Month: January 2022

Blockchain Indicator Suggests Bitcoin Could be Close to Bottoming Out

A historically reliable blockchain indicator suggests bitcoin maybe in the final stages of a bearish trend, having lost nearly 40% of its value in the past two months. The entity-adjusted dormancy flow, a ratio of cryptocurrency’s going market value to the annualized dollar value of coin dormancy, has dropped below $250,000. Dormancy refers to the average number of days each coin transacted remained dormant or unmoved – a gauge of market’s spending pattern. The area under $250,000 has marked major price bottoms in the past, as seen in the featured…

Jack Dorsey announces Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund

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Former Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey has announced plans to create a “Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund” with Chaincode Labs co-founder Alex Morcos and Martin White, who appears to be an academic at the University of Sussex. The announcement was sent on a mailing list for Bitcoin developers, bitcoin-dev, at 00:13:45 UTC on Jan. 12 from an email address appearing to belong to Dorsey. Cointelegraph reached out to the board members to confirm the email’s legitimacy but did not immediately receive a response. The announcement stated the fund will help…

Short Traders Lose $82M as Bitcoin Bounces to $43K

A bit over $45 million worth of longs were liquidated. Liquidations occur when an exchange forcefully closes a trader’s leveraged position as a safety mechanism due to a partial or total loss of the trader’s initial margin. This happens primarily in futures trading, which only tracks asset prices, as opposed to spot trading, where traders own the actual assets. Source

Arkania Protocol Launch Multi-Chain Launchpad Making IDOs Accessible to All – Press release Bitcoin News

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press release PRESS RELEASE. Arkania Protocol has announced its IDO Launchpad for the public, with anti-whale mechanism, KYC and robust security. 12th January, St. Vincent & the Grenadines — The Arkania platform connects promising new projects with the global crypto community, offering developers a chance to showcase innovative new start-ups to individuals who then have the option to support them from the ground floor. Built on Binance Smart Chain, Arkania will integrate other chains in the future to offer an interoperable token launch experience. Public Friendly with Anti-Whale Mechanism With…

KlimaDAO increases carbon offset stash by 50% in two months

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Carbon offset protocol KlimaDAO has now accrued over 14 million on-chain carbon offsets and is causing waves in the more traditional carbon offset industry. The aim of KlimaDAO is to acquire as many carbon offsets as it can in order to drive up their value and make offset-generating activities more profitable. The Mark Cuban-backed project’s treasury has added over 5 million carbon offset tokens since late Nov. 2021, bringing the total to 14.5 million as of the time of writing. Its offsets are tokenized and bridged to Polygon (MATIC) in…

The 500 BTC Blind Trust to Foster Bitcoin Adoption, Btrust, Announces First Steps

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It’s time for the Btrust to start making moves. And they did so by announcing their “to-do list” and “high level goals.” A month ago, Block CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z announced the members of the board for their 500 BTC blind trust. Btrust’s purpose is to “make bitcoin the internet’s currency” and their field of action is Africa and India.  Hello World 👋 We’ve been working hard on getting ₿trust set up. To start out, we’ve broken up our to-do list into a set of high…

Custom pipe-maker to Snoop Dogg and Santana tokenizes bongs

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Las Vegas-based glass pipe maker to the stars Jerome Baker Designs will launch a series of bong-related NFTs tied to corresponding physical assets early next month. The NFTs, on FDCTech’s Ethereum-based platform, depict the unique glassblowing process for each bong and come with additional unique benefits. They are due to drop on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 13) and the corresponding physical bongs will be auctioned off at Superchief Gallery. Jerome Baker Designs Founder and President Jason Harris is considered to be one of the top ten glassblowers in the world,…

Ronin Sidechain Processed 560% More Total Transactions Than Ethereum Last November – Blockchain Bitcoin News

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The blockchain-powered game Axie Infinity has been a very popular application during the last 12 months, as the game’s NFTs have outpaced every NFT collection today in terms of all-time sales. While Axie Infinity has seen $3.85 billion in all-time sales, Nansen researcher Martin Lee recently published a report on how Ronin, Axie Infinity’s sidechain, has seen exponential growth. Researcher Takes a Deep Dive Into Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network Axie Infinity, the Ethereum-based blockchain game developed by Sky Mavis has seen a significant amount of NFT sales surpassing every NFT…