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A man at the center of a massive crypto Ponzi scheme will spend nearly eight years behind bars after a federal judge handed down a 97-month prison sentence in Brooklyn on Friday.Dwayne Golden, 57, was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering for his role in orchestrating scams through three digital asset firms, EmpowerCoin, ECoinPlus, and Jet-Coin, which defrauded investors out of more than $40 million, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.Federal prosecutors said Golden and his partners promised guaranteed returns from crypto trading that never took place. Instead, funds were funneled into repaying earlier investors or lining the conspirators’ pockets,…
Open interest in Ethereum has reached an all-time high on Kraken, suggesting coming volatility in either direction. Ethereum (ETH) could soon experience heightened price swings, according to new data from Kraken. Alexia Theodorou, Head of Derivatives at Kraken, said in a June 10 obtained by crypto.news that open interest on Ethereum contracts hit an all-time high, a sign that speculative activity is ramping up. “Open interest in ETH perpetuals on Kraken reached an all-time high of 30,000 ETH earlier this week, signaling a notable uptick in speculative activity around the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap,” Alexia Theodorou, Kraken. The likely…
Ecstatic, Alliance, Inner Circle are amongst the international teams expected to attend EPIC.LAN 45. The teams will add their name to an increasing group of international teams attending EPIC in the quest for VRS points, joining Preasy and Wild Lotus. Ecstatic, attendees of the 2024 Copenhagen Major, feature a young, talented full-Danish lineup. 18 year-old William ‘sirah’ Kjærsgaard is both the youngest and top-performing of the bunch. The former MOUZ NXT player is averaging a 1.10 rating in 2025. Number 27 in the last VRS snapshot, Ecstatic will be the team to beat in Kettering. As VRS is an Elo-type…
Bitvavo has become the latest crypto exchange to be granted a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license by the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM), allowing it to operate across Europe under the new regulatory framework.Bitvavo co-founder and CEO Mark Nuvelstijn confirmed the news in a statement on Friday and expressed his full support for the MiCA process. “We fully support the core principles of MiCAR,” he said, adding:“For a level playing field in Europe, it is essential that the rules are formulated and enforced consistently across all member states.”Bitvavo’s risk chief says it was a “constructive collaboration”Nuvelstijn said the license…
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage OpenSea, one of the largest decentralized market platforms allowing users to buy, sell and trade non-fungible tokens, continue gaining massive traction among crypto and non-fungible token users. In the past 24 hours, the marketplace has seen more than 14,000 users, taking up 69% of the total marketplace users. The increase in trading activities appears ahead of the highly anticipated $SEA airdrop. Opensea activity surges ahead of the airdrop In May, @opensea reached a 2-year high in monthly active users, hitting 467K. Monthly NFT sales also climbed to…
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Image credit: FISSURE FISSURE has revealed the 16 teams that will compete at the FISSURE Playground #1 Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) tournament. Of the teams invited by the Serbian event organiser, GamerLegion and 3DMAX are the only ones that were featured in the top 10 of the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) from May 25th, 2025. Keep Reading Oddin.gg and FISSURE secure multi-year renewal FISSURE Playground #3 heads to China in 2026 Esports tournament organiser FISSURE undergoes rebranding The event will take place from July 15th to 20th, 2025, at the Sava Center in Belgrade, and is the first LAN event following…
The last good Instagram account It’s a truth universally acknowledged that social media is a Bad Vibe. Thankfully, there is still one Instagram account worth following that’s just as incisive, funny, and scathing today as when it was founded back in 2016: Every Outfit (@everyoutfitonsatc). Originally conceived as an homage to Sex and the City’s iconic fashion, Every Outfit has since evolved into a wider cultural critique and spawned a podcast of the same name that I love listening to while running. Sex and the City may be over, but Every Outfit is forever. Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon Glorious…
Cango has completed its previously announced acquisition of 18 EH/s of active bitcoin hashrate from Bitmain’s financial services affiliate, Antalpha, pushing its total installed hashrate to 50 EH/s. This article is from Theminermag, a trade publication for the cryptocurrency mining industry, focusing on the latest news and research on institutional bitcoin mining companies. According to […]
ETF inflows and institutional purchases continue to climb, yet many investors are puzzled by the muted Bitcoin price action. With billions flowing into BTC, why aren’t we seeing the price explode to new highs? The reality is more nuanced than it first appears. Bitcoin ETF Inflows Looking at the ETF cumulative inflows chart (excluding GBTC outflows), it’s clear that demand from institutional players has been robust. Since the most recent pullback in late March, net ETF inflows have climbed from roughly 527,000 BTC to over 630,000 BTC, an increase of around 100,000 BTC in under 3 months. These are significant…