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The reason behind the decision to leave the Canadian market was not revealed by Bitstamp. Notably, the exchange follows Binance, OKX, and Bybit which announced their exit from Canada earlier. Luxembourg-based crypto exchange Bitstamp is planning to stop providing services in the Canadian market in January 2024. The deadline for withdrawing customers’ funds is January 8. Afterward, Bitstamp will deactivate Canadian users’ accounts. The announcement was shared by Bobby Zagotta, Bitstamp’s US...

Sygnum, die weltweit erste Bank für digitale Vermögenswerte, hat eine zusätzliche Kundennachfrage in Höhe von mehreren Milliarden Franken generiert, indem sie ihr reguliertes Kernangebot an digitalen Vermögenswerten durch traditionelle Wertpapiere ergänzte. Neues ergänzendes Angebot Sygnum gibt heute ein deutliches Wachstum bei seinen Dienstleistungen an traditionellen Wertpapieren bekannt, welches das Kernangebot an regulierten digitalen Vermögenswerten ergänzt. Das Angebot an traditionellen...

Solana price started a decent increase above the $22.00 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $23.50 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key declining channel forming with resistance near $23.40 on the 4-hour chart of the SOL/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must stay above the $21.50 and $20.40 support levels to start another increase. Solana price is trading above the $20 support against the US Dollar,...

Bitcoin price started a fresh decline from the $28,500 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $27,700 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break below a key contracting triangle with support near $27,750 on the 4-hour chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a fresh increase if it stays above the $26,500 support zone. Bitcoin price is declining below $28,500 against the US Dollar. BTC might...

Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison took the stand on Tuesday to testify to the alleged crypto fraud led by her and her ex-boyfriend, Sam Bankman-Fried. Ellison claimed that Alameda took over $10 billion FTX customer to pay off its loans, all at Bankman-Fried’s order. Caroline Ellison Speaks As summarized by Inner City Press on Tuesday, Ellison confessed immediately that she committed fraud alongside Bankman-Fried and others. “He directed me to commit these crimes,”...

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is making a bold move in his ongoing legal battle. Bankman-Fried is seeking to shed light on the involvement of lawyers in what prosecutors have termed a “$200 million sham” involving Alameda Research, the hedge fund arm of FTX. Wang’s Testimony Sheds Light on Legal Structure of Alameda Loans Attorneys representing Sam Bankman-Fried are requesting permission to question FTX co-founder Gary Wang regarding the legal...

Robert Linus – project lead at Bitcoin development group ZeroSync – has proposed a new system allowing developers to “compute anything on Bitcoin,” giving it functionality more similar to its neighboring crypto network Ethereum. Unlike other proposals to expand Bitcoin’s capabilities, “BitVM” does not require any changes to Bitcoin’s code that could cause the network and community to contentiously rift apart. What is BitVM? According to the project’s whitepaper published on...

Israeli authorities have frozen several cryptocurrency accounts allegedly linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The operation was carried out in collaboration with the crypto exchange Binance, highlighting an increasing global trend towards monitoring and regulating digital currencies to prevent their misuse for illicit activities. Binance Assists Israeli Police in Halting Crypto Financing for Hamas On Tuesday, a local media outlet, Calcalist, announced that the...

TL;DR Large XRP wallets increased their holdings to $7.9 billion from $7.16 billion in October 2022. Accumulation spiked after major crypto events, including the FTX meltdown and Terra’s LUNA and UST collapse. A positive outcome for Ripple against the US SEC could boost XRP’s price in 2024, alongside other favorable market factors. Buying XRP Amid the Reigning Uncertainty As revealed by the crypto behavior platform Santiment, wallets holding between 100K and 100M XRP have...

Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain network, suffered a substantial setback through a sandwich attack, losing over $9K. This data underscores an increasing problem of sandwich attacks in the crypto sphere, with over $1.3 million lost through such schemes in the past 30 days on the Ethereum chain. The Sandwich Attack According to Eigenphi’s data, on Oct. 9, the Ethereum network experienced a significant sandwich attack by the MEV bot (0x00…6B40), resulting in a profit of...