Month: April 2022

MicroStrategy subsidiary adds another 4,197 BTC to balance sheet

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On Tuesday, enterprise software development firm MicroStrategy announced via a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its subsidiary MacroStrategy acquired 4,197 Bitcoin ($190.5 million) between February 15 and April 4. MacroStrategy has purchased an additional 4,167 bitcoins for ~$190.5 million at an average price of ~$45,714 per #bitcoin. As of 4/4/22 MicroStrategy #hodls ~129,218 bitcoins acquired for ~$3.97 billion at an average price of ~$30,700 per bitcoin. $MSTRhttps://t.co/Z45OuJU5KI — Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) April 5, 2022 The coins were bought at a weighted average price of $45,714,…

Lawmakers Keep Mentioning Privacy in CBDC Discussions

“It doesn’t involve any account, which means that you can use it peer-to-peer directly. You can use it offline and because there’s no third party, there’s no loss of privacy expectation that comes with the third party doctrine,” Rohan Grey, who advised on the bill, told me. Source

Ronin Attack Shows Cross-Chain Crypto Is a ‘Bridge’ Too Far

CryptoX – Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal When you look under the hood, bridges like Ronin’s typically work by locking up cryptocurrency in smart contracts on one chain, and then re-issuing those tokens in “wrapped” form on a destination chain. So for example, if you were to use the Ronin Bridge to move ether (ETH) from Ethereum to Ronin, ETH would get locked up on Ethereum to serve as 1:1 backing for wrapped ether (WETH) issued on Ronin. Original Source The post Ronin Attack Shows Cross-Chain Crypto Is a ‘Bridge’…

Crypto Nightmare: Bots target investors to steal cryptocurrency

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A State Senator Is Pushing to Attract Bitcoin Miners to Oklahoma

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The bill proposes a sales tax exemption for miners that would apply to their utility bills. If passed, Oklahoma would tax crypto mining operations “in a manner similar to historical forms of manufacturing or industrial processing,” two industries that formerly served as the bedrock of the state’s economy. Indeed, Montgomery’s bill is an explicit call to “encourage” a local crypto industry to saddle up in Oklahoma “rather than [in] competing states,” such as neighboring Texas. Original

Trends Study Says Dogecoin Is the Most Googled Cryptocurrency in the US – Bitcoin News

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According to a recent study analyzing Google Trends data, the cryptocurrency dogecoin’s search volume in the United States was highest in the most states as compared to other cryptos. The research also details that the leading crypto asset in terms of market capitalization, bitcoin, was the second most popular crypto asset, with ten different states. Dogecoin Scores 23 States, While Bitcoin Commands 10 A recent study authored by Coin Insider combed through Google Trends data to find out which crypto asset was searched for by the most states. The research…

Georgian central bank prepares legislation to regulate the crypto market

Georgia, the country on the Black Sea, is preparing to regulate its cryptocurrency market. National Bank of Georgia Governor Koba Gvenetadze told The Financial on Monday that the central bank has already developed draft regulatory legislation in accordance with the requirements of international agencies. Gvenetadze said the size of the Georgian crypto market is unknown, due to the lack of regulation. However an estimate by Moneyval, the Council of Europe money laundering monitoring body, placed its monthly transaction volume at between 3.5 million and 5 million Georgian lari, or $1.09…

US Sanctions Russia’s Hydra Darknet, Identifies Over 100 Virtual Currency Addresses

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Bitcoin Monthly Outflows Reach Historically High Value

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On-chain data shows the Bitcoin monthly outflows have recently reached values only seen a few times before in the crypto’s entire history. Bitcoin Exchange Outflows Now Have A Value Of 96.2k BTC Per Month According to the latest weekly report from Glassnode, a historically high amount of BTC has exited all exchange wallets recently. The relevant indicator here is the “exchange net position change,” which tells us the net amount of Bitcoin exiting or entering wallets of all exchanges. The metric’s value is simply calculated by taking the difference between…

Could ApeCoin be the go-to token of the Metaverse?

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What is it with these sly, funny, but boring-looking apes that continue to make headlines? Many collectors argue that it’s less about the image, itself, and more about the culture, social capital and wealth the community of owners has gained from Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) that give the collection its value. Amassing over $1.42 billion in total volume, the community trusted that the creators would deliver on its promise for token emission.  On March 17, BAYC’s utility and governance token, ApeCoin (APE) was made eligible to claim for BAYC…