Crypto therapist reports sharp rise in people seeking addiction help

A therapist at the Castle Craig clinic reported a sharp rise in “crypto trading addiction” cases. Tony Marini heads the gambling, gaming, and cryptocurrency trading behavioral addiction therapy progra...

SHIB Metaverse Experience Becomes Gem Many People Are Queueing for at SXSW 2023

Yuri Molchan As SXSW event continues, Shiba Inu Metaverse booth has become popular place with guests Twitter user @scorchia_moon, who describes himself as a member of the SHIB team, has tweeted that t...

Fed rate expectations flip as US inflation data may take backseat to banking tumult

Crypto prices soared throughout the day as the turmoil in U.S. regional banking continued and interest rate hike expectations were recalibrated.  The target rate probability of no increase next ...

Meta announces plans to stop working on NFTs

Meta is ditching its pursuit of NFTs as the company looks to prioritize, according to Stephane Kasriel, head of commerce and financial technologies at Meta.  “Some product news: across the...

People & Policies Propel Markets Higher

China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were mixed as Mainland China and Hong Kong outperformed, Taiwan and South Korea posted small gains, while Japan, India and Thailand posted declines...

Web3 App Uses Crypto-Fueled Rewards to Get People to Exercise

Meanwhile, the gamer side of Werk’s personality was geeking out on the Stepn rewards system. It’s not as simple as “buy a digital sneaker, walk and earn rewards.” That’s the general idea, but the game...

Bitcoin hurtles back above $23,000 as crypto prices buoyed amid US banking woes

Cryptocurrency prices have soared over the past day as U.S. President Joe Biden sought to reassure Americans that the country’s banking system was safe in the wake of the collapses of Silicon Va...

How this user-owned talent network is disrupting the staffing industry

People • March 13, 2023, 5:00AM EDT Episode 22 of Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Freelance Labs Founder & CEO Adam Jackson. Listen belo...

Binance converting $1 billion in BUSD to bitcoin, ether and BNB

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced on Twitter that the foremost crypto exchange would convert the approximately $1 billion remaining from its Industry Recovery Initiative funds to native crypto asse...

How Mixed Reality Affects Habits and Enables People to Achieve Imposible Things – Cryptopolitan

Mixed reality (MR) is the combination of both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). MR blurs the boundaries between physical and digital by creating a space where users can interact with bo...

Jim Cramer Advised People to Buy Silicon Valley Bank Stock a Month Before its Collapse

The host of CNBC’s Mad Money has been often grilled on social media for advising people to invest in assets that turn unprofitable or vice-versa. His latest example is the notorious Silicon Valley Ban...

Bitcoin falls to $20,000, leads drop in crypto prices as JPMorgan remains negative on crypto

Crypto prices continued to trade down driven lower by the latest U.S. banking casualties and worsening market sentiment.  Bitcoin was trading around $19,990, down 5% in the past 24 hours, according to...

DegenZoo used AI to create Logan Paul’s NFT game without him

It started with an angry tweet. “It takes 30 days to build CryptoZoo. To prove that I will build: CryptoPoo $POO in less,” tweeted Chris Zaknun, the CEO of crypto fundraising platform DAO Maker,...

Xi Jinping Starts Unprecedented Third Term As China’s President

China’s President Xi Jinping swears under oath after being re-elected as president for a third term during the third plenary session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Ha...

BTC reaches lowest point in 7 weeks, crypto market slides after Silvergate announcement

Cryptocurrency prices fell sharply throughout the afternoon, as investor sentiment was shaken following crypto-friendly bank Silvergate announcing it is liquidating.  Bitcoin was trading around ...

New York sues KuCoin, claims ether is an unregistered security

New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued digital asset exchange KuCoin for violating New York laws governing the trading of securities and commodities, and named ether, among other tokens, as ...

Coinbase Ventures, Brevan Howard among early backers of compliant DEX Mauve

Violet, which offers compliance and identity infrastructure for decentralized finance, launched its compliance-focused decentralized exchange, Mauve. Coinbase Ventures and Brevan Howard joined t...

Grayscale’s Sonnenshein left ‘encouraged’ after hearing in SEC case

Grayscale Chief Executive Officer Michael Sonnenshein is optimistic following a hearing over the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rejection of his firm’s application for a spot bitcoin...

Coinflex rebrands to OPNX with Leslie Lamb as CEO of 3AC founders’ latest venture

Coinflex is rebranding to Open Exchange (OPNX), Kyle Davies and Su Zhu’s latest crypto venture. New CEO Leslie Lamb shared the news on LinkedIn. The exchange, intended for trading claims a...

GBTC discount narrows, bitcoin trades above $22,000 as Silvergate leads drop in stocks

Markets • March 8, 2023, 11:04AM EST Grayscale’s premier fund traded higher as its discount narrowed following what some perceived as a successful day in court. Crypto prices slipped across the ...

Biden Wants to Close Tax Loopholes and Raise Taxes on Rich People to Protect Medicare

biden medicare When he was running for president, Joe Biden was very clear that he was not Bernie Sanders – he wasn’t a socialist, and he didn’t believe the American economy and poli...

Coinbase-OFAC Bug Affected Fewer Than 100 People, and Has Been Fixed

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Markets trade down after Fed chair’s comments, Grayscale recovers amid hearing

Crypto markets whipsawed throughout the day after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s delivered testimony to Congress. Bitcoin was trading around $22,070 by 4:55 p.m. EST, down abou...

Bank of America CEO predicts most people won’t even notice ‘slight’ recession, but warns interest rates won’t come down for at least a year

Those hoping that interest rates might come down sooner rather than later are likely to be disappointed, according to the CEO of Bank of America, who predicts the figure won’t begin to dip for a...

Blur captures 84% of ETH-based NFT transactions in first week of March

If you were an Ethereum-based NFT bought or sold in the first week of March, there’s an 84% chance that you changed hands on the Blur marketplace, according to data from The Block. As rece...

Crypto prices whipsaw on Fed Chair Powell’s Congressional testimony

Markets • March 7, 2023, 11:21AM EST Markets sank initially on the release of U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony to Congress before rebounding slightly. Bitcoin was tradi...

Crypto derivatives on the CME reach new milestones amid regulatory uncertainty

Bitcoin and ether derivatives trading volumes in dollar terms continued to climb higher in February.  Futures and options trading volume for bitcoin rose by about 13%, and ether’s volumes ...

DeFiChain sponsors National Fighting Championship to target ‘crypto-curious’ people in Germany

DeFiChain (DFI/USD), best known for its leading blockchain on the Bitcoin network to bring decentralized financial applications and services, said in a Tuesday press release its community voted to spo...

Meme Coins Helped Tons of People Make Bank: David Gokhshtein

Yuri Molchan Crypto enthusiast and entrepreneur responds to critics of meme coins on Twitter – FLOKI, SHIB, DOGE David Gokhshtein, former U.S. congressional candidate, founder of Gokhshtein Medi...

Grayscale’s day in court is nearly here, but a major decision could take time

Grayscale is set to present oral arguments in its case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The asset manager brought the case against the regulator for rejecting its ...

Gordon Ramsay’s Sandbox avatar NFTs coming to the metaverse

Lovably cantankerous head of “Hell’s Kitchen” Gordon Ramsay is getting the full blockchain treatment. Metaverse gaming platform The Sandbox announced that Ramsay — a Michelin star chef and main draw o...

Crypto prices flat, Silvergate declines ahead of Powell testimony

Crypto markets traded relatively flat as the market prepares for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Congressional testimony on Tuesday and the release of U.S. jobs data on Friday. Bitco...