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Pi Network, a cryptocurrency mining app for mobile users, may have been connected to 17GB worth of personal data leaks, a Vietnamese news outlet reported on Monday. The treasure trove of personal data was apparently taken from the Know Your Customer checks of users of...

Shiba Inu (SHIB) has been the talk of the cryptoverse and mainstream media recently. It is a meme coin themed around the Shibu Inu dog, a Japanese dog breed that Dogecoin (DOGE) is also basing its image on. According to data from CoinMarketCap, SHIB hit...

Jamaican reggae artist Bay-C has partnered with Caricoin, a London-based Bitcoin (BTC) wallet company, to create a nonfungible token (NFT) platform for fellow performers in the Caribbean. According to a report by the Jamaica Observer, the planned NFT platform will allow reggae and dancehall creatives...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO and self-proclaimed “Dogefather” Elon Musk should sell his Bitcoin holdings, said hodlers. A new petition on Change.org is currently gathering signatures to make Musk divest himself of his personal stash of Bitcoin (BTC). “Elon Musk: Sell your Bitcoin” Its goal is modest:100...

The Iranian government continues to closely monitor the cryptocurrency mining industry by initiating new measures against home crypto miners, according to a new report. Mostafa Rajabi, a spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Energy, said that crypto mining with household electricity is not legal and, thus,...

Disclaimer: This article has been updated to reflect that BTC.Top has begun signaling for Taproot activation. The top-10 Bitcoin (BTC) mining pools by hash rate distribution are now signaling for Taproot activation with BTC.Top being the latest among them as of the time of writing....

Bitcoin (BTC) is nearing $40,000 this week as “Dogefather” Elon Musk deals out pure pain to hodlers — what’s next? After a traumatic weekend for many crypto investors, Monday is setting the stage for the next chapter in the wild 2021 bull market. Cointlegraph takes...

Transaction fees on Bitcoin and Ethereum have fallen by 81% and 71%, respectively, over the last few weeks as the broader cryptocurrency market continues to descend from its recent all-time high. The average cost of using the Ethereum blockchain fell from $69.92 per transaction on...

Amid the ongoing concerns over Bitcoin’s (BTC) energy consumption, a new study states that the traditional banking system consumes much more energy than the Bitcoin network. Michael Novogratz’s cryptocurrency firm, Galaxy Digital, released a report Friday titled “On Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption: A Quantitative Approach to a Subjective...

While Bitcoin tumbles in response to Elon Musk’s Twitter account yet again, altcoin dominance has surged to its highest level in roughly three years. As of this writing, Bitcoin represents 40.3% of the combined crypto asset capitalization — the lowest it has been since June...