A crypto user who purchased a luxury car with Bitcoin (BTC) faces 18 months in prison and a $3.7 million fine in Morocco, which still considers the use of crypto as an illegal act. A recent report by Euronews stated the Casablanca Court of Appeal had upheld the conviction of Thomas Clausi, a 21-year-old French
Crypto exchange Binance has acknowledged that a crackdown on cryptocurrencies has made it challenging to conduct business in the United States, and it is now looking to be regulated in the United Kingdom. During the Financial Times’ Crypto and Digital Assets Summit, Patrick Hillmann, the company’s chief strategy officer, expressed that the past six months
The Bitcoin mempool, otherwise known as the network’s transaction backlog, is still clogged with over 390,000 transactions waiting to be processed by miners. To clear the mempool, more than 190 blocks need to be mined. As the scaling issues continue to plague the network, a conversation between former Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen and the network’s
Bitcoin (BTC) ticked higher around the May 10 Wall Street open as United States inflation data beat expectations. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Markets eye June Fed rate hike pause Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD responding instantly to the April Consumer Price Index (CPI) print, up 1.7% on the
Validators earned $46 million in the first week of May due to an increase in the staking rewards rate, which is a metric for validators’ annualized yield. According to data, validators earned 24,997 Ether (ETH) in the week, representing a 40% increase over the previous week’s income of $33 million, when 18,339 ETH were distributed
The European Union has become the first major jurisdiction to pass a comprehensive crypto law, the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, which aims to provide legal certainty for the crypto industry and investors by establishing standard regulations and harmonized rules at the EU level. MiCA may ultimately stifle innovation, impose a one-size-fits-all approach to regulation
The United States consumer price index rose 4.9% annually, which was slightly less than estimates of a 5% increase. The CPI’s monthly rise of 0.4% in April was in line with expectations. Although inflation remains stubbornly higher than the Federal Reserve’s 2% target range, traders will take comfort from the slower pace of increase. That
After a brief overshoot above $2,000 on May 6, the Ether price has returned to a tight range between $1,820 and $1,950, which has been the norm for the past three weeks. According to the latest Ether (ETH) futures and options data, odds favor the Ether price breaking below the $1,820 support, as professional traders have
Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, local media reported. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount of energy consumption, official figures suggest. Illegal Crypto Miners in Iran Steal 1.8 Billion kWh of Electricity, Official Says
In today’s The Market Report episode, analyst and writer Marcel Pechman discusses why crypto prices are going down after Bitcoin (BTC) failed to break above $29,000, plus whether or not Jerome Powell is lying about keeping interest rates above 5%, and lastly, what Warren Buffett meant by the “incredible period” coming to an end. The
Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Arbitrum will distribute ETH (ETH) tokens worth nearly $6.2 million to its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), the project announced May 9 on Twitter. ARB holders must claim the rewards. The funds to be collected are base fees and surplus revenue generated from network transactions. According to Arbitrum’s tweet, a total of 3,352 ETH will
Will Clemente III has 680,200 followers on Twitter thanks to his viral crypto analysis content. He co-founded blockchain research firm Reflexivity Research with Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano while still a teenager. Who is this guy anyway? Will Clemente III is still only 21 years old, but his keen insights into the industry mean he’s followed by
Bitcoin was hovering close to a key price floor near $27,300 on Wednesday, as markets anticipated the upcoming U.S. inflation report. Consumer prices for last month are expected to remain at 5%, which could be seen as justifying the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike rates last week. Ethereum remained above $1,800. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) continued
Aragon, an open-source framework designed to launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has pulled plans for its native Aragon (ANT) token holders to be given voting rights over the future direction of the organization. The Aragon Association, a Switzerland-based organization that oversees the management of Aragon said in a May 9 tweet it exercised its “fiduciary
Here’s how Bitcoin (BTC) traders can profit whether its price move up or down 10% within 55 days. Bitcoin options: Bracing for volatility Traditional market analysts have started calling for a volatility spike due to the U.S. government debt discussion. Moreover, signs of stress coming from the banking sector took investors by surprise after the
Summary: A trader splurged almost $1 million buying Bitcoin Inscription #5232025 amid growing debates about congestion on the BTC network. This particular BTC Inscription holds 50,000 ORDI coins, the native asset of Ordinals Protocol which was created by developer Casey Rodarmor. ORDI was introduced earlier this year using the BRC-20 standard after developer Rodarmor designed