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Ripple suspected of involvement in $112 million hack

12 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Stormgain

In late January, crypto detective ZachXBT reported on a potential hack of Ripple and the theft of 213 million XRP from the rJNL* address. The company's co-founder, Chris Larsen, revealed that personal wallets were hacked on 30 January. In his words,...

Binance is removing Monero. Is Litecoin next?

8 Feb 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Stormgain

The de-listing of the anonymous Monero coin was a logical consequence of a pre-trial agreement between Binance and the US Department of Justice in November, under which government agencies were given unrestricted access to all documentation and the c...

Investors exchange gold for Bitcoin

7 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Stormgain

The approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US increased the cryptocurrency's reputation and made it much easier for many people to invest in Bitcoin and put it on the same level as gold. In the SEC's accompanying letter to the approval of the ETFs, Cha...

Overview of crypto ETFs through January 2024

6 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Stormgain

In January, the launch of spot ETFs shook markets, and Bitcoin became the second-place commodity (the SEC assigns it this status) after gold in terms of the volume of collected investments. The crypto ETFs' current total capitalisation is $50.7 milli...

History repeats itself: The US banking sector is once again under attack

5 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Stormgain

In March 2023, the US banking sector faced a series of bankruptcies, primarily caused by the Federal Reserve's increase of the key interest rate. Rate hikes led to a reduction in income and the depreciation of banks' investment portfolios. This prima...

How the Polygon team scammed investors out of $1 billion

2 Feb 2024 1 minute read 3 comments Stormgain

Recently, the analyst firm ChainArgos released an unflattering article for Polygon management. It recorded the disappearance of around 400 million MATIC that should have gone to validators as staking fees. Another 367 million MATIC was withdrawn from...

Why the response to halving will be similar to the reaction to ETFs

1 Feb 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Stormgain

In 2023, miners doubled their production capacity. The total hashrate of the Bitcoin network increased 2.1 times to 515 EH/s. Among publicly traded miners, Marathon Digital took the first place by growth rate, increasing its capacity by 3.5 times to...

Last week's net outflow from Bitcoin ETFs amounted to $0.5 billion

31 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Stormgain

Last week, the outflow of investors from Grayscale reached $2.2 billion, which other Bitcoin crypto funds couldn't compensate for. The net weekly amount was a $478.9 million outflow. Investors are fleeing GBTC for two reasons: some are locking in pr...

Solana is about to overtake Ethereum in stablecoin volume

26 Jan 2024 1 minute read 3 comments Stormgain

Transactions with stablecoins are key activity areas for networks supporting smart contracts. In December, stablecoin volume totalled $1.2 trillion, and the number of active addresses is growing year over year despite market turbulence. For the past...

Bitcoin to fall as ETFs fail to create new demand

25 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Stormgain

Economy Peter Schiff predicts that Bitcoin's price will fall further. He believes that the approval of ETFs isn't creating new demand for the crypto. In his opinion, investors who used to buy crypto on the spot market, shares of mining companies or C...