On July 1st, 2022 Voyager announced that the crypto-only brokerage is temporarily suspending trading, deposits, withdrawals, and loyalty rewards for all customers until further notice. CEO Stephen Ehrlich stated that the decision was made in order to provide Voyager with “more time to continue exploring strategic alternatives with various interested
News - Bitcoin - Jul 01, 2022Electronics conglomerate Samsung reported that the company will begin trial production on their three nanometer (3nm) chips for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). ASICs are currently the most efficient way to mine Bitcoin and Samsung’s new chip will help make the process more efficient and faster. According to the report,
News - Bitcoin - Jul 01, 2022A term sheet is currently being finalized between derivatives exchange FTX and digital assets platform BlockFi due to extreme market volatility and mismanagement within the company. According to CNBC, an FTX spokesperson said the company “would not be commenting on the matter.” BlockFi was also unavailable to comment. FTX had
News - Business - Jun 30, 2022Twitter user @CryptoInsider23 posted a thread claiming that Circle’s USDC stablecoin “is on the brink of collapse.” The account explains that they were able to come to this conclusion by looking into Circle’s SPAC IPO filings. From the provided tweet and infographic, Circle is currently paying Signature Bank
News - Markets - Jun 29, 2022On June 27th, 2022 a Twitter account by the name of @FatManTerra revealed that an insider within CoinFLEX was allowed to borrow $47 million of uncollateralized USDC as a loan. CoinFLEX stated on June 23rd that their platform would be halting all withdrawals due to the current market volatility. Almost
News - Bitcoin - Jun 28, 2022During the market’s recent volatility, a number of companies have experienced liquidity issues because of the sudden downturn in prices across Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies. The latest company to halt withdrawals is CoinFLEX, a derivatives exchange that also offers financial services and crypto yield was founded in 2019
News - Business - Jun 24, 2022In a tweet from Binance on June 13th, 2022, the company stated that they will be temporarily pausing Bitcoin withdrawals on the BTC network due to “stuck” on-chain transactions. The company explained that only the BTC network withdrawals were having issues and that Bitcoin may be withdrawn to the Ethereum
News - Bitcoin - Jun 13, 2022New York’s State Senate voted to pass bill S6486D which will invoke a two-year moratorium on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining operations that use the Proof-of-Work mechanism to validate transactions. The State Senate voted 36-27 in favor of passing the bill into law. The bill will now be sent to
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