Crypto miners stole $723M of electricity in Malaysia since 2018: Report

Friday, Oct. 4 — The top-20 crypto markets are solidly in the green, with just a few reporting mild losses, according to data from Coin360. Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading sideways after its slump from $8,400 to $8,100.Market visualization. Source: Coin360The price of BTC has remained in a narrow corridor between $8,009 and $8,314 today,…

Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, once said recreating a virtual global gold standard like Bitcoin “would be a criminal act of monetary amnesia.” 3507 Total views 3 Total shares The Liberal Party of Canada has announced Canada’s new prime minister is Mark Carney, a former central banker and Bitcoin critic with plans to fight

In Sweden, cash in circulation represents only 1% of the country’s gross domestic product, and some experts predict the nation will go “totally cashless” by 2023. In China’s largest cities, over 90% of people use WeChat Pay and Alipay as their primary payment method, with cash a distant second. It may seem that the transition to…

The world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange OKEx hit back at accusations it “manipulated markets” by adjusting Bitcoin Cash (BCH) futures settlements in a fresh statement Nov. 20 sent to Cointelegraph.The exchange, which opted to deliver BCH futures early due to the coin’s contentious hard fork Nov. 15, subsequently saw a barrage of negative publicity over the…

A former Etihad Airlines flight attendant says he faces up to three years in jail in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for being unable to make installments on a $100,000 loan he took out to invest in crypto around the all time high. Reddit user Crypthomie, identified only as a 34-year-old man who is not an…

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.Market data is provided by the HitBTC exchange.Hackers stole 913 bitcoins from Canadian cryptocurrency exchange MapleChange. Though the…

FTX’s sister company, Alameda Research, agreed to sell its interest in Sequoia Capital for $45 million to Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund. 269 Total views 7 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe latest update in the FTX bankruptcy case comes as a new deal was struck between the…