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Despite everything that’s happened in 2022, Mark Cuban is doubling down on his love of bitcoin and says he’s hoping to purchase more of the world’s number one digital currency by market cap should it drop even lower. Mark Cuban Doesn’t Like Gold That Much 2022 was a rough year for bitcoin and the crypto space. Bitcoin fell by more than 70 percent in value and ended the year trading in the high $16,000 range. This is way off the mark from the $68,000 per unit that it...

The Bitcoin price has taken a battering over the past year. But at the same time, its volatility is at a historic low. Will BTC critics finally admit it’s a currency yet? Crypto markets are making a rebound in January, but there’s no certainty as to whether the bottom is in. Nearly all the major cryptocurrencies are up by double digits on the seven-day chart. The Bitcoin price has soared over 20% to breach the $20,000 level. Crypto Markets Explode to Start 2023: BTC Surges...

2022 was a year of loss, and many crypto billionaires – from Changpeng Zhao of Binance fame to the Winklevoss Twins who run the Gemini exchange – have lost a ton of money. So much in fact, that in just nine short months, many of them have seen their net worth virtually collapse – in some cases, to zero. Changpeng Zhao and Others Have Lost Tons of Money Changpeng Zhao, for instance, had a net worth of approximately $65 billion in March of last year. By the end of...

Brett Harrison, who stepped down from his role as President of the US branch of FTX just weeks before the implosion, finally broke the silence and shed some more light on his relationship with SBF. He added that neither he nor any of the other execs at FTX US knew about the fraud that SBF and his closest partners were perpetrating in the Bahamas. It Took Only a Few Months Harrison explained that he knew Sam Bankman-Fried from his days at Jane Street and had “fond memories” of...

It’s happened again, folks. Another crypto hack has been recorded to the digital currency books. This time, the alleged victim is Bit Keep, a virtual wallet provider, and more than $8 million in crypto funds have gone missing. Bit Keep Compromised; A Lot of Money Missing To be fair, this is a small number compared to the many digital currency hacks and scams that have occurred in the past, but it’s another clear reminder that the space is not where it needs to be, and...

2022 was indeed a challenging year for the crypto industry, marked by significant declines in the value of major assets, liquidity issues for many firms, and an unfortunate number of bankruptcy filings. The industry also faced substantial security threats as hackers stole billions of dollars from users and DeFi protocols. A report by blockchain security firm SlowMist, titled “Blockchain Security and AML Analysis,” provided an overview of the security status of various sectors...

Bitcoin’s dominance has recovered more than 2% in the past week or so and tapped a multi-month high as the asset maintains above $20,000. This comes even though the altcoins experienced notable gains yesterday, but many have retraced hard today. BTC Dominance Above 41% Ever since bitcoin finally broke above $17,000 at the start of this week, the landscape around the asset has seemed significantly more bullish than it was at the end of 2022. The past few days saw gains that...

Michael Saylor, the co-founder and executive chairman of American business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, has shared what he thinks will happen to bitcoin (BTC) in the next eight years while outlining how it will come into play. In a recent interview with Cory Klippsten, the founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, Saylor noted that he sees bitcoin becoming a global store of value by 2031. Institutional Adoption According to him, institutional adoption is one of the first drivers...

The scale of the financial damage to crypto investors last year was colossal. Not just from FTX International going under but also the rest of them: Three Arrow Capital, Celsius, Genesis, Gemini, Voyager Digital, and BlockFi. The Bitcoin price still hasn’t recovered from the ongoing streak of crypto bankruptcies, although it deleted some of the losses from the FTX fiasco. Over crypto exchanges, BTC kept taking steep discounts all year. Every new bankruptcy headline plunged...

The mining data site Hashrate Index has released a report reflecting on the state of the Bitcoin mining industry throughout 2022.  The analysis examines the steep decline in mining profitability in 2022 compared to 2021 amid plummeting Bitcoin prices and a rising hash rate.  The Hardest Hitting Bear Market Per the report published on Wednesday, Bitcoin’s hashprice reached an all-time low of $55.94/PH/day in November of last year. Hashprice is a dollar-denominated measure of...