The blockchain executive urged users who downloaded the BitKeep 7.2.9. APK malware to transfer their assets immediately. According to a letter posted on Chinese blockchain news publisher Odaily.com on Dec. 27, Kevin Como, the anonymous CEO of BitKeep, warned that users’ private keys are still at risk after a security incident on Dec. 26 led...Continue Reading

Is Bitcoin really bringing freedom to the world? Experts discussed the complexities of using Bitcoin as a tool for emancipation at a panel at Pacific Bitcoin. “Bitcoin (BTC) is Freedom” is one of Bitcoin’s many epithets. Like “Bitcoin is digital gold,” “Bitcoin is property,” or even Bitcoin is absolute digital scarcity, these phrases ricochet around...Continue Reading

A Cointelegraph Markets Pro score-based trading strategy reaped a 176% return in 2022 while Bitcoin plummeted 70%. The word volatility is typically received as a negative by financial circles just the same way the name Lionel Messi is received in Brazilian favelas, yet volatility historically presents some of the greatest opportunities for gains, especially in...Continue Reading

The issuance became the second major operations of the bank with the new class of assets. Russia’s largest bank Sber — formerly known as Sberbank — reported the first issue of gold-backed digital financial assets (DFAs). The bank considers DFAs to be a “great alternative” to investments amid dedollarization. On Dec. 26, Sber published the...Continue Reading

The Philippine Securities and Exchanges Commission highlighted that it’s illegal to offer Filipinos access to unregistered exchanges. After the height of the FTX collapse, the Philippine government warned investors within the country about using unlicensed crypto exchanges.  The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) in the Philippines issued an advisory to the public against using unregistered...Continue Reading

The amount of Bitcoin held “underwater” in wallets continues to increase, hitting levels never seen in history. Bitcoin (BTC) is beating records this Christmas as sub-$17,000 price action sparks unrivaled pain for hodlers. Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode shows that both short-term and long-term investors are sitting on more losses than ever before. New...Continue Reading

The FTX crash could trigger a bigger demand for crypto OTC services as investors are looking for alternative crypto exchange methods amid weak trust in CEXs. Before the rise of centralized exchanges (CEXs), over-the-counter (OTC) trading was the go-to method to buy or sell cryptocurrency for many crypto investors. The FTX collapse could trigger a...Continue Reading

Bitcoin and Ethereum are not part of the surprising list of five best and worst-performing cryptocurrencies for 2022. Cointelegraph looks back on the best and worst-performing cryptocurrencies of 2022 among the top 100 assets by market capitalization. We used the highest and the lowest year-to-date (YTD) returns through the close of Dec. 25, 2022. Overall,...Continue Reading

The Defrost team will conduct a scan of on-chain data to find out who owned what prior to the attack. After recovering the funds lost in a recent flash loan exploit, decentralized leverage-trading platform Defrost Finance is planning to return the funds to their rightful owners, according to a new announcement.  In a Medium post,...Continue Reading

The article bizarrely contrasts the alleged fraud carried out by Sam Bankman-Fried with gang violence on the Bahamian island of New Providence. The online community including some cryptocurrency figures has condemned the latest so-called “sympathy” article from The New York Times written about FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. In the Dec. 26 article published titled “In the...Continue Reading