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It’s bloodshed across the crypto market again, with Bitcoin and Ethereum losses helping to drive more than $350 million in liquidations.

Mogging started on 4Chan back in 2016 as a slang term to dominate another person. But now, eight years later, mog has redefined itself through an Ethereum meme coin. Crypto traders Aug and Slumpt often joked that they’d launch a cryptocurrency around the mogging meme but never really pulled through. That was until Aug decided … Read more

Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, are services that create a secure, encrypted connection to the internet.

Catch up on this week’s biggest crypto and NFT gaming news and find some weekend reads in our latest roundup.

Crypto tweeters debated Trump’s sincerity after Bitcoin 2024 as the U.S. and Russia made crypto moves—and prices plunged.

With meme coins on Solana exploding, the Ethereum rival has become “the blockchain of fun and for the people,” one expert says.

Bitcoin rollups will require millions of dollars per year just to keep their heads above water thanks to transaction fees, per an analysis.

Amid signs that the U.S. economy is weaker than expected, Bitcoin could face an even larger selloff ahead. Here’s why, according to 10x Research.

While the Federal Reserve has no plans to issue a CBDC or digital dollar, the possibility of one has persisted as a conservative talking point.

Most cryptocurrencies are down over the past seven days, with BTC dipping below $61,000 on Friday.

Two videos show a triangular object in the skies over the city of Curitiba, a hot spot for UFO sightings.

Bitcoin fell sharply below $62,000 and Ethereum dipped under $3,000 as the impact of a poor U.S. jobs report continues to reverberate.

GameStop’s long-running Game Informer magazine was axed Friday as GME shares continued their recent decline.

With job numbers looking bleak, analysts now expect the Fed to start cutting interest rates fast—which is good for Bitcoin’s price.

Trump says the federal government could “hand ‘em a little Bitcoin” and wipe out its $35 trillion in debt.

Bitcoin miners are feeling increasing pressure to either diversify or “double down” on BTC.

Other Wall Street investment firms are likely to follow Morgan Stanley’s lead, experts tell Decrypt.

The agency’s decision to put a pin in its arguments about Solana’s security status has some legal experts optimistic—and others skeptical.

The price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies wavered Friday after a U.S. jobs report coaxed fears of an imminent recession on Wall Street.

“While gold’s rally might not directly drive Bitcoin prices, it could create an environment more conducive to [crypto] investment,” an analyst said.

Grayscale played a pivotal role in the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, but has seen its fund bleed assets as Wall Street titans push ahead.

BTC ETFs: +51m, ETH ETFs: +$26m. BTC bounces at $62k amid $300m liquidations. BTC volatility hits 2 month high. SOL flips ETH monthly DEX volume. SOL rumour claims insiders own 8%. Coinbase shares rise 2% after strong earnings. Marathon Digital falls 8% after revenue miss. Bybit exits France over regulation. Crypto(.)com surpasses Coinbase volume. Do … Read more

A couple got refunded $10 million rather than $100 and started spending. Years later, they face time in prison for their actions.

The decentralized exchange attempted to launch a meme token using Twitter tool makenow.meme, but things “didn’t exactly go as expected.”

The August 1 ruling marks the conclusion of a protracted legal saga involving multiple appeals and judicial reversals on Kwon’s extradition.

From August 13, French users will be unable to transact on the exchange other than to withdraw funds, Bybit announced Thursday.

Monetary policy, regulatory shifts, and infrastructure developments will continue to drive growth in crypto, Gemini said Thursday.

This year’s halving, coupled with increased global hash rates and equipment failures, greatly affected Marathon Digital’s output, it said.

Flux is an advanced, open-source text-to-image model with 12 billion parameters. We compare it to three top contenders, and one comes out on top.

In a new policy update, Google will demote and filter search results for websites with illicit AI-generated images.