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2021-12-31 20:16:44+00:00
HAPPY NEW YEAR LEGENDS😎
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2021-12-31 11:50:42+00:00
🔥 $72 Billion: Here's How Much Bitcoin Tesla, MicroStrategy and Private Companies Own
Tesla, MicroStrategy, Grayscale and other private companies own a total of $44.8 billion, according to buybitcoinworldwide. The total holdings of Bitcoin, including private entities and funds, stay at almost $73 billion. The largest holders are exchange-traded funds.
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2021-12-31 07:32:04+00:00
🧑🎨 Bored Ape NFT Collector Loses $2.2M in Phishing Scam
A hacker has stolen 16 NFTs valued at roughly 593 ETH through an apparent phishing scam.
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2021-12-30 16:20:34+00:00
🤝 Electricals giantSchneider Electric picks VeChain as ecosystem partner
VeChain confirmed the partnership through Twitter indicating that Schneider Electric will leverage its technology to digitize the economy.
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2021-12-30 14:26:06+00:00
BREAKING: Korean crypto exchange Coinone will no longer allow withdrawals to unverified external wallets
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2021-12-30 12:09:06+00:00
Binance is to acquire the remaining outstanding shares of Swipe, the industry’s leading cryptocurrency Visa card issuing platform that enables users to instantly spend cryptocurrencies at over 70 million locations worldwide.
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2021-12-30 11:36:38+00:00
YEARENDER The Year of the Doge? 2021, crypto's wildest year yet
Bitcoin close to $70,000, "memecoins" worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for cryptocurrencies, even by the sector's volatile standards.
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2021-12-29 14:56:30+00:00
BREAKING: Bitcoin miner Marathon to buy $900 MILLION worth of new ASIC machines
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2021-12-29 13:39:01+00:00
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2021-12-29 13:20:06+00:00
Retail interest in Bitcoin is pretty much gone since the Spring.
Big boys running the show now.
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2021-12-29 11:38:54+00:00
Mexico's Third Richest Billionaire's Advice: Invest in Bitcoin, Stay Away From Dollars, Euros
Mexico’s third-richest billionaire has advised people to stay away from fiat currencies, like the dollar and euro, and invest in bitcoin. Calling fiat “fake money made of paper and lies,” he stressed that “central banks are printing more money than ever before.”
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2021-12-29 07:41:33+00:00
Ethereum Has Burned 1.2 Million ETH in 4 Months, Close to $5 Billion in Ether Destroyed
With two days left until the end of 2021, the Ethereum network and its native token ether have had a phenomenal year as ether has increased more than 450% in value in 12 months. 145 days ago, on August 5, the Ethereum network implemented the London hard fork and since that day, 1,283,226 ether worth close to $5 billion has been burned.
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2021-12-28 17:48:06+00:00
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2021-12-28 17:07:03+00:00
🔥 Institutions Likely to Invest More in Bitcoin and Crypto Companies in 2022: Genesis's Noelle Acheson
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2021-12-28 10:21:43+00:00
Ethereum Hashrate Taps Record-Setting 1 Petahash as ETH’s Mining Profitability Remains High
20 days ago, Ethereum’s network participants upgraded the protocol and implemented the Arrow Glacier upgrade. The move delayed Ethereum’s “Ice Age” proof-of-stake (PoS) transition for another six months and this week, the network’s hashrate tapped all-time highs. For the first time, statistics within the six-month range indicate Ethereum’s hashrate surpassed 1 petahash per second (PH/s).
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2021-12-27 14:24:57+00:00
Vitalik Buterin: “If Eth fails to scale, then Eth deffinitely failed. If Eth succeeds at scalling, but it turns into something that’s centralized, then I think it also failed. If Eth succeeds at scalling and decentralization, but nothing interesting gets built on top of it then it also fails.”
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2021-12-27 10:39:35+00:00
Crypto․com CEO Kris Marszalek Accuses Coinmarketcap․com of 'Arbitrarily Reducing' Exchange Rankings
A recent tweet stemming from the CEO of Crypto.com’s Kris Marszalek indicates the exchange executive is upset with the web portal coinmarketcap.com. Marszalek claims that Crypto.com’s exchange volumes are being misreported and the trading platform’s ranking was changed to the 14th position on a whim.
