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After the enhanced volatility at the end of the working week, bitcoin has calmed and stands firm at $19,000. Most altcoins are also quite stagnant now. On a weekly scale, though, there’re some evident winners, such as Huobi Token, and losers, like Cardano. Bitcoin Calms at $19K The latest US inflation numbers – 8.2% – announced on Thursday returned some of the recently lost volatility in the crypto markets, pushing bitcoin from $19,000 south to a multi-week low of $18,200....

Ethereum smart contract scaling solution developer Offchain Labs announced that it is acquiring Prysmatic Labs, one of the core engineering teams that architected the Merge and built Prysm. According to the announcement, Prysmatic Labs chose to join Offchain Lab because of the two companies’ alignment on core beliefs and shared commitment to scaling Ethereum. The move aligns with the team’s vision for a “sustainable future for Ethereum” by enabling greater communication for...

An Indian district, Firozabad, about 40 km from Agra of Taj Mahal’s fame in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, would start the registration of complaints police complaints on the blockchain network.  The district, with 2.4 million people and 21 police stations, aims to achieve immutability and transparency of complaints lodged by victims of crime by leveraging this emerging technology.    Blockchain-Based Complaint Portal  “Using emerging technologies like Blockchain, a...

Hunter Horsley – CEO of the technology solutions provider Bitwise – believes bear markets are a great period when investors could increase their exposure to bitcoin. He estimated that the next bull run will begin next year, outlining that his firm’s clients have already increased their interest in the asset. Fortunes Are Made in the Bear Market In an interview for Bloomberg, Horsley outlined the historical pattern of bitcoin’s price movement. During its existence, the primary...

Bitcoin tried its hand at taking down $20,000 but was stopped in its tracks once more and has retraced by almost a grand. The altcoins are back in red after yesterday’s massive gains. This all came following the bloody Friday on Wall Street. Bitcoin Stopped at $20K The primary cryptocurrency was quite calm lately, but that all changed when the US announced the latest CPI numbers. BTC stood at $19,000 before it violently dropped to a multi-week low of $18,200. However, that...

The CEO of the US-based crypto giant said he wants to sell 2% of his entire stake in the company throughout the next several months. His intentions are to use that capital to fund some scientific research and companies. Armstrong took it to Twitter to inform the community about his decision, which is based on his desire to help accelerate science and tech to “help solve some of the biggest challenges in the world.” As such, he will sell 2% of his Coinbase holdings over the...

After CryptoCom, the crypto service platform – BlockchainCom – has announced plans to restrict Russia-based users. In an email to its users, the company notified that it will block the accounts of Russians. The move comes after the European Union’s (EU) eighth package of sanctions against Russia. According to the news agency RBC’s latest report, Russian users have until October 27th to withdraw funds, following which the accounts will be blocked. The crypto wallet said in a...

Scams related to crypto wallets are on the rise, and users report a phishing application for mobile devices masquerading as Nami Cardano wallet designed to steal seed phrases and funds. The fake wallet was found on Apple’s App Store and is still available for download. If a user enters the seed phrase, the app steals the data and sends it to app developers, thereby giving direct access to ADA held on the actual browser-based Nami wallet. For the uninitiated, Nami is a...

New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) – an investment management firm that offers a wide variety of bitcoin services – reportedly laid off around one-third of its staff in September. Not long ago, it announced the departure of CEO Robert Gutmann and President Yan Zhao. Despite the redundancies, the former leaders remained as key members of NYDIG’s parent company – Stone Ridge Holdings Group. Joining the Dismissal Spree The Wall Street Journal informed that last month...

The past week saw the total cryptocurrency market lost about $30 billion in the past seven days, where most of the action took place yesterday. This was somewhat expected, given the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published the CPI numbers then. Let’s dive in. Bitcoin spent the majority of the week slowly bleeding out. The cryptocurrency was showing absolutely no signs of strength, which resulted in a painful chop and a decline below $19,000 on a couple of occasions. All this...