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Illegal financial transactions involving cryptocurrencies in 2022 have reportedly surged for a second consecutive year, tapping an all-time high of $20.1 billion.  The previous record was in 2021, when digital assets facilitated criminal proceedings worth $18 billion. Going Up Amid the Bear Market Apart from the significant market decline, the numerous bankruptcies, and scandals, 2022 will be remembered as a flourishing year for illicit cryptocurrency transactions. According...

Glassnode released its first on-chain video report of 2023 on Tuesday, reviewing what could be data-based indicators of an emerging crypto bull market.  The firm noted that both Bitcoin and Ether’s price and on-chain activity have seen little volatility since the year began – a period like others that have historically preceded “explosive market moves.” Starting Off Slow As explained by Glassnode’s lead analyst James Check, Bitcoin has been stuck trading within a roughly $550...

In one of its most impressive rallies in about a year, bitcoin skyrocketed by double digits, charting a two-month high above $21,000. Most alternative coins have followed suit, resulting in over $650 million in liquidations on a 24-hour scale, the majority of which were from short positions. It’s safe to say that the start of the year has been quite favorable for the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin, for one, stood around $16,500 on January 1. After a quiet first few days, it...

On November 13, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) announced that it had successfully cracked down on a criminal network engaged in online scams through call centers. The network was spread all around Europe. According to Europol, the operation was carried out on January 11, 2023, following an investigation that began in June 2022 at the request of the German authorities. In conjunction with the national authorities of the other countries,...

One of the most successful NBA teams – Miami Heat – finally annulled its partnership with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.  As a result, the home ground of the basketball giant will no longer be called FTX Arena. Cutting All Ties  A federal bankruptcy judge officially canceled the collaboration between Miami-Dade County (the territorial division where the NBA team is located) and FTX. The ruling determined that Miami Heat is allowed to remove the platform’s initials from its...

The internet has become quickly fascinated by ChatGPT – the language model chatbot that seems to effortlessly provide long-form answers to any question.  Crypto Twitter seems especially fascinated with the AI bot – from Casa founder Jameson Lopp to Twitter’s new chief and Dogecoin enthusiast, Elon Musk.  We decided to ask ChatGPT a number of questions related to Bitcoin and crypto adoption – including those that are still hotly debated by humans. Here’s what the infamous bot...

WonderFi Technologies – a tech company that provides access to decentralized finance (DeFi) – has reportedly been mulling a merger agreement with the trading platform Coinsquare. The goal would be to establish the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Canada. A Deal on the Horizon As reported by Bloomberg, the two parties have been in advanced merger talks. However, WonderFi did not make further comments, adding that the discussions could not guarantee the collaboration: “These...

Bitcoin is pushing against the $20k price level for the first time since early November, prior to FTX’s collapse. As of 22:28 UTC, Bitcoin traded at $19,962, up from roughly $18,800 at the start of the day. Its price climbed especially fast 21:34 UTC, when it sprang from $19,450 to $19.823 within 5 minutes.  Liquidations remain high, with $70 million across 45,000 crypto traders being cleared within the past hour, according to Coinglass. The largest liquidated trade within...

California-based crypto-satellite developer Cryptosat and global hackathon organizer DoraHacks ran the first-ever cryptographic trusted setup for zero-knowledge in space. According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the “historic event” took place on the International Space Station (ISS). The two platforms said that the experiment involved taking a set of pre-uploaded open source programs to the ISS and “outputting” a file that contains the “Common...

ConsenSys – the Ethereum infrastructure provider behind Metamask – has announced that the widely used crypto wallet now lets users stake their ETH directly from the app.  The network’s public beta allows users to select either Lido or Rocket Pool for staking, through which they can earn yield and receive liquid staked ETH in return.  Staked ETH on MetaMask Per The Block’s account of ConsenSys’s announcement, users can confirm the amount of ETH they’d like to allocate for...