“Merry Christmas to [the] team [at] Coinmarketcap who a week after my response to their poorly worded tweet arbitrarily reduced our exchange ranking to 14th,” Marszalek tweeted on Christmas day. “We are 2nd/3rd on Coingecko so you guys know where to look for real and market neutral data,” the exchange CEO added.
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2021-12-26 11:50:10+00:00
Now the equivalent of over a thousand dollars is on 6.85 million Bitcoin addresses. This is twice the peak of the previous phase of growth in the coin market, which ended in early 2018.
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2021-12-26 07:26:20+00:00
Price of the top 10 cryptos last Christmas:
Bitcoin - $23,463
Ethereum - $633.06
Binance Coin - $33.95
Solana - $1.45
ADA - $0.15
XRP - $0.31
Polkadot - $5.21
Avalanche - $2.95
Luna - $0.53
Doge - $0.004
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2021-12-25 11:50:50+00:00
‘Ethereum Is Big Enough To Continue With Or Without Me’ Says Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik said the project could continue to grow even if he were to disappear.
“I think the Ethereum community is big and even if I disappear for some reason, it will remain a big blockchain but Obviously I am not going anywhere.”
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2021-12-25 10:01:29+00:00
US SEC Rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin Trusts
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vetoed two proposals to offer bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF), dealing a blow to market participants who had hoped the agency would green light the effort after approving futures-backed bitcoin funds in October.
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2021-12-24 16:47:29+00:00
📈 Number of Cardano’s wallets grow over 1,200% from last Christmas
Within a year, the number of wallets has grown over 1,200% from last Christmas’ figure of 190,000 to 2.5 million wallets as of December 24 2021, data by Cardano Foundation indicates.
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2021-12-24 14:18:12+00:00
Bitcoin NVT Signal by woonomic is amazingly accurate at timing tops and bottoms
We are currently showing a strong buy 🎄🎅. Maybe Santa clause is coming to town after all?
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2021-12-24 10:43:25+00:00
Volatility still in range with previous cycles. All cycles finished with a parabolic run.
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2021-12-23 20:48:55+00:00
Is the Bitcoin bottom in?
Long-Term Holder NUPL serves as an indicator to assess the behaviour of long-term investors.
It appears we have found support at the same level that we did on the last two major pullbacks of 2021.
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2021-12-23 09:09:36+00:00
Visa Partners With 60 Crypto Platforms to Let Consumers Spend Digital Currency at 80 Million Merchants
Visa’s head of crypto has revealed that the payments giant has partnered with about 60 leading crypto platforms “to launch card programs that make it easy for consumers to convert and spend digital currency at 80 million merchant locations worldwide.” He emphasized, “We’ve built a lot of momentum in this space, and we’ll continue to support the crypto ecosystem in several ways.”
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2021-12-22 12:12:47+00:00
Global Crypto Users Reach 1 Billion
by the End of 2022
Nations can no longer afford to ignore the growing push toward crypto by the public. We may in many cases expect a friendlier stance towards the crypto industry.
● We expect developed nations to devise clear legal and taxation frameworks for crypto assets
● In parallel, more nations facing a highly inflationary economy & depreciating currency may adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender, following the example of El Salvador.
According to Crypto.com research, there were over 292 million crypto users worldwide as of 30 November 2021. Based on data by TripleA, more than 18,000 businesses are already accepting cryptocurrency payments.
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2021-12-22 11:05:30+00:00
Binance agrees to help Dubai develop ‘progressive virtual asset regulations’
Cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dubai World Trade Centre Authority (DWTCA) to “outline the vision of accelerating the set-up of a new industry hub for global virtual assets.”
“With the MoU, Binance will help advance Dubai’s commitment to establishing a new international Virtual Asset ecosystem that will generate long-term economic growth through digital innovation,” the company explained.
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2021-12-21 14:47:00+00:00
Just-In: Visa completes £700 million acquisition of Ripplenet partner Currencycloud
The payment processing giant, Visa confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Currencycloud for £700 million, i.e., $950 million. Visa’s acquisition of Currencycloud is aimed at providing transparency, flexibility and control when making international payments or doing business in multiple currencies, to both companies’ clients combined.
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2021-12-21 12:26:06+00:00
🧪 Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Kintsugi Goes Live in Preparation for Merge
Kintsugi is a public testnet for people to experiment with Ethereum 2.0 before the merge to proof of stake.
