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More than 105 million shares of Marathon Digital have been traded in the last 24 hours, beating Tesla, Apple, and Amazon.

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The former president has cashed out $2.4 million worth of ETH in the last three weeks, Arkham reports.

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Part of Bitzlato co-founder’s guilty plea on Dec. 6 was to dissolve the illicit exchange and forfeit its cryptocurrency. Now, it’s suspending withdrawals.

Even amid an avalanche of AI news, space exploration still managed to make headlines this year.

The top token handouts of the year netted users over $4.5 billion worth of free crypto. Here are 2023's biggest crypto airdrops.

These are the weirdest stories out of crypto in 2023, featuring hacks, arrests and a token burn worth $650 billion.

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Crypto industry leaders remain optimistic about the future of blockchain gaming. Here's what they expect in 2024.

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The meme token is now well below the all-time high it touched two weeks ago.

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According to the verification project, more than five million people — roughly 0.06% of the world’s population — have created Worldcoin accounts.

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Developer REKTBuilder claims to have discovered a “genuine device check” that transmits data about users’ wallet usage, including which apps they install.

$10.1 billion in Bitcoin options expire on Dec. 29. Cointelegraph examines whether bulls or bears will have the upper hand.

A contributor to Taproot Wizards created a script that allows Bitcoiners to reject Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions on their nodes.

Web3 geeks keep ranting about the metaverse, so it's ironic that Web2 games might be the first to bring us functional versions of it in 2024 and 2025.

Current methods for training AI on copyrighted work means “less journalism will be produced, and the cost to society will be enormous,” says the NYT.

Bitcoin is forming a bullish pattern, but the RSI shows a negative divergence, giving conflicting signals about the next directional move in the near term.

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The company is financing its Bitcoin purchases with long-term, low-interest debt and share issuance.

Ethereum is up significantly today, but the tokens behind projects that make the ecosystem faster and cheaper to use are doing even better.

DCash is one of the oldest CBDC projects still going. Now it plans to integrate settlements into the DCash system.

Bitcoin was in survival mode at the start of the year and then made a massive comeback.

The company is backed by China’s state-owned National Engineering Laboratory, which has also taken a keen interest in Web3 initiatives.

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Ethereum collection Pudgy Penguins thrived in Crypto Winter and now is gliding to new heights on the back of mainstream market toys.

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Arbitrum's "layer-3" gaming network is pushing back its XAI airdrop. Here's why, and who’s eligible for the rescheduled launch.

Addressing the flaws of traditional money can help humanity build a more prosperous future by reducing inequality, according to pioneer cryptographer David Chaum.

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Expectations that U.S. regulators will approve spot bitcoin ETFs next year are driving prices higher. History suggests we might see a slowdown as we approach the halving in April 2024, says Path Crypto's David Liang.

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Possible approval of bitcoin ETFs in 2024 is likely to change perceptions of digital assets following a year when the industry faced a backlash, Beth and Clay Haddock argue.

The company has spent $5.9 billion to build its BTC treasury.

Pan-African exchange Yellow Card has said it will seek licensing in the country.

Solana now ranks as the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap yet trails behind its main Layer 1 blockchain rivals in December price growth.

Microstrategy's CEO Michael Saylor tweeted on Wednesday that the company had acquired an additional 14,620 bitcoin.