Elon Musk Sells $4 Billion Tesla Shares Since Twitter Takeover – Will He Offload His Crypto Holdings?

Elon Musk – the world’s richest person with a net worth of over $200 billion – sold almost $4 billion worth of Tesla shares after previously announcing he was already done doing so. It can be recalled that in August 9, Musk used Twitter – which he now owns courtesy of a $44 billion purchase […]

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Top 5 Metaverse Tokens Below $10M Market Cap to Watch in October 2022

Metaverse tokens are virtual currencies used for transactions in the metaverse. Metaverse is a virtual world with a replica of almost everything in the real world. Metaverse tokens have a total market capitalization of $12,654,232,376 and a total trading volume of $1,167,942,299, with some big names such as ApeCoin, Internet Computer,  Decentraland, Sandbox, and Others.

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Crypto Miner F2Pool Mined the Last-Ever PoW Ether Block Before Merge

The miner used almost 30 million gwei to pay for that transaction.

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Almost a quarter of US investors used loans to buy crypto

A large number of retail investors in the United States have taken out loans, often at exorbitant interest rates, to buy cryptocurrencies, and more than half of such investors ended up losing money, according to a recent survey by DebtHammer.

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Biggest ‘stETH’ Pool Almost Empty, Complicating Exit for Would-Be Sellers

A trading pool that large institutional investors such as Alameda Research and Three Arrows Capital have used to dump their “stETH” tokens is now nearly drained and heavily imbalanced, potentially trapping retail investors as well as the embattled crypto lender Celsius.

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Three Industries That Elon Musk’s Companies Are Influencing

Elon Musk has become a household name used in the last decade when discussing the future. The entrepreneur has a vision for the future that almost no other entrepreneur can rival in scope or practice.

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Earn Through Automated Trading on Top Crypto Exchanges with RevenueBOT

It used to take years of training to become a profitable trader, but not anymore. With the advent of trading bots, anyone can start earning income from trading almost immediately. One of the top trading bots out there, RevenueBOT, helps traders earn income on top crypto exchanges with a few simple steps. The bot was […]

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UK Law Enforcement Agency Seizes almost $2M worth of NFTs

NFTs have come a long way since they first emerged in 2014, and a negative first; a UK law enforcement agency becomes the first UK law enforcement outfit to confiscate NFTs. NFTs and Tax Evasion One of the widely used arguments by crypto and NFT naysayers is that digital assets can be used to launder […] The post UK Law Enforcement Agency Seizes almost $2M worth of NFTs appeared first on NFT News Today.

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2021: The Exceptional Bitcoin Ranging Year

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Binance Smart Chain sets record after 14.7 million daily transactions in one day

In previous times, Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains dominated the landscape as most of the transactions on the space occurred through either of them; however, data from BscScan, an analytical tool used to measure the numbers of transactions alongside other metrics on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has shown that its daily transaction almost hit 15 million, […] The post Binance Smart Chain sets record after 14.

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Solana vs Ethereum, Who Will Win?

More than ever before, this is no doubt a great time for anyone willing to invest in cryptocurrency to do so. With the price volatility and the addition of new coins with various applications coming online almost every day, cryptocurrency is indeed making a whole lot of sense now than it used to be.

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Interview with Andrei Zaitsev, the CEO of Qchain

Blockchain technology has been used for all kinds of cases for years now, ever since the introduction of Ethereum and its smart contracts. And during this period, the industry has developed considerably, with lots of new advanced platforms emerging, and blockchain expanding to reach almost every industry around the world.

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IRS Seized $1.2B in Crypto in 2021, Up Nearly 10x From 2020

The IRS has already seized $1. 2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in 2021 that have been used for illicit purposes, which is almost ten times as much as last year. The post IRS Seized $1.

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Stablecoins Are Changing and It’s a Big Deal

Stablecoins aren’t anything new. They’ve been around almost as long as cryptocurrencies have, with the first bonafide stablecoin launched way back in 2014. Since then, they’ve largely been used by traders and investors looking for a temporary reprieve from volatility.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: 27 March

Bitcoin's price has become used to registering new ATH almost every fortnight. However, in the past week, the coin was subjected to increased bearish pressure which ended up dropping the price close tThe post Bitcoin Price Analysis: 27 March appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Almost 20% of PayPal Users Have Used App to Trade Bitcoin, Mizuho Says

About 65% of users would use bitcoin as a currency at PayPal's 28 million merchants.

