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Matthew Klinger – a 51-year-old Jefferson City, Missouri resident – received five years of supervised probation after admitting to shooting a bitcoin ATM with a handgun. It remains unclear whether the machine had any faults, however, he said he did it “so that it could not take money from anyone else.” So Close to a Prison Sentence Recent coverage informed that Klinger arrived at Vapor Maven on Missouri Boulevard in August last year and requested to talk to the general...

Bitcoin didn’t react well to the latest PCE data coming from the US and dropped by almost a grand to a ten-day low. The altcoins also sit deep in the red, with the most substantial losses coming from MATIC, DOT, UNI, and others. Bitcoin Fell to $23K The end of last week went a lot better than this one as BTC skyrocketed by double-digits to chart a six-month high above $25,000. It failed to decisively overcome that line at first but kept trying. However, all three attempts saw...

Block (formerly known as Square) – an American multinational technology conglomerate founded by Jack Dorsey – disclosed $1.83 billion of bitcoin revenue generated from its Cash App payment service in Q4, 2022.  The figure was nearly $2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, and the company blamed the decline of the crypto market for the downturn. However, Block’s shares climbed nearly 7% after reporting positive overall financial results. BTC Revenue Drops 7% YoY Block’s...

Bitcoin (BTC) sank back to $23,000 on Friday shortly after the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) price index registered a 5.4% annual increase, and a 0.6% monthly increase, in January. The higher-than-expected figure means the Federal Reserve’s war against rising inflation will likely continue.  Bitcoin started at roughly $24,000 on Friday, staying above $23,800 until about 13:30 UST – when January’s PCE figure was released.  The asset tumbled after that, falling as low...

Bitcoin’s price has been on a rollercoaster throughout the past seven days, and it has failed to chart any significant increase (or decrease) throughout the period. However, it was particularly volatile. Last week at this time, the price was hovering around similar levels, around $24K, but it quickly took for the skies and touched $25K on Sunday. What followed was the first correction back to $24K, after which BTC bounced again and reached $25K once more. It remained there...

STX – the native token of the Stacks network – has soared by a whopping 160% in the past seven days.  One possible reason behind the significant surge could be the connection between the asset and one of the recent trends in the cryptocurrency space – the Bitcoin NFTs through the Ordinals protocol. The financial services platform – Matrixport – predicted that STX could rally even more in the near future. The primary reason is the rapidly increasing number of newly-minted...

Alex Gladstein – CSO of the Human Rights Foundation – thinks bitcoin symbolizes some of the USA’s values based on the Declaration of Independence: free speech, property rights, and open capital markets. He argued that the primary cryptocurrency could thrive in democracies and struggle in totalitarian countries. ‘It’s Financial Privilege’  In a recent episode of Simply Bitcoin, Alex Gladstein presented himself as a keen advocate of the leading digital asset and pointed out its...

Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) – believes cryptocurrencies are “dangerous” and investing in them is similar to gambling.  However, he argued they could be useful for conducting transactions if converted into fiat when received. Not a Crypto Fan In a recent appearance on CNBC, the British computer scientist best known for creating the World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee – warned investors to stay away from cryptocurrencies as they are “speculative” and...

South Korea’s “Kimchi Premium” – a metric showing crypto’s price difference in global exchanges and such located in the Asian nation – went into a discount territory for the first time since January 18. This indicates that buying digital assets, such as bitcoin, is cheaper on Korean platforms than on Binance or other leading players, usually meaning that local users’ interest has declined. Flipping to Discount The “Kimchi Premium” – a phenomenon bearing the name of a...

Bitcoin’s recent price spikes underline the demand and confidence in the crypto market. This resulted in a significant surge in many cryptocurrencies. However, the price still faces a critical resistance level of $25K before calling the bear market over. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Weekly Chart Looking at a bigger picture of Bitcoin’s price using the weekly timeframe, the price action looks similar to the final capitulation stage of the 2018 bear market. During the final...