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According to cybersecurity firm CertiK, the number of crypto hacks and exploits rose to 303 incidents in 2024, up from 282 in 2023.
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Bitcoin To Blast Off? Trump’s Fury Over Interest Rates Signals Big Move
Bitcoin experts are buzzing as President-elect Donald Trump lashed out against current Federal Reserve policy, calling interest rates “far too high” despite persistent inflationary pressures. “We are inheriting a difficult situation from the…
Ripple President Suggests XRP ETF Could Follow Bitcoin and Ether ETFs
Bitcoin and ether ETFs could be followed by an XRP ETF with a crypto-friendly Trump administration on the horizon. XRP ETF Could Be the Next Biggest Thing for Crypto in the U.S. Ripple President Monica Long stated in a Bloomberg interview on…
Steve Hanke Is Wrong About the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Steve Hanke is wrong about something Bitcoin related once again. He’s recently taken aim at the idea of the U.S. creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR).In the video embedded in the X post below, Hanke claimed that converting government savings…
Binance’s 2024 Year-End Report Reveals $100 Trillion Milestone
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange displayed its dominance across several key metrics including cumulative historical trading volume and number of registered users. Cryptocurrency Behemoth Touts Mind-Bending Trading Volume Binance, the…
Bitcoin traders set $80K short-term price target as DXY hits new highs
Bitcoin sweeps new 2025 lows as Treasury yields rise, and the strengthening US dollar Index forces crypto analysts to revise their short-term price expectations.
Judge pushes Mango Markets exploiter sentencing to April 10
Avi Eisenberg was found guilty of fraud and market manipulation in April 2024 and could face up to 20 years in prison.
70 Million DOGE Make Their Way To Binance Amid 10% Dogecoin Price Crash
Whale Alert, a prominent crypto and blockchain tracking platform, has spotted a massive DOGE deposit amid the Dogecoin price crash. This enormous deposit, involving over 70 million DOGE tokens, was moved by an anonymous whale to Binance, the…
Starknet launches SN Stack, allowing developers to build custom chains
Zero-knowledge technology continues to be a popular method to scale cryptocurrencies while providing quantum-resistant security.
QCP Capital: Bitcoin Slump Sets Stage for Potential Bullish Rally Near Trump’s Inauguration
Bitcoin plummeted beneath the $95,000 threshold following unexpectedly vigorous U.S. employment data, fostering a pervasive risk-averse mood across markets, QCP Capital observed. Risk-Off Wave Hits Bitcoin — QCP Capital Reports Job Data…
CFTC chair’s final message includes a call for crypto guardrails
In what he said would be his last remarks as CFTC chair, Rostin Behnam said he intended to advocate for the commission to address regulatory challenges over digital assets.
Don't Buy The Bitcoin Dip
Follow Frank on X. With bitcoin’s price dipping significantly below $100k again, the “buy the dip” cheerleaders are out in full force.But I’m here to offer a different perspective, which is simply: Don’t buy the dip.Before I continue, let me ple
PEPE In Jeopardy? Bearish Momentum Drives Price Toward $0.00001731
PEPE is under pressure as its price approaches the critical $0.00001731 level, a support zone that has repeatedly tested bulls’ resilience. The renewed bearish momentum highlights growing concerns about the token’s ability to maintain…
The Lightning Network Privacy Big Picture: Don't Forget the NSA
One of the secondary benefits of how the Lightning Network works as a scaling solution is privacy. It’s by no means perfect or undefeatable privacy, but it is a better than naive use of the base layer blockchain itself. It’s also not perfectly…
Decentralization is in danger — We can fix it
We can preserve Bitcoin’s core principles while enabling advanced functionality and interoperability.
Pudgy Penguins’ NFT sales nosedive as token rallies: Nifty Newsletter
Pudgy Penguins’ PENGU token jumps 13% despite NFT sales dropping over 50%, fueled by a viral marketing campaign.
Bitcoin Eyes Potential Rebound To $98,600, But Analyst Suggests Caution
The market’s New Year rebound turned into a start-of-year retrace after Bitcoin (BTC) dropped from the recently reclaimed $100,000 support into the $94,000 territory. Amid the drop, an analyst shared his “cautiously bullish” outlook for BTC’s…
XRP Market Update: Short Sellers Capitalize on Bearish Trends Below $2.30
XRP is trading at $2.19 to $2.25 over the last hour, with a 24-hour trading volume of $7.85 billion, a market cap of $127 billion, and an intraday price range of $2.21 to $2.35, reflecting notable bearish trends across all major timeframes. XRP…
Buying Greenland Would Be A Huge Boost to US Bitcoin Mining
Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts In less than two weeks, the United States will have a new administration in office, but there’s already much debate about President-elect Donald Trump and his policies.One of the most…
Caution Reigns As Bitcoin Slips Under $100K And Funding Rates Reflect Fear
Bitcoin started the year with a strong price rally, surging by 5% on January 6th to reclaim the $100k mark for the first time in weeks. The asset’s price continued its run up to $102,760 before undergoing a healthy correction, pushing it back below…
Bitcoin price dip to $92.5K caused by Fed interest rate concerns: Analyst
Rising concerns about Federal Reserve monetary policy and rising bond rates are having a negative impact on Bitcoin’s price.
Movement Labs to close $100M VC round: Report
The deal would reportedly value the layer-2 developer at around $3 billion, Fortune reported.
Sol Strategies Invests $25 Million CAD in Solana Ecosystem
A credit facility worth $25 million CAD has been obtained by Sol Strategies to purchase Solana tokens. Sol Strategies Goes Big on Solana Sol Strategies Inc., a Canadian holding company that invests in the Solana ecosystem announced that it has…
Virtuals Protocol Discord server hacked, fake Google links posted
The security incidents occurred days after a researcher discovered a critical bug in a Virtuals Protocol audited contract, which was fixed.
Price analysis 1/8: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, AVAX, SUI, LINK
Bitcoin’s sell-off shows no signs of forming a bottom, which is destroying traders’ appetite for altcoins.
Using Mining To Create More Fully Validating Bitcoin Users
Bitcoin’s value proposition relies on its ability to resist any type of censorship. Without that feature, Bitcoin loses its power to challenge and resist any authority that wants to subjugate Bitcoin to the same rules that apply in the traditional…
Agora, Galaxy complete AUSD stablecoin’s first live transaction
Agora’s AUSD is the latest entrant into the burgeoning stablecoin market.
Bitcoin Technical Analysis: Bulls Face an Uphill Battle as Resistance Looms at $98,000
Bitcoin is trading at $94,790 to $95,277 over the two hours with a market cap of $1.88 trillion, 24-hour volume of $67.64 billion, and a 24-hour intraday range between $94,511 and $98,202. Bitcoin Bitcoin‘s hourly chart indicates a recent…
Dogecoin Liquidations Cross $24 Million As Bulls Suffer Double-Digit Beat Down
Amid the wider market decline, meme coin Dogecoin has seen its price retrace by about 10% in the past 24 hours. At the same time, data from Coinglass shows that over $24 million worth of Dogecoin positions have been liquidated in the ensuing…
Top crypto adopters in 2025: Institutions, retail, low-income countries
Cryptocurrency holders worldwide are poised to reach a new all-time high in 2025, the CEO of Chainalysis told Cointelegraph.