Adding to the controversies surrounding New Zealand’s collapsed crypto exchange Cryptopia, the platform has allegedly been hacked again, allowing perpetrators to steal a further NZD 62,000 (USD 45,000) worth of crypto after a January 2019 attack captured an estimated USD 30m in cryptoassets. The alleged theft happened a few months after it was disclosed a…
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The under-fire American trading platform Robinhood said it will provide customers “the ability to deposit and withdraw” cryptoassets and has claimed that it has no crypto holdings – despite mounting suspicion that it could be one of the mysterious dogecoin (DOGE) whales who control vast amounts of the runaway token. In a series of tweets,…
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Charles Hoskinson. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Real Vision Finance Cardano (ADA) Founder Charles Hoskinson has doubled down on his criticisms of Ethereum (ETH), claiming that the latter’s network effects mean “nothing” in the long-term. Hoskinson spent much of his recent livestream discussing Cardano’s recent progress and his hopes for the future. However, he also…
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Marques Brownlee. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Marques Brownlee A YouTuber with over 13.6 million subscribers and over 5 million followers on Twitter said he was approached about promoting the tron (TRX) token – a charge which Tron chief Justin Sun has rushed to deny, despite skepticism from the crypto community. The controversy began when the…
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Verge (XVG), a cryptocurrency known for being used as a payment method by a major adult website, Pornhub, just suffered its third major attack. However, investors used the sell-off to increase their XVG holdings. At the time of writing (05:30 UTC), XVG, ranked 108th by market capitalization, trades at USD 0.024 and is up more…
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The average 7-day moving crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) for 10 major coins remains largely positive, and even improved further from last week’s 6.33 to the 6.43 today, according to Omenics, a crypto market sentiment analysis platform. Bitcoin (BTC) still leads the sentiment charts as the only top 10 crypto asset in the very positive…
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Source: Adobe/epic_images After claiming that there’s too much concentration in the dogecoin (DOGE) ownership, the world’s richest person, Tesla founder Elon Musk has offered a solution. "I will literally pay actual $ if they just void their accounts," he tweeted today. Several hours earlier he claimed that if major DOGE holders sell most of their…
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Justin Sun. Source: Twitter, @justinsuntron Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun has been up to his old tricks again, seemingly paying American celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan and Ne-Yo to shill TRX and related tokens on Twitter. His latest promotional activities come after the crypto entrepreneur admitted to losing USD 8m on GameStop shares. Observers on…
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Bitcoin price remained well bid above the USD 45,000 level and it started a decent increase. BTC cleared the USD 47,000 resistance and it is currently (13:30 UTC) showing positive signs. Similarly, most major altcoins are trading in a bullish zone. XRP/USD is slowly moving higher and it may even clear the USD 0.530 level.…
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Source: Adobe/Игорь Головнёв Following in its biggest competitor, Visa’s, footsteps, payments giant Mastercard said it "will start supporting select cryptocurrencies directly on our network." However, at least in the initial stage, it’s about stablecoins, which are not cryptocurrencies. "Our philosophy on cryptocurrencies is straightforward: It’s about choice," Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit…
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