Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Spikes as Profitability Drops for Mining Companies
Bitcoin is becoming harder to mine. The mining difficulty for the world’s biggest cryptocurrency’s jumped by 9.26% over the last...
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Billions are spent marketing crypto to sports fans — Is it worth it? – Cointelegraph Magazine
Crypto advertising has been plastered across every available sporting surface since the bull run of 2021, from stadium naming deals...
CME Adds Euro-Denominated Ethereum Futures as Merge Approaches
CME Group today launched euro-dominated Bitcoin and Ethereum futures on its derivatives marketplace. The new product will complement the dollar-denominated...
This Week on Crypto Twitter: Did Israeli Regulators Know How Insolvent Celsius Was? And Did Bitboy Really Let Atozy Off the Hook?
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt It was an underwhelming week; the prices of all leading cryptocurrencies went down over...
From Silk Road to Buying ETH: How Musician Tycho Went Crypto
From Silk Road to Buying ETH: How Musician Tycho Went CryptoScott Hansen aka Tycho, the musician, producer, and songwriter, tells...
Loot, One Year Later: The NFT Hype Is Dead—But ‘Lootverse’ Hope Lives On
It started with a tweet. Dom Hofmann, well known in tech circles as the creator of video app Vine, had...
FTX CEO Calls Alameda VC Merger Report a ‘Big Misrepresentation’
Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Fried is disputing reports that two of his companies — FTX and Alameda Research — are...
Professor Republishes Tornado Cash Code Following GitHub Takedown
A cryptography professor at John Hopkins University has posted an “archival fork” of Tornado Cash’s source code to GitHub. The...
Coinbase CEO Says Exchange Is Cutting Costs, Focusing on Subscriptions
Badly battered by the crypto bear market, Coinbase is cutting costs and shifting its revenue model, says CEO Brian Armstrong....
‘Witcher’ Animator Launches DRKVRS Game, NFTs to Bridge Cyberpunk With Horror
Marcin Kobylecki, who previously worked on video games “The Witcher” and “Cyberpunk 2077,” wants to bring a darker fantasy edge...
CryptoPunk Ethereum NFTs Floor Price Flips Bored Apes for First Time in 5 Months
For a brief, shining moment Sunday morning, the CryptoPunks flipped the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the floor price of the...
This Week in Coins: Bitcoin and Ethereum Drop By Double Digits
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. It was a very red week for crypto, with most...
FTX US Hit With FDIC Cease-and-Desist Over ‘False and Misleading’ Statements
Five crypto companies, including FTX US, the U.S.-based arm of CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX, were today issued cease-and-desist...
‘No Current Plans’ for Scrapped V1 CryptoPunks NFTs, Says Yuga Labs
In brief Yuga Labs says it has “no current plans” for the “V1” CryptoPunks based on Larva Labs’ original NFT...
Coinbase Has a Serious Insider Trading Problem, Study Claims
Three finance researchers at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, claim that insider trading is “systemic” in the cryptocurrency...
DOJ, IRS Target Tax-Evading Clients of Crypto Broker SFOX
A California court has given the U.S. Internal Revenue Service permission to issue a “John Doe” summons to prime brokerage...
Nasdaq-Listed Eqonex Shuts Down Crypto Exchange Due to Low Volume, ‘Intense Competition’
Publicly traded blockchain services company Eqonex Limited (EQOS) announced on Monday that it will shut down its cryptocurrency exchange operations,...
Shiba Inu Spikes 30% On Sunday, Dogecoin Climbs
Crypto's top "meme coins" didn't take the weekend off, with both Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Dogecoin (DOGE) seeing notable gains on...
Coinbase posts $1.1B loss, Polygon dApps rocket 400% in 2022 and Elon Musk says inflation is on the decline: Hodler’s Digest, Aug 7-13
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best...
OpenSea Changes Stolen NFT Policy Following User Outcry
In brief NFT marketplace OpenSea is changing its tactics around assets that are reported as stolen. Users have complained about...
Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘Disappointing’ Others Haven’t Helped Us Give Bailouts
Sam Bankman-Fried has handed out some $750 million in lifelines to BlockFi and Voyager after the two lenders went insolvent...
Ripple Is Considering Buying Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius’ Assets: Report
Ripple Labs—the blockchain payments company behind XRP—may be interested in purchasing assets belonging to the insolvent crypto lending company Celsius. ...
