Massive Gamestop Short Squeeze Highlights the Fragility of Today’s Financial System
The bigwigs trading stocks on Wall Street have been upset this week as billion-dollar hedge funds have been crippled by...
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Second-Generation Lending Protocol Lendefi Is Coming for Compound’s Crown
PRESS RELEASE. Lendefi is a brand-new protocol aiming to provide opportunities such as lending and borrowing, leveraging and investing. Lendefi...
FinCEN Extends Crypto Rulemaking Review Period as Senate Confirms Janet Yellen
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a notice extending the comment period for its crypto wallet proposal. The...
Research Proves Recent Transfers of 8,000 Ten-Year-Old ‘Forgotten Bitcoins’ Were Sold to Coinbase
For months now our newsdesk has followed the tracks of a mysterious whale from 2010, a miner who not only...
Former UK Cyber Intelligence Official Pushes for Law Change to Stop Bitcoin Ransomware Payments
A former U.K. cybersecurity chief has raised concerns that ransomware incidents are close to “getting out of control.” Ciaran Martin...
Spanish Crypto Exchange 2gether Won’t Reimburse All Stolen Funds From the 2020 Hack
Spanish cryptocurrency exchange 2gether has announced that it won’t compensate users for the full amount of bitcoin (BTC) and ether...
Iran Finds Scapegoat In ‘Easy Victim’ Bitcoin as Officials Shut Down 1,600 Mining Farms
As Iran experiences rolling electricity blackouts, the country’s authorities have responded to the crisis by targeting bitcoin mining farms. The...
Major Russian Bank Sberbank Files Application to Launch Its Own Stablecoin — Possibly Pegged to the Fiat Ruble
A major Russian bank revealed an upcoming digital asset launch, which complements another of its latest crypto-related moves. Sberbank applied...
Wall Street “Perma Bear” Predicts Stock Market Crash: Says Bitcoin Cannot Be Ignored as He Touts Gold
Long term Wall Street bear and bitcoin holder, David Tice predicts that the stock market will crash fall by 30%...
Mining City: A New Opportunity for the New Year
Mining City’s growth throughout 2020 has been significant. With an easy-to-use website, thousands of community members active all over the...
Bahrain Central Bank Issues License to Shariah-Compliant Crypto Exchange
Middle Eastern crypto exchange Coinmena said this week that it had obtained a crypto assets services company license from the...
Philippine Central Bank Widens Cryptocurrency Regulation — Sees ‘Accelerated Growth’ in Crypto Activity
The Philippines’ central bank, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), has expanded the country’s cryptocurrency regulation after seeing “accelerated growth”...
Bank of England Governor Warns Cryptocurrencies Won’t Last
The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, believes that no existing cryptocurrencies will last. Talking about the design,...
Cashing Out Bitcoin Using ATMs: Popular Youtuber Successfully Turns $16K in BTC Into Cash
On January 23, 2021, the popular Youtuber Mambafx published a video of himself withdrawing $16,000 in cash from bitcoin ATMs....
Former Goldman Sachs CEO: If I Were a Regulator, I’d Be Hyperventilating at the Success of Bitcoin
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has offered his view on the future of bitcoin. He said if he were...
