Crypto news

Ethereum price failed to recover above $2,200 and started a fresh decline against the US Dollar. ETH price is now trading well below $2,200 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $2,100 on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is likely to accelerate lower if there is a close below the $2,000 support zone. Ethereum price is struggling to stay above $2,000 against the US Dollar....

A Swedish man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly stealing more than $16 million in cryptocurrency funds. 47-year-old Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson stole the money from more than 3,700 people after convincing them to invest in a phony company called Eastern Metals Securities. Karlsson Pleads Guilty to Crypto Fraud Individuals were coaxed into sending bitcoin and other cryptocurrency funds to the company on the basis that they would see heavy returns....

The largest cryptocurrency ransomware attack has been added to the books. Russian hacking group REvil has allegedly encrypted the data of more than 1,000 firms and companies in nations such as the United States, Sweden, and New Zealand. To release the data, the organization is requesting more than $70 million in bitcoin. REvil Is Going After Other Countries’ Infrastructures Situations like these have grown relatively common in recent days, with another big example having...

Wellbots, a U.S.-based smart product online retailer, has announced that its customers can now make payments for goods at checkout using six cryptocurrencies.  Wellbots Now Accepts BTC  Announcing the development in a press release today, Wellbots said it will now accept Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and popular stablecoins Dai and USD Coin (USDC) for its smart products.  Before this time, the online store only accepts traditional payment...

Cryptocurrency startup Circle is taking a page right out of the “book of Coinbase” and has announced plans to go public. Circle Is Set to Go Public The company first needs to complete a merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., a special acquisition company led by the former CEO of Barclays Bob Diamond. This merger means Circle will soon boast a valuation of approximately $4.5 billion, making it one of the most powerful crypto-centered firms in the digital space. The news...

With bitcoin’s price correcting in the past few months, the usage of the network has also declined substantially. The estimated daily USD transaction value on the blockchain, the number of transactions, the on-chain activity, and miners’ revenue have all dropped since their respective peaks earlier this year. Transaction Count and USD Value Drop According to data from Blockchain.com, the daily confirmed transactions on the world’s largest blockchain have seen a massive...

Gaming developers employing the services of Community Gaming will be able to take advantage of enhanced scalability through a new collaboration with the popular blockchain-based Layer 2 protocol – Polygon. Community Gaming Partners with Polygon Describing itself as an “all-in-one platform offering esports infrastructure to all key stakeholders in the industry,” Community Gaming is a blockchain-based project providing developers with a scalable network for their goals. In...

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, 12th July 2021] Nexo, the leading regulated institution for digital assets, has completed a strategic investment in Yield Inc, a company leading efforts to build the Yield Protocol – an Ethereum protocol that enables fixed-rate borrowing and lending by fostering the nascent DeFi bond market – as part of the company’s $10-million Series A funding round. Nexo aims to not only provide necessary funding but also to help Yield’s efforts to...

After the Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts, Grayscale’s Digital Large Cap Fund has also filed and been approved to become an SEC-reporting product. Additionally, the largest digital asset manager has filed three more Registration Statements with the Commission. Grayscale Investments, the large cryptocurrency asset manager, filed a Registration Statement on Form 10 with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year. The company announced on July 12th that the application...

Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd, the cryptocurrency mining firm that went public in 2017, has purchased more than 3,000 mining devices. The machines, MicroBT WhatsMiner M30S, should increase the firm’s overall Bitcoin hash rate by nearly 50%. HIVE Buys 3,019 Miners The company announced its latest purchase in a press release on July 12th. The equipment will be put to work shortly with an aggregate hash power of 264 Petahash per second, which should increase the overall BTC...