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One of the most successful NBA teams – Miami Heat – finally annulled its partnership with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.  As a result, the home ground of the basketball giant will no longer be called FTX Arena. Cutting All Ties  A federal bankruptcy judge officially canceled the collaboration between Miami-Dade County (the territorial division where the NBA team is located) and FTX. The ruling determined that Miami Heat is allowed to remove the platform’s initials from its...

WonderFi Technologies – a tech company that provides access to decentralized finance (DeFi) – has reportedly been mulling a merger agreement with the trading platform Coinsquare. The goal would be to establish the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Canada. A Deal on the Horizon As reported by Bloomberg, the two parties have been in advanced merger talks. However, WonderFi did not make further comments, adding that the discussions could not guarantee the collaboration: “These...

Bitcoin is pushing against the $20k price level for the first time since early November, prior to FTX’s collapse. As of 22:28 UTC, Bitcoin traded at $19,962, up from roughly $18,800 at the start of the day. Its price climbed especially fast 21:34 UTC, when it sprang from $19,450 to $19.823 within 5 minutes.  Liquidations remain high, with $70 million across 45,000 crypto traders being cleared within the past hour, according to Coinglass. The largest liquidated trade within...

California-based crypto-satellite developer Cryptosat and global hackathon organizer DoraHacks ran the first-ever cryptographic trusted setup for zero-knowledge in space. According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the “historic event” took place on the International Space Station (ISS). The two platforms said that the experiment involved taking a set of pre-uploaded open source programs to the ISS and “outputting” a file that contains the “Common...

ConsenSys – the Ethereum infrastructure provider behind Metamask – has announced that the widely used crypto wallet now lets users stake their ETH directly from the app.  The network’s public beta allows users to select either Lido or Rocket Pool for staking, through which they can earn yield and receive liquid staked ETH in return.  Staked ETH on MetaMask Per The Block’s account of ConsenSys’s announcement, users can confirm the amount of ETH they’d like to allocate for...

Victims of the Ponzi scheme BitConnect may finally find some respite. The United States District Court for the Southern District of California ordered over $17 million in restitution to be distributed to nearly 800 victims from over 40 different countries due to their investment losses in BitConnect, which defrauded thousands of investors across the world. The official press release by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) stated, “In truth, however, BitConnect operated a...

Bitcoin’s price has finally broken above a significant resistance level following yesterday’s CPI announcement. However, there is still one major obstacle that should be taken out for the price action to be considered bullish. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart: On the daily timeframe, the price has finally broken above both the $18K resistance level and the higher boundary of the large falling wedge pattern. From a classical price action point of view, BTC could...

David Kelly – Asset Management Chief Global Strategist for JP Morgan Chase – said it’s time for the Federal Reserve to quit hiking interest rates if it wants to keep the U.S. economy intact.  Having “won” its war against inflation, the analyst claimed that the central bank now risks tipping the economy into a recession.  Too Many Hikes In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, Kelly predicted that the Fed will continue raising interest rates beyond February, and into their...

Warren Buffett is telling all his followers that buying bitcoin or gold during times of war is a terrible mistake. He is telling them all to avoid these assets and to avoid hoarding cash and to put all their money into stocks, as these are the only safe assets that can assuredly build wealth in the long-term. Warren Buffett: Stocks Are the Only Answer Buffett has never been a big bitcoin fan. He has often referred to it as “rat poison squared” and applied other...

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