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Bitcoin surged 6% today for its biggest gain in a month, rallying alongside Asian shares amid a weaker US dollar and clearing the psychologically important $20,000 mark. According to Bloomberg, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by capitalization rose to $20,520, outpacing other popular tokens, including Ethereum. Asian shares were also positive as investors’ risk appetite returned, […]
On September 7, the bitcoin rate fell to its lowest level since June (below $19,000 per coin), and the cryptocurrency market capitalization once again fell below $1 trillion. Over the course of the day, the main cryptocurrency partially recouped its losses, but the other interesting thing is that of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by capitalization, […]
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin fell for a fifth straight day and dipped below $22,000 as investors weighed mixed signals from the Federal Reserve on the pace of rate hikes. This is reported by Bloomberg. The largest cryptocurrency fell 13% to $20,877.55, the lowest level in the last 7 days. The second largest cryptocurrency, Ether, has fallen […]
The Solana blockchain has become the target of a new hack in the cryptosphere, with users reporting withdrawals from online ‘hot’ wallets. An exploit allowed a malicious actor to drain funds from a number of wallets on Solana. As of 5am UTC approximately 7,767 wallets have been affected. The exploit has affected several wallets, including […]
This week, the crypto market is in shock: in just one day yesterday, its capitalization increased by 60 billion dollars – to 1.06 trillion. Everything grows, but in different ways. During the day, in the top 10 main cryptocurrencies of the world, Cardano has the largest increase — almost 10%. Bitcoin and Dogecoin followed, both […]
Cryptocurrency investors have started withdrawing bitcoins from exchanges for offline storage. This was reported by Glassnode analysts. Probably, the reason for this was the unstable situation on the platforms. Obviously, crypto-investors are trying to eliminate unnecessary risks associated with the instability of cryptocurrency exchanges. In this regard, the balances of the largest services decreased by […]
On June 14, Coinbase Global Inc., the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States reported that it is preparing to lay off 18% of employees, ie about 1,100 of the 6,100 people who worked in the company. The CEO explained the need to reduce staff by deteriorating the cryptocurrency market – it lost $1 trillion […]
The authors of the cryptocurrency project Optimism out of their own stupidity lost 20 million OP tokens worth $350 million. Late last month, they wanted to send 20 million coins to the cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute, which was supposed to act as a liquidity provider for centralized exchanges. Wintermute uses the first-tier Ethereum network, but […]
All major cryptocurrencies have fallen amid high inflation in the United States. Ethereum fell to $1436 the day before. During the day, the situation worsened. At the time of writing, the cost of ETH is less than $1250. In 24 hours the price of cryptocurrency fell by almost 16%, and in a week the currency […]
Cryptocurrency exchanges liquidated traders’ positions totaling more than $410,000,000 in just one day. According to CoinGlass, more than 100,000 deals were forcibly closed on May 25. The largest liquidation was recorded at Okex – almost $3,000,000 paired with Ethereum. The biggest losses for traders were caused by transactions with the second largest cryptocurrency. A total […]