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Trump Mugshot Fuels NFT Sales: Ex-President’s Digital Cards Jump 426%
After a mugshot of the 45th U.S. president, Donald Trump, was snapped at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, his NFT trading card sales skyrocketed. Cryptoslam.io data shows a whopping 426% surge in Trump’s digital card sales in just 24…
Palau’s Stablecoin Audit Process Advances
Palau’s Ripple-backed stablecoin pilot audit process is advancing, with the Ministry of Finance collaborating with auditors and turning in more than 200 documents for review. Jay Hunter Anson, a Palau Ministry of Finance member,…
Founders of Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Accused of Laundering $1 Billion
The founders of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash were charged Thursday with allegedly helping to launder more than $1 billion in digital currency, including funds taken by North Korean hackers.
Department of Justice: ‘You…
Blockchain Can Help Facilitate ‘Direct Connections’ Between Users and Hotels — Staynex’s Bernard Lau
Using blockchain can potentially minimize intermediary expenses incurred by players in the hospitality industry because the technology makes it possible to facilitate direct connections between users and hotels, Bernard Lau, CEO of Staynex…
UK Researchers Claim New Tech Supercharges Bitcoin Mining With 260% Faster Hash Detection, Slashes…
Quantum Blockchain Technologies (QBT), a research firm hailing from the U.K., purports to have spearheaded a revolutionary leap in bitcoin mining tech. They’ve unveiled certain methods that reportedly enhance the chances of…
A Tumultuous August: Peaks and Valleys in Bitcoin’s Ordinal Inscription Saga
Statistics reveal a continued trend in the number of Ordinal inscriptions, which recently eclipsed the 23 million mark. The month of August, however, has experienced two notable dips, each registering fewer than 100,000 inscriptions per…
Idle No More: $11.4 Million in ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ Wake up After Years of Dormancy
Hovering just above the $29,000 mark, bitcoin’s value remained relatively stable while an interesting event occurred on Saturday afternoon: a dormant cache of 195.79 bitcoins, untouched for over seven years, was transferred for the…
Unidentified Miners, F2pool Lead All-Time Bitcoin Mining Rankings: A Comprehensive Review of…
Since the inception of the Bitcoin blockchain by Satoshi Nakamoto, the network has diligently processed in excess of 800,000 blocks. An examination of data from 99 distinct mining pools, spanning the previous 14 years, reveals that…
Base’s Rapid Ascent: 136,000 Daily Users and $175 Million TVL in Ethereum’s L2 Defi Space
Base, the Ethereum layer two (L2) scaling solution supported by Coinbase, has experienced over $175 million funneled into its decentralized finance (defi) protocol since its creation. The majority of value locked comprises 75,244 ether and…
Coinbase’s Much-Hyped New Base Blockchain Draws Modest $10M of Inflows on Launch Day
However, nearly $166 million had already flowed to the blockchain ahead of the official launch.