Don’t worry, Mrs. Rowling. We’ll have you understanding Bitcoin before you can say “Quidditch”. As part of a recent tweet calling on all novelists to message her with their questions on Bitcoin, CoinDesk journalist Leigh Cuen publicized a tweeted response from none other than beloved Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling. “I don’t understand Bitcoin,” […]
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The action in altcoins has become coin specific, meaning, traders should remain with those that are in an uptrend as they are likely to follow Bitcoin if it moves higher. A month after the first halving, Bitcoin (BTC) moved up by 7% but following the second halving, the price slipped by 10% in a month. […]
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OKEx’s chief strategy officer does not agree with CoinMarketCap’s recent exchange ranking changes, calling the site “dead.” OkEx chief strategy officer, Alysa Xu, called out crypto data site CoinMarketCap, or CMC, for its recent exchange ranking rationale, proclaiming the platform dead. “Fairness and justice are the basis of all rankings,” Xu said in a May […]
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Amid the COVID-19 slowdown, institution-facing liquidity aggregator FalconX has raised $17 million from top VCs in the crypto space. Institution-facing liquidity aggregator, FalconX, has announced a $17 million fundraising round including participation from Coinbase Ventures, Accel, and a venture capital firm associated with FMR LLC — the parent company of Fidelity Investments. FalconX will use […]
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Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital has been accepted into the Toronto Stock Exchange’s sandbox, with hopes of graduating onto its senior platform after 12 months. Crypto venture capital firm and trading desk, Galaxy Digital Holdings, has been granted conditional approval to participate in the Toronto Stock Exchange’s TSX Sandbox. Announced during April last year, TSX’s sandbox […]
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Telegram’s TON network and coin were destined to fail with regulators, experts say. So, what’s left of the project? Telegram Open Network is off to a very uncertain future. Earlier this week, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced his company’s “active involvement with TON” was over, following a drawn-out legal battle with the United States Securities […]
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Another cryptocurrency exchange delists XMR in South Korea in the midst of the Nth room sex scandal case. Cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, officially announced that they will be delisting Monero (XMR) from their trading platform as of June 1. According to local media outlet, Newsway, Bithumb’s delisting auditory board decided to permanently remove the coin after […]
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A database of 129 million Russian car drivers is being exposed on the darknet for just 0.3 Bitcoin or about $2,900. The major cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), continues to be actively used for illicit activity. Anonymous hackers have taken the data of over 129 million Russian car owners to expose it on the darknet in exchange […]
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CME Bitcoin options open interest has soared to $142 million in the first half of May, marking an increase of over 10 times the value at the end of last month. Open interest on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Bitcoin options has skyrocketed over the past few days, to hit $142 million as of May 15. According […]
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FTX debuts a product which delivers quarterly settlements based on Bitcoin’s hash rate, calculated using the average difficulty. Bitcoin (BTC) holders now have a new tool to leverage the largest cryptocurrency’s growing ecosystem as two new futures markets go live. In a blog post on May 15, derivatives platform FTX confirmed it had launched a […]
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