Bitcoin’s price crashed toward $53,000, losing more than $17,000 since last Monday. This has been one of the cryptocurrency’s worst weekly performances in its entire history. In the past 24 hours alone, a whopping $840 million worth of leverage positions were liquidated due to the market crash. Source: Coinglass Earlier in the week, CryptoPotato outlined […]
In the second quarter of this year, Riot Platforms recorded a net loss of $84.4 million, compared to $27.4 million in the previous year’s same quarter. The American Bitcoin mining firm’s widened losses are a result of the continued impact of April’s Bitcoin halving. Riot’s Q2 Performance According to the quarterly report, Riot reported a […]
The new study has delved into cryptocurrency prices, particularly bitcoin, revealing that markets are significantly influenced by both conventional financial factors and crypto-specific factors. The paper by Austin Adams from Uniswap Labs, Markus Ibert from the Copenhagen Business School Department of Finance, and Gordon Liao from Circle Internet Financial was published earlier this week. New […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Nader Al-Naji with orchestrating a multi-million-dollar fraudulent crypto asset scheme involving the social media platform BitClout and its native token BTCLT. The securities regulator’s complaint revealed that Al-Naji raised over $257 million through unregistered offers and sales of BTCLT in November […]
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using the Avalanche (AVAX) network. This initiative is part of a modernization effort to streamline the state’s title transfer process in collaboration with software development firm Oxhead Alpha. California DMV to Digitize Car Titles According to an Avalanche blog post, users will soon […]
Prominent on-chain sleuth ZachXBT has recently uncovered compelling evidence linking convicted UK hacker Gurv – whose real name is Gurvinder Bhangu – to the recent compromises of American actress Sydney Sweeney’s and ‘Breaking Bad’ actor Bob Odenkirk’s X accounts. This resulted in over $530,000 stolen through Solana meme coin scams. SWEENEY Pump and Dump On […]
Toronto-based Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms announced that its operational hash rate reached 11.1 EH/s by the end of July, marking a 109% year-over-year increase and a 7% rise month-over-month. The average operational hash rate for the month was 10.3 EH/s, up 36% from June. Despite a 1% decline in Bitcoin per EH/s due to a […]
MicroStrategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, has announced plans to raise up to $2 billion through the sale of its class A shares. The company made this revelation in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 1. Details From the Filing MicroStrategy has not disclosed the specific timeline for […]
Marathon Digital (MARA) saw its shares drop over 8% in after-hours trading on Thursday following a second-quarter revenue report that fell short of Wall Street’s forecasts. However, the stock has since recovered some of these losses. Marathon Digital Sees a Revenue Miss Marathon Digital reported second-quarter revenue of $145.1 million, falling short of Wall Street’s […]
Friday, August 2, will see around 37,000 Bitcoin options contracts expire with a notional value of around $2.4 billion. The options expiry event is smaller than last week’s end-of-the-month event but a little larger than the average expiry. Bitcoin Options Expiry Today’s tranche of expiring BTC derivatives has a put/call ratio of 0.58, which means there […]