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Leaked ‘Shill Price List’ Alleges Crypto Influencers Charge Up to USD 25,000 for a Shill Tweet

Zachxbt, an anonymous crypto researcher and self-proclaimed "on-chain sleuth," has published an extensive list of crypto influencers and how much they allegedly charge to "shill" crypto projects on Twitter.Zachxbt told Motherboard that the list came from a "marketing firm" but did not...

, by Ruholamin Haqshanas

Bullish Bitcoin Bear, Shadowy Ethereum Forking, Stupid Altcoin Listing, and 20 Crypto Jokes

Let’s see what crypto news this week brought us. The crypto market traded lower over the past weekend, with US inflation data, possible US Fed moves, and bearish-looking technology stocks weighing on investors’ sentiment, with crypto market stuck in a ‘bearish lull’...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto Community Welcomes Musk’s Twitter Bid as Obstacles Emerge

Twitter’s board does not welcome Tesla chief Elon Musk’s bid to buy all the shares of the company and is reportedly preparing a ‘poison pill’ defense strategy that would prevent a hostile takeover.One option considered by the board to stop Elon Musk from buying Twitter...

, by Fredrik Vold

Coinbase Faces Criticism Again for Listing ‘Dead’ and ‘Stupid’ Tokens

The major US-based crypto exchange Coinbase is again facing criticism from the community after it released a new list of tokens it said are “under consideration for listing.” The list includes projects that a community member described as “stupid” and “virtually...

, by Fredrik Vold

Ending & Starting Bitcoin Bear Market, Spreading Crypto Firms, Scamming Scammy Scammers and 20 Crypto Jokes

This week in the cryptoworld: weekend crypto trading offered clues to stock investors as Tesla faced Shanghai lockdown, inflows into digital asset investment products reached USD 180m last week, Pantera said that the crypto bear market is probably over and a “massive rally” may follow,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Vitalik Buterin Makes Low-key USD 5M ETH Donations in Support of Ukraine

The Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has made some USD 5 million worth of crypto donations – in ETH – with half going to the Ukrainian government and the remainder going to a charity that is providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainian citizens.Per a tweet from...

, by Tim Alper

Breaking Bitcoin Resistances, Doggycoin Moves, Exploited Bridge, Unhosted Propagandas and 20 Crypto Jokes

This week in crypto news on Cryptonews.com: Bitcoin broke key resistance and crossed USD 47K as Terra bought more BTC and liquidations soared, Zilliqa went up after news that Metapolis partnered with Agora, and then up some more with a new NFT gamins partnership, holders of ApeCoin...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Terra’s USD 10B Bitcoin Bet May be Both a Curse and a Blessing

Terra (LUNA) founder Do Kwon’s plan to partly back the stablecoin UST with bitcoin (BTC) is causing both excitement and concern in the community, with some fearing what could happen to the bitcoin market if Terra faces problems with trust or liquidity.The plan to back UST with BTC has...

, by Fredrik Vold

Crypto Industry Rallies Ahead of Vote on Controversial EU Crypto Regulation

As the European Union institutions are advancing their discussions on the controversial Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR), crypto industry representatives are looking to hamper the proposal’s potentially harmful impact on the sector’s future development.Among others, the...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Another Expensive NFT Gets Mistakenly Sold at Large Discount – How Does That Happen?

Another very popular and pricy non-fungible token (NFT), this time Bored Ape #835, an item in the popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), has been sold for a fraction of the collection's floor price -- and the community is debating what may be behind it. On Tuesday morning...

, by Ruholamin Haqshanas

Choppy Bitcoin & Ethereum Movements, Mulling Regulators, Scamy Hackers and 20 Crypto Jokes

Let’s see what crypto things this crypto week has crypto brought us. Oh, it's crypto.Crypto market sentiment improved over the previous week, BTC tested USD 43,000 and ETH bullish sentiment remained but analysts warned about the "choppy short-term movements”. ADA rallied as Coinbase...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin Testing 40K, Ethereum Testneting PoS, Ukraine Legalizing BTC and 20 Crypto Jokes

As the new week began, crypto market sentiment dropped, the bitcoin options key metric suggested that more traders were taking bullish bets, BTC then consolidated as the US Fed started a two-day meeting, and went up following the Fed rate hike. ETH outperformed BTC following news that a final...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Scam Tokens Emerge After ‘Elona’ Musk’s Dispute With Chechen Leader

An online dispute between Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk and the infamous leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has resulted in the creation of more than 30 token projects trying to capitalize on the intriguing case, with many of them appearing to be outright scams.The tokens...

, by Fredrik Vold

Three Winners Solve Larva Lab’s Puzzle to Get a Meebit and ETH 0.025

Three smart winners have managed to crack a puzzle created by Larva Labs, the creators of the popular non-fungible token (NFT) projects CryptoPunks and Meebits, obtaining a 64-digit string that turned out to be an Ethereum (ETH) private key for an address containing ETH 0.025 (USD 64) and the...

, by Ruholamin Haqshanas

Terra’s Do Kwon Makes Massive Bet That LUNA Will Stay Above USD 88

The CEO of Terra (LUNA), Do Kwon, has agreed to a rather large bet with a Twitter user that the price of LUNA will not be lower in one year than it is now.“Who wants to take a USD 1,000,000 bet that LUNA will be lower price in 1 year than now?”That question was posted on Twitter...

, by Fredrik Vold

Price Rollercoaster, Sun’s Double-Play, Biden’s Order and 20 Crypto Jokes

This week in crypto, bitcoin and some major cryptos initially fell on Monday before recovering, and by Wednesday the traders bid the price of bitcoin up strongly in the market, supported by Joe Biden’s “watershed” executive order and the rising stock market, before...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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