Quick Take A CryptoPunk technically sold for $532 million yesterday, making it the biggest sale on record. The sale, however, was illegitimate as the owner bought it for themselves. advertisement A CryptoPunk was sold for 124,457 ETH ($532 million) yesterday, making it the largest CryptoPunk sale in history — by a huge margin. Only it …
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advertisement An NFT from SolanaMonkeyBusiness, a collection of 5,000 NFTs minted on the Solana blockchain, just sold an NFT for 13,027 SOL (~$2.1 million) — making it the most expensive Solana-based NFT to date. The SolMonkey in question is #1355. It’s the rarest NFT in the collection, according to the NFT rarity tool HowRare.Is, complete …
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The value of bitcoin dropped nearly 50% from its peak observed in April at $65,000. The onset of bearishness in the cryptocurrency market was triggered by an impending correction, followed by China’s move to crackdown on cryptocurrencies. As BTC price descended to $31,000 CNBC’s Jim Cramer who recently hopped on the Bitcoin train, was now …
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Roll, a platform for issuing social tokens on the Ethereum network, suffered an apparent exploit on Sunday, resulting in the theft and subsequent sale of tokens. Blockchain data shared across social media indicates that holdings of numerous social tokens issued on Roll were transferred and liquidated, with some of those funds subsequently moved to transaction …
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Brian Brooks, the former chief legal officer of Coinbase, liquidated $4.6 million worth of stock options when he left the cryptocurrency exchange in March for a top role at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Bloomberg reported the news on Tuesday, citing Brooks’ financial disclosures filed with the government. Besides the stock …
Greenidge Generation, an upstate New York power plant that’s using proprietary facilities to mine bitcoin (BTC), has sold up to 30 percent of its computing power to institutional buyers. The firm said in an announcement on Friday that the deal, brokered by BitOoda Digital, proceeded the sale of 106,000 terahashes per second (TH/s) of bitcoin …
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