Bitcoin falls under $60K as BTC‘s futures premium drops to a 5-month low

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has detected that hacking group Outlaw has been updating its toolkit for stealing enterprises’ data for nearly half a year at this point.Outlaw — who had ostensibly been silent since last June — became active again in  December, with upgrades on their kits’ capabilities, which now target more systems, according to…

A U.S. citizen has pled guilty before a federal court to operating an “unlicensed money transmitting business” via LocalBitcoins.com, according to a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release published Oct. 29.The man, Jacob Burrell Campos, has reportedly admitted to “selling hundreds of thousands of dollars” in Bitcoin (BTC) “to over 1,000 customers” in the U.S.…

Job postings with terms like “Bitcoin,” “Ethereum,” “blockchain” and “cryptocurrency” grew 395% in the United States last year. 767 Total views 19 Total shares It wasn’t just a bull run for prices last year. Careers in crypto outstripped price action in 2021, as crypto job searches soared by 395% in the United States alone according…

China’s central bank governor Yi Gang has said that the nation’s digital yuan pilot projects have processed transactions worth over $299 million without any major problems. This suggests that China is much ahead of its competitors in developing and studying the central bank digital currency (CBDC).However, the European Central Bank does not want to be…

A new smart banking ecosystem based on blockchain technology is offering an all-in-one platform for managing cryptocurrencies, fiat money and stocks — and hopes to make crypto payments practical and widespread.Platio believes that, eventually, all financial assets are going to be tokenized and run on blockchains — completely transforming the international financial system. However, the…

Bitcoin (BTC) closed the week down 0.39% at $7,356 having recovered very quickly from a daily close, which saw BTC trading down at $6,850 for a short period on Friday morning. Since then, Bitcoin has recovered over 10% and is once again pushing hard against resistance on Monday. All other cryptos are up over the last…

Following bans in Japan, the U.K. and Ontario, Binance is ramping up its compliance efforts with a specialized tool developed by crypto intelligence firm CipherTrace. 604 Total views 3 Total shares Binance, the world's top-ranked crypto exchange by daily trading volume, has faced a quick succession of bans on its operations in three different jurisdictions:…

Solana has been a trending topic due to the successive weeks of price increases seen by its SOL token. At the time of writing, SOL traded at around $207, which is an 11,400% surge from less than $2 back in January. At its present worth, Solana sits among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization…

Contributions to Michelle Bond’s 2022 congressional campaign were part of a criminal investigation into her partner, Ryan Salame.