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The Singapore High Court on Monday granted crypto exchange Zipmex protection from creditors until December 2. Zipmex had asked the court for bankruptcy protection on July 22 and more time for debt restructuring on August 4. Court Order Affects Thai Investors Zipmex operates in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Australia. After it halted withdrawals last month, Thai regulators promptly asked for clarification. As per media reports, nearly 20,000 local customers have...

After a brief dip, bitcoin went on the offensive once more and tapped $25,000 for the first time since mid-June. The altcoins are calmer today, but Shiba Inu has stolen the show with a massive double-digit surge. Bitcoin Touched $25K Whether it’s indeed on hype regarding the upcoming Merge, as JPM claimed, the crypto market has been on an uptrend in the past week or so, evident from BTC’s price movements. The most impressive surge came on August 10 when the asset jumped from...

The Norwegian bitcoin mining company – Kryptovault AS – reportedly plans to move its operations north of the Arctic Circle. The relocation is prompted by the rising electricity costs in the country, while the northern regions are still relatively unaffected by the crisis. Over the past few years, Norway has turned into a cryptocurrency mining center for the European region due to its green policies. According to estimations, 98% of the energy production in the nation comes...

Ronald Craig Ilg – a 55-year-old former neonatologist from Spokane, Washington – admitted to transferring $60,000 worth of bitcoin to multiple hitmen on the Dark Web whose task was to cause severe injuries to an ex-colleague of his. Apart from that, he ordered the criminals to kidnap his estranged wife and inject her with heroin so she would drop divorce proceedings. Ilg now faces five to eight years of prison time. The US authorities will announce the exact punishment in...

Unlike the previous weekend, this one starts with impressive gains from BTC and most altcoins. Bitcoin, for one, jumped to just under $25,000. With the hype surrounding the upcoming Merge, ETH soared to a multi-month high of its own, above $2,000. ETH Spikes Above $2K The Merge, a move that will see Ethereum transition from PoW to PoS, is arguably the most anticipated event of the year in the cryptocurrency space. The latest reports on the matter suggested that it could...

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has helped recover crypto assets worth about $450,000 stolen from Curve Finance users. The funds represent about 83% of the total amount stolen from users.  Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao shared the update on Twitter today, noting that the Curve Finance hacker sent the assets to Binance using different techniques to bypass the exchange’s security. However, the company identified the transactions and froze the assets.  Binance to Return...

The past week was particularly eventful, and that’s reflected in the overall performance. The total cryptocurrency market capitalization is up almost $100 million as most of the coins are well in the green. Let’s unpack. Starting with Bitcoin, it’s up 5.2% over the week and is currently trading around $24,000. This time last week, the cryptocurrency was hovering around the $23K area, where it remained until Monday, when the price took off and reached $24K. The euphoria was...

Ankr is a well-known Web3 infrastructure provider. In a nutshell, the protocol works in the background, but it makes using decentralized applications, wallets, as well as crypto-based games possible by connecting them to the blockchains that they need to communicate with. Known for its continuous support for the BNB Chain by introducing BNB Liquid Staking, as well as building some of its core infrastructures, including their Erigon upgrade, Ankr has now received a strategic...

The unknown person visiting Terraform Labs’ founder, Do Kwon, has been identified and later arrested. According to a BBC News report, an AfreecaTV streamer who goes by “Chancers” was the desperate man who knocked on the controversial exec’s home earlier this month. The social media personality made quite a fortune after entering the digital asset space in 2017. Chancers had invested $800,000 in LUNA. Following the latest crash, he lost approximately $2.4 million. He was...

Two leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, UpBit and Bithumb, have issued a warning for Litecoin after the activation of MimbleWimble Extension Blocks (MWEB). Growing Concerns UpBit revealed terminating “transaction support for digital assets with technology that makes transmission records indistinguishable from the past” while pointing to Korea’s Act on the Reporting and Use of Specific Financial Transaction Information. Under this act, crypto exchanges in the...