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By Kevin Helms A class action lawsuit has been filed in South Korea accusing cryptocurrency exchange V Global of defrauding investors. The police reportedly estimate that 69,000 people have invested with the crypto exchange and the damage amounts to 3.8 trillion won. Crypto Exchange Sued for Defrauding Investors South KoreanContinue Reading

By Ekin Genç Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin told podcaster Lex Friedman that “deep academic rigor is overrated,” in an apparent swipe at Cardano, the crypto project led by former Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. Such projects “really emphasize having these big academic proofs for everything,” Buterin said on the podcast, uploadedContinue Reading

By Kevin Helms Norton has added a cryptocurrency mining feature to its antivirus software. Users will be able to mine ethereum while their computers are idle. Miners can track and transfer their crypto earnings into their Norton Crypto Wallet. Antivirus Software Can Mine Crypto Nortonlifelock (NASDAQ: NLOK), a global cybersecurityContinue Reading

By Decrypt Staff So…did Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and literal spaceship builder, just support a cryptocurrency called CumRocket, named so for its mission to send male ejaculate in the same direction as his reusable rockets? It’s not a call to make lightly. But the small yet enthusiastic groupContinue Reading

By Kevin Helms A popular mobile wallet in the Philippines, Gcash, is considering offering its users the ability to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies on its platform, which reportedly has 40 million users. The company’s CEO says 40% of Filipinos now have a Gcash account. Gcash Considers Offering Crypto TradingContinue Reading

By Lubomir Tassev Kalashnikov Group, the Russian firearms manufacturer, is ready to transition to settlements in digital currency. The announcement came from the international economic forum in Saint Petersburg where the central bank of Russia reaffirmed its intention to replace “dirty” and “infectious” paper cash with the digital ruble that’sContinue Reading

By Bitcoin.com PR AquaGoat is an ecological social cryptocurrency with a purpose: saving the planet’s oceans. AquaGoat aims to help fund and donate to initiatives focused on cleaning and protecting the planet’s oceans and waterways, all while generating income (yield-generation) and value to its holders. Since the project began onContinue Reading

By Sergio Goschenko Pascal Blanque, CIO of Amundi, one of the biggest asset managers in Europe, has stated that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a farce, exposing its skeptical stance on the real value of cryptocurrencies. The investor stated that crypto assets are an expression of markets making bubbles andContinue Reading

By Sergio Goschenko Localbitcoins, one of the biggest P2P exchanges in the world, has added Bitcoin Cash and other cryptocurrencies as payment methods to acquire Bitcoin on its platform. This marks a clear departure from the earlier position of the company, which hadn’t added new payment methods and had remainedContinue Reading

By Jamie Redman Regional reports disclose South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) had a closed-door meeting with roughly 20 different cryptocurrency exchanges on June 3. The report highlights that virtual asset business operators (VASPs) that attended the meeting all had ISMS (Information Security Management System) certification. South Korean Regulator HoldsContinue Reading

By Andrew Hayward Earlier today, cryptocurrency exchange FTX announced an enormous 10-year, $210 million naming rights sponsorship for popular esports organization Team SoloMid (TSM), which competes in a wide array of video games. However, since the initial news broke, a new wrinkle has emerged that makes the deal less valuableContinue Reading

By Jeff Benson Many Bitcoin proponents have chided the US Federal Reserve for its policy during (and before) the coronavirus pandemic of printing money to stimulate sections of the economy. Cryptocurrency proponent Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) thinks the Fed’s monetary policy bears some resemblance to the tokenomics of the world’sContinue Reading

By Samuel Wan Source: Crypto YouTuber Lark Davis points out that Bitcoin is headed for a death cross “unless something changes soon.” At the current trajectory, the bearish technical pattern will occur in mid-June. Unless something changes soon for #bitcoin then we could be staring down a death cross inContinue Reading

By Bitcoin.com PR PRESS RELEASE. Planetwatch, a French start-up which decentralizes and incentivizes environmental monitoring, announced that its utility token, PLANETS, will be listed on Bitfinex on June 4th. PLANETS are the first Algorand Standard Asset (barring stablecoins) to be supported on a major international exchange. Claudio Parrinello, PlanetWatch’s CEOContinue Reading

By Jamie Redman The cofounder of Twitter and the CEO of the payments firm Square, Jack Dorsey, has revealed his firm is contemplating creating a bitcoin hardware wallet in collaboration with the community. Dorsey revealed this in a tweetstorm and said he wanted to share some “guiding principles” concerning thisContinue Reading

By Jeff Benson Apparently, Floyd Mayweather didn’t get the memo that he was speaking at a “Bitcoin only” event. Taking the stage on Day 1 of the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, the boxer downplayed the importance of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, while repeatedly encouraging audience members to believe inContinue Reading

By Jamie Redman Cryptocurrencies have jumped quite a bit in value over the course of the year and miners who verify transactions and earn digital assets have seen significant profits. While bitcoin miners have been seeing daily profits rise, a great number of other mineable digital currencies are pulling inContinue Reading

By Andrew Hayward Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is a dyed-in-the-wool Bitcoiner—a man who has described the cryptocurrency whitepaper as “poetry,” who has a Bitcoin clock in his home, and has donated ample funds to accelerate Bitcoin adoption and development. Today, at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, heContinue Reading

By Kevin Helms Cryptocurrency is a point of focus in President Joe Biden’s new directive aimed at combating corruption as a core national security interest of the U.S. An official of the Biden administration says that major parts of the directive will focus on cryptocurrency and cybercrime. Crypto a FocusContinue Reading

By Liam Frost Russian “investors who know what they’re doing” are eager to invest in Bitcoin, said Oliver Hughes, CEO of digital bank Tinkoff. Unfortunately, the central bank’s harsh stance on digital assets prevents banks like Hughes’ from offering such services. Russia Proposes up to 3 Years of Jail forContinue Reading

By Liam Frost Crypto exchange FTX will pay $21 million a year for the next 10 years for American professional esports team TSM, aka Team SoloMid, to change its name and rebrand toTSM FTX, The New York Times reported today. “Taking a huge industry and then reimagining it in aContinue Reading

By Will Gottsegen Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey says Square is “considering” developing a hardware wallet for Bitcoin. Square is considering making a hardware wallet for #bitcoin. If we do it, we would build it entirely in the open, from software to hardware design, and in collaboration with theContinue Reading

By Jeff John Roberts The upstart blockchain Solana, which some have dubbed a potential “Ethereum killer,” has raised a large amount of money to scale up its ambitions, which include becoming a go-to home for decentralized applications, or dapps. According to multiple sources, some of whom spoke on the conditionContinue Reading

By Scott Chipolina Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6)—the much anticipated next installment of the GTA franchise—is rumored to feature cryptocurrency in-game. Tom Henderson, described by gaming news outlet Game Rant as a “reputable leaker,” said yesterday that “I heard recently that in GTA 6, some missions will reward youContinue Reading

By Daniel Ferraro As of June. 3 through IntoTheBlock’s Dogecoin ownership indicators (Source: Since the beginning of the year, the meme crypto asset has surged from $0.0055 to over $0.40 in 2021, or a 72x return year-to-date. More recently, following its listing on Coinbase and backed by several Musk’s tweets,Continue Reading

By Mathew Di Salvo The Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami kicked off today with libertarian and ex-presidential candidate Ron Paul slamming the Federal Reserve and saying that Bitcoin needs be “considered seriously,” given the current state of the economy and the Fed’s monetary policy. The former black sheep of theContinue Reading