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As the crypto community awaited BTC to push past its all-time high (ATH) of $73,738, with it inching closer to $72,000, the asset’s price quickly dropped to around $68,500 during the weekend. It now fluctuates over $69,000. The price drop has wiped off most of the gains BTC witnessed the past week, cooling off the momentum it was gaining to set a new ATH. BTC’s reductions come after a massive selloff that saw over $450 million in liquidations as the US government issued its employment report...

On June 5, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reported that one million people have joined ‘Stand With Crypto’ as advocates for the industry, adding, “That’s a lot of voters!” He continued to state that 600,000 of these advocates joined after a Whitehouse veto threat, “and thousands mobilized around the back-to-back historic, bipartisan wins in the House and Senate.” “Crypto is non-partisan and momentum for pro-crypto policy in America has never been stronger.” As of today, 1...

Bitcoin miners are reporting dropping revenues across the board due to the halving event that occurred in April. Now that it has been over a month since Bitcoin halving, miners are expectedly receiving lesser rewards from the Bitcoin network, compared to what they earned over the previous four years. Halving on the Bitcoin network happens once every four years or after every 210,000 blocks, cutting the block rewards miners receive for mining blocks by half. Four halvings have occurred so far...

The massively popular yet frequently controversy-stirring social media influencer Andrew Tate burnt $11 million of the Top G token – a project he started some months ago. That amounted to 587 million Top G tokens being sent to the Solana Incinerator, removing those tokens from circulation forever. Tate’s actions nullified 58% of the memecoin from circulation. Only 37% of Top G tokens remain for users to interact with. The immediate cut in the token’s supply caused its price to rise by 130%,...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted Bill Guan, the chief financial officer of Epoch Times, on Tuesday. The DOJ alleges that Guan was involved in an international scheme to launder around $67 million of illicit funds using cryptocurrency. The Scam From 2020 to May 2024, Bill Guan engaged in a large-scale international money laundering scheme, collaborating with others to launder approximately $67 million of illegal funds into the bank accounts of his media company and...

After days and days of registering gains and testing the $72,000 price tag, bitcoin reversed its trajectory on Friday and slumped by more than three grand in hours. The question arises as to why this happened since the inflows into the US-based ETFs keep coming. The Bitcoin ETF Impact It’s safe to say that the biggest and most vital news in the cryptocurrency industry this year has been the ETFs the US Securities and Exchange Commission greenlighted in January. Not the...

[PRESS RELEASE – Dover, DE, USA, June 8th, 2024] The cryptocurrency world welcomes a new and exciting project, ScroogeToken, an innovative token that aims to offer rewards and investment potential. Inspired by the iconic character Scrooge McDuck from Disney, ScroogeToken is designed to offer a unique and efficient user experience. ScroogeToken offers a unique feature that sets it apart from other cryptocurrencies: a daily auto-stake reward. This means that holders of...

TL;DR XRP has been trading around $0.52 recently, but analysts predict a potential rise to $0.70 this summer as the token supposedly nears the end of a long consolidation phase​. While some foresee gains, others predict a possible drop to $0.27. Is It Time for XRP to Shine? Ripple’s XRP is one of the few leading cryptocurrencies that have not experienced a substantial price increase in the past few weeks. It has consolidated around the $0.5 mark, while its market cap has...

Binance Executive Tigran Gambaryan has been held captive in a Nigerian prison since February. A group of over 100 ex-US prosecutors are demanding the government to step up to free him. Gambaryan, Binance’s Compliance Head, was arrested in Nigeria along with his colleague Nadeem Anjanwalla after their meeting with government officials went awry. Anjanwalla managed to escape prison and flee the country, but Gambaryan remains arrested. Nigerian officials detained both executives on false...

Marathon Digital, the largest Bitcoin mining outfit, sold 63% of the 616 bitcoins mined in May, amounting to 390 bitcoins. Its balance sheets revealed $290.4 million worth of cash and cash equivalents by the end of the month. Marathon’s 616 bitcoins generated was a massive difference compared to other mining companies, as CleanSpark followed it with 417 bitcoins and Riot Platforms with 215 bitcoins. CleanSpark only sold 2.43 bitcoins and Riot none. The Bitcoin halving is pushing miners...