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A cryptocurrency muckraker is learning the hard way that fake DMCA takedowns can affect even the most basic material. Dirty Bubble Media – a newsletter hosted on Substack – has covered many shady elements of the crypto world for the past two years. The division has enjoyed heavy readership since its earliest days, but it was recently taken down over allegedly false claims of copyright infringement. Dirty Bubble Media Is Suffering This appears to be a recurring theme not...

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline from the $140 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $130 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $124 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair remains at a risk of more losses below the $112 and $110 support levels. Bitcoin cash price is moving lower below $130 against the US Dollar, similar to...

The crypto unit of Silicon Valley Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is all set to release a set of free, public “Can’t Be Evil” licenses. The firm has designed the licenses specifically for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and is inspired by the work of Creative Commons. As per the official press release, the community can freely use these licenses, which come with certain goals in mind. This includes – helping NFT creators protect or release their intellectual property (IP) rights and...

The world-leading NFT marketplace OpenSea has publicly declared its support for the Ethereum Merge later this month.  As such, it will not support any speculative Ethereum forks that follow its activation – such as a potential ETHPoW fork.  The marketplace confirmed its support for the Merge in a tweet on Wednesday. “We are committed to solely supporting NFTs on the upgraded Ethereum PoS chain,” it read. It also noted that any NFTs circulating on a possible ETHPoW fork, after...

Jim Crame is back at it again with yet another U-turn in terms of his cryptocurrency stance. He called bitcoin and altcoins speculative assets and warned individuals to refrain from investing in them. In the past few years, Cramer has displayed a somewhat controversial view of the crypto sector. In 2021, he insisted on receiving his salary in bitcoin. Following the major price correction, though, he abandoned those plans, selling almost all of his BTC holdings. “Don’t get...

The implosion of the South Korean stablecoin project Terra may have dented general sentiment towards the industry, but that has not stopped the second-largest city in the country from pursuing ambitious crypto and blockchain goals. Busan has announced a partnership with FTX to build blockchain-powered business solutions in the coming months. As part of the deal, Sam Bankman-Fried’s exchange will work with Busan city to assist in the development of Busan Digital Asset Exchange...

Is Michael Saylor moving too fast by stepping down from his role with MicroStrategy? Michael Saylor Is No Longer MicroStrategy’s CEO In a recent article, Live Bitcoin News notified readers that Michael Saylor – the CEO of MicroStrategy – would be stepping down from his position as CEO and entering the new role of “executive chairman.” While nobody has listed bitcoin as the official reason, it’s interesting to see that the move is coming after Saylor put so much into...

With the mining era slowly coming to an end, the world’s largest Ethereum mining pool – Ethermine – has launched a staking pool service for users. To become a validator on the Ethereum network, users must invest 32 ETH. But Ethermine’s new service, dubbed – Ethermine Staking – offers a workaround. It aims to let members of the pool collectively stake their Ether (ETH) and also earn interest after the transition of Ethereum’s consensus mechanism from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to...

Bitcoin’s price is experiencing a mid-term consolidation phase. The price has dropped and now will be facing a significant level of support at $19K, and this level is the most critical support for the bulls to hold over the next short term. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart After experiencing a particularly rough decline of approximately 10%, the price of BTC has entered a consolidation phase, consisting of choppy price action. The $19K support level has...

Residents of Florida are being warned about a new crypto romance scam that’s operating under the names “pig butchering” and “pig slaughtering.” The names alone should be enough to make anyone run away, though for some reason, the scam has managed to permeate several online dating platforms and social media sites, meaning it is the latest scam of its kind to fully take form. A New Online Crypto Scam Is A-Brewin’ These kinds of scams are nothing new, yet the fact that...