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OKEx has come a long way. From claims about fake trading volume to initiating socialized losses, it hasn’t always been an easy ride. Yet the young company’s slogan “it’s OK to be bold” forms its very ethos. Bold, indeed, it has been. And it’s gone on to become one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency spot […]

The managing partner and co-founder of crypto hedge fund Multicoin Capital, Kyle Samani, says that the crypto market structure “broke” last week on account of a bottleneck in the Bitcoin blockchain and miners shuttering operations. Samani drew the conclusion in a blog piece Wednesday titled “March 12: The Day Crypto Market Structure Broke,” a post-mortem […]

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart has ordered Craig Wright to pay $165,000 in fees to Ira Kleiman’s legal team. The original sum requested by Roche Freedman exceeded $650,000, which the judge found to be “excessive” and “unreasonable”, as they were way higher than the relevant market rates in the state of Florida. Judge deems Kleiman’s […]

The crypto industry saw an intense flash crash last week that sent Bitcoin and the aggregated market reeling lower, with BTC’s sharp decline being perpetuated by a cascade of liquidations on popular trading platform BitMEX. This decline proved to be devastating for the DeFi ecosystem, with a myriad of collateralized loans on popular platforms being […]

The U.S. stock market rebounded today following yesterday’s unprecedented selloff, with all of the major indices climbing over five percent today. This led Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto market to follow suit, with BTC and most other altcoins posting decent gains over the past 24-hours. This ongoing rebound may be short-lived, however, as the benchmark […]

There is no doubt that “Bitcoin miner capitulation” is the flavor of the week for Crypto Twitter. Since BTC plunged dozens of percent over the span of 48 hours, all investors have been able to talk about is a potential collapse in the mining ecosystem. While many of these fearful investors are making such discussion […]

Glancing at Bitcoin’s price performance over the past week, punctuated by a 50 percent decline on the days Mar. 12 and 13, it’s easy to say that “crypto is dead.” Case in point: Peter Brandt, a long-time commodities trader that once said BTC could hit $50,000 and beyond, recently argued that if he looks at […]

Digital payment provider Crypto.com has introduced rewards on purchases using its gift cards. According to the company’s announcement, purchases at select locations, including grocers, department stores, and food delivery services, will earn them 2x Pay Rewards. Earn rewards by paying with Crypto.com gift cards The coronavirus pandemic has left most of the world quarantined at […]

This spring the crypto community will head online to participate in the first-ever BlockDown remote crypto conference and hear from visionary blockchain entrepreneurs and business leaders, including global music artist Akon, Co-Founder & Chairman of Akoin, Roger Ver, Executive Chairman of Bitcoin.com, and Bitcoin Educator Jimmy Song. With multiple crypto conferences globally postponed or delayed […]

Binance has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange WazirX to create a “Blockchain for India” fund worth $50 million. The fund plans on investing upwards of $100,000 in startups working on fiat-to-digital gateways, payment, and remittance solutions, DeFi, and trading platforms, the Economic Times reported. Binance boosting India’s blockchain ecosystem with $50M Binance, one of the world’s […]