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Burdened by regulatory pressures, crypto lending firm Nexo has given up on continuing to operate within the United States. The company announced on Monday that it would begin phasing out its products and services from the country over the coming months.  Regulatory Roadblock According to Nexo, the firm has engaged in “good-faith dialogue” with the US state and federal regulators for the past 18 months. Despite this, Nexo no longer believes that such bodies can be negotiated...

The cryptocurrency brokerage platform – Genesis – and its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG), reportedly owe customers of Gemini approximately $900 million.  Genesis has been coping with severe issues ever since the crash of FTX. It suspended withdrawals in November while its creditors have been making desperate calls to prevent bankruptcy. Almost $1 Billion in Debt The recent collapse of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges (FTX) caused a huge disruption of...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog post on Monday reviewing the development of various blockchain use-cases over the past several years.  With years of experimentation now behind the ecosystem, the developer has narrowed down a list of applications that he personally finds most worthy of attention in crypto. Money: The Most Important App Buterin began by highlighting what he sees as the most important – and first – application of blockchain: creating new...

El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender. Fast forward to this year, the crisis worsened in the already battered crypto industry. But President Nayib Bukele plans on doubling down further. After pledging that the government would purchase one Bitcoin every day going forward, despite the meltdown, the Bukele administration sent a bill to El Salvador’s Congress to enable it to sell $1 billion in “volcano bonds” – government debt,...

Blockchain-based capital marketplace Maple Finance has cut ties with digital asset hedge fund Orthogonal Trading on allegations that the latter misrepresented its financial statements.  Maple said assets within the Orthogonal credit pool remain secure and is expected to close without issue in Q1 2023. The Truth About Orthogonal In a blog post on Monday, M11 Credit claimed that Orthogonal misrepresented its financial position to the lending firm over the past four weeks....

Joe Lonsdale – Co-Founder of the software company Palantir Technologies – thinks multiple cryptocurrency companies will go bankrupt in the future since most function like Ponzi schemes. However, he believes blockchain technology will remain a key part of the future financial system as it enables a “new and important way” to move money globally. Expect More Cases Like FTX According to Lonsdale, the lack of pertinent rules in the cryptocurrency sector and the assumption that...

Bitcoin has had its worst year to date, and Warren Buffett – the billionaire investor and CEO behind real estate giant Berkshire Hathaway – is laughing in all our faces right about now. Warren Buffett Really Hates Bitcoin Buffett has never supported bitcoin. In fact, he’s said some rather negative things about it. Discussing crypto assets in 2018, he said: They will come to a very bad ending. He also made it clear that he had no intention of owning any form of crypto, stating in early...

Following a massive decline in early November, Bitcoin’s price has consequently suffered from extremely low volatility. The cryptocurrency has been consolidating with serious downward momentum since this significant drop. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart After falling below both the yellow trendline and the significant support level of $18K, the price is seeing very low volatility on the daily chart. A pullback to the trendline and the broken level is necessary...

The partnership between SEBA Bank and Hashkey Group is forged to restore trust and allay fears from investors across the board.Swiss digital currency bank SEBA Bank has inked a strategic partnership with Hashkey Group to float new products and services that will drive institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies. As announced, both firms have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to solidify the partnership with a drafted approach to maintain regulatory requirements in the jurisdictions...

For Tim Draper, Bitcoin has a lot of fundamentals that are capable of powering its growth over time.Billionaire investor and Bitcoin (BTC) bull Tim Draper has made a $250,000 price call for the premier digital currency, maintaining his stance on how bright the future of the cryptocurrency is. Draper previously predicted that the price of Bitcoin will top the said amount by the end of this year, however, at the current level of $17,300, the coin is almost 1,400% away from that projected price...