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Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), believes that bitcoin requires a unified global regulation framework to work properly.Interestingly, Canadian businessman and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary also noted that the cryptocurrency could become “something of tremendous value” if world regulators back it up.ECB President On BTC RegulationsThe 65-year-old French politician and current President of the ECB has been calling on clear regulation for bitcoin for a while....

One of the big problems with cryptocurrency is that it requires long and extensive passwords to remain secure. Owners of digital currency have often come across this issue. They forget their passwords and cannot access their funds, and as a result, these funds get locked up or lost forever. For Stefan Thomas, the problem is even bigger considering it’s keeping him from gaining access to well over $200 million in bitcoin at press time.Losing Passwords Usually Leads to Lost BTCBorn in Germany...

Over the past several months, institutional investors have held a grand stake in the world of bitcoin. Companies like MicroStrategy, MassMutual and Stone Ridge have all invested hundreds of millions of dollars into bitcoin, and as a result, the currency has ultimately risen beyond the $33,000 mark at the time of writing.Institutional Investors Are Still a Small Portion of the Trading PopulationNo doubt that institutions have been playing a huge role in the legitimization of the crypto space....

ETH/USD – Bulls Holding Strong Above .382 Fib SupportKey Support Levels: $1047, $1000, $952.Key Resistance Levels: $1100, $1165, $1200.Last week, Ethereum was climbing higher as it surged into the $1350 resistance (1.272 Fib Extension). More specifically, it struggled to close a daily candle above resistance at $1276 (bearish .886 Fib Retracement) and started to roll over from here at the weekend.On Monday, the sudden Bitcoin price plummet caused ETH to spike as low as $930. Luckily, the...

In yet another somewhat disappointing turn of events for Ledger users, the company has just revealed that they’ve discovered that the customer records for 20,000 ‘new’ users has been leaked during an incident with Shopify from back in the summer of 2020.In its most recent update, the cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger revealed that 20,000 users, aside from 93% of those whose information was exposed in a previous attack, have seen their records leaked.Recently, we shared news...

European cryptocurrency payments company CoinGate has joined the likes of Coinbase and Binance US to remove Ripple (XRP) from its services. The firm justified its decision with the SEC charges brought on the payment processor as many of its partners had already stopped doing utilizing the XRP token.CoinGate Removes XRPHeadquartered in Lithuania, CoinGate enables bitcoin, ETH, and other digital assets to be used as a means of payment with traditional merchants. The company has a reported...

The topic of working COVID-19 vaccines has been widely discussed ever since the virus started spreading globally last year. Although a few have already been approved, their distribution faces difficulties and delays. This has prompted fraudsters to take advantage by promoting vaccines on the dark web and requesting up to $1,000 per dose paid via bitcoin.COVID-19 Vaccines On The Dark Web For BTCVaccines usually require years of research and testing before reaching people. However, the rapid...

The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has issued a formal apology for users in the UK and the EU region. The company acknowledged that its services have been unstable because of the high number of new registrations and the latest regulatory requirements.More Users Led To Problems On CoinbaseCoinbase users located in the UK or the EU might have noticed that the services on the popular US exchange didn’t operate properly in the past two months. The platform displayed “partially...

Investing in cryptocurrencies carries risks of its own. Apart from the highly volatile price, investors who store their funds on external wallets (and not exchanges) need to save and protect the information that will enable them to access the assets.In case someone loses their private keys (essentially a password for the wallet), this could spell disaster. Such could be the case with Stefan Thomas and his bitcoins worth more than $240 million.7,002 Bitcoins Could Be Forever LostThe NY Times...

XLM/USD – Bulls Defend Support at $0.27Key Support Levels: $0.27, $0.257, $0.224.Key Resistance Levels: $0.3, $0.325, $0.35.XLM seems to be holding strong at the $0.27 support over the past three days after it surged as high as $0.45 last week. The cryptocurrency could not break a daily candle above $0.35 and started to head lower from there. Nevertheless, it’s up about 50% since the open seven days ago and it’s now facing an important resistance.During the BTC intra-day price drop on Monday,...