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Ronin had 9 validators (wow!)…and the team controlled all of it.. and still managed to get hacked! What a joke

This is what Ronin's team looks like. When you do all the work yourself Now there is almost $600m worth coins stolen from this shit show that the hacker will be looking to dump. While CEX have blacklisted the hacker's address already, nothing is stopping him from dumping all of it on DEX. He can…
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Liquidations Continue To Rock The Market As Bitcoin Breaks $47,000

Bitcoin liquidations had ramped up on Monday as the price of the digital asset had gone up drastically. These traders had been liquidated very fast with millions of dollars gone in a matter of minutes. However, it did not end there, given that the price of the cryptocurrency has not slowed down since then. And as the price of bitcoin has continued to grow, the liquidations have not slowed down either. Bitcoin Liquidations On The Rise Although the current liquidations are not as high as that recorded on Monday, they are still significant nonetheless. These liquidations had touched as high as $140 million for bitcoin, and once again have beat the $100 million mark in 24 hours. Related Reading | Why Bitcoin Could See A 2020 Like Rally Most of these are short traders who had bet on the price of bitcoin coming down. As always, the market will do what it does and had gone in the opposite direction. But even after the expected slow down after surging past $46,000. Instead, the digital asset had continued on its recovery trend. After successfully breaking above $47,000, the short liquidations had ramped up once more. BTC settles above $47,000 | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com In the last 12 hours, BTC alone has seen more than $14 million in liquidations. While the 24-hour time frame paints a grimmer picture. Over $119 million in liquidations have been recorded in the past day. Most of these have been from short traders who have been betting against the recovery trend. As the price of BTC barrels toward $48,000 once more, the short liquidation trend may be far from over. Ethereum Traders Get Rekt In the past day, Ethereum traders have gotten the short end of the stick compared to bitcoin traders. These short traders saw the worst of it as more than $25 million was lost in less than an hour. It quickly put ETH ahead of the curve when it comes to liquidations given that most of the liquidations have come from ETH traders. For the largest single liquidation in the past day, ETH also took the cake. This time around, there was a single trade worth $10.10 million that was liquidated. This took place on the FTX exchange across the ETH-PERP trading pair. It ran up the numbers for Ethereum, with $25.07 million and $50.41 million liquidated in the past one and four hours respectively at the time of writing this article. ETH liquidations surpass bitcoin | Source: Coinglass On the 12-hour scale, there have been a total of $55.70 million in liquidations for Ethereum. Additionally, the number for the last 24 hours now sits at $145.47 million, more than $20 million higher than that recorded for bitcoin. Related Reading | Price Analysis: Dogecoin Appreciates, Where’s It Headed Next? Total market liquidations have all come out to $441.11 million in the last day. With a total of 84,388 traders liquidated and counting. Featured image from MARCA, chart from TradingView.com

MicroStrategy subsidiary will purchase Bitcoin after closing $205M crypto-collateralized loan

The price of Bitcoin is $47,806 at the time of publication, making MicroStrategy’s current 125,051 BTC holdings worth roughly $6 billion.

Polygon Announces New ZK-Proof-Based Identity Solution

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Bank withheld transfer “money laundering”

Hello, today my bank called me and said that they have withheld a transfer of me because of money laundering reasons. The amount was almost 1K Euros which I deposit yesterday in cash at my local bank. I wanted to send the money to Moonpay in England. The woman said they withheld the transfer because…
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Decentralisation is the ONLY point of crypto and should be a priority in any investment

There has been a bit of a debate on this subreddit about the role of decentralisation in crypto. One post in particular argued that centralisation is needed from the start of a project's journey to encourage development. I believe that decentralisation is the ONLY point of crypto and should be sought out as a priority…
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Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge hacked for over $600M

“We are in touch with security teams at major exchanges and will be reaching out to all in the coming days,” said the team at Ronin.

The ‘Growth Collection’ — Ross Ulbricht to Auction Bitcoin-Backed NFTs on Satoshi’s Birthday

Following Ross Ulbricht’s non-fungible token (NFT) sale that raised 1,446 ether or $6.27 million at auction, Ulbricht is dropping another NFT compilation called the “Growth Collection.” According to the announcement, the NFTs will be minted using the Bitcoin blockchain and will be auctioned at the Bitcoin22 conference in Miami on April 6-8. Ross Ulbricht Is […]