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Randall Crater was ordered to pay back the millions lost by victims of his fraudulent crypto scheme and spend 100 months in jail followed by a three-year supervised release. Founder of “My Big Coin” Randall Crater has been sentenced to 100 months in prison and ordered to pay over $7.6 million to the victims of…

Crypto advocates often refer to Bitcoin as “digital gold,” but how does BTC stack up against gold as a long-term investment? — a study compiled by Jordan Finneseth of Cointelegraph. The emergence of forty-year high inflation readings and the increasingly dire-looking global economy has prompted many financial analysts to recommend investing in gold to protect…

An analytic report from American investment firm VanEck says Bitcoin appears to have a much higher upside potential than gold. If each of the assets becomes the only reserve asset globally, Bitcoin could top $1.3 million, while gold may reach a price of $31,000 per ounce, respectively. However, these extreme cases have a more likely…

Crypto tokens tied to gold, a traditional inflation hedge, continue to see solid growth amid a turbulent geopolitical backdrop as the specter of stagflation hangs over the global economy. Digital assets backed by gold have seen demand surge since the start of 2022 according to data from Arcane Research. The market cap of PAX Gold…

Cryptocurrencies are replacing gold as means of protection against inflation, has recognized Goldman Sachs’s Head of Energy Research, Damian Courvalin, noting the flight of investments to the crypto market from the precious metal. Answering on whether he was observing that investors have used assets beyond gold, such as Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, to hedge against…

Every once in a while it helps to stop, get away from the hustle and bustle of exchange rates and new tokens, look around and try to understand the role of cryptocurrencies in the world today and what it will be in 10 or 20 years. After all, everyone seems to have already realized that…