Bitcoin miners may gain $13.9B yearly from 20% shift to AI and HPC: VanEck

Lots of cons, no artistryIt’s grifter season: scams and opportunists run amok, and it’s harder than ever to tell who to trust. Case and point: over the weekend, an influencer by the pseudonym “Crypto Spider” was found to have pumped-and-dumped a meme coin, $SELON — while publicly claiming that he had joined his followers in…

CEO Marszalek says the firm has recovered much of the funds and has less than $10M in exposure to FTX. 1714 Total views 17 Total shares During a live ask-me-anything (AMA) session with users on Monday, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek explained that the firm sent large-sum stablecoins to troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX to fulfill liquidity…

September turns out to be anything but boring for Bitcoin as shorts lose big on a fresh move above the $50,000 mark. 212 Total views 2 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) swiftly reclaimed $50,000 on Sep. 2 as bears felt maximum pain and lost hundreds of millions of dollars.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin sparks…

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.Market data is provided by the HitBTC exchange.The bitcoin price surged more than $435 in a matter of 10…

Curve, Uniswap, 1inch, and the Ren bridge were the top platforms of choice for laundering illicit crypto, according to Elliptic. 190 Total views 13 Total shares New research from blockchain analytics and crypto compliance firm Elliptic has revealed the extent to which cross-chain bridges and decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have removed barriers for cybercriminals.In an Oct.…

Data from March reportedly showed the largest number of U.S. trademark filings in 2022, with 1,078 for NFTs, 604 for cryptocurrencies, and 759 for the metaverse. 109 Total views 12 Total shares The number of U.S. trademarks filed related to cryptocurrencies, nonfungible tokens, Web3, and the metaverse since January have reportedly passed those in 2021.According…

The attacker has scored about a half-million dollar “bug bounty” after choosing to return a majority of the cryptocurrency they exploited from the Celo-based lending protocol. 193 Total views 16 Total shares An attacker has returned just over 93% of the more than $9 million worth of cryptocurrencies they exploited from the Celo (CELO) blockchain-based…

The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (FS) in Germany will now offer students the ability to prove their qualifications using blockchain technology, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported September 17.As part of a pilot program, graduates of one of FS’ courses on blockchain technology will be able to prove their successful completion of the course with…

The advantage of the cross-blockchain protocol for public registries is that it can unite any number of existing ledgers in one ecosystem and does not need to upgrade the protocols of such blockchains. In simple terms, the protocol works as an aggregator of tokens across blockchains. The protocol conceptually comprises two major elements:The format requirements…