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According to a recent Statista report, India’s crypto community could surge to more than 156 million members by the end of the year.  Most people expected to jump on the bandwagon are educated younger individuals with middle-income status who seek alternatives to the shaking banking system. Indians Could Flock to Crypto in the Near Future The survey estimated that over 11% of India’s population will have dived into the cryptocurrency sector by the end of 2023. The country’s...

After a 2-year investigation, Hindenburg concluded Block (previously known as Square) “systematically took advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping.” The report accused the firm of facilitating “fraud against consumers and the government” as well as “avoiding regulation.” It further called Block’s loans and fees to be “predatory” in nature and designed to “mislead investors with inflated metrics.” The US-based short seller said its research involved numerous...

It appears many of the world’s bitcoin units have “gone to sleep” over the past six months. A statement like this is not meant to be taken literally, but it appears there are several units of the world’s number one digital currency that have gone “dormant” in the last half year. $370 Billion in Bitcoin Has Been Dormant What this means is that a good portion of the bitcoin supply hasn’t moved. It hasn’t taken part in transactions, it hasn’t changed wallets, nothing has...

Scammers adapt better than we can imagine and change depending on the market situation. This revelation was made in a recently hosted webinar by prominent blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis wherein it gauged crime trends in the industry market during the crypto winter. The data gathered by the firm revealed how scammers adapted to the developments and volatility of the crypto market. Not all scams behaved the same way in the context of the bear market. This time around, it...

Bitcoin has been having a very good year in 2023. The currency is up 50 percent since the end of 2022, and it looks like it’s going to be enjoying at least another few solid months in the coming future thanks to leniency from China. China Is Stepping Back Into the Crypto Picture For the most part, China has always been a big player in the bitcoin and crypto communities. The country once accounted for close to three quarters of the world’s bitcoin and crypto mining...

Steve Bannon – a former advisor to President Donald Trump – and his $FJB digital currency are allegedly running into a few problems. Steve Bannon and $FJB Coin Aren’t Living Up to the Hype In 2021, the digital asset $FJB – which is short for “F*ck Joe Biden,” a chant that began not long after the current commander-in-chief botched America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan – rose through the ranks given the crypto space was enduring one of its most bullish periods ever and...

Greepeace’s latest marketing stunt in its campaign against the Bitcoin mining industry appears to have backfired, with BTC boosters welcoming its artistic fruit.  Meanwhile, Bitcoiners continue to blast the organization’s efforts to disparage the network as environmentally harmful, remaining committed to its proof of work consensus mechanism.  The Skull of Satoshi In a tweet on Friday, Greenpeace echoed previous claims that Bitcoin is causing “dangerous amounts of real-world...

Bitcoin jumped above $29,000 yesterday to chart a new nine-month high, but that was short-lived and the asset retraced hard in the following hours. Most altcoins are deep in the red as well, with SOL, APT, LDO, OKB, and others dropping by over 5%. Bitcoin Fails at $29K The primary cryptocurrency’s climb had culminated at jumping to $28,800 mid-week ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on whether to continue to increase the interest rates. As many local banks struggled due...

Yesterday, lawyers from the FTX Group announced their intention to settle out of court with Modulo Capital, a measure that effectively wiped the VC firms’ books by about 99%. Mysten Takes it in Stride Today, in another bid to raise as many funds as possible, FTX outlined intentions to sell its stake in Mysten Labs back to Mysten. Unlike Modulo – a company whose capital seems to have been almost entirely FTX-sourced – Mysten Labs, the creators of the Sui blockchain, is a solid...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has often talked about the purported “dangers” of crypto-assets while highlighting the need to strongly regulate the industry. It wasn’t until the FTX blow-up that the regulator stepped up its aggression. In yet another instance stigmatizing the asset class, the securities watchdog has released a bulletin urging investors to exercise caution when dealing with cryptocurrencies. SEC’s “Investor Alert” The SEC’s Office of...