Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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'High Risk' Crypto Activity Surges in Eastern Europe Amid Russia-Ukraine War: Chainalysis

High risk activity in Eastern Europe is on the rise, but illicit activity remains on a par with North and Latin America.

Establishing a gold-backed stablecoin could help Russia get around sanctions, one report says. (Don Fontijn/Unsplash)

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DeFi Protocol Temple DAO Struck by $2.3M Exploit

The hack equates to around 4% of Temple DAO's total value locked (TVL).

(Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

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Google Partners With Coinbase to Accept Crypto Payments for Cloud Services

The tech giant will also use Coinbase's custody service, Coinbase Prime.

(Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin: dificultad de minería alcanza su máximo histórico y ejerce mayor presión sobre mineros

El indicador de dificultad aumentó 13,55% desde el último ajuste, efectuado hace aproximadamente dos semanas, lo que supone el mayor movimiento desde mayo de 2021.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Surges to All-Time High, Putting Additional Squeeze on Miners

The difficulty gauge rose 13.55% from the last adjustment roughly two weeks ago, the largest such move since May 2021.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

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Transit Finance Hacker Returns $2.74M to Victims, Sends $686K to Tornado Cash

Transit Finance hacker has sent $686,000 worth of BNB tokens to the sanctioned Tornado Cash protocol.

La billetera de criptomonedas BitKeep sufrió un hackeo de US$1 millón de tokens. (Unsplash)

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Crypto Exchange FTX's Token Surges 7% After Visa Partnership Report

FTX has partnered with Visa to roll out crypto debit cards across 40 countries.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain Raises $27M to Ease Liquidity Pressures, Shares Plunge 15%

The firm has also sold 3,400 Antminer S19's to raise $7 million.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

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Judge Dismisses Arrest Warrant for Terra's Head of General Affairs Yu: Report

The arrest comes after the country invalidated Terra co-founder Do Kwon's passport.

The Netherlands has arrested a developer of Tornado Cash. (Shutterstock)

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Crypto Lending Firm Ledn to Acquire Canadian Fund Manager Arxnovum

With the deal, Ledn will be able to offer more types of investments.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Jan Web/Unsplash)