Crypto news

The digital copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper was an Easter egg that was located earlier this month embedded within a test scanner app on macOS. But Apple has now removed it from the latest beta version of its operating system. With the removal of the test scanner app called Virtual Scanner II from the beta, the Bitcoin white paper – along with all the other elements it was bundled up with – is also gone. According to a report, the document will no longer be...

It appears that the bulls may have celebrated too early, as the cryptocurrency market took a turn for the worse. After having surged to $30K earlier today, the price took a sudden u-turn and plummeted to $27K in less than an hour. This left close to $200 million in liquidated leveraged positions in the past hour alone. Upwards of 90% of the liquidations in the past hour were longs, accounting for more than $157 million. Binance and OKX account for the majority of the volume....

Jeremy Allaire – CEO of Circle Internet Financial Ltd. – argued that US investors could soon relocate due to the lack of proper regulations and the growing banking crisis. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March caused severe issues for the stablecoin issuer. USDC de-pegged from its $1 fixed valuation to as low as $0.87 after Circle revealed a massive $3.3 billion exposure to the financial institution. However, it coped with the problem, assuring that investors...

Ethereum-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Merlin, which uses zero-knowledge sync (zkSync), has lost more than $1.8 million in a liquidity pool exploit hours after smart contract security firm CertiK audited its code.The hack occurred on Wednesday morning during the public sale of Merlin’s native token, MAGE, with the attacker siphoning several assets, including USD Coin (USDC), Ether (ETH), and other illiquid tokens. Merlin’s LP Drained After Code Audit A few hours after...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is going after Justin Sun of Tron fame and a wide array of celebrities he hired to at one point, serve either as promoters or brand ambassadors for the company. The SEC Is Going After Tron At the time of writing, securities fraud charges have been filed against Tron, the famed crypto company. In addition, several well-known figures – including musician Lindsay Lohan and internet personality Jake Paul – have been caught up in...

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of stablecoin giant Circle, spoke at Consensus 2023 on Wednesday about where companies like his fit into the current US dollar system and regulatory regime.  The executive believes a widespread loss of faith in US Banking is contributing to “de-dollarization”, and that digital dollar stablecoins will help it retain its global dominance.  A Safe Digital Dollar During a panel titled “ A 10-Year Rollercoaster Toward a New Model of Money,” Allaire said that...

The Securities Commission of the Bahamas reportedly plans to strengthen the domestic cryptocurrency regulatory framework after the collapse of FTX, which was based in the island nation. One such amendment will be the prohibition of algorithmic stablecoins and privacy tokens. The Bahamas was also where Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) – the former CEO of FTX – lived prior to his arrest. He currently resides in his parents’ house in California, awaiting a trial that will determine...

A group of crypto hackers have drained all the coins and funds from several bitcoin ATMs throughout the world hosted by a company called General Bytes. General Bytes Loses a Lot of Money The hackers took advantage of what’s referred to as a zero-day vulnerability to prevent all transaction losses from being reversed. General Bytes explained in a statement: The night of 17-18 March was the most challenging time for us and some of our clients. The entire team has been...

Austrian cooperative banking company – Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien (RLB NÖ-Wien) – has partnered with Bitpanda to roll out crypto investment services through the latter’s software as a service (SaaS) offering. With this collaboration, RLB NÖ-Wien has become the first major traditional bank in the European Union to move into digital assets. The Partnership Alongside crypto investment, the Austrian company will also focus on the potential implementation of stocks...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] MyEListing integrates with Coinbase Commerce to create ASAP Program Austin, TX – MyEListing.com, a free commercial real estate listings and data platform, has partnered with Millennial Title, and Championship Title to create a marketplace where anyone in the world can buy and sell US residential & commercial real estate with crypto via an integration with Coinbase Commerce, and close within one business day. The initiative is...