Steven Walgenbach

Bitcoin, the largest crypto by market cap, outperformed nearly all of the other sectors in the digital asset space in the past 3 months. On-chain analytics platform Glassnode said in an X post today that Bitcoin’s strong performance against almost all of the other sectors in the market shows that investors still favor BTC.  “This […]

Binance has rebuffed claims that it failed to act quickly in freezing funds linked to the Upbit hack last month. Reports had suggested that the exchange, the world’s largest, only partially complied with requests from South Korean authorities to freeze crypto suspected to have been stolen in the incident and sent to Binance.  In a […]

North Korean hackers are stealing from investors using “fake Zoom” tactics to extract their passwords and private keys, and have already drained $300 million from victims’ crypto wallets.  Cybersecurity firm Security Alliance (SEAL) warned on X that it has been tracking “multiple daily” such attempts by hackers. MetaMask Security Researcher Sounds Alarm The warning from […]

Nine of the US’s largest banks, including JPMorgan and Citibank, ”debanked” customers improperly, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said. A Dec. 10 OCC press release said the nine banks had made ”inappropriate distinctions in the provision of financial services” to companies in industries including oil and gas exploration, coal mining, firearms, […]

Bitcoin has entrenched itself deeper into Wall Street as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) becomes the sixth host of Valentina Picozzi’s “disappearing” Satoshi Nakamoto statue. The statue was installed by Bitcoin company Twenty One Capital, which made its public debut this week. “Its new home marks a shared ground between emerging systems and established […]