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21 Feb 2022

Chainalysis Report: Majority of Crypto Whales are Criminals

According to the Chainalysis 2022 crypto crime report, criminals account for 3.7 percent of crypto whales. This comes as the blockchain analytics firm notes that criminal activity has increased in t

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20 Feb 2022

Open Losses Millions Worth of NFTs To Hackers

Hackers are purportedly targeting high-value NFTs on the OpenSea marketplace. Hackers are actively stealing NFTs and flipping them for a profit on OpenSea, the world's largest NFT platform, accordin

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20 Feb 2022

Web3 In Bringing Crypto into the Mainstream Market

Non fungible token (NFT) was named word of the year in 2021, decentralized finance was trending in mainstream media, and crypto companies made headlines for a variety of announcements. This is undou

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20 Feb 2022

Super Bowl Commercials Raise The Rate of Crypto App Downloads

The money spent on Super Bowl advertising by crypto companies has paid off. According to new data, crypto app installs in the United States increased 279 percent week over week. Following the Super

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18 Feb 2022

Dogecoin Creator, Billy Markus, Wants Twitter to Allow Tipping in DOGE

Billy Markus, co-creator of the original meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin, has revealed that he will strongly advocate for Twitter to add DOGE as a payment option via its tipping jar, following the addi

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18 Feb 2022

Sequoia Capital Will Launch a Crypto Fund Worth $600M

Sequoia Capital, one of the world's oldest and most successful venture capital firms, has announced the launch of a new cryptocurrency-focused fund. This will be the venture capital firm's first sec

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17 Feb 2022

Colorado To Start Accepting BTC Tax Payments By Summer

The race to be the first state in the United States to accept cryptocurrencies has begun. Colorado Governor Jared Polis recently announced that the state will begin accepting cryptocurrency as a for

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17 Feb 2022

The FBI is Establishing a National Crypto Unit 

According to Reuters, the US Justice Department FBI recently appointed Eun Young Choi, an experienced computer crimes prosecutor, to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement division. Deputy

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17 Feb 2022

President Nayib Bukele Slams US Senators

El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, asked US Senators to stay out of the country's internal affairs on Wednesday after they demanded an investigation into the economic risks the US faces as a res

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16 Feb 2022

Concerns over Binance Deal With Paysafe

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK's main financial regulator, has expressed worry over the recent Binance deal with Paysafe, a retail payment processor. The U.K. financial watchdog claime

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16 Feb 2022

Ripple (XRP) Booming Amidst SEC Case

Ripple Labs is locked in a legal struggle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which it appears to be winning. Ripple has won a number of tiny victories in the case, which could help it esta

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15 Feb 2022

YouTube Kicks Off Hiring Process for a Director To Manage Web3

The job posting lays out YouTube plans for a push into the metaverse, stating that it is searching for someone to design, convey, and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Web3. The job p

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15 Feb 2022

Cardano (ADA) Added To Google’s ICC Rate System

Cardano's market value has received widespread recognition. Google has now included ADA to their currency converter. Users of the search tool can now convert ADA to a variety of fiat currencies incl

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14 Feb 2022

Parag Agrawal Thinks Twitter Is The Forefront of Web3

Web 3 has won the hearts of developers all across the world, according to Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter, who also cites a talent migration. Twitter, he feels, plays a crucial part in this tendency.

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14 Feb 2022

El Salvador Billion Dollar Bitcoin Bond Launching Next Month

According to the country's finance minister, Alejandro Zelaya, El Salvador wants to issue its first bitcoin bond in March 2022. Alejandro Zelaya, speaking on a local television program in El Salv

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14 Feb 2022

Three NFTs Seized by UK Authorities in a $1.89M Fraud Case

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has seized three non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in what appears to be a first for the growing asset class. The seizures are part of an investigation into an alle

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13 Feb 2022

XRP Forecast 02/13: Is Ripple Hitting the $1 Mark

After plummeting by more than 70% in a correction between April 2021 and January 2022, the price of XRP has continued to recover. On February 13, XRP/USD climbed to $0.916, well above its 50-week

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13 Feb 2022

Cardano Surpasses BTC and ETH in Transaction Volume

On Sunday, crypto data aggregator Messari.io revealed that Cardano had surpassed Bitcoin and Ethereum in terms of transaction volume, rising to first place (adjusted transaction volume in the last 2

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13 Feb 2022

Rare Alien CryptoPunks NFT Gets Sold For Over $23 Million

Another one-of-a-kind CryptoPunks NFT has changed hands in a multi-million dollar transaction. Last night, Punk #5822, one of only nine Aliens in Larva Labs' renowned CryptoPunk collection, sold

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12 Feb 2022

More Update On the Ripple vs. SEC Case

The legal battle between Ripple and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a new turn, with Ripple filing a fresh move to compel the government to turn up notes from a meetin

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12 Feb 2022

Coinbase Removes “How to Buy” Links From Website

According to Reuters, popular crypto exchange, Coinbase has removed access to "how to buy" instructions for three cryptocurrency projects from its website. The tokens – DeFi100, Mercenary, and SQ

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12 Feb 2022

Governor Of Hungary’s Central Bank Proposes EU-Wide Ban On Bitcoin

The Governor of the Hungarian National Bank, György Matolcsy, has advocated a blanket ban on all cryptocurrency trading and mining operations within the European Union. Governor Matolcsy referenc

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11 Feb 2022

Binance Invests $200 Million In Forbes

According to a Forbes release, leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has made a $200 million strategic investment in the American business magazine Forbes and Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited. T

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11 Feb 2022

How China’s Metaverse Plan is Going

According to experts, China's Metaverse will evolve considerably differently than other international marketplaces, and decentralized infrastructure may not be part of the game plan. The Sino Met

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10 Feb 2022

Shiba Inu Lists Shiba Land as Metaverse Precursor

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10 Feb 2022

OpenSea Number of Active Users Decreases By Over 30%

OpenSea, the world's largest NFT marketplace, has generated over $1.3 billion in total volume in the last 7 days, keeping pace with January's total volume of $5 billion. However, the number of activ

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09 Feb 2022

U.S. Justice Department Recovers $3.6 Billion From Bitfinex Hackers

The Department of Justice said on February 8 that Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Heather Morgan, 31, both of New York, were detained for suspected conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen c

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09 Feb 2022

Russia Planning to Legalize Bitcoin In Nine Days!

