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Crypto and Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines seem to be an unhappy marriage — pseudonymity in the digital currencies’ DNA doesn’t match the old-school centralized protocols of traditional finance, but cohabitation is inevitable for the maturing industry.  The tension never really goes away, but even before recent months’ market failures…

Bitcoin (BTC) may be down 70% from its November 2021 peak, but its rebound move in the past three weeks is raising the possibility of more upside in Q3. Bitcoin eyes 30% price rally At the core of the bullish argument is a technical pattern called the “Adam-and-Eve double bottom.”…

Bitcoin (BTC) is on track for its biggest weekly gains since March, but not everyone is convinced the good times will last. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Crypto sentiment highest since early May Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that at the time of writing, BTC/USD…

A Dune analytics platform user has found that more than $18.5 million worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have been marked as stolen or flagged for suspicious activity on Opensea to date.  According to data from Dune, a user known…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Aave has unveiled plans to launch an overcollateralized stablecoin called GHO, subject to the community DAO’s approval. The announcement was made by Aave Companies — the centralized entity supporting the Aave protocol on its Twitter page on July 7, stating:  “We have created an ARC for…

Crypto companies are going belly up left and right, and Bitcoin mining companies also appear to be taking on water faster than they can bail. In mid-June, Compass Mining CEO Whit Gibbs and chief financial officer Jodie Fisher abruptly resigned after allegations that the Bitcoin mining hardware and hosting company…

A descending triangle pattern has been pressuring Bitcoin (BTC) for the past three weeks and while some traders cite this as a bullish reversal pattern, the $19,000 support remains a crucial level to determine the bulls’ fate.  BTC-USD 12-hour price. Source: TradingView Despite the apparent lack of a clear price…

Popular cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash has fully open-sourced its user interface (UI) code — a move its developers say fulfills their mandate of complete decentralization and transparency.  Tornado Cash Classic UI became fully open-sourced on Thursday, the protocol’s anonymous developers announced in a Medium blog post. Although the protocol’s UI…

Bitcoin (BTC) said “no” to volatility for a third day on July 7 as Wall Street trading began with little change in mood. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Next move “likely sets direction going forward” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it fluctuated just…

On Thursday, Solana-native wallet Solflare released a new integration with cryptocurrency exchange FTX.com and FTX.us to simply portfolio management for Solana users. As told by Solflare, it would make transfers between one’s custodial and non-custodial balances trivial by enabling users to manage FTX funds directly from their Solflare web extension…