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The ransomware business took a hit in 2024, with payments falling 35% year-over-year, according to a new report from Chainalysis.Though the number of ransomware attacks increased in 2024, ransomware gangs made less money, pulling in $814 million compared to 2023’s record-high sum of $1.25 billion. The blockchain analytics firm attributes
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Gold (XAU) is reaffirming its status as a safe haven asset amid ongoing fears of a U.S.-led trade war, while bitcoin (BTC) struggles to gather upside traction. The dynamic is driving the bitcoin-gold ratio lower.The ratio between bitcoin's USD price and gold's per ounce dollar price has dropped to 34,
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We have launched a free online tool to help organisations ensure their direct marketing activities comply with UK law – namely the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations (PECR), and the UK GDPR. By using the direct marketing advice generator,
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Blockstream, the crypto company co-founded by legendary bitcoin (BTC) developer Adam Back, is expanding its global presence with the opening of a new office in Tokyo, the company said in a press release on Wednesday.The company will be partnering in the region with Diamond Hands, Japan's leading Bitcoin strategic consultancy,
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Ondo Finance, a leading tokenized real-world asset (RWA) issuer, has unveiled a new offering to accelerate the onboarding of traditional assets to blockchain technology.Ondo on Tuesday introduced Ondo Global Markets (Ondo GM), a platform dedicated to providing onchain access to stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The specific details regarding
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The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are forming a joint working group to advance crypto legislation, and David Sacks, the crypto czar appointed by President Donald Trump, said his aim is "ensuring American dominance in digital assets” in an appearance Tuesday at a joint press conference in Washington.Alongside the
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The artificial intelligence (AI) world was taken by storm a few days ago with the release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source reasoning model that matches the performance of top foundation models while claiming to have been built using a remarkably low training budget and novel post-training techniques. The release of DeepSeek-R1
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The opening shot is being been fired in the new Congress' crypto push with a plan for a Tuesday introduction of a stablecoin oversight bill from Senator Bill Hagerty. The legislation would set up a U.S. regulatory framework for issuing the dollar-denominated tokens, according to a person familiar with the
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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3366.83, down 0.8% (-28.06) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday.Three of 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: ETH (+3.5%) and SUI (+0.9%).Laggards: UNI (-4.2%) and DOT
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Bitcoin (BTC) hashrate has reached another all-time high, with seven-day moving average jumping to 833 exahashes per second (EH/s), according to Glassnode data. This represents a 9% increase from 767 EH/s in the past few days.According to Miner Mag, pre-orders for mining hardware have begun to decline following the pre-halving
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