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Twitter Launches Verification Mechanism for NFT Avatars; Bybit Demonstrates Ambition on NFT Marketplace

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Posted on January 21, 2022

Twitter announced Thursday that it was rolling out an official verification mechanism for NFT avatars, allowing some users to set the NFTs they own as their profile picture. The Twitter avatar of the verified NFT will be different from the normal avatar. The new NFT avatar will get a nice hexagonal border instead of a

NYC Mayor Adams to Receive Salary from Crypto, Converting Paycheck via Coinbase

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Posted on January 20, 2022

New York City’s new mayor Eric Adams said that his first paycheck will be converted into Bitcoin and Ethereum via Coinbase Global. The mayor – a major crypto proponent – made a promise last year during his election campaign that he would take his first three paychecks in cryptocurrency and strive to make New York

Bitcoin dumps to hit six month lows near $38K

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Posted on January 20, 2022

Bitcoin (BTC) has dumped 7.5% in the past 12 hours, plunging to 6-month lows from $43,328 at 4pm UTC yesterday to $38,258 by 4am UTC today. At the time of writing Bitcoin was trading at $38,761 according to Cointelegraph. Today’s price crash has so far wiped about $50 billion from the overall crypto market. The

Robinhood’s Crypto Wallet Goes Live, Allowing Crypto Withdrawals for First 1,000 Users

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Posted on January 20, 2022

Robinhood’s crypto wallet is officially live, allowing the first 1,000 users to make crypto withdrawals. Last November, Robinhood Markets has announced that 1.6 million people are on the waitlist for its cryptocurrency wallet. But the first 1,000 people who are currently on the waiting list to sign up for a “wallet” can participate in this beta

Crypto.com Introduces WAPP Program, Following its Protocol Breach

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Posted on January 20, 2022

With more than 400 confirmed customers affected in its platform hack this Monday, Crypto.com has announced a new set of initiatives to combat future occurrences and also to protect its users. Sharing the update about the incident, Crypto.com said unauthorized withdrawals totalled 4,836.26 ETH, 443.93 BTC and approximately US$66,200 in other currencies. Based on this,

Central Bank of Russia Intends to Ban Crypto Mining and Activities

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Posted on January 20, 2022

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) is going on the offensive in relation to the digital currency ecosystem in the country as the apex bank is calling for a blanket ban on crypto-related activities. In a newly published report titled “Cryptocurrencies: Trends, risks, measures,” the bank draws a close comparison between the nascent world of

How one Ethereum miner earned over $500k in block rewards

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Posted on January 20, 2022

One Ethereum miner could be the luckiest in the space, as he single-handedly mined an entire ETH block and earned himself a cool reward of 168 ETH worth roughly $500,000. Solo miners get lucky with Ethereum and Bitcoin Rewards The said miner was operating through the 2miners: Ether SOLO pool on January 17th. Per available

Multichain hacker returns 322 ETH, keeps hefty finders fee

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Posted on January 20, 2022

In a dramatic twist, one of this week’s Multichain hackers has returned 322 ETH ($974,000 at the time of writing) to the cross-chain router protocol and one of the affected users. However the hacker kept 62 ETH ($187,000) as a “bug bounty”, and a total of 528 ETH (worth $1.6M) remains outstanding after the exploits.

3 airdrops, with 1 scam

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Posted on January 20, 2022

NFTs continue to surge with what looks to be no end in sight. Since January 14, 2022 OpenSea notched trading volumes over $1.03 billion, and its latest rival, LooksRare, has eclipsed the platform according to data from DappRadar. Top 8 NFT marketplaces by volume. Source: DappRadar What’s clear is that NFT collectors and traders appear

Vitalik Buterin talks creating Ethereum in previously unreleased 2014 interview

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Posted on January 20, 2022

The latest episode of Cointelegraph’s Crypto Stories featured never-before-heard audio from an exclusive interview with Vitalik Buterin, recorded at a conference in Hong Kong in 2014. In this animated short, viewers can learn about the origin story of Ethereum (ETH), the world’d second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, straight from the founder himself. Back in 2011,

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