Controversial British influencers Tate brothers are finally free to leave Romania where they were held under house arrest and travel ban for 2 years, pending investigation in human trafficking.

While the investigation has not been concluded, Andrew and Tristan Tate are already on their way to Miami, as I am writing this, and, even if they are requested to return to Romanian court at some point in future, the odds of ...more

Bitcoin has finally surpassed $70k US mark after it previously touched $69k on some exchanges in 2021. At the time of this writing, Bitcoin is convincingly above $70k - $72k and change, and headlines are rolling in touting this as seminal moment in Bitcoin history.

Unfortunately a lot has changed economically since 2020 Covid 19 stimulus and stay-at-home era. Prices for high ticket items such as cars and houses have inflated ...more

Binance, the worlds largest crypto exchange, has announced it will be removing Monero trading pairs on February 20st. Along with Monero, Binance will also de-list Aragon, Multichain and Vai.

Monero price collapsed nearly 40% in just few hours following this announcement. It had previously hovered at relatively stable range for almost 2 years, and was sometimes jokingly referred to as a "privacy stablecoin".

While de-listings are nothing extraordinary and happen on regular basis, ...more

After all the fanfare about the upcoming Bitcoin ETF approval, prices of cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin itself have decreased sharply, erasing all hopes of breakout towards all time high and, presumably, taking out lots of leveraged long bets in the process.

It appears that most of the ETF buying has already happened in the months leading up to the SEC approval, and there will be very little buying until ETFs grow to ...more

24 hours after infamous "fake tweet incident", U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally approved Bitcoin ETF applications, ending a long back-and-forth between it and the various firms, which in August 2023 culminated into court ruling against SEC in the "SEC vs Greyscale" case.

11 companies offering ETF include well known names like BlackRock, and most will be using Coinbase as custodian of Bitcoin purchased for these funds.

Arrival of spot traded Bitcoin ...more

Unlucky Bitcoin user has recently surpassed the all time record for highest dollar value ever paid as Bitcoin transaction fee.

The anonymous user, who is believed to be large private holder of Bitcoin, sent 55.77 BTC and paid 83 BTC transaction fee. This is over 13 times the amount miners would normally get as generation block reward (6.25 BTC) and 6 times more than previous record, which also happened in 2023 ...more

Official X account of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has tweeted apparent confirmation of much anticipated Bitcoin spot ETFs, days ahead of expected official announcement.

Unfortunately it turned out to be "fake tweet" by someone who got unauthorized access to SEC's X account, and and the SEC was quick to disown this tweet in following statements.

Damage was already done and, according to CoinDesk, trades worth $90 million were liquidated as a result ...more

26.9 Bitcoins potentially have been "burned" by someone sending them to the earliest Bitcoin address, associated with Bitcoin inventor himself.

It is common to see small amounts symbolically sent into some of the largest Bitcoin addresses as a form of entertainment or sometimes even strange kind of cyber-begging - hoping for the alleged wealthy address owner to send something in return. It is not common when amount sent is multiple Bitcoins ...more