The price of Solana (SOL) fell nearly 95% in 2022, partly due to its association with tainted crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried and his collapsed ventures FTX and Alameda Research. But so far in 2023, things have improved for the SOL price. Solana price doubles in Q1/2023 Solana’s price has risen 104% to around $20.60 per SOL
Month: March 2023
Data from the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index showed an uptick of 0.3% in February, which lower than the 0.5% increase seen in January. Economists had projected a rise of 0.4% and the PCE data suggests that inflation is gradually showing a decreasing trend. Risky assets rallied in response to the data and some analysts
Since May 2022, the Bitcoin (BTC) margin markets on the Bitfinex exchange have been plagued by an unusually high open interest of over $2.7 billion. This information alone should raise a red flag, especially in light of Bitcoin’s price decline from $39,000 to less than $25,000 during the same period. Traders seeking to leverage their
Bitcoin’s dominance over the crypto market, which represents its share of market capitalization relative to the total cryptocurrency market capitalization, rose steeply from around 44% to highs of 48% in March. While Bitcoin’s price increased by 22.7% during the month, most altcoins yielded subpar or negative returns. However, there were some outliers which showed a
Crypto hackers and scammers made off with $452 million in the first quarter of 2023, according to a report released by antivirus and app provider De.Fi. But that is good and bad news, as losses were down from $1.3 billion in the first quarter of 2022. The recovery rate was down too, however. According to
Investigative journalist James Corbett has recently referred to the ongoing global banking crisis involving SVB, Signature Bank, Credit Suisse and others as the “Panic of 2023,” drawing comparisons to what he views as historical precedents, and pointing ahead to an inevitable and bleak, technocratic surveillance future leveraging central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) should nothing be
Bitcoin (BTC) recovered recent losses at the March 31 Wall Street open as traders looked for a strong monthly close. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView PCE delights risk assets as with BTC price up $1,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD heading to $28,556 on Bitstamp after the opening bell, up
Data collected by the crypto charity platform The Giving Block shows that cryptocurrency donations are set to exceed $10 billion in the next decade. According to The Giving Block’s 2023 annual report titled “Crypto Philanthropy Data, Trends & Predictions,” all-time crypto donations in the platform surpassed $125 million in 2022. Based on the data available,
Amid the ongoing uncertainty around the global banking turmoil, Binance’s United States-based arm Binance.US is halting some services. According to Binance.US status dashboard, the U.S. crypto exchange on March 31 disabled Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin pairs via One Common Billing System, referred to as OCBS. The affected services include BUSD crypto deposits and withdrawals, or
After several failed attempts in the past, the South Korean National Assembly is now expected to pass its digital asset market regulation in April, a report has said. Kim Hee-gon, a member of the Political Affairs Committee’s first subcommittee, said the prospects of this happening were bolstered after members agreed to narrow their differences. Politicians
Bitcoin (BTC) set new nine-month highs overnight on March 30 as traders continued to stay cautious. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView “Deviation” takes BTC price closer to $30,0 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD spiking to $29,170 on Bitstamp. A rejection entered almost immediately, sending the pair back to its
The United States Federal Reserve has been “too heavy-handed” in taming inflation, said pro-Bitcoin (BTC) Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. In a Twitter debate on March 29, Musk directly criticized U.S. macroeconomic policy, including “excess government spending.” Musk: Fed policy is a “serious issue” Bitcoin and crypto markets remain extremely sensitive to Fed cues
The European arm of FTX, FTX EU has launched a website to allow European customers to submit withdrawal requests. It comes nearly five months after the global trading platform collapsed and went bankrupt in early November. The new website domain name — https://ftxeurope.eu/ — was reportedly approved by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission according
Gnosis, the team behind Gnosis Safe multi-sig and Gnosis Chain, has launched a hash oracle aggregator for blockchain bridges, according to an announcement from the company. In a conversation with Cointelegraph, Gnosis CEO Martin Köppelmann stated that the new aggregator should make bridges more secure by requiring more than one bridge to validate a withdrawal
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has filed a complaint with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an attempt to halt the release of powerful AI systems to consumers. The complaint centered around OpenAI’s recently released large language model, GPT-4, which the CAIDP describes as “biased, deceptive, and a risk
Economist Peter Schiff has warned of “the biggest economic disaster” in U.S. history. He stressed that we are on the cusp of a financial crisis and “it’s going to be much bigger than the last.” In addition, he said the U.S. dollar is being debased in order to fund the bank bailouts. Peter Schiff Foresees
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