Ripple price started a fresh decline from the $0.5500 resistance against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.500 and near the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $0.4580 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could start a steady increase if it clears the $0.4850 and $0.5000 resistance levels. Ripple price is struggling below $0.500 against the US...
Read More »Crypto Mining Firm Compute North Goes Bankrupt
It’s happened again, folks. In the age of crypto bankruptcy and companies falling apart amidst the growing bear market, another digital currency firm has entered legal bankruptcy protections as a means of getting creditors and angry customers off its back. This time, the enterprise in question is Compute North, a digital currency mining firm. Compute North Is Having a Hard Time This is the first time that a crypto mining company has entered bankruptcy proceedings, which...
Read More »New York’s Leticia James Sues Crypto Firm Nexo
Leticia James – New York’s attorney general – is joining several other states in a class-action lawsuit against cryptocurrency firms Nexo Inc. and Nexo Capital Inc. for allegedly lying to clients about their registration statuses. Leticia James Wants to Get Nexo in Court Should James and the remaining states win the lawsuit, it would require that both Nexo companies forfeit whatever profits they likely made over the past several years. The subject of the lawsuit involves...
Read More »Analysts: Despite Bear Market, Bitcoin Has Remained Tough
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the crypto space in general have not been doing well for nearly a year. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap has fallen from its November 2021 all-time high of about $68,000 per unit to roughly $19,000 at the time of writing. That’s a loss exceeding 70 percent, and it makes the bearish conditions of 2018 look tame by comparison. The crypto market has also lost more than $2 trillion in valuation. Bitcoin Has Remained Somewhat...
Read More »Edmonton Crypto Scams Have Stolen Nearly $6 Million
Scams, scams, and more scams. It appears that’s all the digital currency space is associated with as of late… That and falling prices. The idea of scams lessening anytime soon isn’t taking hold, especially now that police in the town of Edmonton say they’re looking to assist victims of a crypto fraud case that ultimately saw nearly $6 million in digital funds being wiped from their portfolios. Scams in the Crypto Space Are Still Too Prominent The scam in question has...
Read More »Analysts Predict $35K for Bitcoin in Six Months
Following news that both BlackRock and Fidelity have entered the digital currency market, many institutional analysts have predicted that within the next six months, bitcoin will reach a price of about $35,000 per unit, while Ethereum will jump into the $2,000 range. How Much Has Bitcoin Lost? On paper, this doesn’t look all that spectacular. After all, bitcoin – just 11 months ago – was trading at a new all-time high of approximately $68,000 per unit, so $35,000 would...
Read More »Report: Bitcoin Mining Is Worse Than Beef Production
A new report suggests that bitcoin is bad: very bad. It’s so bad for the environment, it’s on par with hardcore beef production, and it’s far worse than gold mining. Bitcoin and Beef… The Former’s Worse? The paper is co-authored by Benjamin A. Jones, an associate professor of economics at the University of New Mexico. In a recent interview, he commented: [This energy use] is because of the proof of work production process that [bitcoin] uses. Miners all over the world...
Read More »Gavin Wood Resigns from CEO Position at Parity
According to Wood, people like him perform best when they don’t always have to show up to work or are confined to a set timeframe.A recent Bloomberg report has announced the resignation of Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood from the position of CEO of blockchain infrastructure firm Parity. The report also notes that the vacancy left by Wood’s action will be filled by his fellow Parity co-founder Björn Wagner.Gavin Wood Aims to Boost Polkadot and Web3.0 AdoptionSpeaking about his decision to step...
Read More »Do Kwon May Have His Crypto Assets Frozen
It seems Do Kwon cannot catch a break. After being tied to one of the most embarrassing fiascos to ever occur within the confines of the crypto space (the collapse of Terra Luna, an algorithmic stable currency), authorities in South Korea have issued a warrant for his arrest as well as many other executives or staff members thought to have been involved in the currency’s death. Now, it looks like all his crypto assets are being frozen. They Keep Pursuing Do Kwon...
Read More »Renovi and Aftermath Islands Partners to Launch First NFT Buildathon
Per the announcement, entries to participate in the buildathon will continue until January 9 2023, and the submissions will be judged by a panel of NFT and metaverse veterans.Renovi, a metaverse marketplace, and design studio has launched the first Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Buildathon in partnership with Aftermath Islands Metaverse Limited. As contained in a Press Release shared with Coinspeaker, the buildathon, dubbed the Next Top Metaverse Build will enable artists, architects, and entrants...
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