Bitcoin24h $85,959.44+6.66%

Ethereum24h $2,744.19+6.30%

BNB24h $797.25+5.81%

XRP24h $1.50+8.45%

Solana24h $118.57+9.52%

TRON24h $0.3448-0.18%

Zcash24h $1,526.33+5.87%

Hyperliquid24h $94.17+3.41%

Dogecoin24h $0.0938+10.23%

Monero24h $576.35+6.31%

8:16 AM • Dec 09, 2020

—by Protos Staff

Bitcoin expert sentenced to 5 years for money laundering

A Paris court sentenced Russian computer expert Alexander Vinnik to 5 years in prison this week over his role in laundering cryptocurrency for ransomware hackers.

5:20 PM • Dec 08, 2020

—by Protos Staff

MicroStrategy raising cash for BTC, Facebook’s crypto ‘rebrand’ draws ire, ransomware hits Foxconn

MicroStrategy wants to sell bonds to buy Bitcoin [Bloomberg]
Diem worried about ‘confusing’ Libra rebrand [PRNewswire]
Wall Street pours hundreds of millions into crypto [Reuters]
Ransomware hackers demand $33M from Foxconn [Bleeping Computer]
Russian crypto exchange operator gets 5 years [RT]

3:54 PM • Dec 07, 2020

—by Protos Staff

Darknet business booming, new ETH holder record, MicroStrategy buys more BTC

Darknet revenues top last year’s record [Bitcoin.com]
Addresses with 1 ETH at all-time high [Glassnode Studio]
MicroStrategy spends $50M more on BTC [Yahoo Finance]
China’s digital yuan goes live… sort of [Engadget]
ETH staked hits 1% of total supply [Vitalik Buterin]
Bitcoin’s Adam Back wants to ditch ‘sats’ [Adam Bac k]

8:20 AM • Dec 04, 2020

—by Protos Staff

Raoul Pal’s bold BTC move, Kraken backs ETH dev grants, S&P Dow Jones crypto indices in 2021

Raoul Pal’s bold Bitcoin move [Decrypt]
Kraken backs Ethereum dev grants [Kraken]
Crypto indices by S&P Dow Jones in 2021 [The Block]
Ethereum upgrade hits 1M milestone [Dune Analytics]
Spotify job hints at crypto future [Spotify]
Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones rallies behind Bitcoin… again [MarketWatch]
Billions in ‘dormant’ BTC awoken by price surge [Finance Magnates]

5:52 PM • Dec 03, 2020

—by Protos Staff

PayPal CEO turns crypto bull, Visa embraces USDC, Ripple waits on Biden before relocation decision

PayPal CEO bullish on all kinds of crypto [Decrypt]
Visa embraces USDC [Forbes]
Ripple relocation still an option [CoinDesk]
Bitmain cuts funding for Bitcoin Core devs [Jonas Schnelli]
Grayscale splits its Ethereum fund [GlobeNewswire]
Lil Yachty to issue Yachty coin [Complex]
US congress may soon regulate stablecoins [Rashida Tlaib]