Month: January 2025

Terraform creator Do Kwon will be extradited to the U.S., Montenegrin Justice Minister Bojan Božović said Friday. The U.S. and South Korean governments have both sought to take custody of Kwon to face criminal charges related to the collapse of the algorithmic stablecoin Terra/Luna system in 2022, which kicked...

The dominant crypto narrative for 2024 has been institutional adoption. From the U.S. approval of spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds to the burgeoning number of companies pledging to buy the largest cryptocurrency for their treasuries, crypto has entered, more than ever before, the mainstream conversation. Bitcoin has increased almost...

Stalled bitcoin (BTC) and crypto prices may not be bringing festive cheer to traders, but some with money are trying to spread the goodwill around. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he’d accepted an invitation to be the “adoptive father” of pygmy hippo Moo Deng when she grows up. He...

South Koreans are paying a full 3% more to buy bitcoin (BTC) than their U.S. counterparts as they seek protection from the plummeting won, CryptoQuant data show. Priced in won, the largest cryptocurrency is valued at 145,000,000 ($98,600) on the country’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit. That compares with about...

A Pump.Fun memecoin zoomed from zero to an $80 million market capitalization on Thursday after a father’s plea for donations to a research study for his daughter’s rare brain cancer attracted swathes of crypto traders. The MIRA token’s price has fallen 80% from a Thursday peak and trades at...

Regulatory overhaul in America and a thawing of crypto antagonism globally in 2025 will usher in a new generation of decentralized capital formation, which was first popularized in 2017 as “ICOs” (initial coin offerings). During the 2010s, crypto hadn’t settled on a productive use case for Bitcoin and altcoins...

2018 has been a crazy year for cryptocurrency and we are the only halfway through it. With colossal crashes and market stabilisations, the emergence of exciting new technologies, and regulatory developments from all over the world, a lot has happened in just six short months. Here is a guide...

A long/short investment strategy is usually associated with hedge funds, but a growing number of cryptocurrency owners are using the same approach to diversify their portfolio and increase their profits. If you like the idea of making money when cryptocurrency prices go up and down, then this is a...

Last Wednesday, Valentine’s Day, Litecoin came up smelling of roses. The cryptocurrency that is considered the silver standard to Bitcoin’s gold, sprouted a 34 percent uplift in a matter of hours to peak at $327. The founder of Litecoin, Charlie Lee tweeted: “LTC has outperformed BTC” – [since he...

In 2018, everyone has heard of Bitcoin, Ethereum and various other cryptocurrencies. As we move into the new year, it seems like everyone is getting involved in crypto coins. While Bitcoin has dominated the news in recent years, there have been many other alternatives growing in popularity and value...