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Almost 1% of all Bitcoin in circulation is now used on Ethereum

One of the biggest focuses of this past year in DeFi has been the rapid rise of Wrapped Bitcoin, tBTC, and other projects that allow investors to deposit their BTC in exchange for an Ethereum-based token representing a claim on that Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Skeptic Turns Bitcoin Bull: Billion Dollar Company Buys 17K BTC in 74 Hours

Nasdaq-listed company Microstrategy recently bought almost 17K bitcoins within 74 hours, costing about $175 million. The CEO of this billion-dollar company used to be a bitcoin skeptic but has recently become a bitcoin bull when his company purchased $425 million worth of bitcoin.

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DeFi Boom Almost Doubles Ethereum Active dApp Users in Q2 2020, Report Says

Dapp. com, a leading decentralized application (dApp) analytics platform, has released its Q2 2020 Dapp Market Report showing the big winners and losers in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi).

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Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Review: [May 2020 Update]

Today we’ll talk about PIA (Private Internet Access), a popular VPN that has been in business for almost 20 years. In the interest of full disclosure be aware that this writer used PIA for several years before switching to ExpressVPN in 2018.

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This Billionaire Bitcoin Investor Gives 3 Catalysts That Could Send Price Flying

Bitcoin has undoubtedly been on a tear over the past 45 or so days. Since hitting $6,400 in December, BTC has surged by almost 50%, hitting a local high of $9,550 on Thursday. According to Mike Novogratz — a Wall Street name who used to be a partner at Goldman Sachs and now heads crypto... The post appeared first on NewsBTC.

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Here’s how anonymized personal data should be used to create better services

Ask anyone their opinion on companies using their data and the response will almost always be negative. It’s not surprising; revelation after revelation has revealed that the likes of Google and Facebook not only profit off of user data, but are often reckless or intrusive in the way that they do so.

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MyDashWallet was compromised for 2 MONTHS — users, move your cryptocurrency

MyDashWallet, a service that purports to be the fastest way of using DASH cryptocurrency, has revealed its platform was compromised for two whole months, and is now urging users to move their funds as soon as possible (if they’re still there).

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CHEAP: This Samsung 256GB microSD is only $37 — you know what to do

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you have almost any type of electronic device, you’re probably going to need an SD card at some point.

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Can You Trade In Bitcoin?

Cryptocurrencies first came into conception over a decade ago. Of the many cryptocurrencies that are now available in the market, one of the most commonly used is bitcoin. Because of its effectivity and the many other advantages it offers, bitcoins have come a long way.

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Fed Chair Suggests Bitcoin Is Gold's Biggest Competition

In a remarkable admission during his testimony to Congress, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted that bitcoin is used as an alternative to gold, conceding that BTC is a store of value. He said before the Senate: "Really, almost no one uses bitcoin for payment, they use it more as an alternative to gold really.

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How big biased datasets make social inequalities worse

At almost every point in our day, we interact with digital technologies which collect our data. From the moment our smart phones wake us up, to our watch tracking our morning run, every time we use public transport, every coffee we purchase with a bank card, every song skipped or liked, until we return to bed and let our sleep apps monitor our dreaming habits – all of these technologies are collecting data.

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Samurai Shodown will kick your ass, then encourage you to improve

The new Samurai Shodown fighting game is a bit of a shock to the senses — it’s such a slow, deliberately-paced game compared with its contemporaries. And if you’re not used to it, you will get your ass kicked.

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Satoshi Comparisons Surface After Grin Founder Exits in Similar Way

Pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell has stepped away from the project, reassuring the privacy coin’s community that it is in “safe hands. ” The move has sparked inevitable Satoshi Nakamoto comparisons.

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Satoshi Comparisons Surface After Grin Founder Exits in Similar Circumstances

Pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell has stepped away from the project, reassuring the privacy coin’s community that it is in “safe hands. ” The move has sparked inevitable Satoshi Nakamoto comparisons.

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Here’s why you need to consider a Samsung Chromebook for under $100

Why not save depreciation cash by buying an almost new computer at a used price?You can do just that right now with this deal on a refurbished Samsung Chromebook. It’s a $599 value priced for the budget-conscious (read: everybody) at just $99.99 right now from TNW Deals.

