As war rages in Ukraine, oil seems to be doing a bitcoin, racing above $115 for WTI, jumping nearly 7% in one day. These price levels have not been seen since 2008, 14 years ago, with oil seeing its b...
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Bitcoin Falls, Stocks Deep Red as Russia Won’t Stop – Trustnodes
Bitcoin has dropped by close to 10% from $45,000 to now $41,500 with most cryptos likewise seeing a fall. Stocks continue their deep red with FTSE, DAX and CAC all down about 3% today in one of the wo...
Russia’s Biggest Tech Giant Yandex Warns of Default – Trustnodes
Russia’s Google, Yandex, has warned it might have to default following the suspension of shares trading on February 25th, a day after Russia invaded Ukraine. The Moscow Stock Exchange has still not op...
Ethereum Gets Ready For the Final Merge Testnet – Trustnodes
It’s the final countdown in ethereum Proof of Stake (PoS) development as preparations are undertaken to launch the last public testnet before the merge. “We’d like the Kiln testnet to be the last publ...
Ukraine Rug Pulls the Airdrop – Trustnodes
An historic crypto airdrop by the Ukrainian government has been cancelled hours after the snapshot was due. “After careful consideration we decided to cancel airdrop,” Mykhailo Fedorov, the Vice Prime...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Sings to Crypto – Trustnodes
Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of the multibillionaire Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, has published a song dedicated to crypto and web3. “I sing this song, surrounded by new friends, as a rallying cry fo...
Crypto Ukraine v Bankers Russia, Who Gone Win? – Trustnodes
In decades to come, it may be they say it’s in this 2022 when the crypto era really began for its power is being shown in full force and there may yet be more to come. In Russia, the cost of war is be...
Ukraine Announces Token Airdrop in an Historic First – Trustnodes
The government of Ukraine has announced they will undertake a token airdrop to anyone who donated to their ethereum address. “Airdrop confirmed. Snapshot will be taken tomorrow, on March 3rd, at 6pm K...
Bitcoin Rises as Visa and MasterCard Shun Russia Amid Capital Controls and Long Bank Queues in Moscow – Trustnodes
Visa and MasterCard have suspended their operations in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. “We will continue to work with regulators in the days ahead to abide fully by our compliance obligation...
German Stocks Drop 10% as Debate Intensifies on Whether Putin Can be Stopped – Trustnodes
German stocks have had one of their worst month in February, down about 10%, falling 4% just in the past week and down 20% this year. The French CAC has seen a similar performance, though dropping 8% ...
Bitcoin Nears $45,000 as Russia Cuts Off Transfers – Trustnodes
Bitcoin is up by about 15% from $38,000 to now $44,500 as Russia sanctions its own citizens in response to EU, US and UK sanctioning Russia. Russia’s invading president Vladimir Putin banned companies...
Bitcoin Exchanges Start Banning Russia, Ruble Develops Discount – Trustnodes
“Turned off all ruble pairs. The input and output of the ruble is closed. This is a difficult decision, since we have blocked our brothers in the Russian Federation and Belarus who have now taken to t...
Bitcoin Jumps Amid Talks Between Ukraine and Russia – Trustnodes
Bitcoin spiked to above $41,000 today following a phone call between the French president Emmanuel Macron and Russia’s Vladimir Putin amid talks between Ukraine and Russia. Macron asked the Russian pr...
NFTs, ETH, Starlinks and Bitcoin, The World Comes to the Aid of Ukraine – Trustnodes
Millions have been donated in crypto to the Ukrainian government in its hour of need while governments send thousands of anti-tank and anti-air missiles with people across the globe protesting against...
America Seizes All Assets in US and USD of Russia’s Central Bank – Trustnodes
In an unprecedented move, the United States has just announced it is making inaccessible all assets of the Russian Central Bank in US, including gold and anything else, as well as any asset held by US...
Russian Banks at Risk of Collapse – Trustnodes
The Russian banking system is at risk of crashing down after being kicked out of SWIFT and sanctioned with a foreign subsidiary already verging on bankruptcy. Sberbank’s stock price on the London Stoc...
