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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Set to Drop for the First Time in Two Months

The short string of very high highs in Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty is to be broken today according to the current estimates, with miners about to see a difficulty drop instead.Per the current estimations by mining pool BTC.com, the difficulty will decrease by more than 3% to 16.8 T. This would...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

BTC.TOP Launches ‘Joint Mining’ Platform, Users Pay After Breaking Even

Crypto mining pool BTC.TOP, via its subsidiary B.TOP, now offers "joint mining" - enabling users to buy hash power, as well as pay the fees and share the profit once their revenue reaches the cost of the equipment they initially bought. "We hope to lower the entry barrier for those who would like...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin and Ethereum Rally, Major Altcoins Consolidate

Bitcoin price rallied and settled above the USD 10,000 resistance. Ethereum surged above USD 300 and USD 320, XRP is consolidating above USD 0.215. ERD soared 50% and UBT is up around 8% today.In the past 2-3 days, bitcoin price started a strong increase above USD 9,500. BTC gained more than 5%...

, by Aayush Jindal

Bitcoin Pops Above USD 10K, Ethereum Outperforms All Major Coins Again

Bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH), the first- and second-ranked cryptoassets by market capitalization, continued higher over the weekend, with both coins breaking through crucial resistance levels at USD 10,000 and USD 300, respectively.As of press time on Monday morning (04:43 UTC), bitcoin was up...

, by Fredrik Vold

DeFi Punches Above Its Weight As it Targets Bitcoin’s Thunder

As BTC volatility dropped, crypto investors are looking to altcoins and DeFi projects for yield. Some believe what is good for DeFi is good for BTC. DeFi and Bitcoin can coexist peacefully, with neither ‘eating into’ the market of the other.Decentralized finance (DeFi) is seemingly...

, by Simon Chandler

Bitcoin Brokers In ‘Very Important’ Race For Big Investors – BitGo Prime CEO

As prime brokerage has become an integral part of traditional financial markets, crypto industry players are racing to bring these services into this nascent market too. This would increase efficiency and encourage more institutional investors to allocate more of their funds to cryptoassets,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Angry South Korean Crypto Traders Threaten to Quit over New 20% Tax

Active crypto traders in South Korea said they are prepared to walk away from the scene forever – slamming “unfair” 20% crypto trading tax law proposals unveiled by the government earlier this week. It is a sign, perhaps, of what traders in other nations will have to deal with in...

, by Tim Alper

BTC-funded Escape, 1,000 Twitter “Gods,” Bitcoin Suisse Gets USD 49m + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Legal newsEx-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s son sent some USD 500,000 in bitcoin (BTC) to an American suspected of helping Ghosn...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Kasparov’s Move: Bitcoin Protects From State Interference

Russian chess grandmaster and opposition politician Garry Kasparov said that bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to emerge as the leading alternative means of protecting personal wealth against inflation and uncontrolled state interference with people’s financial...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Median Ethereum Fee Up Almost 1,300% Since April, Bitcoin Fees Jump Too

The fees on both Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) networks are rising yet again, prompting both the user dissatisfaction and discussions of possible solutions. There seems to be no end to what many perceive as major issues with high fees on the two biggest networks. The median average Bitcoin...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

This is How Superman29 Laundered Millions in Bitcoin and Got Caught

Kais Mohammad, a 36-year-old resident of Yorba Linda in California who nicknamed himself 'Superman29', has pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of running Herocoin, an unlicensed cryptocurrency services business that exchanged up to USD 25 million through in-person transactions and a network...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Bitcoin and Altcoins Correcting Gains, Ethereum Outperforms

Bitcoin price started a downside correction and traded below USD 9,500. Ethereum is up over 2% and it tested USD 280, XRP is consolidating above USD 0.202. DGB extended gains by 10% today.Bitcoin price remained in a bullish zone above the USD 9,550 level. BTC extended its rise above the USD 9,600...

, by Aayush Jindal

Bitcoin Mining Rigs Are Pouring into Abkhazia…Where Mining Is Illegal

Illicit crypto mining appears to be booming in the South Caucasus region, with Abkhazia where crypto rigs are reportedly flooding over the border – despite the fact that mining is officially illegal under Abkhazian law.The largely unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia in the South Caucasus is...

, by Tim Alper

It Might Be ‘too Early to Celebrate’ Russia’s New Crypto Law

Russia’s new crypto legislation was finally approved this week, after a delay of over two years – but it might be that the true battle for crypto regulation in the country is yet to begin.A local expert has hinted that when policymakers decided to divide the “On Digital...

, by Tim Alper

Fiat Will Be a Passing Fad In the History of Money – Deutsche Bank Strategist

Fiat money will be a passing fad in the long-term history of money, while gold, as a hedge against government money, is outperformed by equities in the long run, according to Jim Reid, Research Strategist at German banking giant Deutsche Bank.In a note to clients on Wednesday, he admitted that even...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Twitter Hack Victims Face New Personal Data Breech Threats

Attackers who collected bitcoin (BTC) 13.14 – worth about USD 120,000 – on July 15, from the largest hack in Twitter’s history, are believed to have accessed direct messages boxes of 36 users, including an elected Dutch official, and downloaded “Your Twitter Data”...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

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