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Pro-Russian outfits have resorted to digital asset funds in a bid to support the war efforts against Ukraine while evading international sanctions. A new report suggests that these groups are raising a massive amount of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies via crowdfunding campaigns. According to Chris Janczewski, head of global investigations at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence resource identified around $400,000 in cryptocurrency raised since the beginning of the...

Major stablecoin issuer Tether has further reduced its commercial paper holdings to less than $50 million, with more than half of its backing in US Treasury Bills. The continuous reduction in Tether’s commercial debt holdings is in line with the firm’s plans revealed earlier in the year. In an update posted on Twitter on Monday (October 3, 2022), Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino announced that the company’s total US Treasury portfolio is currently at 58.1% as of September 2022. This...

Long before the Ethereum network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), censorship concerns have been a bone of contention. To mitigate these risks, Vitalik Buterin has proposed “partial block auctions.” In the latest blog post, the Ethereum co-founder suggested that builders should have a more limited amount of power to prevent ETH censorship post Merge. Instead of letting them have full rein to construct the entire block if they win an auction, builders would have a more...

Crypto mining firm Clean Spark is purchasing a whole new bitcoin mining facility in the city of Mawson, Georgia. The business – which is being sold for approximately $33 million – will help Clean Spark by increasing its hash rate to about 1.3 exahashes per second. Clean Spark Is Building Its Empire The topic of crypto mining continues to be a controversial one. Without mining, there would be no crypto. We all know that by now. For the most part, unless something like...

Bitcoin miners are now holding fewer than 2 million BTC on reserve, according to data from IntoTheBlock.  That’s the lowest amount of Bitcoin held by all tracked pools and miners since 2010, following a steady decline over the past decade.  Dwindling Miner Reserves IntoTheBlock’s data tracks the Bitcoin belonging to the on-chain addresses of various major miners and mining pools – including Poolin, F2Pool, Binance, Bitfury, and others.  In aggregate, total reserves numbered...

Yesterday, Ethereum closed its third consecutive weekly red candle. A candlestick with a long upper wick indicates that increased selling pressure continues. In the last two weeks, the price has been trapped between two significant levels, and breaking out of this zone would likely determine the direction forward. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart The descending line on the daily chart highlights the creation of lower lows (in yellow). This structure is bearish....

A new Celsius-themed Monopoly game is coming out for crypto users to “enjoy,” but the problem is that many people out there don’t seem too thrilled or amused by the product. In fact, this is now getting Celsius a lot more flak than when it decided to file bankruptcy and halt all withdrawals. Celsius Continues to Stoke the Fire We all probably remember playing Monopoly as a kid. The game would often take days, weeks, or even months given how strict you were with the...

The creator of the bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model – PlanB – admitted that recently he made his third BTC investment. At the time of the purchase, the primary cryptocurrency was hovering around $20,000. Due to its significant price depreciation compared to the all-time high of $69,000 in November 2021, many people proclaimed bitcoin dead in the past several months. However, PlanB revealed that each of his crypto investments was at a time when pessimism was reigning. PlanB...

The region of Queensland in Australia has, as of late, been a hub for crypto fraud and related scams, and it looks like residents have lost close to $40 million at the time of writing. This is a huge uptick from the number reported just last year during this time, which was around $20 million. Australia and Crypto… Not the Greatest Match? Throughout Australia, as much as $263 million has been lost to crypto scams. Federal police in Australia now refer to the growing...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against Kim Kardashian for promoting a crypto security – Ethereum Max. The popular US media personality, model, and businesswoman agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle the charges. CryptoPotato reported in January this year a lawsuit filed in California against Floyd Mayweather and Kim Kardashian, claiming that they misled investors by promoting a cryptocurrency security called EthereumMax (EMAX). The SEC announced on...