Mt. Gox moves $3B in BTC to unknown address

Bitcoin (BTC) continued to work on cracking the $17,000 mark on Jan. 4 as an “extremely tight” trading zone held firm.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView$17,000 "possible" thanks to CPI printData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting $16,906 on Bitstamp, up $300 from the previous day’s low.The largest cryptocurrency had benefited…

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.The market data is provided by the HitBTC exchange.Billionaire investor Tim Draper believes that crypto and fiat currencies…

Visa got itself a fancy new Twitter avatar this August, and even though it didn’t stay up for long, the 8-bit-styled picture of a visibly unamused woman with a stylish mohawk still made dozens of headlines. It was not just about the relatively hefty price tag of $150,000. The mere fact that the financial giant…

The European Central Bank launched a public consultation on a potential digital euro on Oct. 12. Developments on the central bank digital currency front in the Eurozone have picked up pace amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the central bank has framed its introduction to the public consultation with the claim that the issuance of a CBDC…

The Universal Protocol Alliance (UPA) officially announced that the Universal Dollar (UPUSD), the Universal Euro (UPEUR), and the Universal Protocol Token (UPT) have been listed on Bittrex Global, offering a lower fee structure for UPT holders.The Alliance stated that the UPUSD and the UPEUR stablecoins are collateralized 1:1 with their respective fiat currencies, while UPT…

Stripe has partnered with FTX, FTX US, Blockchain.com, Nifty Gateway, and Just Mining to launch a crypto business suite. 150 Total views 2 Total shares U.S.-based fintech giant Stripe has significantly ramped up its crypto initiatives after it launched a service that enables payments for NFTs and digital assets via fiat currency. Businesses can use…

An American rapper’s YouTube channel has reportedly been hacked to promote a fake ETH and BTC giveaway live stream that seems to have over 56,000 viewers. 794 Total views 7 Total shares The young artist, Keyshawn Butler, confirmed on his Instagram page that his YouTube page had been hacked on 7 January, although he seemed…

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, tweeted a message to thank everyone that helped make the Merge happen. 635 Total views 6 Total shares As the Merge successfully shifted the Ethereum network to proof-of-stake (PoS), the ETH community seized the opportunity to celebrate by dropping artworks and music inspired by Ethereum. Nonfungible token (NFT) artist Beeple,…

Just two weeks into the new year and the cryptocurrency community is grappling with the reality of an alleged “51 percent attack” on the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain.While there is still no clear idea of who is responsible for the manipulation of ETC’s blockchain by controlling the majority of CPU power in the mining pool,…