Crypto Trading Firm Auros Secures $17M Investment as It Recovers From FTX Woes

The ether-to-bitcoin ratio dropped to a 14-month low as large token holders, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, moved coins to crypto exchanges, possibly as a prelude to selling.ETH-BTC dipped to near 0.0602 on Tuesday, according to TradingView data, its lowest reading since July.The recent price action extended a trend that began in September 2022, confirming

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Social Engineering: A Plague on Crypto and Twitter, Unlikely to StopThe teenager arrested for allegedly masterminding the recent Twitter hack comes from a community that’s been targeting crypto users for years. The group’s attacks have one big thing in common: They take advantage of human fallibility rather than code vulnerability. These so-called social engineering attacks…

Dec 3, 2020 at 4:55 p.m. UTCSwiss Wholesale CBDC Trial Shows ‘Feasibility’ for Central Bank Money on Distributed Ledger, BIS SaysAn under-the-wraps Swiss trial testing how central bank money can be linked to financial markets built on distributed ledger technology (DLT) yielded positive results, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced Thursday. Launched by the Swiss…

There was a lot of news last week, but maybe the biggest news came Wednesday when the U.S. Department of Justice arrested two co-founders of Samourai Wallet, a bitcoin wallet that offered mixing services. The arrest ramps up the federal government's efforts to tamp down on what it sees as money laundering enabled by privacy

Aug 13, 2020 at 20:09 UTCUpdated Aug 13, 2020 at 20:49 UTCFederal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard said the U.S. central bank has been experimenting with a digital dollar. (Federal Reserve/Wikimedia Commons)The Federal Reserve Is Experimenting With a Digital DollarThe U.S. Federal Reserve is actively investigating distributed ledger technologies and how they might be used…

Bitcoin Enters Historically Strong Quarter With 3% Price GainViewHistorical data suggests bitcoin could put in a positive performance in the second quarter. Bitcoin is currently trapped in a pennant pattern on the daily chart. A breakout will likely yield a rally toward $8,000. A pennant breakdown would put the bears in a commanding position and…

Zero-knowledge rollups – a technology usually associated with scaling the Ethereum blockchain – are now coming to Bitcoin.Chainway Labs went public earlier this month with the news that it was building what it says will be the first zero-knowledge rollup for Bitcoin: Citrea. On Wednesday, the company disclosed to CoinDesk that it had raised $2.7

Trading volume for NFTs is at multi-year lows.Bitcoin NFTs caused widespread network congestion in December.Binance users will not be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops.10:03Consensus 2023: Spotlight on Ordinals05:33New Project Bitcoin Stamps Renews Debate Over Bitcoin NFTs07:10Ordinals NFTs Could Make Stacks’ STX a Multibillion-Dollar Token: Matrixport01:40Matrixport Researcher on STX Token's Rapid Growth Amid Ordinals InterestCryptocurrency