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The Congo in Africa has set up its first official bitcoin mining facility. The clincher? It runs entirely on clean energy and seeks to avoid the often atmosphere-polluting methods utilized by former and present enterprises. Mining in the Congo Has Become Possible The mining company has been set up in what’s known as Virunga National Park, which is often used to house endangered mountain gorillas. While these great apes are indeed still prominent in the area, it appears...

Bitcoin’s price rally has come to a halt as the market has been consolidating below a significant resistance level for weeks. While there are some worrying technical signs in the short term, a very bullish signal is also developing. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, the price has been consolidating below the $25K resistance area as of late. Recent daily candles suggest the bullish momentum is fading. The RSI also confirms this, as it has...

Over the past few weeks, traders and analysts everywhere have been talking about how great bitcoin and Ethereum are doing. We’ve also published a few articles talking about the January price booms witnessed by BTC investors. Bitcoin Is in a Good Spot, but What About the Rest? Ending the 2022 year in the mid-$16K range, it appears bitcoin has made its way back up the financial ladder and is now trading for more than $19,000, something we haven’t seen since mid-November of...

Leading decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap v3 will be deploying on Ethereum’s layer 2 protocol Boba Network following a successful governance vote from the Uniswap community. The proposal was earlier submitted by the Boba Foundation and FranklinDAO with backers including GFX Labs, Blockchain at Michigan, Gauntlet, and ConsenSys. 51.01M Voted Yes on the Proposal In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the community overwhelmingly voted in favor of the proposal, with...

Several call centers throughout Europe that were being used to conduct crypto fraud and other illicit scams have been shut down by law enforcement agencies. Raids began in June of last year and have continued up until now. Call Centers Were Engaged in Crypto Fraud Police agencies throughout the regions of Cyprus, Bulgaria, Germany, and Serbia have discovered various call centers being used to trick investors into placing their money into various crypto fraud schemes,...

Stellar lumen price started a downside correction from the $0.095 resistance zone against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading below $0.092 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0930 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a decent increase if it clears the $0.093 and $0.095 resistance levels. Stellar lumen price is trading above $0.0880 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Ripple price is facing resistance near the $0.420 level against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.410 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.4110 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could decline further if there is now move above the $0.4120 resistance. Ripple price is correcting lower from $0.4320 against the US Dollar, similar bitcoin. XRP...

After Sam Bankman-Fried donated tens of millions of dollars to politicians throughout the 2022 midterm election cycle, the 30-year-old’s former company is asking for its money back.  Recipients of the bankrupt exchange’s contributions are expected to return the funds by February 28, 2023.  Political Refund As announced by FTX Group in a press release on Sunday, the exchange and its affiliated debtors are sending confidential letters to recipients of the company’s previous...

A study conducted by the financial consultancy firm – deVere Group – estimated that 82% of clients with over $1.2 million worth of investable assets sought advice on cryptocurrencies in the past 12 months.  The significant interest came in spite of the broad market slump and the countless scandals and bankruptcies that happened in 2022. Crypto Seems Highly Popular Among the Rich According to the study, approximately eight out of ten high net worth (HNW) customers of deVere...

Wybo Wiersma – a 40-year-old Dutchman who studied at Oxford’s St Cross College – will serve a 54-month prison sentence for stealing £2,156,000 (more than $2.6 million) using a cryptocurrency scheme. UK detectives linked the scam to the man who used the pseudonym Norbert van den Berg in his malicious website and university coursework. ‘Greed and Dishonesty’ Behind the Scam Judge Michael Gledhill KC ordered Wiersma to spend four and a half years in prison for his offense. The...