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How your favorite celebrities and hucksters cheated the cryptocurrency movement
Cryptocurrency The last couple of months have been pretty deflating for many cryptocurrency enthusiasts. If you know someone who’s been all in on the cryptocurrency front in recent years, you’ve likely seen them go silent (or, at least, quieter) as the crypto market has tanked lately. But the pain hasn’t been distributed equally. Since May, more than $700 billion has been lost as the values of cryptocurrencies have plunged. And a survey from Ariel Investments and Charles Schwab found those losses were felt disproportionately by Black investors. It’s easy to see why cryptocurrencies might appeal to many Black people — or anyone else […]
Crypto Markets Add $60 Billion Daily as Bitcoin Saw 3-Week High Above $22K (Market Watch)
Bitcoin continued to gradually increase in value in the past 24 hours and charted a three-week high above $22,000. Most altcoins are also well in the green, with ETH reclaiming $1,200 and XRP spiking by 7%. Bitcoin’s New Local Peak Ever since the untypically calm weekend, in which bitcoin stood primarily around $19,000 without any significant moves in either direction, things have been going well for the asset. As the US national holiday (July 4) was coming to its end, the cryptocurrency started to gain value gradually. It firstly neared $20,000, challenged it, and ultimately broke above it as reported. […]
Bitcoin Maintains $20K, Ethereum Soared to 9-Day High (Market Watch)
Bitcoin Despite the recent volatility, bitcoin has managed to sustain above the coveted $20,000 line. Most altcoins are also slightly in the green today, with ETH spiking towards a near 10-day high at $1,200. Bitcoin Bitcoin Sustains Above $20K Last week ended on a highly volatile note in which bitcoin skyrocketed by over $2,000 in minutes to just under $21,000. However, that turned out to be a fake breakout as the cryptocurrency retraced just as quickly. Following such enhanced price fluctuations, the asset calmed at around $19,000 when the weekend came, and given the fact that July 4 was the […]
Alexander Vinnik Faces U.S. Justice After French Prison Release
By Mark Hunter 4 hours agoThu Jul 07 2022 08:40:24 Reading Time: 2 minutes Alexander Vinnik faces deportation to the U.S. after being released early from his French prison stay Vinnik is wanted by both Russia and the U.S. over various financial crimes Vinnik’s exchange, BTC-e, laundered thousands of stolen Mt. Gox bitcoin Alexander Vinnik has been released from a French prison after serving just one of the five years to which he was sentenced for money laundering, but his joy may be short lived as U.S. authorities want him to face charges there. Vinnik was sentenced to the term […]
Multichain Integrates the RSK Blockchain
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Why Do P2E Games Build on Wax?
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Hacker claims they stole police data on a billion Chinese citizens
Bitcoin A (or group of hackers) claims to have stolen data on a billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai police database. According to , the hacker is attempting to sell 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, which is worth just over $198,000 at the time of writing. The data includes names, addresses, birthplaces, national IDs and phone numbers. reports that the hacker provided a sample of the data, which included crime reports dating as far back as 1995. Reporters confirmed the legitimacy of at least some of the data by calling people whose numbers were listed. It’s not yet […]