Top crypto news of the day – October 7th

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Sleuth Discovers Satoshi’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase, Raw Code Contains Bitcoin Inventor’s Never-Before-Seen Personal Notations – Bitcoin News

On October 7, 2022, a bitcoin supporter named Jim Blasko explained that he discovered the oldest upload of Bitcoin’s version 0.1 codebase. The original code was thought to have been lost for more than...

Current Block Times and Estimates Suggest Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Is About to Catapult Much Higher – Mining Bitcoin News

As bitcoin is coasting along under the $20K region, the network’s hashrate is still riding high at 250.04 exahash per second (EH/s) following the all-time high (ATH) the hashrate tapped on October 5. ...

DOGE, SHIB Slide Following Better-Than-Expected Payrolls Report  – Market Updates Bitcoin News

Meme coins were trading lower on Friday, as markets reacted to the latest U.S. nonfarm payrolls report. The data showed that 263,000 jobs were added to the United States economy in September, versus t...

Bankruptcy Court Publishes 14,000 Pages of Celsius Customer Usernames and Trade History – Bitcoin News

The crypto community is upset about a recent discovery stemming from the Celsius bankruptcy case as a court filing has revealed over 14,000 pages of the usernames and trading histories of the company’...

Global Crypto Payment App Industry Value to Hit $2.15 Billion by 2030

The surging adoption of blockchain technology is expected to enhance the market size of the global cryptocurrency payments app sector to a value of $2.15 billion by 2030, according to a report by Rese...

BTC Drops Below $20,000 Ahead of US Nonfarm Payrolls Report – Bitcoin News

Bitcoin was trading below $20,000 on Friday, as markets prepared for the release of the latest U.S. nonfarm payrolls report. The token moved lower for the third consecutive session, as bearish sentime...

Bad news is good news for the stock market

We live in a curious world. Let’s do a quick recap of the last week to explain why. Equities have been abhorrent this year. Last week capped off what is the longest streak of quarterly losses since th...

Polygon Partners with NGO OCEEF for Ocean Conservation Initiatives

On Thursday, decentralized Ethereum scaling platform, Polygon announced it would join forces with the Ocean Conservation Exploration and Education Foundation (OCEEF) to advance ocean literacy by findi...

EU Bans Crypto Services for Russians in New Sanctions Over Ukraine Escalation – Bitcoin News

An array of crypto-related services have been targeted in the latest round of sanctions on Russia approved by the EU. The measures are part of an expected tightening of the economic and financial rest...

Grayscale Launches Bitcoin Mining-Centered Investment Entity

Crypto asset management firm Grayscale, on October 6, announced its latest launch, Grayscale Digital Infrastructure Opportunities LLC, a private co-investment opportunity that will allow accredited in...

Crypto Exchange Okx Blocked by Russia’s Telecom Watchdog – Exchanges Bitcoin News

Russian media and communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, has restricted access to the website of a major cryptocurrency exchange, Okx. The trading platform was one of those that did not restrict acce...

Tiger Global on a Mission to Raise $6B Tech-Related Fund

Tiger Global Management is on a mission to raise a humongous sum of $6 billion for a new investment fund that invests in privately-held tech firms, according to Axios. The funding effort is currently ...

Marathon Reveals Over $80m Exposure to Bankrupt Crypto Miner Compute North

Marathon Digital Holdings Inc., on Thursday, revealed that it has over $80 million of exposure to crypto mining data centre firm Compute North Holdings Inc, which filed for bankruptcy protection in th...

Scammers Are Targeting Cryptocurrency Scam Sites to Hijack Their Targeted Audience – Security Bitcoin News

Cryptocurrency scam sites are being targeted by other scammers to hijack their traffic and their possible earnings. A recently detected threat actor, named Water Labbu, is manipulating the users that ...

Zcash is Clogging up in What Looks Like a Spam Attack

The Zcash protocol might be under a spam attack, as analysts pointed out on Twitter in a long discussion that started since Wednesday. Being a privacy-focused protocol, Zcash’s “Shielded Transaction” ...

