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The German-based crypto bank – Nuri – revealed it will terminate its operations due to the harsh consequences of the crypto winter and the negative macroeconomic environment. It informed that customers have until December 18 to withdraw their funds from the platform, while trading will be possible until November 30. The Bear Market’s Latest Victim Over the past several months, Nuri has been seeking venture capitalists and potential acquirers who could fix the company’s...

Grayscale’s lawsuit against the SEC has started gaining traction as prominent names from the crypto industry rallied behind the asset manager. The latest one to chime in is Coinbase. The cryptocurrency exchange has filed an amicus brief backing Grayscale Investment’s lawsuit against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for disapproving the company’s proposal for a spot Bitcoin ETF application earlier this year. “Double Standards” In its battle against...

Mike McGlone – Senior Commodity Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence – recently suggested that Bitcoin could be entering its “unstoppable maturation” stage as a nascent technology. The strategist also characterized Bitcoin as a possible leading market indicator, which could currently be signaling an end to Federal Reserve rate hikes.  Bitcoin as Global Collateral As McGlone explained in a post over LinkedIn, crude oil has risen back to $84 per barrel, which “may indicate the...

Binance announced updates to the deposit and withdrawal fees for LUNC and USTC on the Terra Classic network. This comes after the community passed proposal 5234, first presented by Akujiro, to lower the tax burn from 1.2% to 0.2% and take 10% of the collected seigniorage and add it to the community pool at the end of the epoch. The proposal received 75% votes in affirmation as validators and other members of the community supported it based on Binance CEO CZ’s recommendation...

The inflation rate in the United Kingdom surpassed 10% for the first time in the past 40 years. Local economists warn that the figures could rise to 11% in the following months, driven by soaring food and fuel prices. What does it mean for Bitcoin, though? Unseen Inflation in the Last 40 Years The past few years have been rather problematic for the UK and its economy. At the beginning of 2020, the country left the European Union after 52% of the locals voted in favor of...

A day after Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about her plans to work towards a tech-driven regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies under the aegis of G20, industry leaders offered mixed reactions to her statements.     Sitharaman spoke about crypto regulations to reporters on the sidelines of the fall meetings at IMF, World Bank, and G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governor (FMCBG) in Washington last week, media reports said.  Positive but...

After getting the axe from America’s largest bank, the infamous rapper Kanye West may be gravitating towards Bitcoin.  The rapper has been spotted in multiple recent photos sporting a hat labeled “Satoshi Nakamoto” – the name of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. Is Kanye a Bitcoiner? One of the photos was shared over social media on Sunday by Twitter user Quinten Francois. It shows West wearing a green jacket, rain boots, and the Satoshi hat, with a phone held to his face. Ye...

Curtis Warren – a British drug lord who was found guilty of smuggling cannabis – is due to be released from prison next month. The authorities, though, will supposedly put him back behind bars for five years if he uses WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or interacts with cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. Strict Measures to Stay on the Loose Warren (also known as “Britain’s Pablo Escobar”) has been a problematic figure for the European authorities for the past decades. In 1996,...

Bitcoin has made its first appearance in the Guinness World Records, now officially honored as the “first decentralized cryptocurrency.” Its inclusion was part of a larger category labeled “cryptomania”, under which many other blockchain-related phenomena were mentioned.  Famous Crypto Records According to the latest edition of the reference book, Bitcoin is the “oldest,” “most valuable,” and “first-decentralized” cryptocurrency.  Since its first-of-a-kind creation in 2009,...

The Optimism bridge supporting privacy coin BitBTC is actively being exploited for 200 billion BitBTC tokens.  Due to the technicals of the hack, the BitBTC team now has less than 7 days to implement an upgrade to minimize the damages. A Poorly Designed Bridge According to Arbitrum tech lead Lee Bousfield on Twitter, the BitBTC bride contained a “critical exploit” that left it “trivially vulnerable.” It involves the bridge’s relationship between Ethereum’s layer 1 (L1)...