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Bitcoin’s long entrenchment under $24,000 provided ample opportunity for smaller holders to increase their position sizes, on-chain data shows.  Nearly 1 million Bitcoin addresses now hold over 1 BTC, much of which was accumulated between 2021 and 2023.  The Rise of BTC Shrimps According to on-chain data provided by LookIntoBitcoin, there are 991,670 Bitcoin addresses holding over 1 BTC as of March 29 – a number that has risen consistently since Bitcoin’s inception as more...

Bitcoin bounced off in the last hours of March, reclaiming $28,000 and posting a 23% price increase for the third month of the year. Several altcoins are also well in the green, with ETH surging past $1,800, while SOL has returned to over $20. BTC Back Above $28K The primary cryptocurrency has been on a rollercoaster for the past several days. It dumped by $1,500 on Monday when the US CFTC sued Binance and Changpeng Zhao before the bulls intercepted the move and pushed the...

A study conducted by the cybersecurity company Kaspersky determined that approximately a third of the US crypto investors have had some portion of their stash stolen by hackers.  Bad actors usually con victims by luring them to enter a counterfeit website or urging them to join a dubious investment platform.  ‘People Need to Take Care to Protect Themselves’ Kaspersky surveyed 2,000 American adults to estimate that around 30% of those who have hopped on the crypto bandwagon...

A 60-year-old Indian woman lost nearly $30,000 in a crypto investment scam after she was approached on the matrimonial site where she had registered herself to look for a life partner. The con man told her that he was a US-based engineer and can make her earn quick profits through bitcoin investments.   Investment in Love Gone Wrong According to media reports, the Mumbai woman, who is a retired executive from a private company, registered on a matrimonial website in early...

The hacker behind the largest DeFi exploit of 2023 continues to demonstrate controversial behavior, as this time, they returned the majority of the funds stolen from Euler Finance. In two separate transactions, the perpetrator sent back over $100 million worth of ETH to the protocol. CryptoPotato reported the flash loan attack, which took place earlier in March, that saw $198 million worth of USDC, staked ether, wrapped BTC, and DAI siphoned off the DeFi lending protocol....

The trading volumes have gone down during the weekend, resulting in BTC failing to produce any significant moves in either direction. The altcoins have also stalled on a daily scale, while XRP has emerged as one of the best performers for the past seven days. Bitcoin Boring at $27.5K A lot happened in the cryptocurrency industry in the past few weeks, and bitcoin has somewhat expectedly taken a break now. The asset exploded from under $20,000 to over $28,000 during the US...

Animoca Brands has established itself as one of the most prominent investors in NFT, blockchain gaming, and metaverse-focused firms. But its appetite for metaverse appears to have taken a hit. In the latest development, the Hong Kong-based blockchain gaming giant has reportedly reduced the target for its metaverse fund by 20%. The report suggests that the company is scaling down its initiative in response to the volatility in the crypto sector. The fund Animoca Capital, which...

According to a recent Statista report, India’s crypto community could surge to more than 156 million members by the end of the year.  Most people expected to jump on the bandwagon are educated younger individuals with middle-income status who seek alternatives to the shaking banking system. Indians Could Flock to Crypto in the Near Future The survey estimated that over 11% of India’s population will have dived into the cryptocurrency sector by the end of 2023. The country’s...

After a 2-year investigation, Hindenburg concluded Block (previously known as Square) “systematically took advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping.” The report accused the firm of facilitating “fraud against consumers and the government” as well as “avoiding regulation.” It further called Block’s loans and fees to be “predatory” in nature and designed to “mislead investors with inflated metrics.” The US-based short seller said its research involved numerous...

Scammers adapt better than we can imagine and change depending on the market situation. This revelation was made in a recently hosted webinar by prominent blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis wherein it gauged crime trends in the industry market during the crypto winter. The data gathered by the firm revealed how scammers adapted to the developments and volatility of the crypto market. Not all scams behaved the same way in the context of the bear market. This time around, it...