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Ripple price started a downside correction below $0.50 against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.4800 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.4640 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could rise again if it stays above the $0.4200 and $0.4000 support levels. Ripple price is correcting gains from $0.520 against the US Dollar, unlike bitcoin. XRP...

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Bitkub, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and four other offenders of their alleged involvement in wash trading. The individuals will have to pay a fine of over $600,000. Bitkub Involved in Wash Trading Case? According to a press release on Tuesday (September 27, 2022), the Thai SEC claimed that two individuals – Mr. Anurak and Mr. Sakon Srakawee – carried out wash trading on the Bitkub platform....

In a two-year-old gaming app fraud case, the top Indian financial crime investigating agency has frozen 85.9 bitcoins, equivalent to $1.6 million, held in an account on Binance. Separately, it also froze WRX, the native coin of WazirX, and USDT together, worth nearly $550,000. Earlier this month, the agency raided several premises in Kolkata in this case and recovered Indian currency equivalent to $2.2 million. The accused in this estimated $8.5 million scam is 25-year-old...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused two companies, their executives, and a supposed international gold trader, of running a fraudulent scheme to boost demand for their digital token. The false promotion of the token netted proceeds of over $36 million for the defendants, the agency said. A Fake $10 Billion Gold Bullion Acquisition According to a lawsuit filed on Friday (September 30, 2022), a Bermudan company called Arbitrade, a Canadian...

While institutional traders are not prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region is known to have the highest number of small retail transactions globally. Part of the driving force for cryptocurrency adoption there is fiat currency devaluation, high unemployment rate, and economic instability. Crypto P2P Thriving in Africa Despite Regulatory Problems According to a report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, retail users make up the bulk of crypto-related activities in...

Back in July, billionaire moguls Jay-Z (a rapper and businessman) and Jack Dorsey (the former CEO of Twitter) put their heads together to establish what they’re calling the Bitcoin Academy. Jay-Z Is Pushing Bitcoin Further The goal was to help all residents of the Marcy Houses in New York – where Jay-Z allegedly grew up – and grant them financial independence through bitcoin and blockchain education. Not long ago, it was reported that both the rapper and his social media...

Ethereum pulled off a stunning technical upgrade that saw the popular blockchain transition to the proof-of-stake consensus model for processing transactions after six years of work. However, post-merge activity on layer-2 has dropped. According to the latest stats by Dapp Radar, the already descending unique active wallets and transactions have further dropped by 35% from August to September. A similar trend was seen in terms of Ethereum’s TVL, which fell by 5.6% to $31.41...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yet to approve a single bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF), and many representatives of the crypto space are beginning to have serious issues with this. Recently, Perianne Boring – the founder of the Digital Chamber of Commerce – delivered a new report claiming that the SEC is purely out to stop crypto in its tracks as part of a larger political agenda rather than through attempts to protect investors. The SEC Has...

Bitcoin has yet to make a decisive move in any direction as the primary cryptocurrency continues to wrestle with the $18K support level. A bearish breakout below this position could be disastrous. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart Bitcoin’s price overlaps with crucial support on the daily timeframe, as it oscillates in a very tight range between the significant descending trendline and the $18K support level. With minimal wiggle room between these levels, a...

Change is in the air as the crypto space continues to see top executives step down from their roles amid the market crisis that stemmed from the Terra Luna fiasco and the Federal Reserve’s continuous interest rate hike, which negatively impacted the global financial market. The change in crypto-related executive leadership started with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey stepping down from the company’s board of directors in May. While Twitter is not a crypto-focused firm, Dorsey...