Robinhood cited a large growth in the popularity of cryptocurrency on its platform, reporting today that more new users bought crypto with their first trade rather than stocks in the three months ending June 30. The company also disclosed that more than 60% of its funded accounts engaged in crypto trading during this time. The …
A newly-discovered tool on the dark web lets criminals check how clean their Bitcoin is. The tool, called Antinalysis, was likely built by an administrator of a darknet market to help their merchants launder Bitcoin, according to an analysis by Tom Robinson, co-founder of London-based blockchain investigation firm Elliptic. After a wallet is linked to …
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Anchorage Digital announced today that it would be able to take custody of the dYdX governance token on customers’ behalf as soon as the token launches. Anchorage already supports 57 digital assets, including stablecoins such as USDC, market cap leaders such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and decentralized finance (DeFi) governance tokens such as Compound. dYdX …
Ethereum-based NFT game Axie Infinity has crossed $1 billion in sales, data from CryptoSlam! shows. As of this writing, $1,055,735 worth of tokens from the Pokémon-inspired NFT game have traded hands through 2.4 million transactions. There are 324,850 buyers, 936,065 owners, and more than a million daily active users. The milestone is the latest piece …
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OpenSea, a popular marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), generated roughly $95 million in trading volume over the past weekend—nearly five times more than during the whole year of 2020. “In 2020, OpenSea did about $21M in total transaction volume. In the last two days, we did $95M. The growth curve for NFTs is insane,” tweeted …
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Dogecoin has had a wild 2021 to date, climbing more than 13,000% from a price point under a penny at the start of the year to a peak above $0.73 per DOGE in May—and a steady decline amidst wider market struggles to a recent low of about $0.17. Today, however, Dogecoin is the biggest winner …
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Here’s something you might have missed amid news this week that cryptocurrency exchange FTX had raised $900 million in the largest ever funding round for a crypto exchange: Binance, an early investor, exited its position. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and Binance CEO Changpeng «CZ» Zhao, in multiple (separate) interviews, both tried to frame the breakup …
El Salvador’s government could be planning to release a U.S. dollar stablecoin, investigative news outlet El Faro reported Friday. The currency would be issued by the central bank, pegged to the value of the U.S. dollar and backed by reserves of real U.S. dollars. #ElSalvador | El Gobierno de Nayib Bukele planea introducir una nueva …
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The price of RUNE, the native token of decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity protocol Thorchain, dropped by about 15% today following yesterday’s attack which saw hackers drain 2,500 Ethereum (ETH) tokens (around $4.8 million at current prices) from the platform’s liquidity pools. At the time of writing, RUNE was trading at around $4.82, down 15.1% over …
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Greenidge Generation has made millions of dollars mining somewhere between 3.8 to 4 Bitcoin per day at its Dresden, NY facility. Critics have argued the facility damages the local environment, and even undermines New York State’s climate goals. Last week brought further controversy for Greenidge, after NBC News reported on claims that Seneca Lake—which is …
Is Seneca Lake Being Warmed By Bitcoin Mining? Not Quite. Leer más »