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NYDIG, a crypto financial services firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $1 billion in a funding round led by WestCap, valuing the Morgan Stanley-backed Bitcoin company at more than $7 billion. According to Reuters, growth equity firm WestCap led the round with other backers like Bessemer Venture Partners, FinTech Collective, Affirm, Fiserv, MassMutual, New…

The story of the Squid cryptocurrency scam has once again drawn attention to the issue of so-called “meme” cryptocurrencies. What are they – a malevolent outgrowth compromising the entire cryptocurrency industry or an incomprehensible phenomenon at the intersection of technology and sociology that deserves to be studied? Feels like 25-30% of all news on cryptocurrency…

A significant share of institutional investors is expecting a major correction in the crypto market in 2022, a survey published by Natixis Investment Managers said. Despite this, institutional investors are increasingly warming up to crypto-assets. Natixis Investment Managers published the results of a global institutional investor survey. The company polled 500 institutional investors who collectively…

Seems like the numerous cryptocurrency scams have not taught anyone a thing. Moreover, people are falling victim to increasingly more primitive schemes – the criminals don’t even need to invent anything. We decided to figure out what can be learned from the collapse of the Squid token launched in the wake of the Squid Game…

Those looking forward to the emergence of central bank digital currencies in developed countries may be up for a very nasty surprise. The long-awaited CBDCs are likely to become one of the worst tools of mass surveillance. China is not joking around: the digital yuan, issued exclusively by the People’s Bank of China, is meant…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Dec. 4 – 10, 2021): Dec. 4: Bitcoin plunged along with other cryptocurrencies on Saturday night, another indication of the risk aversion sweeping across financial markets. The biggest cryptocurrency was down about 18%, the largest one-day loss since September, while the crypto market has lost about $550 billion…