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TL;DR ChatGPT is optimistic that XRP’s price could rise significantly if Ripple wins its lawsuit against the SEC. The legal battle continues with discussions on the potential fines the company might face, impacting the timeline and outcome of the case. What are XRP’s Chances? Ripple’s XRP has seen better days since its price dipped substantially in the past few days. However, bulls rely on certain essential factors that could positively impact the asset’s market performance....

On June 25, 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was able to walk free following a deal with the US government. Does this surprising end to the publisher’s many years of criminal prosecution and imprisonment signal a positive outcome for press freedom? [embedded content] Turkish journalist Can Dündar, who was also imprisoned on similar charges in Turkey and now lives in exile in Germany, followed the Assange case for the last six months before his release. Dündar sees it as...

Sam Bankman-Fried – the founder of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, once celebrated as the “poster boy” of crypto, is embroiled in a multi-billion dollar scandal involving the misuse of company assets for political donations. Emails uncovered by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) point to extensive involvement of the convicted exec’s family that could potentially lead to legal troubles. More Legal Troubles For SBF and Family Recently revealed emails by WSJ show that SBF’s...

Justin Sun, a household name in the crypto ecosystem, has verbalized his idea to buy bitcoin reserves from a German government-labeled crypto wallet off-market. By doing so, he intends to nullify the selling pressure engendered by the wallet every time it moves its holdings to centralized exchanges (CEXs). He posted his intent to negotiate with the German government on X, “I am willing to negotiate with the German government to purchase all BTC off-market in order to minimize the impact on...

On July 5th, Bitcoin fell below $54,000, experiencing a decline of over 6% in the past 24 hours due to increasing bearish pressure. The market downturn intensified after Mt. Gox, an early cryptocurrency exchange that went bankrupt over a decade ago, started to repay its customers following a lengthy bankruptcy process. The latest downturn has rendered several Bitcoin mining machines unprofitable. According to the latest data from f2pool, only six mining machines remain...

The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) transferred 3,000 bitcoins worth $172 million on Thursday. On-chain analysis reveals that 1,300 bitcoins were sent to centralized exchanges (CEXs) Kraken, Bitstamp, and Coinbase, and the remaining to an unknown Bitcoin wallet. That translates to about $75 million moved to CEXs and $ 97 million to the unknown address. PeckShieldAlert notified its followers about the BKA’s CEX-related transfers on X, “#PeckShieldAlertThe #Bitcoin address bc1qq0…738z...

[PRESS RELEASE – Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, July 5th, 2024] GoMining, a premier Bitcoin mining operator redefining the industry’s accessibility through their innovative NFTs, each backed with a real share of BTC hashrate, has revealed the upcoming listing of the GOMINING token on the HTX crypto exchange. GOMINING, the utility token of the GoMining platform, will be listed on the HTX crypto exchange on Monday, July 8, according to a joint statement made by HTX...

[PRESS RELEASE – Tokyo, Japan, July 5th, 2024] $DOP, the token of the Data Ownership Protocol (DOP) will be available for trading in 7 major cryptocurrency exchanges such as Bybit, Kucoin, HTX, Bitfinex, Gate.io, MEXC, and WhiteBIT, starting July 5th, 2024. The Data Ownership Protocol clarified that on Bybit, the token will be listed as $DOP1 to avoid confusion with an existing fiat coin. On KuCoin, Gate.io, Bitfinex, MEXC, and WhiteBIT, the token will be listed as $DOP. DOP...

Bitcoin’s price hit new lows, dipping to below $57,000 on Thursday—a price point not witnessed since May when the asset was climbing to achieve highs it had not recorded before. This plunge was aroused by defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox conducting trial transactions from its wallet and the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) transacting $175 million. Mt. Gox will pay its creditors this month. They lost their bitcoin holdings because of the hack that plundered it, resulting in it...

It has been months since the Nigerian government detained Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of compliance, in Kuje Prison. His wife, Yuki Gambaryan, has complained of continuing health deterioration, stating he is now suffering from “numbness in his foot as well as back pain.” Yuki Gambaryan also mentioned the “double pneumonia and malaria” he contracted in prison. Despite the grave health issues mounting on top of each other, Gambaryan was only taken to a medical facility once. Reports from...