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2021-12-21 11:03:04+00:00
Neobroker Bitpanda launches Bitcoin-backed ETN
The product — an exchange-traded note (ETN) — will track the price of bitcoin. It will be accessible via brokers and platforms such as ING and Postbank, and will be denominated in euros, meaning investors won't need to manage private keys or open an account with Bitpanda. The ETN is fully collateralized by bitcoin, which is kept in cold storage with a regulated custodian.
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2021-12-20 11:50:22+00:00
Breaking: Dubai World Trade Centre to become regulator and comprehensive zone for Crypto
The latest update from the pro-crypto nation, Dubai saw its government declare that the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) will soon become a comprehensive zone and regulator for virtual assets and crypto including digital assets, products, operators and exchanges.
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2021-12-20 07:38:44+00:00
Bitcoin Might Not Have Bottomed Yet, According to Trading Legend Peter Brandt
Legendary trader Peter Brandt has shared his take on Bitcoin’s current price action, suggesting that the largest cryptocurrency is yet to reach the bottom of the correction due to infinitesimal trading volume.
The slow bleed suggests that there’s more pain to come before bulls will regain control of the market.
Brandt notes that key bottoms have taken place with panic capitulation characterized by strong selling volume.
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2021-12-20 07:08:12+00:00
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2021-12-19 11:04:47+00:00
Internet vs. crypto adoption chart predicts 1 billion users by 2027
Crypto influencer Lark Davies tweeted a chart showing internet and crypto adoption rates. By superimposing the respective lines, taking account of when both started gaining traction, a close correlation is demonstrated between the two.
If this trend holds, it’s predicted that there will be 1 billion crypto users by 2026/27. That’s a 5x increase from current estimates of around 200 million crypto users.
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2021-12-19 08:21:40+00:00
Leading Mexican Retailer Grupo Elektra Accepts Bitcoin
Mexico’s Grupo Elektra, a leading retailer in Latin America, is accepting bitcoin for payments. The chain belongs to conglomerate Grupo Salinas, which is owned by Mexico’s third-richest billionaire, the pro-bitcoin Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
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2021-12-18 20:42:21+00:00
Ubisoft CEO: NFTs and blockchain are here to stay
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2021-12-18 17:49:34+00:00
SEC postpones decisions on Bitcoin ETFs from Bitwise and Grayscale until February
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued two deadline extension notices–postponing decisions on Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposals by Bitwise and Grayscale.
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2021-12-18 17:30:42+00:00
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2021-12-18 11:25:20+00:00
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2021-12-18 09:07:58+00:00
Breaking: Paraguay Approves Bill To Regulate Bitcoin Mining and Trading
On Thursday, the Senate of Paraguay passed a bill that seeks to regulate the mining and trading of cryptocurrencies in the country.
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2021-12-17 11:31:34+00:00
Rug pulls pushed this year’s crypto scam revenue over $7.7 billion, Chainalysis finds
Rug pulls surfaced as the “go-to scam” this year, accounting for 37% of all cryptocurrency scam revenue in 2021.
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2021-12-17 06:30:29+00:00
Internet vs. Crypto Adoption
- Close to 12% of Americans use crypto
- Crypto to hit 1B users within 5 years
- 200M worldwide people use crypto
200M users = Internet users in 1998
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2021-12-16 18:02:09+00:00
🇺🇸 Former first lady Melania Trump launches NFT platform on Solana blockchain
Melania Trump, the wife of the immediate past president of the United States Donald Trump, is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) platform on the Solana blockchain.
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2021-12-16 14:58:05+00:00
Russian central bank to seek ban on investment in cryptocurrencies
The Russian central bank wants to ban investments in cryptocurrencies in Russia, seeing risks to financial stability in the rising number of crypto transactions, two financial market sources close to the bank said.
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2021-12-15 19:26:17+00:00
Fed leaves rates unchanged. Fed doubles pace of tapering to $30bn per month.
Federal Reserve signals three interest rate hikes in 2022.
FOMC meeting:
Link to watch live
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2021-12-15 14:57:37+00:00
There has been huge growth in crypto funding during 2021. Just in the first 10 months of this year:
- The number of VC deals were up 56.7%
- The value of deals were up 234.4%
Data via: Forte Platform
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2021-12-15 08:59:13+00:00
Binance, MDI-Led Consortium to Create Crypto Exchange in Indonesia
Crypto exchange Binance and a consortium led by MDI Ventures will establish a joint venture focused on developing blockchain technology in Indonesia, the company said in a press release on Wednesday.
