella upgrade last month. In fact, the total volume of crypto-asset staked has exceeded 20 million. The latest milestone comes a month after the much-anticipated Ethereum Shanghai upgrade that brought a record-breaking weekly inflow of Ether deposits for staking. “It has only been a month since Ethereum’s Shapella Upgrade. Since then,...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up The recent kidnapping and murder of a woman in Seoul, South Korea (the nation’s capital city) has turned up some new evidence. Police investigating the matter believe the woman may have been involved in various crypto-related disputes, and that her attacker was associated and hired by the opposing party. Why Is...

Developers of decentralized exchange (DEX) Swaprum have drained $3 million in ether (ETH) tokens from the protocol in an apparent rugpull, otherwise known as an exit scam. The exchange, launched on the Ethereum layer-2 network Arbitrum, offers high farming rewards, low swapping fees, and potential earnings of up to 100% annual percentage yield (APY). Swaprum Rugpulls Users for $3M Blockchain security firm Peckshield flagged the incident on Friday, disclosing that...