Bitcoin (BTC) has room to drop below $25,000 to flush out a recent influx of speculators, research shows. In the latest edition of its weekly newsletter, “The Week On-Chain,” analytics firm Glassnode flagged the ongoing influence of “short-term holders” (STHs) on BTC price action. Profitability reset point lies below $25,000 BTC/USD has struggled to overcome…
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Lisa Cameron, a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom since 2015, may not have used the Bitcoin Lightning Network in her time as a lawmaker, but spends a lot of her time in office focused on digital assets. Speaking to Cointelegraph at the Consensus 2023 conference in Austin, Texas on April 28, Cameron said…
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The Ethereum network underwent the successful Shapella hard fork on April 12, allowing validators to withdraw their long-staked Ether (ETH) from the Beacon Chain after three years. In the first week of withdrawals, more than a million ETH was unstaked by validators. However, from the second week onward, the number of ETH staked was higher…
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Text generator ChatGPT is the fastest-growing consumer app ever, and it’s still growing rapidly. But the dirty secret of AI is that humans are still needed to create, label and structure training data — and training data is very expensive. The dark side of this is that an exponential feedback loop is being created where…
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As the cryptocurrency industry faces regulatory challenges in the United States, public crypto exchange Coinbase is moving forward with a global derivatives platform. On May 2, Coinbase announced the launch of the Coinbase International Exchange (CIE), a new institutional platform designed for crypto derivatives trading. The CIE will start trading by listing Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether…
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A lot of Bitcoin (BTC) miners just came online. The Bitcoin hash rate, or the total computing power of the Bitcoin blockchain, just soared to 439 exahash per second (EH/s). Moreover, the number of transactions the Bitcoin blockchain processed in one day exceeded 682,000, as over 300,000 Ordinals were inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain. The…
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The co-founders of failed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) — Su Zhu and Kyle Davies — have run into fresh trouble over operating and promoting their new digital-asset platform, Open Exchange or OPNX, without the required local license in Dubai. According to a report published in Bloomberg, Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA)…
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Ava Labs founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer has reportedly won a defamation suit against a crypto influencer, awarding him $3 million in damages. The lawsuit stemmed from claims made in a February 2021 YouTube video by crypto influencer Emre Aksoy linking Sirer to an Islamist group the Turkish government calls the Fethullah Terrorist Organization…
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Bitcoin (BTC) fought for $28,000 support on May 2 after the month opened to multiday lows. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price: “Big volatility on the horizon” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it returned to the $28,000 mark on Bitstamp. The previous day’s Wall Street open had…
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ARK Invest, the investment management firm founded by legendary investor Cathie Wood, has celebrated International Workers’ Day by buying shares of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. On May 1, ARK purchased 129,604 Coinbase shares for its ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund (ARKK), according to an investor notification seen by Cointelegraph. The investment company also bought 23,456 COIN stocks…
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