CRYPTO

Crypto exchange BitMEX is currently investigating “unusual activity” involving large sell orders on its BTC-USDT spot market overnight that sparked a flash-crash dragging the price of BTC (in USDT) down below $9,000 (while the price remained above $66,000 on other exchanges)…

Doesn't seem like a very smart move for the 'rogue seller' to dump over 400 BTC at that time of day into an illiquid market – why not wait until the US BTC ETF market is running its (more…)

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DIGITAL ASSETS: Solana's soaring memecoins and the echoes of King Lear's fool

In the world of finance (DeFi included), where fortunes rise and fall, there is a parallel to be (more…)

Sometime in April 2024, the reward that cryptocurrency miners receive for mining bitcoin (BTC) will go from ₿6.25 to ₿3.125, with significant consequences for the world’s most valuable digital currency.

To help understand this quadrennial event, Visual Capitalist's Chris Dickert teamed up with HIVE Digital to take a deep dive on historical bitcoin data from Coinmetrics to see what the three previous halvings might tell us about the fourth.

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