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Solana price gained bearish momentum below the $20.00 level against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $20 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a short-term bearish trend line with resistance near $12.00 on the 4-hours chart of the SOL/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could recover, but upsides might be limited above the $15 resistance. Solana price is trading below $15 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin. SOL...

Bitcoin price started a fresh decline below the $18,000 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading near $16,450 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $16,500 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could recover, but upsides might be limited above the $17,450 resistance zone. Bitcoin price is struggling below $17,000 against the US Dollar. BTC might extend...

The Estonian police arrested two individuals in the country’s capital Tallinn for their alleged involvement in a $575 million cryptocurrency scam. According to the prosecution, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin lured hundreds of thousands of victims to interact with a dubious digital asset mining service and to invest in a virtual currency bank. The entities did not pay the promised dividends to the people, while the criminals pocketed the funds. Another Multi-Million Crypto...

Digital Currency Group (DCG) CEO Barry Silbert recently shared a letter with investors illuminating the cryptocurrency conglomerate’s web of external and intercompany loans.  Among them is a newly disclosed liability of $575 million to its lending subsidiary Genesis, due by May of 2023.  What’s Going On With DCG? As reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Silbert’s letter sought to assure investors that the company was still secure amid the chaotic crypto bear market...

Alexey Pertsev – developer of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash – will reportedly remain in jail until late February 2023. The Dutch Crime Agency (FIOD) arrested the man in August this year after the US Treasury Department previously sanctioned Tornado Cash for enabling money-laundering procedures. According to a recent CoinDesk coverage, Pertsev will stay in prison until at least February 20, 2023. The Dutch authorities were supposed to release the Russian software...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong quelled concerns about the state of his company’s Bitcoin holdings on Tuesday, following doubtful suggestions from rival exchange owner Changpeng Zhao (CZ).  Binance’s CEO has since deleted his tweet, promising to “work together to improve transparency in the industry.” What Did CZ Say? CZ’s now-removed post called attention to two separate claims about the exact number of Bitcoin held by Coinbase.  The first was a statement from Coinbase Custody...

FTX, its former chief Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, as well as senior executives of the fallen crypto exchange, purchased at least 19 properties worth almost $121 million in the Bahamas, according to new reports. Official property records verified by Reuters reveal that FTX bought luxury beachfront homes, including seven condominiums in a penthouse in a luxury resort called Albany, over the past two years. The total cost was almost $72 million. The properties’ deeds show that...

The American senators – Elizabeth Warren, Tina Smith, and Richard Durbin – advised Fidelity Investments to reconsider its decision to allow investors to add bitcoin to their retirement 401(k) plans. One of the largest mutual fund companies in the US has heavily engaged in the crypto sector in the past few years. It recently considered providing bitcoin trading services to individual investors on its brokerage platform. A Renewed Warning After FTX’s Fiasco Fidelity Investments...