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SBF Seeks To Block FTX Debtors From Taking Robinhood Shares
Founder of defunct crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried has filed a motion seeking to block FTX debtors from taking control of his 56 million Robinhood shares. Earlier, US prosecutors announced to s...
Block Fi Is the Latest Crypto Company to Go Bankrupt
It’s happened again, folks. Another digital currency company has filed for bankruptcy protection. This time, it’s Block Fi, a crypto lending platform, which was reported to be heading in this directio...
The Block: Digital Currency Group to shutter wealth management unit: The Information
Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group is shuttering HQ Digital, a subsidiary focused on wealth management that it launched last year. DCG, parent of troubled crypto broker and lender Genesis Tr...
The Genesis Block: The First Bitcoin Block
Bitcoin blocks have changed a lot since 2009. They contain thousands of transactions, instead of one. They take 10 minutes to mine. Miners are rewarded with 6.25 BTC, after three “halvings” of the rew...
Community celebrates Bitcoin Genesis Day by sending BTC to the genesis block
As Bitcoin (BTC) has its 14th birthday, Bitcoiners from around the world are celebrating in various ways, with some opting to send BTC to the address containing the rewards for mining its genesis bloc...
The Block: December NFT data wrap: Trump NFTs sell out
A tough year for NFTs is finally over, but the pain for NFT investors is likely to continue in the new year. Marketplace volumes have yet to pick up, and the debate over royalty enforcement cont...
The Block: Bithumb’s former chair Lee Jung-Hoon found not guilty: Korea Economic Daily
The former chair of the South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, Lee Jung-Hoon, was reportedly found not guilty by the Seoul Central District Court’s 34th Division of the Criminal Agreement. ...
Ancient Bitcoin Block Rewards See Decrease in Spending After Record Activity in 2020 and 2021 – Bitcoin News
In 2021, a number of 2010 block rewards were spent after the bitcoins sat idle for more than a decade. Furthermore, in 2020 and 2021, an early miner from 2010 spent strings of 20 ancient block rewards...
The Block: The Block Research’s Analysts: 2023 Predictions
Consensus predictions Overall macro environment will continue to put downward pressure on high-risk assets like crypto. However, sideways action over the next year is more likely than a severe s...
Coinbase Customers Block Attempts to Move Lawsuit to Arbitration
A group of customers who filed a lawsuit against Coinbase is now withholding their account information, shutting down efforts to move the case to arbitration. The class action lawsuit concerned alleg...
Larry Cermak unpacks The Block Research’s 2023 Digital Asset Outlook Report
Episode 129 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Larry Cermak Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Sti...
BTC block time reaches yearly high as mining hash rate plunges amid arctic blast
The arctic blast in the US has already claimed at least 22 lives and temperatures could dip dangerously below freezing levels. Amid the extreme weather conditions, several Bitcoin (BTC) miners have vo...
Is Crypto Firm Block Fi Next in Line to File Bankruptcy?
2022 has been an atrocious year for cryptocurrency. Many digital asset companies have been forced into dark places and filed for bankruptcy, and it looks like leading blockchain firm Block Fi might be...
OpenSea block artists and collectors from Cuba citing US sanctions law
NFT marketplace OpenSea is delisting artist and collector accounts from Cuba to comply with US sanctions law. OpenSea has blocked Cuban artists and collectors According to reports, OpenSea has deliste...
Canada’s western province, BC, will block new cryptocurrency miners
British Columbia, Canada, will deny electricity to new crypto mining firms, according to a press release published by the provincial government on Dec. 21. BC Hydro, a government-owned company, and th...
Bitcoin, crypto prices little changed as Coinbase, Block trade higher pre-market
Crypto prices were little changed over the past day while Coinbase and Block shares traded higher in pre-market hours. Bitcoin was trading at around $16,800 at 9 a.m. EST, up 0.2% over the past...
The Block: 2023 Digital Assets Outlook
Quick Take 2023 Digital Asset Outlook report focuses on 2022 key developments from 10 sectors in the cryptocurrency industry and trends to look out for in 2023 Download your free copy to...
The Block: Sam Bankman-Fried signs US extradition papers: ABC News
Sam Bankman-Fried signed extradition papers to return to the United States from the Bahamas, a week after he was criminally indicted by a federal grand jury. Bankman-Fried was arrested in the B...
QuadrigaCX funds transfer: Is there a dead CEO on the block
Five wallets moved over a million dollars’ worth of Bitcoin from QuadrigaCX Theorists believed that the exchange’s so-called dead CEO was behind the transfer After being dormant for years, five wallet...
The Block: US prosecutors probing Bankman-Fried’s political donations: NY Times
U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking more information about political donations made to Democrat and Republican lawmakers by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and two executives he worked with, accordi...
Bitcoin: signature of block 1.018 discovered
A few weeks ago news caused a stir that someone had used a signature contained in Bitcoin block 1,018. In fact, block 1,018 was mined on 19 January 2009, which is only sixteen days after the first on...
The Block: Amber Group acquires Singapore crypto exchange Sparrow: Business Times
Asian crypto investment firm Amber Group has acquired Singaporean crypto exchange Sparrow, according to a report in The Business Times citing regulatory filings. Amber’s move is surprising...
Recently Signed 2009 Bitcoin Block Reward Linked to Hal Finney’s Set of BTC Transactions – Bitcoin News
At the end of November, an unknown person signed a signature tied to an extremely old block reward mined on Jan. 19, 2009, and the user published a message and verified signature linked to the reward ...
The Block and the future of crypto media
It’s been a weird month for everyone in the cryptocurrency industry, to say the least. Crypto journalists have had it particularly tricky. A CoinDesk article put its parent organization, Digital Curre...
CZ Criticizes ‘The Block’ For Intentionally Reporting Against Binance
– Advertisement – Binance CEO comments on SBF’s secret loan to The Block news outlet. Top cryptocurrency stakeholders have continued to react to reports that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried ...
The Block CEO resigns after reports of undisclosed loans from Alameda Research
Michael McCaffrey, the chief executive officer of cryptocurrency news outlet The Block, resigned after media website Axios reported early Saturday, Hong Kong time, that he had received three undisclos...
Uber files lawsuit to block NYC driver pay increase
Back in November, New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) voted to increase the pay rates of Uber and Lyft drivers to make up for the rise in inflation and and operational costs. The...
The Block CEO showed ‘serious lack of judgment’ in taking loans from FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and not disclosing them
The fallout from the implosion of FTX continues, with crypto publication The Block on Friday announcing that Michael McCaffrey has stepped down as its chief executive officer after failing to disclose...