On Nov. 1, 2024, bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $69,284 per coin, and since then, its price has climbed significantly. Alongside this climb, many sleeping bitcoins from past years have been stirred into activity. Bitcoin Boom Revives $190 Million This week, bitcoin hit a new peak at $93,483 per coin, and a wave of once-dormant […]

South Korean police arrested 215 individuals, including a Youtube influencer, for their role in perpetrating a $232 million crypto scam. 28 Fraudulent Digital Assets Issued The South Korean police recently arrested 215 individuals implicated in a virtual assets scam that fleeced approximately $232 million (325 billion won) from about 15,000 investors. Victims were entrapped by […]

Mara Holdings continues to grow its bitcoin bag despite lower than projected Q3 earnings. Digital Assets Remain Key for Mara Holdings Mara Holdings’ earnings report revealed the company added 8,280 bitcoin to its already existing portfolio of 18,467 bitcoin in Q3. This raised its total bitcoin holding to 26,747 BTC. The latest addition to its […]

Sberbank CEO Herman Gref announced that using cryptocurrencies as a payment method within Russia is currently prohibited by law and is unlikely to be allowed in the near future. Speaking at the “FI day. Blockchain: on the edge of a new financial era” conference in Moscow, Gref clarified that while Russia’s new legislation permits the […]

Authorities in Grant County, Indiana, have recovered $36,000 in a cryptocurrency scam involving Prateek Jain, a 33-year-old man from Kolkata, India. Jain faces charges of felony fraud and money laundering after allegedly convincing a Marion, Indiana resident to deposit funds into a bitcoin ATM as part of the scam. The case, initially reported to the […]