Bitcoin (BTC) bulls kept the pressure on 18-month highs on Nov. 24 as analysis eyed buyer interest spiking. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin fights for new 18-month high Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed the BTC price trajectory heading upward into the Wall Street open. The largest cryptocurrency saw increasing momentum during the Asia trading session, this…
The brokerage firm Interactive Brokers Hong Kong has been licensed in Hong Kong for virtual asset trading by retail clients, according to a post on LinkedIn by the Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Interactive Brokers, David Friedland. The post said the trading of virtual assets is currently in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), with additional information on the licensing…
NFT collection Cool Cats has joined iconic characters including Pikachu and Ronald McDonald as a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon. The Cool Cats balloon, which depicts the collection’s main character Blue Cat and milk carton Chugs, accompanies this week’s launch of a YouTube Shorts series, “The Milk Chug”. A limited-edition Cool Cats hoodie marking the occasion will also be available…
The critically acclaimed Super Mario Bros. Wonder has been described by some as the Nintendo Switch’s swansong—because a follow-up console is reportedly in the works, and Wonder may well be the last seismic Switch exclusive before a Switch 2 rolls out. But it’s certainly not the last notable game that’s set to release for the handheld console. Nintendo has unveiled…
A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly made a costly mistake, paying a record-breaking $3 million in transaction fees for a single transaction. Blockchain data shows that the Bitcoin sender intended to send 139.42 BTC (worth around $5.1 million), of which 83.64 BTC was gobbled up in transaction fees, leaving the recipient with just 55.77 BTC (around $2 million at today’s prices).…
Crypto traders appear to have stuffed themselves silly this Thanksgiving—with digital asset markets largely sitting still. Bitcoin on Thursday had barely moved at the time of writing: the largest virtual coin by market cap was priced at $37,353, a 24-hour move of nearly zero, according to CoinGecko. Over the past seven days, the asset has gone up in value by…
El Salvador’s wildly popular president Nayib Bukele was a big backer of Bitcoin during the 2021 bull market. After his bull-run buying spree, the Salvadoran leader announced in November of last year that the country would add one Bitcoin a day to its fortress balance sheet. He’s since been slagged off for being reckless by everyone from university professors to…
The decentralized exchange KyberSwap has offered a 10% bounty reward to the hacker who stole $46 million on Nov. 22 and left a note of negotiation. The exchange wants 90% of the loot returned by 6am UTC on Nov.25. On Nov. 23, KyberSwap alerted users that its liquidity solution, KyberSwap Elastic, was compromised and advised them to withdraw funds. In…
BLUR, the token of the NFT marketplace that shares its name, is up 30% following this week’s Season 2 airdrop and the news that the token will be listed on crypto exchange Binance. At time of publication, BLUR is trading at $0.63, up jsust under 30% on the day and around 82% on the week, per data from CoinGecko. Blur’s…
Terra founder Do Kwon’s extradition has been approved by a court in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica—though a final decision has yet to be made on whether he will be extradited to the U.S. or South Korea. According to an update posted on the Courts of Montenegro website, Kwon’s extradition will proceed pending a final decision by the country’s Minister of Justice,…
