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Bitcoin is up 60 percent in the past month alone. This performance makes it the best-performing macro asset, hands down. It’s no surprise that considering this performance, investors want in. While retail interest in the cryptocurrency market has yet to pick up as BTC is not yet past its $20,000 all-time high, Wall Street investors […]

While he’s not an outspoken advocate for cryptocurrency, Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known online as “PewDiePie,” has been increasingly been getting involved in the space, often through sponsorships. This much was made clear just recently when he briefly mentioned Ethereum in a YouTube video that has been watched nearly four million times as of this […]

Eoghan McCabe, the co-founder of the software conglomerate Intercom, said he jumped onto the Bitcoin wagon. In a tweet, McCabe encouraged others to do the same. In recent months, the perception of Bitcoin as a store of value and a hedge against inflation has been strengthening. The purchase of $425 million worth of Bitcoin announced […]

The banks are borderline following the playbook created by Bitcoin and cryptocurrency believers in the past few years: Deny all ties to the asset class at first, try to disallow clients from banking crypto profits to their accounts then, and wholeheartedly embracing the sector later. Citibank’s the latest to do so, after banks in Asia […]

According to Arcane Research, the “7-day average daily real bitcoin volume” hit a yearly high. It comes after the top cryptocurrency exhibited significant momentum in recent weeks. But the market is starting to show extreme greed. Bitcoin is showing some resilience above $16,000. Although there is low resistance above $16k, analysts say that a pullback […]

It may seem like a broken record at this point but yet another decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol was recently exploited. And, once again, the exploit took place on a competitor of Yearn.finance (YFI). Here’s more about what happened, and what DeFi users can do to prevent their funds from being attacked moving forward. Yearn.finance fork […]

Ever wondered how much cryptocurrency Wall Street veteran Mike Novogratz owns (or at least owned)? In a recent podcast, he recently answered this question and also revealed his thoughts about the Bitcoin and broader crypto market. How much Bitcoin and Ethereum did Mike Novogratz buy? Mike Novogratz became one of the earliest Wall Street supporters […]

In May, Bitcoin underwent its long-awaited block reward halving. The number of coins mined per block was cut in half, leading many to expect a massive surge as the market supply of BTC was technically supposed to decrease relative to demand. And it did… kinda. Since the halving, Bitcoin has gained 70 to 80 percent […]

On-chain analysis and security company Chainalysis announced the launch of its “asset realization program” to help government agencies and insolvency practitioners handle, store, realize, and monitor seized assets, as per a release earlier this week. The program was launched just days after US authorities seized over $1 billion in Bitcoin—belonging to the now-defunct darknet marketplace […]

If you’ve followed DeFi on Twitter, you’ve likely heard of the name “DegenSpartan.” The pseudonymous investor, believed to be based in Asia, has become one of the most popular voices within the Ethereum and DeFi community, having entered this crypto industry extremely early on. The thing is, no one knows where he came from, who […]