Russian Ruble Crosses 100 – Trustnodes
The Russian ruble fell 30% to 110 rub per dollar at one point before retracing some of the loses while markets are suspended for the day in Moscow. The Russian central bank has been sanctioned by the ...
Russia on the Brink of Being Kicked From SWIFT as Kyiv Heroically Holds – Trustnodes
Germany, Italy, Cyprus and Hungary are all thought to no longer object to Russia being kicked out from SWIFT, the international payments system. The move would be the biggest sanction yet imposed on R...
BitMex Founder Arthur Hayes Pleads Guilty – Trustnodes
Arthur Hayes, the founder of once the biggest crypto derivatives exchange, BitMex, has pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, the US Justice Department said. The exchange did not previously...
Bitcoin Recovers, Stocks Rise, Oil and Gas Falls, Kyiv Holds – Trustnodes
Bitcoin has once again risen above $39,000 from a recent low of almost $34,000, gaining 10% to return to its strong support line of $39,000 that held prior to Black Thursday. Gas is down by close to 3...
“Slava Ukraini!” Shouts Boris Johnson, Unveils Cutting Off Sanctions – Trustnodes
The British Prime Minister has shouted in Parliament the cry of Ukrainians in their day of war as he unveiled a raft of new measures in a “remorseless mission to squeeze Russia from the global economy...
Ruble Plunge Causes Bitcoin Premium and Discount Fluctuations – Trustnodes
Russia is in the process of being cut off from the international monetary system with people in Moscow already barred from exchanging rubles into dollars or euros. That leaves bitcoin as one potential...
Russian Crypto News Site Warns it Might Shutdown Amid Ukraine Invasion – Trustnodes
One of the oldest crypto news site catering to the Russian market since 2014 has warned it might have to close down following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They say: “On the night of February 24, the ...
Russian Ruble Plunges, Panic in Moscow – Trustnodes
The Russian ruble instantly crashed some 20% earlier today before their central bank intervened, with it still down 10%. Rub spiked to 90 per dollar from 74 last week, currently trading at 85, and cro...
Russian Stocks Crash 30% on Full Scale Invasion of Ukraine – Trustnodes
The two main Russian stock indexes, RTS and Moex, have both plunged 30% today and are down close to 60% since October. The RTS Index has fallen to 800 from close to 2000 and plunged as low as 600. Tha...
Bitcoin Market Games and Putin Rational – Trustnodes
Bitcoin once again rose to just above $39,000 prior to US markets opening slightly in red, sending it down to just under $38,000 with Nasdaq down 0.5% shortly after trading began, further falling 1.3%...
Bored Ape Won at NFT Casino – Trustnodes
A lucky cryptonian has won a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT with a bet of just $38 at Rollbit, the self described world’s first NFT casino. “The item was immediately bought by Rollbit from OpenSea an...
Bitcoin Rises, Stocks Volatile as Sanctions Roll on Russia – Trustnodes
Bitcoin fell to almost under $36,000 overnight, but the crypto is up again today to near $38,000 at one point with European stocks just a bit green as well before slightly falling. The STOXX 50 index ...
Russian Stocks Crash 13% – Trustnodes
The Russian stock index, RTSI, has lost another 13.21% today after one of the worst week in years as Russia’s president Vladimir Putin seemingly crashes his own stock market. In just four months their...
$5 Billion ETH Now Burned – Trustnodes
The ethereum network has taken out of circulation close to 1.9 million eth, worth more than $5.1 billion, in just six months. Since the burning began in August, just the NFTs market place OpenSea has ...
Bitcoin Dips to $37,000 Before Nearing $39,000 – Trustnodes
Bitcoin has fallen again after briefly rising above $39,000 overnight with it suddenly turning downwards as Europe rose to just above $37,000, to only rise again to $38,800. The upward rise coincided ...
Fork Surpasses Optimism on Asset Value – Trustnodes
Metis, a fork of ethereum’s second layer, Optimism, has surpassed it in assets under custody shortly after launching. Metis currently has $520 million of crypto assets, while Optimism is at $482 milli...