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2021-12-14 15:36:50+00:00
💥BREAKING: Commerzbank & VolksBank in Germany also planning to allow customers to buy/sell & HODL Bitcoin
This is in addition to the Sparkasse news!
Combined - they have the vast majority of market share for the German Savings banks.
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2021-12-14 15:24:36+00:00
🐕 Tesla accepts Dogecoin as payment method for its merchandise
Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, revealed the company will make some of its “merch” buyable with Dogecoin (DOGE) in a tweet on December 14.
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2021-12-14 12:44:30+00:00
Around 70k ETH longs were opened in the last 24 hours on Bitfinex.
If you wonder why I rely on Bitfinex - this is basically a whales exchange.
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2021-12-14 08:22:42+00:00
German banking group “Sparkasse” confirms rumours–wants to launch a crypto wallet
Sparkasse’s secret project was confirmed–the network of 370 savings banks across Germany is planning to give 50 million people exposure to crypto.
The country’s leading banking group is working on enabling customers access to crypto–directly from their current banking account, Finanz Szene reported.
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2021-12-13 14:48:25+00:00
NEW: $243 billion UAE wealth fund Mubadala to invest in the crypto ecosystem
Crypto is real.
I'm no longer a skeptic.
It will continue to grow.
- Mubadala CEO ($243 billion AUM)
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2021-12-13 11:16:45+00:00
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2021-12-13 08:32:56+00:00
Ascendex Hacked — Exchange Loses $77 Million in ERC20, BSC, Polygon Tokens
Ascendex, a cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a security breach that allowed hackers to take control of some of the wallets of the exchange. The attack focused on hot wallets, where funds are kept as a buffer to tend to customers’ withdrawals. The company announced that it would reimburse these funds to any affected user. Peckshield, a security and auditing company estimated losses of around $77 million.
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2021-12-12 08:27:20+00:00
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange made 50000% return on Bitcoin thanks to the U.S. Government
Back in 2010 the U.S. Government forced Mastercard to stop processing donations for WikiLeaks, effectively forcing WikiLeaks to accept donations in another way.
This forced them to accept Bitcoin for donations instead of donations in FIAT like the U.S. Dollar.
In 2017 Julian Assange revealed that WikiLeaks has made a 50,000% return on these donations and thanked the United States for their kind help in supporting WikiLeaks.
Today these donations have made an over 50,000% return thanks to the U.S. Government.
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2021-12-11 17:32:44+00:00
BTC Hash Rate made a new All Time High
We have a divergence between hash rate (increasing) and price (decreasing)
This is a bullish sign 😏
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2021-12-10 09:02:18+00:00
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2021-12-10 08:43:17+00:00
Beeple's Latest NFT 'Human One' Sells for $29M, Artist Plans to 'Enhance the Displayed Artwork' During His Lifetime
This year the American artist Michael Winkelmann, otherwise known as Beeple, made history when he sold his non-fungible token (NFT) artwork “Everydays” for $69.3 million on March 11. Beeple’s latest NFT called “Human One” is a life-sized NFT sculpture that sold for $29 million, and the artist will update the NFT during the course of the rest of his existence on earth.
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2021-12-09 16:04:17+00:00
📞 WhatsApp Deploys Crypto Payments Via Chat In The U.S.
Meta’s chat app WhatsApp has jumped into crypto integration via a new pilot program launched in the United States. The app is testing a crypto payment feature supported by the company’s wallet Novi and the stablecoin Pax Dollars (USDP), according to Novi’s Chief Stephane Kasriel and Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp.
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2021-12-09 12:34:53+00:00
📈 Bitcoin‘s Hashrate Returns to All Time High
Bitcoin’s hashrate has fully recovered in just six months after the world’s second biggest economy prohibited industrial bitcoin mining this summer.
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2021-12-09 10:26:37+00:00
Taxing all billionaires at 100% only drops national debt by ~10%, which is just one year of deficit spending
- Elon Musk
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2021-12-09 08:48:42+00:00
Crypto is wild.
Today, when testifying during Congress, representative Brad Sherman said that:
- Doge could potentially replace Ether.
- HamsterCoin could replace Doge.
And asked - What about MongooseCoin?
1. Hamstercoin is up 66%
2. MongooseCoin token was created
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2021-12-08 10:09:34+00:00
Visa has launched a crypto advisory practice to help banks offer digital assets to their retail and commercial customers.
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2021-12-08 08:35:52+00:00
JUST IN: Australian federal treasurer to introduce a reform plan that legalizes Bitcoin and crypto.
