The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly after the owner of a crypto scheme, which misled over a thousand of its investors and clients. It seeks $572 million in financial penalties and restitution. $270M Worth Of BTC Stolen From More Than A Thousand Customers Аs per a recent report, the alleged Bitcoin trading pyramid Control-Finance...Read More
The US Department of Justice has alleged that Joseph Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer of Uber, has covered up a 2016 hack on the company that compromised data of millions of users and drivers. According to the DOJ, Sullivan paid the hackers $100,000 in Bitcoin. Uber Former CSO Covers Up A Hack? The announcement...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has recovered from some of the losses it registered in the past few days. Bitcoin is up by 1%, while some altcoins are marking impressive double and even triple-digit gains with OMG Network leading the pack. Altcoins With Massive Moves The altcoin market became accustomed to significant fluctuations, and the past 24...Read More
Hackers pulled off a successful ransomware attack on COVID-19 researchers from the University of California in San Francisco and received 116 bitcoins. Now, recently surfaced transcripts reveal how the entire operation played out. Phase One: The Hack Although the name of the group was initially a mystery, the Bloomberg report said that the organization had...Read More
The global crypto market continues to slide today as another $11 billion pours out. This exodus of investment has now kicked Bitcoin outside of the rising channel that it’s been tracking inside of (mostly) for the past 22 days. What was acting as reliable support has now flipped into a strong resistance level and could...Read More
As the DeFi and yield farming craze continues to entertain the cryptocurrency industry, the price of yEarn. Finance’s native token YFI has gone parabolic, surpassing Bitcoin’s by almost $1,000. This makes YFI the most expensive crypto asset in the market. 1 YFI = 1.15 BTC According to data on Binance, the DeFi token is trading...Read More
Bitcoin has further declined to $11,750, while most of the larger-cap altcoins continue to bleed out with Ethereum close to testing $400. Lower-cap alts chart some notable performances in both directions. Bitcoin Dips To $11,750 The primary cryptocurrency attracted the community’s attention a few days ago when it reached a new yearly high of over...Read More
Google trends data reveals that the number of “buy crypto” searches has exploded worldwide in the past few weeks to a two-year high. Simultaneously, the “buy Bitcoin” searches, which jumped prior to the 2020 halving and decreased immediately after, have increased since late July. Buy Crypto Searches To A Two-Year High According to Google trends,...Read More
US authorities have charged with fraud and money laundering five people operating a Bitcoin mining Ponzi scheme. Called AirBit Club, the scam operated since 2015 and duped numerous victims into investing by promising alluring but false returns. How Did AirBit Club Operate? According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Pablo Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg...Read More
Bitcoin’s run above $12,000 was short-lived as the asset has tanked by 4% in the past 24 hours to $11,800. However, BTC’s dominance over the market has increased slightly as most altcoins have plummeted as well. Bitcoin Fails To Stay Above $12K Bitcoin’s latest attempt to conquer $12,000 seemed successful at first glance, unlike the...Read More
Bitcoin’s exciting bull run might be over as quickly as it started after prices failed to close above the $12,400 daily resistance yesterday. Any hopes of a parabolic continuation will now have to be put on hold as bulls recover from the sharp decline. In the last 24 hours, the global crypto market capital has...Read More
There’s never a boring day in the cryptocurrency field and things tend to change in the blink of an eye. Just earlier today, the total market capitalization was sitting comfortably at a 14-month high, and it took less than a few minutes for upwards of $10 billion to be wiped off its sheet. This happened...Read More
DeFi tokens are leading crypto markets to their highest levels in terms of total market capitalization for over a year. One of the top-performing digital assets at the moment is YFI, as it surges over 70% on the day to reach an all-time high at $12,821. It has become the only cryptocurrency since 2016 to...Read More
Bitcoin bulls have successfully retained its price above the psychological $12,000 level after yesterday’s push.Elsewhere, Chainlink retraced considerably since marking consecutive ATHs, while Yearn.Finance reached a fresh all-time high just a few hours ago. Bitcoin Price Holds $12,000 The primary cryptocurrency attempted to overcome the $12,000 mark a few times this year without any success....Read More
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world’s most popular crypto asset exchange, Binance, recently posted the milestone, adding that traffic is even higher than when Bitcoin was at a peak at the end of 2017. We are seeing ATH in terms of system traffic. Higher than Dec 2017. Should be interesting to see what happens next....Read More
