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To say that the past seven days were bad in the cryptocurrency market would be kind of an understatement. Most of the coins are down by solid double digits as the total capitalization lost around $250 billion and fell below $2 trillion. Let’s start with Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency was behaving relatively well throughout most of the week, and it even managed to reach above $43K earlier on Thursday, attempting to conquer the resistance above that – at $44K. On Friday, though,...

An individual Ethereum miner who mined a complete block hit the jackpot by receiving 170 ETH for his efforts. Converted in USD value, the reward equals nearly $540,000 (calculated by the time when the block reward was mined). Beating the Odds Despite some people claiming that Ethereum mining (still being proof-of-work) is harmful to the environment, the process is still thriving, and even single individuals are constantly trying their luck to mine blocks on their own. One...

The Cardano community and the rest of the crypto industry were excited when smart contracts were enabled on the network following its Alonzo upgrade last year. However, there have been some minor issues since then. SundaeSwap Goes Live on Cardano Four months later, the first Cardano-based decentralized app (dApp), SundaeSwap, launched its mainnet on January 20 after a series of private and public testing. The decentralized exchange (DEX) allows users to trade, stake, and lend...

The cryptocurrency lending platform – Nexo – joined forces with the Nasdaq-listed digital asset company – Bakkt Holdings. As a result, the latter will custody a portion of Nexo’s Bitcoin and Ethereum holdings in the Bakkt Warehouse. Bakkt’s Newest Partnership The Bakkt Warehouse comprises both online (“warm”) and offline (“cold”) digital asset storage. The company balances between the two tiers to minimize risks associated with cryptocurrency custody services. In a recent...

Tarjih Muhammadiyah is the third Islamic organization to issue a fatwa against the use of cryptocurrencies in Indonesia. Cryptocurrencies аnd Fatwas According to a report by CNBC Indonesia, the Tarjih Council and the Central Executive Tajdid of Muhammadiyah issued a new fatwa against cryptocurrency use, deeming it haram, or unlawful, for Muslims. The organization detailed two reasons behind the move. Firstly, it observed that digital assets such as Bitcoin are speculative and...

The digital asset exchange – CryptoCom – came up with an official statement regarding the latest attack on its platform. The company revealed that the incident affected nearly 500 people, but they were fully refunded. The Saga Had a Happy End In its most recent report, CryptoCom disclosed that it first found out about the issue in the early hours on Monday (January 17). The monitoring systems of the trading venue detected unauthorized activity on a small number of user...

While there have been calls by the cryptocurrency community for the SEC to provide clearer regulation for the industry, one of the agency’s commissioners thinks otherwise. SEC Does Not Need to Re-Invent the Wheel Allison Lee, a Commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while appearing at a D.C. bar event on crypto regulation, has said that cryptocurrencies do not need a special set of rules. According to Lee: “Rather than pursuing approaches that...

The central banking institution of the largest country by landmass – the Bank of Russia – urged the local government to impose a blanket ban on all cryptocurrency endeavors on Russian territory. It argued that digital assets remind of a pyramid scheme, undermine the sovereignty of monetary policy, and threaten the local financial network. Russia Calls for a Crypto Ban Many Russian authorities do not classify as the most crypto-friendly politicians since they have repeatedly...

US-based cryptocurrency custody and exchange Gemini has made its latest acquisition, with the company purchasing the trading technology startup, Omniex. Gemini announced the news of the acquisition in a blog post on Wednesday (January 19, 2022). According to the exchange platform, Omniex will be integrated into Gemini Prime, which was publicly launched following the acquisition. Prior to the latest development, Gemini Prime was only accessible to a select number of customers...

Serena Williams – arguably the best female tennis player to have ever played the game, at least measured by Grand Slam titles – has bought a Bored Ape NFT. Serena Williams is one of the most influential tennis players of the open era, having won a total of 23 Grand Slam titles in her career up to date. It appears, though, that she is also an avid enthusiast of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Her current Twitter profile picture is a pixelated Crypto Punk-inspired display. The...