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Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Ethereum price is struggling below the $1,850 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH price is now trading below $1,800 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $1,775 on the 4-hour chart (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could continue to move...

JP Morgan has agreed to pay $290 million to settle a class-action lawsuit from the victims of Jeffrey Epstein – the famous American financier and sex offender.  The plaintiffs claimed that JP Morgan laundered money and thereby enabled sex trafficking on behalf of Epstein while he was still a client of the bank. JP Morgan Aiding Money Laundering? A joint statement from the largest bank in the United States and victims’ attornies said on Monday that both groups had “reached an...

Some residents of Turkey have reportedly revived their interest in the cryptocurrency market, more specifically in the stablecoin USDT, following a new decline in their national currency and fears that severe inflation could start looming again across the country.  The downtrend of the Turkish lira (which has been evident in the past few years) intensified shortly after Recep Erdogan won the presidential elections, securing himself another five years as the political leader....

The stablecoin ecosystem has also been impacted by America’s war on crypto, with a clear divergence happening between the top two issuers. Tether supply has reached an all-time high of 83.36 billion USDT, according to the firm’s transparency report.  Industry analyst Will Clemente commented: “The divergence from USDC is striking, reflecting easier access to treasuries for US-based USDC holders and regulatory uncertainty for US-based Circle. What was once a competitive...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission went ham on crypto exchanges last week by filing toothy lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase. While crypto exchanges and altcoins are in the hot seat, the regulator is leaving BTC and ETH alone, at least for now. When news of the SEC’s lawsuit against Binance and Coinbase hit markets, the prices of all assets plunged across the board. BNB crashed 10% in 24 hours. It lost another 5% on Sunday and kept dumping on Monday to a...

Glassnode published a report on Monday breaking down investors’ on-chain behavior after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued two of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.  The report acknowledged a boost to the number of short-term crypto holders sending their balances onto exchanges.  Exchange Deposits and Withdrawals The report echoed findings from last week showing that Binance experienced significantly higher withdrawals immediately following the...

Artificial intelligence is venturing into the mainstream quicker than ever before, with AI-based chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT booming in popularity. It’s also had a considerable effect on the cryptocurrency industry, as a bunch of AI-related cryptocurrencies (and not so related) soared in value in the beginning of 2023, as the AI mania was just gathering steam. Now, a gamified approach to the popular Turing Test is revealing some fascinating results as to how far...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Binance head Changpeng Zhao has taken to Twitter to warn Justin Sun – the main executive behind crypto firm Tron – against using his own funds to garner the exchange’s new SUI tokens. Zhao to Sun: Your Money’s Not Welcome! Zhao has made it clear that these units are designed more for retail traders and that he...

While the SEC’s designation of some cryptocurrencies as securities has shaken the market, the development companies behind these assets have strongly rejected the regulator’s characterization. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuit against Binance and Coinbase has resulted in widespread volatility in the crypto market. As part of its legal actions, the regulator identified 19 new cryptocurrencies as securities. According to the SEC, “Coinbase makes these...

For Adenza, the acquisition represents a significant milestone in the company’s growth trajectory. Just recently, Nasdaq Inc (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the leading US-based technology firm serving the global financial system announced the acquisition of Adenza, a software application provider. The deal, which is valued at $10.5 billion in cash and common stock, will see the complete takeover of the firm by Nasdaq from Thoma Bravo, an American private equity and growth capital firm. Interestingly, the...