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Several strategists at JPMorgan are quite bullish on bitcoin even though their boss – JP Dimon – hasn’t always been kind towards the asset. JPMorgan Document Suggests Gold-BTC Correlation In the past, Dimon has said some rather disparaging things about the world’s leading crypto asset. However, this hasn’t stopped JPMorgan from cashing in on the digital currency and publishing regular reports about its price upheavals and volatility. In a recent document, the...

Bitcoin experienced its first monthly loss of 2023 in May following several solid months of growth due to macroeconomic uncertainty. Bitcoin Had Its Worst Month of 2023 in May The world’s leading digital currency by market capitalization was about two percent lower at the end of May given that many central banks were continuing to support stronger rate hikes as inflation has still not died down in leading countries such as the United States or the United Kingdom....

The recently hacked cross-chain router protocol Multichain announced it is shutting down its operations, citing a lack of operational funds and information about its CEO Zhaojun, who is in the custody of Chinese police. The latest update provided by the team confirmed the rumors about the exec’s arrest. On July 14, Multichain took to Twitter to reveal that Zhaojun has been out of contact with the team since being apprehended by the Chinese police from his home. His sister was...

Ashley Crossland is a man who made his bones working as a graphic designer, but while it’s been a solid career, the money he’s made in this field is nothing compared to the big bucks he’s rung in developing non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs Are Bigger Than Ever NFTs are a new breed of digital currency. While they cannot be used as methods of payment, they are getting big in that the space is growing like crazy, and you now have people putting their NFTs up as...

On July 13, Ripple scored a big win in its nearly three-year-long legal battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after a court ruled that the majority of XRP sales do not fall under the classification of securities transactions. This has raised questions about the potential implications for cryptocurrencies, such as Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), Polygon (MATIC), and other tokens facing similar allegations of being unregistered securities. Let’s examine...

After marking a new 13-month high yesterday at almost $32,000, bitcoin has been rejected once again and even dipped below $30,000 hours ago. Most altcoins are also in the red today following the recent gains, except for DOGE, SHIB, OP, and a few others. BTC Stopped Most of the working week went by quietly for the primary cryptocurrency as the asset spent it trading sideways in a tight range between $30,000 and $31,000. All that, however, changed on Thursday evening when Judge...

Lawyers representing Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) requested Judge Lewis Kaplan to issue an order permitting certain people to visit their client without the necessity of security checks. Despite being allowed to reside at his parents’ house, the former CEO of FTX is subject to strict restrictions. He must wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, while a security guard must be present should he invite guests. SBF’s Wish Bankman-Fried’s attorneys sent an official letter to New York...

The team behind Base – an Ethereum Layer 2 chain built on OP Stack in collaboration with Optimism – said its mainnet is available for builders to deploy their products.  The entity will release a “Genesis Builder” NFT to commemorate those who entered the ecosystem from the get-go. However, it has no intentions of issuing a network token. The Latest Step Base announced its testnet launch in February, which allowed it to connect with “incredible builders and have watched their...

Ripple’s partial victory in its fight with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a court ruling paved the way for small but significant regulatory clarity that the cryptocurrency industry was deprived of for so long. Now all eyes are on the security regulator who, according to Congressman Ritchie Torres, is acting like “an overzealous traffic cop arbitrarily ticketing drivers while keeping the speed limit a secret.” As such, Torres wants the SEC to be...

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