While segregated witness ‘SegWit’ adoption dipped after mid-March, the utilization of the protocol upgrade on the Bitcoin network is on the rise. Some industry pundits say time is running out for the declining set of non-adopters to embrace SegWit. Bitcoin SegWit Utilization Now Above 65% According to data from Transactionfee, about 65% of daily Bitcoin...Read More
Bitcoin has responded to the rising altcoins and just pumped to a new yearly high of over $12,400. By doing this, the primary cryptocurrency has increased its dominance over the market after reaching a new yearly low earlier today. Bitcoin To $12,400 and Beyond? As CryptoPotato reported earlier, Bitcoin stood still at $11,800, while many...Read More
Less than a week ago, the influential legacy markets day trader Dave Portnoy, had a meeting with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss – the founders of Gemini and well-known Bitcoin proponents. Even though he supposedly bought Bitcoin during their meeting, his enthusiasm for the primary cryptocurrency was shortlived. Now, Portnoy openly solicits cryptocurrency pump and dump...Read More
Bitcoin price had been lingering under the $11,900 mark for the past 48 hours, despite another injection of $6 billion entering the global crypto market at that period. In the last hour, however, a sudden surge in buying pressure finally arrived, which assisted in driving prices over the psychological $12,000 resistance for the first time...Read More
The stock-to-flow (S2F) model is the brainchild of crypto analyst going by the twitter handle ‘PlanB.’ It was initially published in March 2019 and examines the relationship between the production of supply and the current stock available, essentially calculating Bitcoin’s value through scarcity. The model has mapped Bitcoin’s price with a high degree of accuracy,...Read More
Bitcoin stays stagnant at around $11,800, as of now, while most large-cap altcoins have calmed down in the past 24 hours. The situation among low-cap alts is radically different. Low-cap Altcoins On The Move Most large-cap alternative coins haven’t shown any significant fluctuations since yesterday. Ethereum is less than 1% down to $425, Ripple (-0.25%)...Read More
It’s no secret that as time goes, more and more professionals from the world of traditional finance are making headway into Bitcoin. Or at least, showing support for investing in the New Gold. The latest amongst the growing list of mainstream supporters is George Ball, ex-CEO of the insurance giant Prudential. The Former Hater Is...Read More
Although the prominent US investor Warren Buffett has never been a fan of gold in the past, he recently made a sizeable investment in Barrick Gold Corp while reducing his exposure to his favorite sector, banks. Similiar with gold, Buffett has been bashing “the new gold,” Bitcoin, and this raises the question of whether he...Read More
After some minor fluctuations from $11,750 to nearly $12,000, Bitcoin lowered its volatility level and trading around $11,900. Is BTC getting ready to conquer $12K? We will see. At the same time, most altcoins continue to be volatile again with some massive gains from EOS, Yearn Finance (YFI), and Kava and another all-time high from...Read More
Bitcoin went through a significant price surge in the past month, jumping from $9,000 to about $12,000. By heading into five-digit price territory, this 33% increase has many people speculating that the primary cryptocurrency may be too expensive, and the train has left the station. However, looking at Bitcoin’s pre-programmed deflationary mechanism and several macroeconomic...Read More
The leading cryptocurrency asset management company – Grayscale Investments – has recorded its most significant fundraising week in its 7-year history. Interestingly, the massive spike followed a nationwide advertising campaign the company ran in the U.S. Grayscale Commercial Worked As CryptoPotato reported a week ago, the digital asset manager planned to run a widespread advertising...Read More
Bitcoin took yet another swing at $12,000 but to no avail so far, while Ethereum continues climbing to $440. Macrodata reaffirms the ongoing bull trend as almost all top 100 digital assets have been in the green in the past three months. Bitcoin Not Yet Conquering $12k About three days ago, the primary cryptocurrency was...Read More
The UK Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has arrested a 35-year old woman and seized over $150,000 worth of Bitcoin as part of an investigation into fraudulent applications for government-backed loans for businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. MPS Seized $150K Worth Of BTC The MPS (or Met) announced that the Proactive Money Laundering Team had...Read More
This week was easily one of the most eventful ones in the cryptocurrency field in terms of overall developments, especially in the DeFi sector. Starting with Bitcoin, however, not much changed since last week. BTC price started trading at around $11,800 seven days ago, and it’s currently at roughly the same level. However, this doesn’t...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) Bitcoin is more or less around the price it was traded a week ago, but this comes after a raging week as the coin plunged to a weekly low around $11,100. Shortly before, Bitcoin made another push towards the current high at $12,100 (1.272 Fib Extension), for the second time in 10 days....Read More
