Day: June 23, 2022

Polygon Price Rises by 60% In Four Days After Massive Matic Accumulation

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After weeks of bearish run, Polygon (MATIC) witnessed one of the sharpest rebounds in the cryptocurrency market this week. MATIC’S price notably rose to $0.50 on June 23, four days after the coin hit its lowest level since April 2021. This rapid gain of about 60% is a performance that beat the resurgence of even Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) in the same timeframe. Although MATIC is still far from its all-time high recorded value of $2.92 in December 2021, it is a massive improvement in a period where the…

Buy Bitcoin or start mining? HashWorks CEO points to ‘attractive investment yield’ in BTC mining

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Recently, bad news has abounded, and the resulting fear is real. DeFi is looking dead, altcoins completed their lifecycle by returning back to $0 (I guess that’s a joke), and Bitcoin’s (BTC) price fell lower than even the smartest brains in the room expected.  A unifying theme of the most recent bull market appears to have been greed. Everyone got too confident and too greedy, and it shows by the amount of debt and leverage that is being unwound as 3AC, Celsius, BlockFi and Voyager contend with the real threat…

Binance’s CZ Says Crypto Price Fluctuations Normal as Industry Is Still Growing

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Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of the popular crypto exchange Binance, has said it might take Bitcoin some months to a couple of years to get back to the all-time-highs previously reached by the coin. ChangPeng told Guardian ePaper, a UK-based news outlet, that he believes if investors in 2018 were told that Bitcoin would be $20k in 2022, they would have been very happy. However, he admitted that the current $20k price of Bitcoin is low considering its previous highs. CZ said, “I think given this price drop from the all-time…

Uphold withdraws with Venezuela, citing US sanctions

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Crypto trading platform Uphold said it will be withdrawing support for users in Venezuela due to sanctions imposed by the United States government. In a Thursday announcement, Uphold said “owing to the increasing complexity of complying with U.S. sanctions” the platform would “very reluctantly” be moving out of Venezuela. The platform advised users to withdraw their funds as soon as possible, noting it would halt trading for Venezuela-based clients on July 31, with all accounts “fully restricted” starting on Sept. 30. “As a U.S. financial institution, Uphold has to comply…

E-Commerce Giant Ebay Acquires NFT Marketplace Knownorigin – Bitcoin News

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The e-commerce and online auction giant Ebay has announced the company has acquired the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Knownorigin. Ebay declared that the acquisition is an “important step in Ebay’s tech-led reimagination.” Ebay Purchases NFT Marketplace in Order to Make E-Commerce Site the World’s Top Destination for Collectibles Ebay revealed on Wednesday that the company has purchased the NFT marketplace Knownorigin. Last February, Ebay’s chief executive officer, Jamie Iannone, discussed NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and how the company continues to “evaluate other forms of payments.” Knownorigin is a UK-based company and according…

US Banking Watchdog Says Crypto Turmoil Reinforces Cautious Approach

“There are some vulnerabilities and risks in that space that do warrant a cautious and careful approach,” Hsu told reporters on a call about his agency’s Semiannual Risk Perspective (released Thursday), which again highlighted digital assets as a space that could pose dangers to lenders in the U.S. The agency has been closely watching what’s been going on in the sector, including the sudden collapse of TerraUSD, officials said. Source

Coinbase to track off-exchange transactions from Dutch customers

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In a new blog post published Thursday, Coinbase says that starting Monday, all of its customers in the Netherlands will need to complete new Know Your Customer, or KYC, requirements when transferring digital assets to wallet addresses that are not based on the exchange. This includes providing the recipient’s full name, the purpose of the transfer and the recipient’s complete residential address. Transfers between Coinbase accounts are not affected by the new rule.  The exchange noted that the change will only impact Coinbase users in the Netherlands, and is being…