Elliptic (a British blockchain security & analytics company) successfully traced DarkSide’s primary Bitcoin address, which contained over $90M in payments from 47 different victims. Ransomware As a Service – a Twisted Model DarkSide designs, creates and markets ransomware software to be sold to other cybercriminals who are able to locate the best targets. This type...Read More
All transactions above $10,000 now have to be reported to the IRS for documentation and taxation purposes. This comes right after a major market-wide correction which saw the price of bitcoin tumbling down to $30K. IRS Doubles Down The IRS will be expanded with an $80B package aiming to increase their manpower and resources. Individuals...Read More
The Australian Financial Services Minister – Jane Hume – warned cryptocurrency investors to beware of the risks in the market. She sounded a note of caution to the public after the prices of most digital assets collapsed significantly yesterday. However, Hume outlined their future importance. ‘They Are Volatile And High-Risk Assets’ Following the recent bloodbath,...Read More
Pancake Bunny, Binance Smart Chain’s largest yield aggregator service, has suffered a flash loan attack in which over $44M was stolen by an outside exploiter. Pancake Bunny’s underlying native token, BUNNY, crashed from $150 to $1 within seconds. Bunny Fam Today at 10:34 UTC, PancakeBunny was attacked with an economic exploit that crashed the price...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Sportbet.one is a decentralized gambling platform built on the EOS blockchain. It offers a wide range of sporting events and casino games, allowing players to make bets and earn money hassle-free. With sportbet.one, players can easily withdraw earnings to any crypto exchange or wallet. Transparency, reliability, and simplicity are...Read More
Bitcoin’s 2021 bull cycle was paused, not entirely stopped, and will resume, opined the founder of SkyBridge Capital – Anthony Scaramucci. In a new interview, the former White House Communications Director addressed the recent environmental issues and called Bitcoin a fully robust monetary network. Yesterday’s market crash that saw bitcoin sliding by more than $10,000...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Ta’ Xbiex, Malta, 20th May 2021] Virtue Poker will commence its Initial DEX Offering (IDO) on SuperFarm’s new launchpad platform come May 28, 2021. The ConsenSys-backed poker platform is expanding its reach into the NFT space. By partnering with SuperFarm, there will be future joint initiatives to make this expansion successful. To...Read More
Today, we announced that we are changing the Lot Size, or minimum trading unit, on our popular XBTUSD Swap and XBT futures (XBTM21 and XBTU21) from 1 contract to 100 contracts, effective 04:30 UTC on 8 June 2021. We expect a 10-second pause in trading starting at 04:30 UTC on 8 June 2021 to apply...Read More
We are making it easier and more intuitive to trade on BitMEX by changing the Lot Size, or minimum trading unit, on our popular XBTUSD Swap and XBT futures (XBTM21 and XBTU21) from 1 contract to 100 contracts, effective 04:30 UTC on 8 June 2021. We ask that traders adjust their positions, strategies, and...Read More
Scott Minerd – Global Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of Guggenheim Partners – compared the recent crypto market collapse to the ”Tulipmania’ in the 17th century. His current stance came somewhat unexpectedly since not long ago, he predicted a price of $600,000 for Bitcoin. Crypto Is a ‘Tulipmania’ The recent crypto market crash created an...Read More
The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem saw its fast bloom in the summer and autumn of 2020, with projects like Uniswap, Sushiswap, and Aave putting immense stress on the Ethereum blockchain, as these projects use it as a base for their operations. Advertisement Nowadays, with the introduction of Binance’s Smart Chain and its capabilities, the world...Read More
The price of Dogecoin jumped by 20% in minutes after another pro-tweet from Tesla’s CEO – Elon Musk. The billionaire posted a rather intriguing tweet that included a one-dollar bill and DOGE. In his latest pro-DOGE initiative on social media, Musk posted a picture with a text reading “cyberviking.” In the background, though, there’s a...Read More
With the advancements in the crypto sector, more and more businesses are trying to create a bridge between the world of crypto and traditional products and services. Advertisement BoozeMoon is bringing a craft beer experience with a crypto token twist. The company has established a partnership with a craft beer brewery in Germany, and token holders...Read More
Abstract: In this piece, BitMEX grantee Calvin Kim explains why the order in which blocks are validated does not matter under Utreexo. This is because the disk space savings make UTXO snapshots practical, which in turn allows for the parallelisation of the validation of the Bitcoin Blockchain. Calvin goes on to explain that one can...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, 20th May 2021] Moma Procotol announces that their initial DEX offering (IDO) partner will be Ignition, the launchpad of Paid Network. Led by serial blockchain entrepreneur, Ocean Liao, and a group of experienced developers from Fudan University, Moma Protocol is allowing anyone to create, manage and accelerate DeFi lending markets...Read More
We’re not saying that our engineering team relies solely on Crypto Twitter for guidance on prioritising platform development work, but it’s been impossible to ignore the ‘BitMEX Order Submission Error’ meme that has been posted pretty much every time we’ve put our heads above the parapet over the last few years. Being the first to...Read More
[Sponsored] As the DeFi space continues to boom, plenty of teams are looking to build sufficient infrastructure to accommodate the growing user base. In late 2020, a new crypto project Unicrypt was introduced into the crypto space. The idea behind the platform’s launch was to create a self-sustainable launchpad platform. This would help many upcoming...Read More
The -50% Dump Was Little Different! Bitcoin price rally gained huge traction since the beginning of 2021 as it rose like a giant in no time. The BTC price trended sideways as the altcoins began to grow remarkably in the past couple of weeks. Advertisement However, the black wednesday of May 2021, shook the entire...Read More
The fingers are pointing at Elon Musk, China, and even U.S. lawmakers, but the truth behind this week’s epic crypto market crash could be even simpler. A highly overheated market combined with billions in leveraged positions was poised to crack at some stage, and the avalanche created by cascaded liquidations appears to be what we...Read More
