Author: Crypto Insider

Breaking crypto news from the last week (June 11 – 17, 2022): June 11: The $1.19 trillion crypto economy is now lower in value than the July 2021 lows. Over the last week, digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, and XRP, have shed significant value against the US dollar, as the top cryptos have lost…

The shift from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) will cut power consumption sharply – and leave some expensive technology searching for new uses, write Olga Kharif and David Pan on Bloomberg. The Ethereum mining community is a diverse bunch, geographically and demographically. There’s a 28-year-old translator in Ukraine, running computing hardware on his balcony to…

Meta is bringing luxury fashion into the metaverse with the announcement of a digital fashion marketplace dedicated to its virtual avatars. Outfits of three high fashion brands – Balenciaga, Prada, and Thom Browne – could be worn across Meta-owned platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram‘s director of fashion partnerships…

On Saturday evening, at 20:30 UTC, Bitcoin plunged to about $17,749, and Ether fell to about $897 as the sell-off in the crypto market accelerated. The world’s two most popular cryptocurrencies are down more than 35% in the past week, as both breach symbolic price barriers. Two hours later, at 22:30 UTC, Bitcoin bounced back…

Huobi Group, the major global crypto exchange, announced Friday it obtained a DIFC Innovation License in Dubai, seeing its development as a significant milestone in the group’s compliant growth. Huobi also got registration on New Zealand’s Financial Services Provider Register. The DIFC Innovation License is a license for innovative technology companies in Dubai and provides…

According to The Wall Street Journal, cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. has hired legal and financial advisers to help work out a solution for its investors and lenders after suffering heavy losses from a broad market selloff in digital assets, the firm’s founders said on Friday. “We have always been believers in crypto…