Crypto news

For the first time in two years, most of the world’s active bitcoin addresses have experienced heavy losses and are now in the red. Bitcoin Addresses Are Seeing Fewer Returns The data comes from Glass Node, which measured all the current bitcoin addresses that are still sending funds to digital currency exchanges. The company says the activity is at a 23-month low, which means more selloffs could be in BTC’s future in the short term. Dan Ashmore – an analyst at Coin...

Bitcoin continues to display little-to-no price swings and stands still around $16,500. Some altcoins, though, have significantly outperformed BTC, including Dogecoin and Binance Coin, both of which jumped to multi-week highs. DOGE, BNB Soar The altcoins were slightly in the red yesterday, but the landscape is quite different now, at least for some. Binance Coin is among those. Amid the latest rumors around the world’s largest crypto exchange, BNB has jumped by 7%. As a...

The cryptocurrency winter has been colder for some than others. While some cryptocurrency exchanges are forced to conduct massive employee layoffs to weather the bear market, others like Bitget continue to make massive hires to improve their services. On November 25, the cryptocurrency and crypto derivatives exchange Bitget announced its registration in the Seychelles, Africa, as a means to facilitate its global expansion. As reported by The Cryptonomist, Bitget plans to...

Circle, the firm behind USDC stablecoin, issued a warning about an active phishing campaign attempting to lure users into transferring tokens to malicious addresses. As per the tweet, the threat actors masquerading to work for Centre, which is a consortium founded by Coinbase and Circle. Circle’s Statement Circle said there is no new version of the USDC token in the marketplace and urged users not to fall for the scam. “PSA WARNING: There is an active phishing campaign...

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, will remove multiple trading pairs for the DEX protocol Serum (SRM), which is known to have deep ties to both FTX and Alameda Research.  The token will no longer be tradeable for Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT), or Binance’s native BNB token.  What is Serum? Binance revealed Serum’s trading restrictions, alongside a handful of other pair removals, in an announcement on Friday. Other restricted assets include the BTC hash rate-backed...

The Financial Crimes Investigation Board of Turkey (MASAK) seeks to seize “suspicious” assets linked to the battered cryptocurrency exchange FTX.  The authorities also plan to open an investigation against the trading venue’s former CEO – Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). Going After SBF The Turkish agency sought a greenglight from the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to launch a thorough inspection on FTX and its dubious activities over the years. The entity vowed to...

MakerDAO – the issuer of the decentralized stablecoin DAI – unanimously passed a proposal this week to remove renBTC as a form of reserve collateral.  The Bitcoin-pegged token was deemed too risky to hold exposure to in light of its connections to the now-bankrupt trading desk Alameda Research.  Alameda and Ren As announced by MakerDAO over Twitter on Thursday, Maker’s governance voted to offboard the RENBTC-A Vault type in a governance poll that opened on Monday. Nearly...

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Nov. 23, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, will list AirshipX Coin (ASC) on November 25, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the ASC/USDT trading pair will be officially available for trading at 8:00 UTC on November 25, 2022. AirshipX is a Web3.0 aggregated social platform integrating community, live streaming, alpha research and trading element. Its native token AirshipX Coin (ASC) will be listed on LBank Exchange...

Belgium’s financial regulator does not consider crypto-assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) to be securities. The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) released a statement in which it said cryptocurrencies that are issued solely by computer code do not constitute securities. The regulator’s response comes after receiving an increasing number of questions about the application of financial rules on the asset class. Win for BTC, ETH With a prominent...

True Facet – an online marketplace that sells used watches and jewels – has partnered with Bit Pay, a leading provider of digital currency payment services, to permit shoppers to checkout and purchase items with crypto assets like bitcoin and Ethereum. True Facet Says “Yes” to BTC Payments The move is pushing the goals of bitcoin and its digital counterparts closer to being achieved. What many people likely forget is that while bitcoin and many of its crypto cousins have...