The founders of Bitmex have been ordered to pay $30 million “for illegally operating a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform and anti-money laundering violations.” Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, a...
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$36 million worth of JUNO transferred to some wrong address
The Cosmos-based Juno blockchain continues to function as a case study for the trials and travails of on-chain governance. Last week, an example community vote was to seize legion dollars’ price of Ju...
U.S. DOJ Indicts Mining Capital CEO in $62 Million Investment Fraud
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted the CEO of Mining Capital Coin (MCC) for allegedly scheming a $62 million global investment fraud. According to the indictment, Luiz Capuci Jr....
Square Enix Closes $300 Million Sale of Western Studios to Bankroll Blockchain Pivot – News Bitcoin News
Square Enix, the influential Japanese gaming and publishing company, has sold its Western studios and some of its Western intellectual properties (IPs) to Embracer Group. The deal, which values these ...
‘Everything, Everywhere’ Nears $40 Million As Its Oscar Odds Increase
Everything Everywhere All At Once A24 Since A24 has only been releasing weekday numbers for Everything, Everywhere All At Once at the end of the week (Friday morning), I can only now tell you that the...
LootRush raises $12 million to make blockchain games easier to play
LootRush, a platform that aims to improve user access to blockchain games, has raised $12 million in seed funding. The round was led by crypto VC firm Paradigm, with participation from Andreessen Horo...
Over 60 million tax returns could be completed automatically, study says
Tom Werner | DigitalVision | Getty Images The IRS may have the ability to automate nearly half of tax returns, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The agency co...
‘Doctor Strange 2’ Conjures A Magical $36 Million Thursday
Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ DISNEY Sam Raimi and Michael Waldron’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (review) earned a whopping $36 mill...
Mining Capital Coin CEO Indicted for $62 Million Crypto Scam
The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that the CEO of Mining Capital Coin, dubbed ‘MCC,’ a crypto mining Crypto Mining Cryptocurrency mining is defined as the process through which the tr...
White whale purchases $3.5 million Astro to participate in Astro Wars
Terra-based arbitrage platform White Whale participates in Astro Wars, a battle to accumulate the most vxAstro. White Whale has purchased $3.5 million Astro and will join in lockdrop for the governanc...
Transfer Error Worth $36 Million in Crypto Sent to Ether Blockchain
Tomiwabold Olajide 3 million JUNO tokens worth $36 million were seized from the wallet of a whale A copy-paste error by a developer of the Cosmos-based Juno blockchain has yielded $36 million in crypt...
Bitcoin (BTC) Price Dips Significantly As Crypto Market Losses $400 Million; Here’s Why
Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has continued to correlate with other high-risk assets. The big bull took a sharp nose dive on the 5th of May, and up until press time, Bitcoin (BTC)...
Over 1.1 Million Active Addresses Recorded on the Bitcoin Network in 24 Hours Amid BTC Correction
– Advertisement – The number of activities on the Bitcoin network yesterday increased tremendously following the mid-sized correction that occurred in the cryptocurrency market yesterday. ...
Bnext gets $4.5 million investment led by borderless capital to drive DeFi on Algorand
Borderless Capital has increased its investment in Spanish Fintech, Bnext, to $10 million with a new investment of $4.5 million. What This Means For Bnext This latest investment will help further Bn...
BitMEX Founders Ordered By US Court To Pay $30 Million Fine For Illegal Crypto Trading
The brains behind BitMEX are in hot water. In conjunction with a lawsuit filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordere...
New Zealand VC Launches $5 Million Web3 and Crypto-Focused Fund – Finance Bitcoin News
New Zealand-based venture capital firm Global From Day 1 (GD1) recently said it had launched a $5 million Web3 and crypto-focused venture capital fund to back local startups. The fund will invest in p...
Juno’s Developer Sends $36 Million to an Inaccessible Address
Juno recently sent $36 million to an inaccessible wallet due to a typo caused by one of the developers. A total of 3 million Juno tokens were transferred initially meant to be driven to a wallet contr...
$400 Million Liquidated on Crypto Market as Bitcoin Plunges to $36,000
A total of $400 million worth of long orders were liquidated on the cryptocurrency market in the last 24 hours following the massive plunge of Bitcoin to $36,000, per CoinGlass. The first cryptocurren...
Kevin Secures $65 Million in Series A Funding
Kevin, one of the emerging payment companies in Europe, recently confirmed that it has raised $65 million in the Series A funding round led by Accel. The investment round also saw participation from E...
A $36 Million Typo: Human Error Sends Juno Tokens To An Inaccessible Address
The Juno blockchain’s trials and tribulations continue, with a mistake sending millions worth of JUNO tokens into an inaccessible address. The incident has left the community red-faced while developer...
Blockchain gaming startup InfiniGods raises $9 million in seed funding
InfiniGods, a blockchain-based game development studio, announced Thursday that it raised $9 million in seed funding. Pantera Capital led the funding round. Additional participants include Framework V...
Bitcoin Holder Moves $300 Million Worth of BTC from Coinbase
Bitcoin outflows from leading crypto trading platforms are rising since the last two years. In a recent move observed by Whale Alert, a BTC holder executed a transfer worth $300 million from Coinbase....
BitMEX Co-Founders Slapped with $30 Million Fine
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Thursday that a New York court entered a consent order against all three co-founders of crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, B...
Ryan Carson’s NFT fund 121G sees $40 million in commitments
The 1.21 Gigawatts Fund (121G), which was launched last week by serial entrepreneur Ryan Carson to buy non-fungible tokens (NFTs), said it has received commitments worth $40 million from investors. 12...
Bitcoin.com Raises 33.6 Million In Private Sale For Its VERSE Ecosystem Token
Bitcoin.com has completed its private sale for the Bitcoin.com VERSE token. The fund is valued at $33,6 million and noted strong participation from key industry leaders, including KuCoin Ventures, Blo...
Radio Caca’s NFT Marketplace OpenPFP Trades Over $40 Million in NFTs, Enters the Top 5 Ethereum-Based NFT Marketplaces » NullTX
RadioCaca (RACA) announced that its marketplace focused on Ethereum-based NFTs, OpenPFP.com, has moved over $40 million of NFTs within 30 days of its launch. It’s been only one month after launc...
Binance Funds Elon Musk’s Twitter Acquisition With $500 Million
Leading global cryptocurrency exchange Binance has joined the list of companies that have invested in the recent $44 billion acquisition of Twitter made by the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk. Binance Provides $...
Binance Invests $500 Million In Elon Musk’s Twitter Acquisition.
Binance has been among the most successful crypto exchanges in recent years, with its competition grabbing headlines on a daily basis. The latest news about them is that they’ve joined forces to inves...
Binance commits $500 million to invest in Twitter with Elon Musk
According to data submitted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, major crypto exchange Binance participated in Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter. On May 5, Musk filed a revised gene...
Marathon reports net loss of $13 million
However, it also reported a boost in bitcoin production for Q1 2022 Marathon’s stock closed Wednesday’s trading session at $17.76 Bitcoin mining company produced 1,259 bitcoins in Q1 As in...