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Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, has been affected by the ongoing crypto winter, with the company’s flagship cryptocurrency fund losing nearly half of its value in the first six months of 2022. The declining performance is a massive difference from the gains experienced last year when the company’s investments grew over 1,000%. A16z Not Immune to Crypto Winter According to the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (October 26, 2022), a16z’s flagship...

China was emerging as the epicenter of the crypto industry. Within a decade, the country witnessed the spawning of giant exchanges like Binance Holdings Ltd. as well as the biggest Bitcoin mining firms. However, Beijing’s move to ban crypto trading and mining last year seemed poised to douse the entire domestic industry. Hong Kong, on the other hand, has always been China’s window to the world. According to Arthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founder, it is this deepwater port at the...

Bitcoin reached past $21,000 on Wednesday for the first time since mid-September, following a lower-than-expected rate hike at the Bank of Canada.  Economists say the move may signal a reversal from the central bank’s tight monetary policy stance. The Effect of Rate Hikes Canada’s central bank, which announced a 50 basis point increase to its policy rate on Wednesday, said its recent rate hikes are showing evident effects in “interest sensitive” economic areas. “Housing...

As per the data compiled from Morningstar Direct for FT, the Bitcoin Strategy fund (BITO) launched in October 2021 by ProShares lost money on an “unprecedented scale.” The ETF has attracted consistent inflows throughout the past year, with only two withdrawals. However, data suggested net inflows of $1.8 billion in its debut year, while its current assets were recorded at $624 million, meaning a 70% drop in the fund’s equity price. Down 70% Jeffrey Ptak, chief rating officer...

Gaming and metaverse DAO giant Merit Circle voted to burn all remaining tokens left in the Community Incentives wallet as a way to reduce the total supply. The project has been carrying out monthly token burns but decided in favor of bulk destruction. A proposal to burn 200 million MC tokens saw an overwhelming number of votes supporting the motion. Out of 232 votes, only three were against the idea. Following the creation of the Community Incentives wallet, 294 million...

A phishing scammer who goes by the name – Monkey Drainer – has reportedly stolen 700 ETH worth over $1 million, as per on-chain sleuth ‘ZachXBT.’ The two largest victims – 0x02a and 0x626 – collectively lost $370k after signing transactions on malicious phishing sites operated by the perpetrator. One of the victims, 0x02a, reportedly lost 1 Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection, 1 CloneX, 36,000 USDC, and 12 other non-fungible tokens (NFT) totaling around $150,000. The other...

Hashed CEO and an early backer of the ill-fated LUNC token, Kim Seo-joon, failed to appear before a South Korean congressional inquiry into the crash. He cited “mental conditions” as the reason for his absence from South Korea’s National Assembly’s Political Affairs Committee, which he supposedly developed since the spectacular $40 billion wipeout in May 2022. Kim Seo-joon No-Show at Hearing According to a recent report, the exec revealed to have been “under extreme stress”...

On October 24, CEO Elon Musk confirmed during a video conference with a group of bankers that he is prepared to close the acquisition of Twitter by Friday, October 28. According to sources interviewed by Bloomberg, the banks provided $13 billion in financing to the electric car mogul to finalize the purchase, which is in the final stages of its paperwork. Wall Street lenders had been preparing for weeks in anticipation of the purchase. The court handling the Twitter case set...

The power tussle between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over regulatory oversight of the crypto market continues to confuse investors about which rules to follow.  In line with the turf war conflict between the two market watchdogs, CFTC chairman Rostin Behnam has reiterated that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are commodities, not securities.  Behnam Says Ether is Commodity Despite PoS...

The gloomy market condition has failed to deter long-term Bitcoin holders who are currently in possession of more than 75% of all existing BTC. As per an analyst at the crypto analytics platform CryptoQuant, this level was last seen in October 2015. The sentiment of long-term holders is important as they represent experienced market participants that have been through different phases of the market. The analyst explained that these entities have lower spending behavior...