Mark Hunter

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Fees.wtf airdrop has been mocked over the costs associated with claiming it The free WTF tokens could only be redeemed after unlocking, which came at a high cost, and with a huge circulating supply The irony of spending huge gas fees on a...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Tonga could be Bitcoin’s next guinea pig Former Tonganese member of parliament Lord Fusitu'a said on Twitter than a bill could be proposed later this year Lord Fusitu'a identifies himself as a “Bitcoin advocate” The...

Reading Time: 2 minutes North Korea enjoyed another year of “prolific” hacks according to Chainalysis The blockchain analytics firm found that the regime hacked its was to some $400 million worth of crypto in 2021 The state-backed Lazarus group is thought to still be...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cryptocurrency mining will come under house scrutiny for the first time next week A House Energy and Commerce Committee is meeting with crypto mining leaders to discuss the impact of cryptocurrency mining on the planet There is a worry that...

Reading Time: 3 minutes Wikipedia editors have voted to exclude NFT sales in its list of biggest selling art works by living artists The vote, which will be revisited in the future, has a site-wide impact The issue of whether NFTs are art is something that the editors...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Taxbit has announced Taxbit Network, a market-wide integration with several major crypto platforms Users of those platforms can export their tax data and have Taxbit run the sums Taxbit says that the network is free to use, at least for now...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Celebrities Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Jr, and Paul Pierce have been sued over the EthereumMax pump and dump The trio promoted EthereumMax, which dumped soon after hitting exchanges A group of retail investors claim that the trio, and the...

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Bitcoin Dormancy Flow has indicated that Bitcoin is in a ‘buy zone’ The metric, which considers the movement of long-held coins, last fired in May 2021 The chart shows that price increases often follow drops into the buy zone...

Reading Time: 2 minutes A lone Bitcoin miner has defied the odds to mine a block on the Bitcoin blockchain Bitcoin mining is now such a huge industry that the lone miner’s success is a nice moment The miner took home the ₿6.25 reward,...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jack Dorsey has proposed a Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund to help Bitcoin developers fight legal cases Dorsey suggested that the fund should be used to help individual developers targeted for legal action Craig Wright is suing multiple Bitcoin...

Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a strong possibility that Bitcoin will soon be entering bear market territory A loss of $30,000 would signify real weakness in the market, driven by a negative macro environment What are the key levels to watch for?...

Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2017 masternodes were all the rage, with one masternode in particular creating a stir By mid-December, people were actually shelling out $1 million for a Dash masternode The Dash masternode story encapsulates the fever of 2017...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bitcoin’s relationship with the stock market was highlighted yesterday as global markets fell Fears over a Federal Reserve interest rate hike caused U.S. markets and Bitcoin to sell off There may be worse on Wednesday as inflation data is...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Registrations for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction NFT collection go live today Miramax has demanded that courts stop Tarantino from auctioning off the NFTs over alleged breaches of copyright A fascinating legal precedent would result from a...

Reading Time: 2 minutes 2022 is shaping up to be a bad year for Bitcoin and the stock market Rapid recent policy changes by the Federal Reserve indicate a tightening of financial largesse Interest rate increases and quantitative tightening would see institutional money...

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has become a commonly referenced tool in the crypto world The index can indicate when sentiment is strongly in one direction, indicating a reversal Some traders are now using it as a sign that a reversal is...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Mozilla has rowed back on its acceptance of cryptocurrency donations A huge backlash followed Mozilla’s announcement, with climate concerns once again the chief worry The backlash shows the power of...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Craig Wright has been told to prove he can afford to fight his pineapple hack case Wright has sued a bunch of Bitcoin, eCash, and Bitcoin SV developers after billions of dollars worth of crypto assets were supposedly stolen The UK High Court...

Reading Time: 2 minutes MoneyGram has purchased a 4% stake in crypto exchanger CoinMe CoinMe operated over 8,500 cryptocurrency kiosks in the U.S. MoneyGram says the move reinforces its faith in the crypto sector MoneyGram has strengthened its ties with the...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Airbnb is “looking into” accepting cryptocurrencies, its CEO revealed this week Cryptocurrency payments topped a list of potential improvements by Twitter users Airbnb has disrupted the hospitality sector in the same way that cryptocurrency has...