Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Do Kwon, the South Korean entrepreneur behind the failed cryptocurrencies TerraUSD and Luna, is set to appear in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, facing serious criminal fraud charges. This follows his recent extradition from Montenegro, where...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Leading asset manager Grayscale has updated its list of the top 20 high-upside tokens. The new list has six additions, out of which two tokens – Jupiter ($JUP) and Jito ($JTO) – run on Solana. Jupiter is one of the biggest aggregators of decentralize...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
December was a great month for the crypto industry as a whole. As of December 30, cumulative on-chain spot trading volumes reached a record $451.5B—a 19% jump from November (which previously held the record at $379.5B). During the same period, on-cha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The Indonesian government is reportedly racing to finalize the authority transfer to oversee the crypto industry from the Commodity Futures Trading Agency (Bappebti) under the Trade Ministry to the Financial Services Authority (OJK) ahead of its appr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Telegram has kicked off 2025 with a significant update that deepens its integration with the crypto ecosystem. As reported by TechCrunch, the messaging service has introduced NFT gifting capabilities alongside third-party verification. Telegram Launc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The ongoing legal battle between collapsed crypto lending platform Celsius and bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX appears to have now entered another phase. Celsius recently filed a notice of appeal against Judge John T. Dorsey’s ruling, which R...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU), a collaborative effort between stablecoin giant Tether, the TRON blockchain, and blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs, has achieved a notable milestone by freezing over $100 million in criminal assets across...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Here’s what on-chain data says regarding how the composition of the transaction activity on the Bitcoin network changed during 2024. 2024 Saw Growth In Some Bitcoin On-Chain Metrics, But Decline In Others In a new post on X, the market intellig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The crypto community continues to reel from losses due to scams and hacks. According to Chainalysis data, funds stolen from crypto platforms increased by 21% from last year to $2.2 billion. And for the fourth straight year, losses from hacking and cr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Bitcoin has experienced a 4% price increase since yesterday, a modest but significant growth that highlights strong demand at the $92,000 level. This movement confirms the resilience of BTC at key support zones and indicates that market sentiment rem...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s financial watchdog, faces challenges in enforcing its rules on illegal crypto advertisements. Despite flagging 1,702 illegal cryptocurrency ads, websites, and apps between October 2023 and October 2024, only...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
According to Bloomberg, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has set a new benchmark in the world of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) since its launch in January 2024. With over $50 billion in assets amassed in just 11 months, IBIT has achieved a fe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Dogecoin has witnessed an explosive increase in the number of large transactions, ahead of Ethereum. This provides a bullish outlook for the foremost meme coin as it suggests that Whales are actively accumulating DOGE. Dogecoin Sees 41% Surge In Lar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Dennis Porter, co-founder and CEO of the Satoshi Action Fund (SAF), announced at Michael Saylor’s $100K New Year’s Eve Bitcoin Party in Miami that a US state is on the brink of initiating BTC purchases within the next four months. Bitcoin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Meme coins are back, and they’re more popular than ever. The meme coin market not only recovered throughout 2024 but even saw unprecedented highs in early December when its market cap reached $137B. The wave is still far from over. Despite ongoing f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
A group cryptocurrency advocates in Switzerland has urged the government to consider the addition of Bitcoin in the national reserve. The Swiss Federal Chancellery initiated the process to gain the required number of signatures to push for the amendm...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The turn of the year shines bright on Solana as the ecosystem received over $1B in stablecoin inflows in December. How and why did this happen? Easy – stablecoins exploded in popularity after Trump’s November victory, and Solana’s status as the home...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The AI token cumulative market cap rose by 14.9% in the past 24 hours and hit $49B. To put that into perspective, meme coins, a much older sector, now have a $117B market cap with a +8.9% 24-hour change. Among the top gainers are Virtuals Protocol ($...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
A crypto analyst has confirmed that the Dogecoin price has entered a consolidation zone after experiencing a recent market bounce above the $0.3 level. The analyst predicts that Dogecoin is now eyeing a new price target of $3.4, aiming to reach a new...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Bitcoin may be struggling to initiate a notable surge to revisit its current all-time high of $108,000, triggering speculations about its short-term outlook. Despite the waning price performances, many investors remain optimistic about BTC’s pr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Anthony Sassano, an independent Ethereum educator, angel investor, advisor, and founder of The Daily Gwei, shared his Ethereum predictions for 2025 via X, outlining a series of significant milestones and advancements he expects to unfold this year. E...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
At Michael Saylor’s high-profile New Year’s Eve $100,000 Bitcoin party in Miami, Simon Gerovich, President and CEO of Metaplanet—often dubbed as Japan’s MicroStrategy—shared his insights on the evolving landscape of BTC adoption among gov...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
In a post on X, prominent pro-XRP attorney, John E. Deaton, shed light on the intricate dynamics between the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple’s competitors, suggesting a coordinated effort to undermine the company and its digita...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
On New Year’s Eve, Elon Musk struck again. The billionaire entrepreneur and frequent social media provocateur once again shook up the cryptocurrency market, changing his X (formerly Twitter) profile name to “Kekius Maximus” and swapping h...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The Dogefather (Elon Musk) never stops memeing. Even on New Year’s Eve. As most of us were running last pre-celebration errands or sipping (quaffing?) champagne, Musk was doing what he does best. Shitposting on X. Because how you spend New Year’s Eve...
