In another rollercoaster year for crypto, 2024 delivered monumental wins for Bitcoin hodlers, crypto ETF issuers and memecoin creators, particularly as Bitcoin soared past the $100,000 milestone in December. But not all was rosy. Scams and hacks cost victims $2.2 billion this year, and failed celebrity memecoin ventures drew the ire of disgruntled investors and…

The number of long-term Ether holders steadily increased throughout 2024, while the number of Bitcoin holders fell over the last year amid rising confidence in ETH heading into the new year. In a Dec. 30 post to X, citing data from its platform, IntoTheBlock shared that the total percentage of Ether who had held their tokens for the long haul had…

David Holtzman — a former military intelligence professional, author, White House advisor, and chief strategy officer of the Naoris decentralized security protocol — recently told Cointelegraph that centralized data systems invite abuse from state and corporate actors due to their single point of control. “The whole problem with centralized systems is that there’s a center,”…