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Jan 5, 2021 at 2:19 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 5, 2021 at 2:36 p.m. UTCVoyager founder and CEO Steve Ehrlich (right) (CoinDesk archives)Voyager Digital Reports 75% Revenue Rise in Q4, Cites Increased Crypto AdoptionCryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital (CNSX: VYGR) says its revenue for Q4 2020 is expected to reach around $3.5 million, an increase of 75%…

news If hackers felt like it, they could split bitcoin in two. It wouldn’t even be that hard, according to research from 2017. Thanks to insecure technology underpinning the internet, someone with the right credentials could exploit the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) by faking their identity and confusing the network into sending floods of data…

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Traders on Polymarket now put the probability of the Fed holding rates steady in 2024 at 32%, compared to 7% in March.Traditional markets have scaled back expectations to two 25 basis points rate cuts from six in early January.The probability that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) will keep interest rates unchanged this year is rising.Betters

Apr 22, 2020 at 09:20 UTCUpdated Apr 22, 2020 at 09:23 UTCRogue miners submitted phony price data that tricked decentralized stablecoin network PegNet into turning a small wallet balance into a $6.7 million stash.At approximately 05:00 UTC Tuesday morning, four mining entities – who together comprised as much as 70 percent of the PegNet hashrate…

news View The Fed’s decision to expand its balance sheet is seen as a long-term positive development for bitcoin by crypto market experts. Speculation that SEC might approve ETF application by Bitwise is fueling optimism that more investors could allocate funds to the cryptocurrency. Prices for ethereum and bitcoin may have gotten a jolt of…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) stance on spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded-funds (ETF) is a difficult one to hold, and the probability for approval is fairly high, brokerage firm Bernstein said in a research report Monday.Bernstein notes that the SEC had already allowed futures based bitcoin ETFs, and recently approved leverage based futures ETFs…

Crypto market makers stepped in on Binance to support Curve's native token CRV after the decentralized exchange's late Sunday exploit sent the cryptocurrency crashing and threatened the liquidation of a large CRV-collateralized borrowing and market-wide contagion.The 2% bid-side market depth, or the collection of buy orders within 2% of the mid-price, doubled from roughly 500,000…