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The blockchain security firm CertiK stepped forward Wednesday as the entity behind a white-hat hack that the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has slammed as “extortion.” Kraken CSO Nick Percoco signaled the exchange was treating a nearly…

Among a slew of publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, Cantor Fitzgerald says one firm in particular is being vastly undervalued by the market. In an equity research report last week, the veteran Wall Street investment bank said that…

MicroStrategy just can’t get enough Bitcoin.  One day after announcing that it planned to issue $500 million worth of unsecured senior convertible notes to buy up more BTC and further increase its record holding, the firm upsized that…

As the price of leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin cools off, gaming tokens are among the worst-hit tokens over the last week, with one major game’s token dropping 40% during the span. After a broadly strong first half of the year for…

MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin treasury playbook has now spread to Canada, with a local crypto-focused public company embracing Bitcoin as its “primary treasury reserve asset.” DeFi Technologies, which trades on Cboe Canada under the “DEFI”…

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit is giving Chinese citizens living outside of China access to its products and services, according to a report by the South China Morning Post—provided they reside in a jurisdiction the company still serves.…

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX might be able to settle a $24 million claim from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for $200 million. This settlement is still pending court approval, but would resolve one of the thornier…

Capping off a dizzying week in both crypto and political spheres, U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday notified Congress that he has vetoed a bipartisan-passed resolution that sought to roll back a Security and Exchange Commission that…

El Salvador has doubled down on its push for Bitcoin adoption in recent days, courting crypto firms and playing host to crypto-curious nations. Here’s everything the Bitcoin-friendly nation has been up to recently, as it seeks to buff…

More crypto ETFs are coming.  That’s according to British multinational bank Standard Chartered, whose digital assets researcher said in a Friday note that Solana and XRP will soon get their own exchange-traded funds.  The U.S.…