Ethereum ICO Participant Moves $9,960,000 Worth of ETH to Crypto Exchange Kraken: On-Chain Data

An original Ethereum (ETH) investor deposited 6,000 ETH worth $9.96 million to the crypto exchange Kraken on Monday, according to the crypto tracker Lookonchain. The whale participated in Ethereum’s 2014 initial coin offering (ICO), receiving 254,908 ETH when the second-largest crypto asset was only priced at $0.31. With ETH trading at $1,647 at time of writing, that means the value of that trove of 6,000 ETH shot up by a staggering 531,361% as it sat in the whale’s care for nine years. Blockchain-tracking service Etherscan indicates that the deep-pocketed investor…

Bitcoin Rally Sustainable? On-Chain Data Provides Crucial Insights

Bitcoin has been trending up since hitting a local low below $25,000 on September 11th. Yesterday’s rally to $27,435 marked a 10% increase from the recent low. As NewsBTC reported, the rally was largely led by the futures market and a massive increase in open interest of over $1 billion, more than half of which was flushed out when BTC fell back below $27,000. Despite this, BTC is up around 7.5% from last week’s low. A reason to be bullish? Glassnode Report Sheds Light On Market Sentiment According to Glassnode,…

Crypto Whale Trades $150M in Ether (ETH) Call Options, Data Tracker Greeks.Live Shows

The large flow was concentrated in the so-called out-of-the-money (OTM) calls at strike levels well above ether’s current market price of $1,633. Whales blocked over 40,000 contracts of ETH December expiry call at $2,200 and nearly 50,000 contracts of October expiry call at $2,000. A block trade is a large transaction negotiated over-the-counter of outside of the exchange’s order book to ensure minimum impact on the market price of the asset. Block traders are considered a proxy for institutional activity. Source

Solana Gains 5% Despite CPI Latest Data And FTX Liquidation Approval

Solana (SOL) has recorded a 5% gain in the last 24 hours amidst certain concerning developments in the crypto space. On Wednesday, the United States published its Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for August, which shows that inflation rose from 3.2% to 3.7%, higher than the predicted outcome by analysts. In addition, the bankrupt FTX exchange obtained court approval to liquidate its crypto holdings worth $3.4 billion as it looks to offset its debt. Normally, developments such as this are expected to induce a selling pressure on crypto assets.  However, the…

Former social services council employee fined for unlawfully accessing sensitive personal data

“People have the absolute right to expect that their sensitive personal information will be treated with the utmost privacy and in accordance with data protection laws. For some reason, this individual chose to flout those laws and spend time snooping at people’s sensitive personal information. “Not respecting people’s legal right to privacy can have serious consequences, as this case shows. It results in a criminal conviction, which may lead to loss of employment and severe damage to future career prospects, alongside the accompanying financial penalties. “Our successful prosecution of this…

Crypto Shows Signs of Stability Ahead of US CPI Data Release

While Bitcoin maintains its stability amid inflationary concerns and economic data releases, other cryptocurrencies face a different fate. In recent months, the world has witnessed a significant degree of financial turbulence as it relates to dwindling crypto prices and concerning Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. One key aspect of this turbulence has been the seesawing prices of cryptocurrencies, a phenomenon that has left many investors and analysts speculating about the future of digital assets. However, despite the volatility in the crypto market, these digital assets have shown remarkable stability, even…

North Korea Linked to $54M CoinEx Hack, Blockchain Data Suggests

The hackers siphoned ether (ETH), XRP, tron’s TRX, MATIC, solana’s SOL, kadena’s KDA and dagger’s XDAG tokens after exploiting a lax security measure on wallets used by the exchange. CoinEx has since released over 10 “suspicious” addresses on several networks, such as Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Arbitrum, where the tokens were transferred. Source

Blockchain active users can be misleading metric: Crypto data scientist

Active user count can be a misleading metric for measuring the state of a crypto ecosystem as a small group of users can generate a significant portion of activity across multiple wallets, argues the co-founder of a blockchain analytics provider. 0xScope’s co-founder and chief data scientist, Philip Torres, told Cointelegraph amid the Bitget EmpowerX Summit that between monopolistic founding entities, bots, exploiters and airdrop hunters — as much as 80% of blockchain activity can be generated by just a small number of entities — despite looking healthy on the outside.…