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Litecoin started a steady increase above $95 against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading above $95 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a key contracting triangle with resistance at $92 on the 4-hours chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair remains supported for more gains above the $100 and $105 resistance levels. Litecoin price is showing positive signs above $95 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin. LTC...

Tom Dunleavy – Senior Research Analyst at Messari – thinks there is a bright future for the blockchain platform Polygon. It has shown significant growth over the past few years, increasing the number of its developers and attracting some major institutions.  Dunleavy took it to Twitter to lay out the most notable recent achievements of the layer 2 blockchain platform. He mentioned the active addresses, whose number has surged by 90% quarter over quarter (QoQ), and added that...

The guarantors behind Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s $250 million bail package have been revealed after news organizations gained court approval to unseal their names in early January.  Both individuals are high-ranking academics at Stanford, where the disgraced CEO’s parents are law professors. Who Granted SBF Bail? The signatories’ names are Larry Kramer and Andreas Paepcke – a former Stanford law school dean and computer scientist, respectively.  Kramer is president of the...

DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx), the crypto trading subsidiary of the Singapore banking giant DBS Group Holdings, witnessed exponential growth in bitcoin trading last year despite the winter that wiped out billions of dollars from the market. According to the report from Bloomberg, the exchange recorded an 80% increase in Bitcoin trade volume compared to the previous year. Despite negative sentiments in the market, the number of BTC in DDEx’s custody doubled as of December 31,...

Milena Mayorga – ambassador of El Salvador to the United States – said the Salvadoran authorities might open a bitcoin embassy in Texas. The central American nation has already introduced a BTC office in the city of Lugano, Switzerland. The Second BTC Embassy Mayorga held a meeting with Jose “Joe” Esparza (Texas Deputy Secretary of State) to discuss the new initiative, outlining the financial connection between El Salvador and the region: “We discussed the opening of the...

Bitcoin soared back above $23,500 on Wednesday, less than one week after losing the support line in response to the regulatory crackdown against an industry giant last week. The event has triggered $120 million in liquidations within the past 24 hours.  Bitcoin began the day trading for roughly $22,000 but began to climb at 11:38 US, reaching $22,800 within 40 minutes.  The cryptocurrency soared again at about 18:24, eventually climbing to a high of $23,348 by 19:30. It...

Leading venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, Thoma Bravo, and Paradigm were reportedly indicted for adding an “air of legitimacy” to the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Sam Bankman-Fried, accused of committing several crimes such as fraud and money laundering, received a subpoena as part of the case against the organizations he found and will have to present a range of documents on February 17. His father – Joseph Bankman – and Alameda Research’s former bosses...

It’s been over half a year since the Harmony bridge was breached, allowing hackers believed to be a part of the Lazarus Group to make off with about $100 million in cryptocurrencies at the time they were stolen. Multiple Cashout Attempts Nearly $91 million of those funds have seen attempted cashouts so far. The most recent attempt at laundering the stolen funds saw about $27 million worth of crypto being moved. The operation was detected by security researchers, although it...

Bitcoin is experiencing all kinds of small price rises in 2023. Things are starting to look good for the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, especially when compared with how things went in 2022, though there are many experts out there that allege the asset is going to experience further drops before it eventually reaches a price of $200,000, and that figure won’t be hit until 2030. Bitcoin Is Not Pleasing to Everyone Desmond Marshall – managing director...

The South Korean authorities reportedly issued an arrest warrant to a former Chief Executive Officer of the e-commerce giant TMON. He supposedly accepted bribes in Terra (LUNA) worth billions of won to promote the infamous blockchain project. Terra Keeps Splashing the Water As reported by a local media outlet, an ex-boss of the Korean e-commerce company TMON was slapped with an arrest warrant due to his interaction with the collapsed cryptocurrency project Terraform Labs....