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Is Michael Saylor moving too fast by stepping down from his role with MicroStrategy? Michael Saylor Is No Longer MicroStrategy’s CEO In a recent article, Live Bitcoin News notified readers that Michael Saylor – the CEO of MicroStrategy – would be stepping down from his position as CEO and entering the new role of “executive chairman.” While nobody has listed bitcoin as the official reason, it’s interesting to see that the move is coming after Saylor put so much into...

Residents of Florida are being warned about a new crypto romance scam that’s operating under the names “pig butchering” and “pig slaughtering.” The names alone should be enough to make anyone run away, though for some reason, the scam has managed to permeate several online dating platforms and social media sites, meaning it is the latest scam of its kind to fully take form. A New Online Crypto Scam Is A-Brewin’ These kinds of scams are nothing new, yet the fact that...

The crypto division of the popular trading app Robinhood has been slapped with a $30 million fine in New York after the company allegedly violated cybersecurity regulations and anti-money laundering laws. The penalty was handed down by the New York State Department of Financial Services, which accused the company of failing to utilize proper resources to halt illicit trading activity on its platform. Robinhood Has Landed in Hot Water A press release involving the matter...

A woman in Mississippi has been sentenced to ten years in prison after she reportedly paid as much as $10K in bitcoin to a hitman she wanted to hire to kill her ex-husband. 40-year-old Jessica Leeann Sledge pled guilty to the crime last February. Jessica Sledge Heads to Jail Court documentation suggests she intended to hire the assassin between September 21 and November 1 of last year, and that she had used interstate commerce to engage in the transaction. Upon her...

Randa Cranford – a 78-year-old grandmother – is the latest victim of a crypto scam, having lost as much as $7,000 in the process. Randa Cranford Lost a Lot of Money The situation began when Cranford received a strange message on her computer screen claiming that something had been compromised and that she should call the number featured on the screen to get things resolved. In an interview, she stated: All of a sudden, these windows flashed up and a message that read,...

Could the worst of the crypto bear market be over? According to former White House communications director and crypto bull Anthony Scaramucci, the price of bitcoin has officially bottomed out. Investors will not see things get worse from here, and he thinks BTC is fairly valued at around $40K. Scaramucci Thinks the Worst Is Over In a recent interview, Scaramucci stated: We believe that the leverage has been blown out of the system. I don’t think it’s going below the low...

A new crypto bill introduced by John Boozman – a republican from Arkansas – and Debbi Stabenow, a democrat from Michigan, would (if passed) give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) full control over bitcoin and Ethereum, the world’s two largest and most popular digital currencies. The CFTC Would Have Most of the Power In the bill, both ETH and BTC are clearly described as commodities. In addition, they account for roughly two thirds of all activity in the...

Michael Saylor – bitcoin bull and the CEO of software giant MicroStrategy – has announced that he is leaving his post as the chief executive of the firm that has ultimately made institutional investing in digital currency a popular fad. Michael Saylor Is No Longer CEO of MicroStrategy Saylor has long been a fanatic of bitcoin, claiming in the past that it will be the future of finance. Unfortunately, he has made several monetary decisions surrounding bitcoin that have...

Is Ethereum about to overtake bitcoin? Ethereum Is Getting Much Bigger This was the question on several analysts’ minds as the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap and the number one competitor to bitcoin announced a few weeks ago that it was getting closer to its long-sought merge. The process will involve Ethereum transforming into Ethereum 2.0. The network is switching from a proof of work (PoW) module to proof of stake (PoS). This will allegedly make...

There was a time when a store accepting crypto payments was not the norm. In fact, it was downright wacky. There were many companies that were concerned about accepting digital assets as forms of payment due to their volatility, but according to a new survey conducted by financial giant Deloitte, as many as 75 percent of America’s retailers are planning to accept digital currency payments within the next two years. Crypto Payments Are Becoming More Popular Moves like...