Experts are anticipating a stock market crash in the near term. Bitcoin may follow suit due to three main factors. Experts in the financial market and the crypto industry foresee a major stock market correction unfolding in the short term. Given the high correlation of Bitcoin (BTC) with stocks observed in the past three months, […]
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Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says recent high fees could be blackmail. Multiple transactions recently incurred millions in transaction fees on the Etheruem network, which creator Vitalik Buterin thinks could have been blackmail. “So the million-dollar txfees *may* actually be blackmail,” Buterin said in a June 12 tweet. What happened? Proposing his theory on the situation, […]
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Maze ransomware group threatens to leak stolen data from Threadstone Advisors, LLC. Ransomware gang, Maze, strikes again. This time, the victim is a US-based independent advisory firm specializing in the consumer and retail sectors. They have a number of big clients including businesswoman and former Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham. Maze’s official dark web blog lists […]
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Coinbase’s institutional custody platform tweeted out a Tether (USDT) support unveiling, only to subsequently delete the tweet. Coinbase Custody, an international institutional cryptocurrency holdings arm of well-known U.S. exchange Coinbase, announced compatibility for stablecoin Tether (USDT), only to delete traces of the announcement shortly thereafter. Coinbase Custody, as well as Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino, unveiled […]
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Experts say CoinMarketCap’s update is not good enough after the latest method tweak causes further controversy among the community. For reasons of vanity as well as for those of industry health, it’s important to have a good method for ranking crypto exchanges and coins. But as the past few years have shown, no foolproof method […]
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The Libra Association just filled a key role. The Libra Association, the group behind Facebook’s digital asset endeavor, unveiled an update to its brass. The association announced Sterling Daines fills the role of announced its Chief Compliance Officer, or CCO, at the ourfit, said a statement provided to Cointelegraph staff. Daines will leave his post at Credit […]
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Blockchain firm Prysmatic Labs announced the launch of a new test network of the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain. Blockchain firm Prysmatic Labs announced the launch of a new test network for the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain. According to a June 10 announcement, Prysmatic Labs is launching the Onyx Ethereum 2.0 testnet — which represents an improvement over […]
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Indian police are collaborating with local research and academic institutions to inform an AI-powered online portal to aid policing initiatives targeting the dark web. A think-tank spanning Indian law enforcement, academic institutions, startups, and research and development organizations has begun working to bolster India’s darknet policing capabilities. The initiative has seen roughly one dozen “problem […]
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Commercial service on Crypto Garage’s Settlenet system, trialled for a year within Japan’s regulatory sandbox, is now available. Japanese blockchain development company Crypto Garage announced it was launching commercial service on its Settlenet platform for the crypto OTC market. According to an update on Digital Garage’s website posted on June 8, its Crypto Garage venture […]
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The community is taking issue with the fact that BitMEX is ranked 175th by CoinMarketCap, but other derivatives platforms are not properly ranked as well. Following the latest CoinMarketCap update which introduced the “Confidence factor” to rank exchanges, users are taking issues at perceived injustices against popular platforms. A pseudonymous Twitter user going by the […]
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