The goal is to make Australia 'world leader' in crypto.
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2021-12-07 19:14:51+00:00
NEW: Billion-dollar gaming company Ubisoft is launching an in-game NFT system this week
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2021-12-07 17:09:32+00:00
Bitcoin is often criticized for running on non-renewable energy.
The Bitcoin Mining Council's Q3 Mining Data Report reveals that bitcoin's energy mix is actually more sustainable than most countries Earth globe americas.
It's time 👀
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2021-12-06 14:51:12+00:00
According to the $BTC Net Realised Profit/Loss metric, the capitulation we had on Saturday is a rare event
Over the past 2 years we have only had 3 capitulations of the same magnitude - in March 2020, May 2021 & June 2021
All of them were great buying opportunities
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2021-12-06 11:10:00+00:00
📊 Cardano’s DEX SundaeSwap Launches Public Testnet
The long-awaited Cardano-based decentralized exchange, SundaeSwap, is almost ready to be launched to public testnet.
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2021-12-05 12:46:47+00:00
FTX to Seek $1.5B in New Funding Round at $32B Valuation
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is looking to raise a total of $1.5 billion for the global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and U.S. affiliate, FTX.US, The Information reported Friday, citing two unnamed sources “with knowledge of the matter.”
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2021-12-05 08:16:37+00:00
Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150 million in crypto
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2021-12-04 22:52:10+00:00
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2021-12-04 19:34:00+00:00
Last 24h liquidations breakdown:
Bitcoin - $1.06 billion
Ethereum- $622M
Polkadot - $60M
Ada - $53M
XRP - $45M
Doge - $43M
Litecoin - $36M
Solana - $35M
Filecoin - $31M
EOS - $24M
Sandbox - $23M
Matic - $22M
Total: $2.5 billion liquidations
Traders liquidated: 392,794
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2021-12-04 08:18:36+00:00
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2021-12-04 07:29:43+00:00
In the past 24 hours, 385,349 traders were liquidated
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2021-12-04 07:27:01+00:00
Around $3.3B in Bitcoin Open Interest just got closed out in 1hr.
That is around 17% of all contracts that were open.
This is what a leverage flush out looks like,and I really wish we didn't have them.
But we do, and this acts like a forest fire.
Spot + onchain take over now
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2021-12-03 15:46:58+00:00
India may disallow Indians from trading crypto on foreign exchanges
A recent cabinet note shared by the government of India states the new crypto bill will be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). It labels cryptocurrencies as crypto-assets” and might restrict Indians from trading cryptos on foreign platforms.
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2021-12-03 14:51:39+00:00
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2021-12-02 17:47:53+00:00
NEW: CEO of Korea’s stock exchange says that it's time to embrace crypto stating institutions will embrace it
“Since virtual assets have become ‘major’ investment assets, it is time to prepare an institutional framework.”
-Sohn Byung-doo, CEO of Korea’s Stock Exchange
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2021-12-02 14:47:53+00:00
Bitcoin DeFi tool BadgerDAO hit by estimated $120 million hack
Without revealing any details related to the attack, the team confirmed receiving reports of unauthorized withdrawals of user funds on Twitter, announcing it paused all smart contracts in order to halt further damage.
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2021-12-02 08:58:41+00:00
Bank of America Sees Massive Opportunity in Metaverse for Entire Crypto Ecosystem
Bank of America’s strategist says that the metaverse is a massive opportunity where cryptocurrencies will be widely used as currencies. “I definitely believe this is a massive, massive opportunity,” he said.
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2021-12-01 19:46:20+00:00
BREAKING: Facebook will allow more crypto companies to run crypto ads by expanding its ad policy
Crypto has continued to mature and stabilize in recent years and has seen more government regulations that are setting clearer rules for their industry.
- Facebook
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2021-12-01 11:56:28+00:00
Crypto.com splashes $216 million to acquire two US-based derivatives platforms
Crypto.com has agreed to acquire two United States-based retail-focused derivatives exchange platforms from IG Group Holdings, according to an announcement issued on Wednesday.
The deal is worth $216 million and will be paid for in cash.
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2021-12-01 08:49:11+00:00
Despite missed prediction, ‘Plan B’ sticks to Bitcoin target of $100,000
Plan B appears to be unperturbed by his missed November Bitcoin’s price prediction as he insisted that the asset would finish the year at $100k.
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