Bit Panda – a financial technology firm based in Vienna, Austria – has stated that it’s going to be reverting back to the ways of traditional finance (or tradfi) in coming weeks and months and somewhat step away from the cryptocurrency and defi spaces. Bit Panda Wants a More Traditional Route The digital currency arena hasn’t been doing too well as of late. The price of bitcoin, for example, was trading at a new all-time high of about $68,000 per unit in November of last...
Read More »Celsius-Themed Monopoly Game Irks Crypto Fans
A new Celsius-themed Monopoly game is coming out for crypto users to “enjoy,” but the problem is that many people out there don’t seem too thrilled or amused by the product. In fact, this is now getting Celsius a lot more flak than when it decided to file bankruptcy and halt all withdrawals. Celsius Continues to Stoke the Fire We all probably remember playing Monopoly as a kid. The game would often take days, weeks, or even months given how strict you were with the...
Read More »Crypto Pool Enterprise Poolin Is Halting All Withdrawals
As volatility in the crypto market continues, another company has decided to halt all withdrawals as a means of retaining and controlling liquidity. This time, the firm in question is a crypto mining pool provider known as Poolin, and none of the firm’s customers can gain access to their money. Poolin Is Preventing Customers from Accessing Their Money The maneuver has got a lot of crypto traders and analysts worried given that these kinds of steps only lead to more...
Read More »Binance to Remove Fees for Some Ethereum Transactions
Binance – the world’s largest digital currency exchange by daily trading volume – says it’s looking to give crypto fans a break by expanding its fee-free services and transaction capabilities to include Ethereum. Binance Says It’s Eliminated Fees for Some ETH-Based Transactions The goal is to enable all Ethereum-based transactions to be free of additional charges. The move correlates with the big “Merge” that everyone’s been talking about for the past several months....
Read More »Crypto Exchange Rain Lays Off Many Staff Members
Another digital currency exchange has let a bunch of its employees go. In an age of layoffs, it’s only natural that such a trend would continue so long as the crypto winter remained in full force. Right now, it appears the latest firm to say goodbye to several members of its staff is Rain, a digital currency trading platform based in the Middle East. Rain Says Goodbye to Many Employees Founded in 2017, the company is licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain and provides...
Read More »Crypto.com Has Made a $10 Million Mistake
So much for fortune favoring the brave. Crypto.com – one of the largest and most well-known digital currency trading platforms in the world – has made a multi-million-dollar mistake by sending piles of money to a lone recipient… And then not noticing for several months. Crypto.com Has Sent a Lot of Money Out By Mistake More than $10 million in digital currency funds were sent by Crypto.com to Melbourne native Thevamanogari Manivel. The clincher is that the company only...
Read More »Regulators Press Crypto Exchanges for Details on Customer Protections
A panel of House members in the United States Congress is pressing cryptocurrency leaders to discuss what they’re planning to do to protect potential crypto investors from falling victim to fraud and scams. How Can Crypto Keep People Safe? One of the big problems associated with running an unregulated industry like crypto is the fact that there are virtually no rules, and there are practically no governing bodies that can get in the way of things going wrong or people...
Read More »Thodex Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested in Europe
Faruk Fatih Ozer – the alleged founder of Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex – has been arrested in the European nation of Albania and is now on the verge of being sent back to Turkey where he will face trial for reportedly making off with all the digital assets invested by his company’s clients. The Founder of Thodex Is Heading Back to Turkey Crypto crime involving exchanges has become a big deal in recent years given how unregulated the digital currency space truly...
Read More »Singapore Wants to Introduce New Laws Restricting Retail Crypto Trades
Singapore says it’s considering introducing new laws that will make it much harder for crypto retail investors to trade digital assets during this time. The nation’s regulators say they are truly concerned about the ongoing risks involved with virtual money. Singapore Is Worried About Crypto Trading Singapore has stated that many people getting involved in crypto are simply doing so because they are experiencing fear of missing out or “FOMO.” Regulators say people are...
Read More »Brian Armstrong on the Future of Coinbase
Brian Armstrong – the CEO of Coinbase – has issued a statement on the current position of bitcoin and crypto in general that’s got quite a few people worried. He said that he cannot predict what’s going to happen in the coming future, and he has also warned that virtually anything could happen. So, what does that mean? Coinbase Has Been Moving Up and Down The state of the crypto market isn’t doing well as of late. Despite a recent bull run in the later weeks of August,...
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