Iranian provincial police are continuing their crackdown on crypto miners big and small, with news surfacing that they have confiscated more than 7,000 rigs at a farm operating in the capital of Tehran. According to a Tuesday report from the country’s state-run media, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), police seized crypto miners that were operating …
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Ethereum has lost its $2k support zone hitting a local low of $1,700 today However, Ethereum’s top 10 non-exchange whale addresses keep holding Other Ethereum investors have sent $500M worth of ETH to crypto exchanges in the last week Ethereum looks set for its very own death cross in mid-July Yesterday, Ethereum lost its crucial …
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Digital Currency Group will purchase shares of the Grayscale Ethereum Classic trust worth $50 million Digital Currency Group is the parent company of Grayscale Investments The purchase will not be immediate and will depend on numerous factors Ethereum Classic’s value has been hit hard by the ongoing crypto market pullback led by Bitcoin dropping below …
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The FT has put out an article titled, “Inside monero, emerging crypto of choice for cybercriminals.” In it, the privacy coin Monero (XMR) is painted as the rising option for cybercriminals, taking the place of Bitcoin. Why? Because its suite of privacy features, such as stealth addresses and Ring signatures, hides information on the sender, …
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Ralf Gerteis, the co-founder and CEO of Scaleswap, a Polygon-powered launchpad that will be conducting its IDO on June 25th. What is the professional background of the Scaleswap founders and what is their previous experience in crypto? Ralf is the CEO of Scaleswap and an entrepreneur at …
Non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem developer Enjin has invested in Unbound Finance to increase liquidity on Efinity, the former’s upcoming NFT parachain built on Polkadot. The move comes after Unbound recently announced a $5.8M investment round from Pantera Capital and Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, among a host of other leading venture capital firms. “Unbound is …
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Iranian police have reportedly seized 7,000 bitcoin mining machines operating illegally in the country. The machines were found in an abandoned factory west of the capital. 7,000 cryptocurrency mining machines have been seized by Iranian authorities, state news agency IRNA reported Tuesday, noting that this is Iran’s largest seizure of cryptocurrency mining machines to date. …
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The price of bitcoin dropped to a new low in 2021, hitting $28,600 per unit Tuesday morning (EST). BTC has shed more than 10% in value over the last 24 hours and its market capitalization is now less than $600 billion. Bitcoin Price Plunges Below $29K Cryptocurrency markets have seen better days as the entire …
Shenzhen-based Bit Mining has started shipping bitcoin mining machines to Kazakhstan as the Chinese government cracks down on bitcoin mining operations in the country. Bit Mining Ltd., a mining company based in Shenzhen, announced Monday that “it had successfully delivered its first batch of mining machines to Kazakhstan.” The company explained that bitcoin mining machines …
sponsored Analysts at Hedgeye Risk Management, an investment research and financial media company based in Stamford, Connecticut, have analyzed the Bitcoin stock-to-flow argument. This framework suggests Bitcoin’s price potentially reaching $1 million by the latter half of 2020s, and as much as $10 million per BTC by the 2030s. “First they ignore you, Then they …
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Portugal now has two approved cryptocurrency exchanges. The country’s central bank, the Banco de Portugal, has licensed Mind the Coin and Criptoloja. In Portugal, the central bank is responsible for registering entities that intend to act as virtual asset service providers (VASPs). The bank must also ensure that they are in compliance with the legal …
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Altcoins are having a hard time recovering, with the majority of them being in the red zone. One of the worst-hit tokens is dogecoin, which has lost 22% in the past 24 hours. In the past month, DOGE has lost nearly half of its value. However, those who invested at the beginning of the year …
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Closely-followed analyst Will Clemente says that Bitcoin is wildly oversold based on on-chain metrics. In a new Pomp Podcast interview, the analyst highlights that he’s seeing on-chain signals indicating that long-term holders are aggressively buying the dip. ADVERTISEMENT “What we’re really seeing is all the coins that are being sold are from very young …
John Paller is training a new generation of blockchain workers and giving them the tools to live free from the chains of full-time employment. After a chance conversation with a “Russian dude” wearing a weird T-shirt at a 2014 conference — Vitalik Buterin’s father, Dmitry — John Paller’s life was transformed by having a front-row …
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Bitcoin (BTC) plunged 7.38% to hit its five-month low of $29,313 on Tuesday as the market stared at the prospect of another sell-off, this time led by miners affected by a recent crackdown against cryptocurrency entities in China. Bitcoin drops below $30K for the first time since January 2021. Source: TradingView.com The People’s Bank of …
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