Bitcoin’s price has jumped above $30,000 for the first time, setting new all-time highs and pushing market capitalization to $557 billion.
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On Nov. 30, bitcoin breeched a nearly three-year high of $19,793. Since then the cryptocurrency has gained more than $10,000.
After over three years of inactivity, an address associated with one of the largest hacks on Ethereum has begun to move ETH. In 2017, Parity lost over 150,000ETH (roughly $30M at the time of the hack) to a hacker who exploited a vulnerability in its multi-sig software wallet. At that time, it was the second-largest […]
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Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and Dash (DASH) are all down double-digit percentages following an announcement that U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex will be delisting the privacy coins on January 15. According to Bittrex, while the exchange “generally seeks to provide users up to 30 days to withdraw any delisted tokens… in certain instances the withdrawal period […]
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The podcaster and CEO of Onramp Invest discusses DeFi, income inequality and the opportunity for bitcoin in 2021.
With sales of physical art down because of the pandemic, NFT-based artworks have taken off in 2020.
While Bittrex gave no reason for the removals, exchanges around the world have been moving to delist coins that seek to hide the activity of their users.
On today’s holiday episode of Markets Daily, we celebrate the new year with a classic song from the early days of bitcoin, written and performed by John Barrett.
DeFi exploded in popularity in 2020 — and so did stealing from DeFi platforms. In all, there were 15 hacks of DeFi platforms amounting to $120 million funds being stolen. Hackers nabbed bounties ranging from $135,000 and $25 million, according to The Block Research. Only $45.6 million was recovered. One protocol — bZx — was […]
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Vision Hill’s Dan Zuller runs through his 10 takeaways from institutional crypto investing, and looks ahead.
