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This could help raise cryptocurrency education, insulate consumers against scams and increase the potential for wealth generation in crypto. 195 Total views 1 Total shares A trio of researchers from the University of Cincinnati recently developed a crypto literacy scale (CLS) to help standardize and measure economic and financial knowledge as it relates to consumer…

XRP investor Bradley Sostack has amended a class action suit against Ripple, in which he alleges that the company misled investors and proceeded to sell XRP as an unregistered security, in violation of federal law.Sostack submitted his latest filing on Aug. 5 to a United States district court in California. According to a report by…

Major crypto exchange Bitstamp has launched an investigation after a large bitcoin (BTC) sell order heavily impacted its order book, as the firm announced in a tweet on May 17.Bitstamp reported an execution of a large sell order in BTC to United States dollars (USD) on its platform today, as the exchange wrote earlier today.While…

What a twist! YouTube pulled the plug on our seven-hour livestream. YouTube’s censorship rabbit hole is deep, especially as it pertains to cryptocurrency topics.Cointelegraph had a full day of programming lined up for a livestream that covered Bitcoin’s third block halving on May 11. The agenda mostly went off without a hitch — fintech luminaries…

Ethereum Classic (ETC) price climbed on March 22, ignoring a deadly "death cross" on the weekly chart, as traders raised their bets on its potential to become a haven for miners fleeing the rival Ethereum blockchain. ETC's price jumped over 15.5% to reach $44 a token for the first time since Dec. 9, 2021. The coin's…

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Stablecoin operator Tether accidentally minted and subsequently burned 5 billion USDT tokens, Whale Alert tweeted on July 13.Whale Alert — a Twitter account dedicated to reporting large cryptocurrency transactions — noted that 50 million USDT tokens were transferred from cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex to the Tether Treasury via the Omni protocol on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain.…

“The scammers have been scammed” — notorious crypto-draining took kit just lost 10 ETH to a wallet poisoning attack.