To His Own Surprise, Crypto Volume Pumper’s Business Is Still Thriving
Remember that college student who spoke candidly about inflating crypto trading volumes? He’s still at it – and COVID-19 has kept his business brisk.
Remember that college student who spoke candidly about inflating crypto trading volumes? He’s still at it – and COVID-19 has kept his business brisk.
Hut 8 says its new funding is going towards increasing the bitcoin miner's total capacity by a fifth.
Witnesses will discuss stablecoins and tokenized dollars during Tuesday's Senate Banking hearing on the digitization of money.
Sergey Medvedev pleaded guilty to racketeering charges as part of a $568 million payment card fraud forum, which used Liberty Reserve and bitcoin to launder funds.
Scams and fraud won't break crypto. But hubris might.
Bitcoin volatility drops to historic lows as the cryptocurrency stays just above $9,000.
Options market data suggests bitcoin could become more volatile than ether over the next three months.
With EIP 1559, Ethereum developers are proposing a dynamic pricing system to lower the blockchain network's current high gas fees.
A hacker has attempted to disrupt a blockchain voting system currently being used to help decide constitutional changes in the Russian Federation.
Balancer fell victim to a "flash loan" exploit while a shareholders association said EY should have caught Wirecard's multi-billion blackhole earlier.
If history is a guide, the dollar's reserve currency status can withstand a lot of bad policymaking. Bitcoin may rise, but it could take a while.
Ebang, one of the major manufacturers of bitcoin mining equipment, hopes an exchange could double total revenue by 2022.
The Confidential Computing Consortium aims to create systems that sequester sensitive data so it can't be exploited by nefarious actors.
The protocol upgrade includes changes to staking and governance.
Following a sharp drop in the Wirecard stock price, the German shareholders' body holds EY responsible for not alerting the public sooner over the firm's accounting failures.
It's been assumed for years that well-heeled financial institutions would become the main driving force and primary investor class in crypto. That narrative may underestimate the power of the retail investor.
Bitcoin chalked out minor price gains on Sunday, ending its longest run of daily losses for half a year and avoiding a break below the ongoing restricted trading range.
The sophisticated attack exploited a loophole that tricked the protocol into releasing $500,000 worth of tokens.
BHP has completed its first trial trade transaction of iron ore with China's Baosteel using blockchain technology.
Whether out of concern for personal security or a desire to preserve privacy, many Bitcoin developers are known to the world only by their pseudonyms.
The government has asked startup Sendsquare to develop a proof-of-concept blockchain registry to help analyze, anonymize and store clinical diabetes data.
Bitcoin’s investment narrative is evolving as the role of volatility is changing in both crypto and traditional markets.
The first iteration of Matic Network's staking program is now live and has already allocated 12% of its token supply to the project.
A new international rule requiring digital asset operators to report transactions could spilt the crypto industry in two, argue two researchers.
As states shutter economic activity because of preventable COVID-19 outbreaks, it’s deja vu all over again.
Mutual fund giant Vanguard has completed another blockchain pilot that aims to change the risk profile of foreign exchange transactions.
Traditional markets slide as coronavirus cases spike, and crypto follows because its correlation is still unbroken.
Decentralized options marketplace Opyn has launched put options on COMP that will provide a safety net of sorts should COMP’s fortunes take a turn for the worse.
The future of the U.S.’s federal securities regulator, and perhaps the direction of cryptocurrency policy, is up in the air. We game out the scenarios.
AML Bitcoin's Marcus Andrade claims he is being extorted by the U.S. government in a response to Thursday's charges by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.