South Dakota lawmakers effectively kill proposed Bitcoin bill

Monday, Dec. 10: Crypto markets have failed to hold another recovery attempt, with nearly all top 20 coins by market capitalization in the red as of press time.After a slight bump yesterday, Dec. 9, with Bitcoin (BTC) seeing its price grow from around $3,400 to more than $3,600, markets are seeing another decline as losses…

CoinMetro makes institutional grade sentiment data available to regular traders for the first time. 1210 Total views 16 Total shares Estonian exchange, CoinMetro, has chosen to make their crypto sentiment analysis tool available to common users. This is the same tool that is used professionally by crypto hedge funds.Although the tool appears rather simplistic, CoinMetro…

Overstock shares soared by 21 percent in after-hours trading following news that Hong Kong-based private equity firm GSR Capital will invest up to $270 million in tZERO, an Overstock blockchain subsidiary, CNBC reported Aug. 9. The two companies signed a deal wherein GSR Capital will invest up to $374.55 million in exchange for tZERO and…

The Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped to $3,600 overnight, marking Bitcoin’s biggest daily drop in the last seven years. Over $1 billion worth of longs was liquidated on March 12, causing one of the most intense long squeezes in the crypto market’s recent history.The main catalyst of the sudden 50% decline in the price of Bitcoin…

Many online said they were halting the use of Zoom over terms that seemingly allowed the platform to scrape user data to train AI models. 113 Total views 3 Total shares Video-conferencing platform Zoom has updated its terms of service after widespread backlash over a section concerning AI data scraping, clarifying that it won’t use…

Chinese crypto traders, miners and airdrop farmers aren’t letting an almost total ban on crypto in China stop them from joining the fun.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) and seven major mining and metals firms are partnering to develop responsible sourcing and sustainability practices using blockchain.The Global Mining Review reported details of the new “Mining and Metals Blockchain Initiative” on Oct. 25. Advancing sustainability, transparency and efficiencyThe seven partners, together with the WEF, plan to pool their resources to…

German regulator federal financial supervisory authority (BaFin) issued a warning against Bulgarian cryptocurrency broker 5 Capital on Nov. 11.The regulator has barred 5 Capital from operating in the country since the firm illegally offered Contracts for Difference (CFDs) designed to expose clients to the price movements of cryptocurrencies.Operating without licenseThe regulator found that the company…

Fusion Network’s token swap wallet was compromised. Roughly a third of FSN tokens was stolen as a result.Fusion Foundation announced in a Medium post published on Sept. 29 that its swap wallet was compromised, which resulted in the theft of 10 million native FSN and 3.5 million Ethereum (ETH)-based ERC-20 FSN tokens. The total worth…