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Prosecutors may require up to six weeks to present their case against Sam Bankman-Fried, but it only took three days for the judge presiding over the trial to become frustrated with the defense team representing the former crypto chief. Judge Lewis Kaplan expressed visible and audible dissatisfaction with Mark Cohen & Co. during Thursday’s proceedings.…

In a daily note, traders at the Japanese exchange Bitbank expressed their anticipation for Bitcoin prices to reach the $28,000 level, citing optimism surrounding ETFs. Despite the mixed movements in the broader financial markets, Bitcoin remained stable above $27,000. While global oil prices experienced a decline after a surge, stocks in Asia and Europe saw…

Decreasing Network Activity Leads to Inflationary Ether, Impacting Token Price According to intoTheBlock, the decline in network activity on Ethereum can be attributed in part to the adoption of layer 2 networks and is expected to persist in the near future. Analysts are warning that Ether (ETH) has returned to an inflationary state due to…

One year ago on September 15, Ethereum completed its transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism with the implementation of the Merge. This significant upgrade switched the blockchain from a proof-of-work (PoW) setting to PoS. If Ethereum had remained a PoW blockchain, the net supply would have increased by over 3.8 million Ether, or 3%.…

Although the next Bitcoin mining reward halving in April 2024 is anticipated to be a bullish catalyst for the cryptocurrency market, historical data suggests that a significant uptrend will depend on major central banks increasing their year-on-year money supply growth rates. Previous halvings did not single-handedly trigger bull runs, but rather macroeconomic factors, particularly abundant…

In a market that has seen little change, the price of CYBER tokens has more than doubled on select exchanges over the past week. Despite being a relatively unknown crypto token, CYBER has experienced significant appreciation in recent weeks within the crypto ecosystem. Traders are willing to pay annualized fees of up to 2,000% to…

Robinhood, the well-known trading platform, has reached an agreement with the United States Marshal Service (USMS) to repurchase $605.7 million worth of stock that was previously owned by Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The U.S. government had seized the 55 million HOOD shares owned by Bankman-Fried and his fellow FTX…

The cryptocurrency market was spooked when millions of dollars’ worth of the PEPE meme coin flooded crypto exchanges on Thursday, causing a significant 15% plunge in its price and highlighting concerns surrounding the project’s multisig wallet, which holds a substantial portion of the joke cryptocurrency. During midday on Thursday, an astonishing 16 trillion tokens were…

According to Lin Chen of Deribit, a leading crypto options exchange, a substantial number of put options are currently in-the-money. While both cryptocurrencies have seen some gains in the past 24 hours, their prices are still below the levels that would cause the most distress to the buyers of August expiry option contracts. The theory…