Month: February 2025

XRP (XRP) price has dropped 17% over the last seven days and 27% in the past month, losing several key support levels along the way. This has left market participants wondering whether XRP’s price could drop further in the coming days. XRP/USD daily chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView XRP price levels to watch under $2.40 XRP’s latest
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The US Congress is reportedly set to consider legislation that would ban the issuance of memecoins like President Donald Trump’s Official Trump (TRUMP) token. House Democrats are preparing to introduce the Modern Emoluments and Malfeasance Enforcement (MEME) Act, which would prohibit public officials from profiting from digital assets, California Representative Sam Liccardo told ABC News
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Crypto exchange Kraken will end its support for privacy token Monero in the European Economic Area (EEA).  Kraken announced that it would stop trading and deposits for all Monero (XMR) markets in the EEA from Oct. 31, 2024. This includes the trading pairs with United States dollars, euro, Bitcoin (BTC) and Tether’s USDt (USDT).  Kraken
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An academic paper titled: “Reconciliation of Anti-Money Laundering Instruments and European Data Protection Requirements in Permissionless Blockchain Spaces” published in the Journal of Cybersecurity suggests that governments should target cryptocurrencies — especially privacy preserving chains — to combat money laundering. The author of the paper outlined several methods of undermining trust in permissionless blockchains including
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Japanese authorities arrested a gang of 18 alleged scammers by analyzing Monero transactions for the first time in crypto history. Japanese authorities said they analyzed about 900 of the group’s Monero (XMR)-based money-laundering transactions, which totaled about 100 million yen ($670,000). Japanese authorities told local media outlet Nikkei that this marked the first time the
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Bitcoin (BTC) fell below the $100,000 level on Feb. 2 after US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on goods imported from China, Canada, and Mexico on Feb. 1. Increased import tariffs could boost inflation, risking higher interest rates. That could, in turn, result in a risk-off sentiment, hurting cryptocurrency prices. Bitget Research chief analyst Ryan Lee
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An exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to offer leveraged long exposure to shares of Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, is down approximately 81% since peaking on Nov. 20, according to The Kobeissi Letter.  The T-REX 2X Long MSTR Daily Target ETF (MSTU) lost some 40% of its value in the past three trading sessions alone, the investment researcher
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US lawmakers in the House of Representatives have advanced a resolution to repeal the “DeFi broker rule,” requiring brokers to report digital asset transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. Set to take effect in 2027, the IRS regulation approved on Dec. 5 would expand existing reporting requirements to include decentralized exchanges and require brokers to
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has urged crypto node operators, exchanges and the private sector to block transactions from addresses used to launder funds from the $1.4 billion Bybit hack. The FBI confirmed earlier industry investigation that North Korea was responsible for the hack, which the US law enforcement agency dubbed as “TraderTraitor” in
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