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QuadrigaCX CEO traded and lost over 21,000 Bitcoin in customer deposits

Ernst & Young revealed that QuadrigaCX, a failed Canadian crypto exchange that lost almost $190 million of its users funds, may have committed fraud. Auditors found that the exchange’s late founder and CEO transferred user funds off QuadrigaCX and used them for margin trading on other exchanges, losing millions.

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MoonTrader ICO

MoonTrader team has developed and is supporting the trading terminal (MoonBot - moon-bot. com) which was introduced in October 3, 2017. Currently, the performance of MoonBot surpasses that of most existing trading systems as a result of its advanced functionality and the high security features designed to protect your trading activities.

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Yet another cryptocurrency mining botnet caught targeting China

It seems we can’t go more than a week without news of a new cryptocurrency mining malware or botnet being discovered. This time, security researchers have uncovered another Monero mining botnet that’s targeting China.

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This site makes it ridiculously easy to experiment with Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is a fascinating product that solves a problem that almost nobody has. If the Internet is a series of tubes (RIP Ted Stevens), Apache Kafka is the pipe that connects high-volume applications with their external components, like databases and third-party services.

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Why does macOS Catalina use Zsh instead of Bash? Licensing

Yesterday, at its WWDC developer conference, Apple unveiled the latest version of the MacOS operating system. Codenamed Catalina, it’s a fairly significant update for the platform, not least because of the changes that have taken place under the hood.

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Bitcoin [BTC] is not being used by almost anybody, claims article; Samson Mow retorts

Bitcoin’s [BTC] upward surge on the cryptocurrency charts has led many people in the space to speculate that the world’s largest currency was back in action and that mass adoption was just over the horizon.

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Latest “Billions” TV Show Episode Mentions Blockchain Technology Being Used for Mobile Voting

The blockchain technology is surely getting mainstream these days. While some years ago it would almost never be mentioned at all outside of crypto circles, now the media is talking about it all the time and even TV shows and movies are creating stories about it.

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CoinPayments Claims Its Bitcoin Services Were Not Used By Terrorists Before Sri Lanka Bombing

It is no secret that Bitcoin is often accused of being used by criminals and terrorists. While the truth is that only an almost irrelevant share of the market is used this way, there are still occasional criminals using Bitcoin and whenever this happens, they end up on the news. The most recent case of […]

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Bitfinex-Tether episode hardly affects stablecoin; continues to be pegged with cryptos despite systematic risk

The Bitfinex/Tether episode made headlines in the crypto community over the past week. The repercussions were felt even in the market as Bitcoin [BTC] plummeted by almost $400 after news broke out that Bitfinex used Tether reserves to cover up its undisclosed losses, speculated to amount to $850 million.

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Samsung Pay and Apple Pay support NEO

In a week, NEO token can be used for easy payment almost worldwide – with a few exceptions. British fintech company Zeux added NEO to the number of supported tokens such as QTUM (33rd place by capitalization) and IOTA (15th place).

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On Free Speech

“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.

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Tor or VPN – Which is Best for Security, Privacy & Anonymity? [2019]

When it comes to protecting your privacy online, VPNs are the most commonly-used weapon. According to an August 27, 2018 report by GO-Globe. com nearly 25% of Internet users had used a VPN at least once in the preceding 30 days.

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Breez Wants to Make the Lightning Network More User Friendly

New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.

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Infographic: A Map of Bitcoin Forks

This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.

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CoolWallet S Review: An ‘Everyday’ Wallet for Crypto?

The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.

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Lazarus Hacker Group Continues to Target Crypto Using Faked Trading Software

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.

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Op Ed: Hanging Money Launderers Out to Dry: The Role of KYC/AML in Blockchain

Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Slow Grind Could Lead to Short Squeeze

Last Friday, we discussed a macro resistance level bitcoin would likely test. The level was tested three times prior and immediately rejected. Now, for the fourth time, we find ourselves situated above the level as we wait to see if our support holds:Figure 1: BTC-USD, Daily Candles, Fourth Test of Macro ResistanceThe first three attempts to hold support above the black, broken resistance have been stifled with relatively high amounts of volume.

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