Crypto.com scores regulatory approval from Cyprus SEC

Crypto.com scores regulatory approval from Cyprus SEC

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com continues to aggressively expand its reach, becoming the latest crypto firm officially authorized to operate in Cyprus. Crypto.com has received regulatory approval from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the firm announced to Cointelegraph on July 22. The approval enables Crypto.com to offer a number…

Bitcoin traders eye levels to hold as ‘decision time’ looms for BTC price

Bitcoin traders eye levels to hold as ‘decision time’ looms for BTC price

Bitcoin (BTC) recovered above $23,000 into July 22 as attention increasingly focused on the upcoming weekly close. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price needs to preserve at least $22,400 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD finding renewed strength after briefly dipping towards $22,000. The…

Compass Mining to add 25,000 ASIC miners just weeks after staff cuts

Compass Mining to add 25,000 ASIC miners just weeks after staff cuts

Mere weeks after announcing staff lay-offs and salary cuts, Compass Mining has unveiled expansion plans in the form of a 75 megawatt (MW) hosting partnership with Compute North for its data center in Granbury, Texas. The announcement on July 21 comes only a two weeks after the company retrenched 15%…

Crypto winter winding down, FTX to turn a profit as it serves as lender of last resort

Crypto winter winding down, FTX to turn a profit as it serves as lender of last resort

The economic crisis in crypto is waning, FTX co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried thinks. He noted in an interview on Axios Pro Thursday that he is not getting “a ton of calls” from distressed businesses, as he was in the first weeks of the so-called crypto winter. Given a positive…

Bulls or bears? Both have a fair chance in Friday’s Bitcoin options expiry

Bulls or bears? Both have a fair chance in Friday’s Bitcoin options expiry

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke above $24,000 on July 20, but the excitement lasted less than two hours after the resistance level proved more challenging than expected. A positive is that the $24,280 high represents a 28.5% increase from the July 13 swing low at $18,900. According to Yahoo Finance, on…

Sell the news? Cardano price risks 20% drop despite Vasil hard fork euphoria

Sell the news? Cardano price risks 20% drop despite Vasil hard fork euphoria

Cardano (ADA) has dipped this July 21 as the market favors mounting selling pressure around its most reliable resistance levels in 2022 over a major upcoming hard fork. ADA price could plunge 20% by early August ADA’s price fell 5% intraday to $0.476. The downside move came as a part of…

Turkish crypto exchange joins COPA to fight against ‘patent trolls’

Turkish crypto exchange joins COPA to fight against ‘patent trolls’

Major Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk has joined the crypto patent alliance (COPA) to team up with prominent firms in their mission to provide open access to patents and empower the adoption of crypto technologies.  COPA aims to abolish patents as it’s perceived as an obstacle to innovations within the sector….

How to find your NFT’s metadata?

How to find your NFT’s metadata?

Individually identifiable digital representations of blockchain-based tangible or intangible objects called nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are not typically divided into smaller parts. Instead, structured metadata related to actual or virtual things is represented by NFTs. Often, the tokens are not connected to the objects and serve as distinct identifiers, advancing the…

Australian regulator trials auto take-down of crypto scam sites

Australian regulator trials auto take-down of crypto scam sites

Cybersecurity specialists have welcomed a new trial by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to automatically take down scam websites. The trial saw dozens of scam sites, including crypto scams, knocked offline after more than 300 were reported. The ACCC reported that Australians had lost $113 million in cryptocurrency scams…