HODLers in Russia have reason to rejoice, since cryptocurrency ownership in the country may soon be permitted. According to a February 8 declaration, the Russian government and central bank are work

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09 Feb 2022

iPhone’s New Feature Will Allow Users To Make Crypto Payments

Apple has revealed plans to release Tap to Pay for iPhone, a new feature that effectively transforms the smartphone into a point of sale system for companies and retailers. So, what's in it for cryp

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08 Feb 2022

Binance on Making the Crypto Industry Safer For Users

Decentralization, which eliminates intermediaries and empowers people to control their own money, is at the heart of the cryptocurrency industry. With decentralization as the primary purpose of digi

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08 Feb 2022

QiDAO Lost $13 Million To Hackers

A security breach cost QiDAO, a decentralized finance system built on the Polygon network, $13 million in losses. The issue does not affect Qi DAO's primary contracts, but rather a vesting contract

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07 Feb 2022

Polygon Gets $450 Million In New Funding Round

Scaling solution for Layer 2 Polygon has raised $450 million in a funding round led by some of blockchain's largest venture funds, demonstrating that significant investors are interested in supporti

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05 Feb 2022

How Robinhood’s Listing of Shiba Inu is Going

In a recent interview, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that the platform would undoubtedly offer more cryptocurrencies for consumers. The CEO made the statement while answering queries from users wi

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03 Feb 2022

The $300 Million Solana-Ethereum Wormhole Exploit

Developers have successfully corrected a gap exploited by an attacker to transfer tokens between the Solana and Ethereum networks via Wormhole, a bridge protocol. According to a tweet from Wormho

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08 Feb 2022

Kanye West Have No Interest In NFTs

Celebrities are rushing into the burgeoning non-fungible token (NFT) arena, whether they're selling their own NFTs or spending millions of dollars collecting from the most popular sets. Kanye Wes

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31 Jan 2022

Report: Binance Restricting Almost 300 Nigerian Accounts

Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has explained why 281 Nigerian users' accounts have been suspended. Changpeng Zhao, the company's CEO, wrote in a letter that 38 perc

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31 Jan 2022

Gemini Now Sponsors of Real Bedford FC

Gemini, a crypto exchange based in New York, has announced a sponsorship partnership with Real Bedford FC, an English football team owned by Peter McCormack, a well-known bitcoin investor and podcas

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30 Jan 2022

Elon Musk Thinks Robinhood Wallets Will Be A Huge Deal For Dogecoin

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, feels that Robinhood wallets will be a significant issue for Dogecoin since the top meme cryptocurrency will no longer be considered as a speculative investment by Robin

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30 Jan 2022

BSTX Is The First Blockchain-Powered Securities Exchange

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States has given BSTX conditional approval to operate as a trading facility of BOX Exchange. BSTX was founded in 2018 with the goal of beco

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29 Jan 2022

What to Know About the PayPal Stablecoin

After a developer discovered signs of such a stablecoin within the source code of PayPal's iPhone app, the company acknowledged on Jan. 8 that it is "exploring a stablecoin" that may be dubbed PayPa

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27 Jan 2022

Coinbase Reveals it Has Plans Beyond Cryptocurrency

Because its platform is frequently people's first engagement with the crypto market, Coinbase has become synonymous with cryptocurrency. However, cryptocurrency trading is only the beginning of Coin

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26 Jan 2022

Trump Family Will Be Taking A Legal Action Against Trumpcoin

TrumpCoin (TRUMP), a low-cap cryptocurrency, has finally incurred the wrath of the Trump family six years after its launch. On Jan. 25, Donald Trump's second son Eric threatened legal action agai

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26 Jan 2022

Russia Finance Minster Thinks Crypto Should Be Regulated, not Banned

“The first that should be done is to protect the interests of citizens, consumers of such services, those buying these assets or using the cryptocurrency in certain other process solutions. In this

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25 Jan 2022

Singer Liam Payne Has a Twitter Account Dedicated to Crypto

On his new stan account for NFTs, Liam Payne is expanding out from his 34 million Twitter followers to develop his own crypto-centric micro-following. The former member of One Direction asked his

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25 Jan 2022

Elon Musk Will Eat Happy Meal on TV if McDonald’s Accepts Dogecoin

With a pledge to consume one of their most popular food combos, the McDonald's Happy Meal, the world's richest man is asking one of America's oldest fast-food restaurant franchises, McDonald's, to a

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23 Jan 2022

Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin Burned $7B Shiba Inu

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, was recently interviewed on the UpOnly podcast. Buterin spoke for nearly two hours with Cobie and Ledger of the FTX-affiliated podcast, in which he explained

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23 Jan 2022

Elon Musk Thinks Twitter’s New NFT Feature is Annoying

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), isn't convinced by Twitter's new NFT integration function. Musk attacked Facebook in a Friday morning tweet for committing engineering resources on NFT int

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22 Jan 2022

Cardano Beats Ethereum In Chain Activity and Transaction Volume

In terms of transaction volume, Cardano (ADA), the largest proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain network, continues to surpass Ethereum (ETH). According to data from Messari's most active chains dashboard

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