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Ex-Binance CEO Could Be Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison, According To DOJ
27.11.2023
Source: GeekWire/ Taylor Soper Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) could be sentenced to up to ten years in prison following his exchange’s historic legal settlement last week, according to a new filing from the Department of Justice (DOJ). The Justice Department’s statement comes amid ongoing...
Grayscale’s GBTC Witnesses Historic Shrink in Discount to NAV as Metric Taps Single Digits
25.11.2023
On Friday, data revealed a notable shift in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, commonly referred to as GBTC, as its discount to net asset value (NAV) contracted to single digits for the first time in 2023. The figures indicate that GBTC’s discount reached 8.06%, a level last observed two years ago....
Bitcoin Hashrate Hits Historic 500 EH/s Peak
23.11.2023
On November 22, 2023, data revealed that Bitcoin’s hashrate, as calculated on a seven-day moving average, attained an unprecedented level of 500 exahash per second (EH/s), which is tantamount to about 0.5 zettahash per second (ZH/s). Additionally, with just over a week remaining until...
Bitcoin Achieves Lifetime Record With Over 710,000 Daily Transactions Confirmed on Sunday
20.11.2023
On Sunday, November 19, 2023, Bitcoin achieved a historic milestone, registering the highest number of daily transactions ever confirmed within a 24-hour span. A significant 710,579 transfers were confirmed by miners that day, including a significant portion of 475,249 Ordinal inscriptions. Bitcoin...
Philippines Government to Raise $180 Million Through Sale of Tokenized Treasury Bonds
16.11.2023
Source: Pixabay / David Peterson The Philippines Bureau of the Treasury has announced its plan to issue tokenized Treasury bonds for the first time on Monday after canceling a traditional auction initially scheduled for the same day. In a historic move, the Philippines Bureau of the Treasury is...
Bitcoin Flips Ethereum for the First Time in 24-Hour NFT Sales Shift
8.11.2023
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, the Bitcoin blockchain saw its non-fungible token (NFT) asset sales surpass those on the Ethereum platform, marking a historic shift during a single-day span. According to the analytics provided by cryptoslam.io, Bitcoin-based NFT transactions amounted to $17.17...
China’s Digital Yuan Scores Taiwan First with Bond Offering
7.11.2023
China’s digital yuan has completed another historic CBDC first, with a Taiwan-based firm “successfully” issuing e-CNY bonds. The offering, an ultra-short-term financing bond, was launched by Xiamen Xiangyu Group (XMXYG), a Mainland Chinese financial firm based in Xiamen that also...
Crypto Exchanges Face Historic Liquidity Crunch Ahead of Bitcoin Halving
30.10.2023
About 60,000 bitcoins valued at just over $2 billion were removed from trading platforms in the past 90 days. The number of bitcoins on centralized exchanges is slightly more than 2 million. A recent report from Falconx says swings in the market have been exacerbated by a persistent lack...
Bitcoin and Ether Options Activity Soars to Historic Highs of $20B Amid ETF Hype
27.10.2023
Staking Crypto Yields Hit Historic Low as Proof of Stake Networks See Rising Stake Rates – What’s Going On?
26.10.2023
As proof of stake networks see a surge in stake rates, a consequent plummet in staking yields is concerning investors and market watchers. According to a third-quarter report from Staked, a subsidiary of the Kraken exchange, the average staking yield for the top 35 stakable cryptocurrencies...
Bitcoin Hits Historic 61 Trillion Difficulty, Hashrate Defies Odds Amidst 2023’s Steepest Climbs
17.10.2023
On October 16, 2023, Bitcoin’s difficulty impressively crossed the 61 trillion mark at block height 812,448, setting a fresh benchmark for the network. This ascent marked the fourth-largest rise in difficulty for the year. Yet, in the face of this increase, the hashrate has steadily...
NFT-Funded Film, Backed by A-list Director Soderbergh, Seals Historic Global Sales Agreement – Crypto Adoption on the Rise?
9.10.2023
Who says NFTs are dead? ‘Calladita / The Quiet Maid' - a movie funded by the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), set to premiere at the Tallinn Film Festival - has secured a global sales deal.
'The Quiet Maid' is the first European feature film financed by the sale of NFTs. It is a debut film...
Bitcoin Ordinal Inscriptions Cool Down After Historic Peak
1.10.2023
Bitcoin Ordinal inscriptions have tapered off markedly since September 24, 2023, following a historic peak on September 15. This deceleration emerges as inscriptions nestled within the Bitcoin blockchain verge on the notable 35 million milestone. A Look at Bitcoin’s Recent Inscription Decline...
Fortnite Players Can Now Get A Refund From Historic FTC Settlement
20.9.2023
Good news, everyone: now Fortnite can pay you. After a spat with the FTC wherein Epic Games settled for $245 million dollars, the Federal Trade Commission has launched a webpage for eligible Fortnite players to get some money back. Read more
Ethereum Blockchain Launches 'Holesky' Test Network, on First Anniversary of Historic 'Merge'
15.9.2023
The debut of the testing system – designed to be twice as big as the main network so developers can simulate massive scaling, comes a year after Ethereum completed its historic "Merge" shift to a "proof-of-stake" model from the original "proof-of-work" setup that Bitcoin uses
Latam Insights — Argentine Peso Touches Historic Lows, Tether Dominated the Brazilian Market
14.8.2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: The Argentine peso reaches historic lows, Tether’s USDT accounts for more than 80% of the transactions in the Brazilian market, and Binance gets fully...
Unidentified Miners, F2pool Lead All-Time Bitcoin Mining Rankings: A Comprehensive Review of Bitcoin’s Historic Block Discovery
12.8.2023
Since the inception of the Bitcoin blockchain by Satoshi Nakamoto, the network has diligently processed in excess of 800,000 blocks. An examination of data from 99 distinct mining pools, spanning the previous 14 years, reveals that unidentified mining participants discovered 28.37% of...
Binance Makes Historic Move as First Licensed Crypto Exchange in El Salvador
9.8.2023
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has become the first fully licensed crypto exchange in El Salvador.
In a Tuesday announcement, the company said it has been granted a Bitcoin Services Provider license (BSP) by the Central Reserve Bank (Banco Central de Reserva) and the first...
Argentine Peso Plunges to Historic Lows as Uncertainty Rules Before Elections
8.8.2023
The exchange rate of the Argentine peso reached historic lows Monday in a decline that took its exchange rate to almost 600 pesos per U.S. dollar. Economists state that the uncertainty of the upcoming elections caused key bagholders to hedge their portfolios with foreign currency. However, analysts...
Bitcoin’s Historic Surge: Record 682,281 Transactions in a Day Mark 2023 as Year of Increased Activity
6.8.2023
In a year marked by historic milestones, the Bitcoin network has recorded its most active period ever, processing the highest number of confirmed transactions per day. The network reached an all-time high on May 1, 2023, with 682,281 transactions. This unprecedented activity began its upward trend...