Mutant Ape NFT ripoff creator to forfeit $1.4M, avoids prison
Mutant Ape Planet creator Aurelien Michel pleaded guilty to defrauding investors and avoided a prison sentence.
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After pulling out of $30 million Sotheby’s auction just minutes before it was set to go live, the anonymous NFT collector made fun of the luxury art auction house on Twitter. 1890 Total views 5 Total shares NFT enthusiasts and fine art collectors have been left confused, after an auction for a collection of 104…

Raiffeisenlandesbank to launch Bitcoin trading in early 2024
Raiffeisen Bank’s RLB NÖ-Wien is preparing to introduce cryptocurrency trading services to its retail clients in early 2024. 401 Total views 8 Total shares The Austrian subsidiary of European lender Raiffeisen Bank is preparing to allow its clients to trade cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) in the coming months.After initially announcing its crypto plans in April

Blockchain Salaries in China Are Exploding in Value As The Industry Expands
Chinese recruiting platforms revealed a significant rise in wages paid for blockchain-related job roles in the country. The latest figures from Chinese recruiting platforms show that blockchain-related salaries are on the rise across China. This is likely due to high demand for specialists in the sector.According to Chainnews, quoting statistics from Zhaopin, “hundreds” of companies…

Litecoin Price Gains 22% as Chart ‘Cup and Handle’ Targets $100
On Jan. 30 Litecoin (LTC) lit up the charts in both it’s USD and Bitcoin (BTC) pars by rallying more than 20% to secure a spot as the highest daily gainer amongst the top-10 cryptos ranked by market capitalization. Crypto market daily price chart. Source: Coin360Investors will recall that in 2019, Litecoin front-ran the Ether (ETH)…

Apple holds back AI releases in EU due to Digital Markets rules
Hundreds of millions of people will be denied access to new Apple features.

Mexico’s second richest man says Bitcoin is his “best investment ever”
Ricardo Salinas Pliego breaks down his Bitcoin investment thesis. 1964 Total views 23 Total shares Ricardo Salinas Pliego, chairman at conglomerate Grupo Salinas and Mexico’s second richest man, has revealed to Cointelegraph in an interview that he bought his first Bitcoin in 2013, when it was worth around $200. That, according to the billionaire, was…

Stablecoins ‘not a safe store of value’: BIS
"Not one of the stablecoins assessed in this paper has been able to maintain their closing prices in parity with their peg," wrote the Bank for International Settlements. 258 Total views 3 Total shares The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), a coalition of the world's central banks, criticized stablecoins as being "not a safe store

COVID-19 shook out retail investors but emboldened BTC whales: Report
As the COVID-19 pandemic began, retail and institutional Bitcoin investors took very different approaches, new research from OKEx Insights and Catallact showed. The research, which looked at on-chain BTC transaction data from January to the beginning of August 2020, found retail investors largely pulled back and took a wait and see strategy with Bitcoin. Larger, possibly…