Another Major Crypto Hack as $100M BNB Stolen

The crypto industry has witnessed another major hack. Roughly $100 million of Binance Coin (BNB) was stolen after an exploit occurred on a bridge between blockchains. The issue is “contained now...

Fidelity Launches Ethereum Index Fund — Sees Client ‘Demand for Exposure to Digital Assets Beyond BTC’ – Finance Bitcoin News

A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has shown that Fidelity looks to launch an investment product known as the Fidelity Ethereum Index Fund on October 4, 2022. While the new fund...

Abrdn Joins Hedera Governing Council after Archax Investment

Legacy investment management firm, Abrdn has joined the Hedera Governing Council as it looks to deepen its foothold in the digital currency and blockchain ecosystem. According to Duncan Moir, senior i...

Lesser Known DeFi Token Shots Up Before Big Upgrade News

With increasing adoption of Decentralized finance (DeFi), it appears to be set for becoming the future of finance. In this context, several DeFi coins and tokens are attracting huge traction. Some of ...

Gofaizen & Sherle to Help Businesses Scale the New Lithuanian Cryptocurrency Regulations – Press release Bitcoin News

press release PRESS RELEASE. In light of the strengthened supervision of the cryptocurrency sector by Lithuania, Gofaizen & Sherle, an international legal and management consulting firm based in E...

South Korean Prosecutors Arrest Key Do Kwon’s Aid

South Korean prosecutors in charge of the Terraform Labs case have arrested a major employee of the embattled blockchain startup named ‘Yoo’. As reported by the Korean media platform JTBC,...

Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Seeks to Raise $22.8 Million in Class A Common Stock Proposal – Mining Bitcoin News

The bitcoin mining operation Greenidge Generation is seeking to raise roughly $22.8 million, according to a U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing published Wednesday. According to the pr...

EU Imposes 8th Wave Sanctions over Russia to Include Blanket Crypto Ban

The European Union (EU) has updated its sanction on Russia, the 8th package, and this time, it unveils zero tolerance for crypto-related transactions.  According to a Press Release shared by the 27-me...

Binance-Backed BNB Smart Chain Paused Over Potential Multi-Million Dollar Exploit, Token Slides 4% – Bitcoin News

On Thursday, 6:19 p.m. (ET), the official Twitter account for the Bnb Smart Chain explained that the team was temporarily pausing the blockchain, after citing that it noticed irregular activity. Sourc...

Stablecoin Issuer MakerDAO Invests $500m into U.S Treasuries & Corporate Bonds

MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) tasked with the governance and issuance of stablecoin DAI, on Thursday allocated $500 million for investment in U.S. short treasuries and corpor...

Terra Classic (LUNC) Community News Shadows Do Kwon Crisis?

Even as the noose tightens around Terra Luna crisis, positive news is apparently keeping the Terra Classic community motivated. In a latest, the authorities have arrested Terra‘s head of general affai...

Daily News And Information From Ukraine

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a rescue worker at the scene of a … [+] building damaged by shelling in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. (Ukrainian Emerg...

European Lawmakers Urge for Crypto Taxation, Use of Blockchain to Fight Evasion – Taxes Bitcoin News

Members of the European Parliament have called for “effective taxation” of crypto assets and “better use of blockchain” to counteract tax evasion. A resolution aiming to achieve both objectives has be...

Bitcoin Traders Slayed the Infamous Bear Whale Who Dumped 30,000 BTC in a Single Trade – Featured Bitcoin News

Eight years ago today on October 6, 2014, while the price of bitcoin was coasting along at $330 per unit, an anonymous Bitstamp trader placed an order to sell 30,000 bitcoins. Moreover, the trader, no...

Nifty News: Yuga Labs launches BAYC council, Animoca backs Cool Cats and more

Solana NFT volume surged to $130 million in September, and Gary Vaynerchuck’s VeeFriends are set to be released as collectibles at Macy’s and Toys “R” Us. Yuga Labs has announced a new Bored Ape Yacht...

the new tip for BAYC- The Cryptonomist

In today’s NFT News, one cannot miss Yuga Labs’ announcement that it has created a new council for the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) community.  Not only that, Brian Trunzo, head of Polygon‘s metaverse,...