According to the financial results report published on February 21 for the fourth quarter of last year, the largest American crypto exchange Coinbase recorded a net loss of $ 557 million, and for the whole year — $2.625 billion. For comparison, in 2021, Coinbase’s net profit amounted to $840 million and $3.624 billion, respectively. According...
The EU authorities have changed their mind about banning anonymous crypto wallets, The Block reports. Changes to EU anti-money laundering regulations show that anonymous (non-custodial) wallets should not be banned, but they will still be subject to transaction restrictions. The European Commission proposed to ban the use of anonymous cryptocurrency wallets in the summer of...
The announcement on the site’s website states that the withdrawal of fiat currencies and crypto assets became available to FTX Japan customers through the Liquid Japan web platform on February 21. In early December last year, FTX Japan announced that it plans to resume local customer withdrawals, which were suspended on November 8th. The exchange...
The two largest creditors of Mt.Gox, a cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed due to a hack in 2014, have decided to receive most of their losses in bitcoin, CoinDesk reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The Mt.Gox website appeared in 2006. It was a fantasy game developed by Jed McCaleb, who later co-founded Ripple and...
A US regulator has sued blockchain platform Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon, alleging they raised billions of dollars from investors by selling securities to them under the guise of cryptocurrencies. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon of running a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme....
The price of Bitcoin has reached a new 2023 high of $25,000 after surging over much of January. The last time Bitcoin’s price was around $25,000 was around mid-June, on its way down to between $19,000 and $21,000, where it then hovered for several months, according to data from CoinGecko. The price of BTC then...
The price of the Floki token (FLOKI) rose by 46% after the head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, who remains a supporter of the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin, published photos of his Shiba Inu named Floki. Floki is a governance token in the ecosystem of the same name, which includes a gaming metaverse, an NFT...
The share of Tether (USDT) in the stablecoin market exceeded 51% for the first time since May 2022. This past weekend, February 11-12, this figure reached 51.07%, and by February 13 it was 51.31%, according to CoinGecko. In second place is USD Coin (USDC) – it occupies 30.64% of the market, Binance USD (BUSD) accounts...
According to the Dune analytical platform, on February 13, the outflow of funds from the Binance crypto exchange amounted to $916 million. This was the largest outflow of funds in one day since November 24 last year, when assets worth $1 billion were withdrawn from Binance. Withdrawals by exchange users on February 13 follow an...
Wirex has signed a long-term partnership with Visa, which will allow it to issue crypto-enabled debit cards in the UK and in a further 40 countries. The strategic partnership between Wirex and Visa is likely to bring more collaboration as the Visa network can open doors for Wirex in Europe, USA, and in the Asia-Pacific...
