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The stablecoin Tether (USDT) has been in the news pretty much since Bitcoin(BTC)trade skyrocketed to its all-time high of $20K at the end of 2017. Several controversies and lawsuits have been hovering around Tether, alleging it manipulatively pushed the Bitcoin’s price to astronomical heights.Several researchers have even published a thorough
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Tether has issued a response to a recently surfaced paper that alleges that a single whale manipulated the market to cause 2017’s bull run in Bitcoin (BTC) price.The responseTether, which is behind the dollar-backed stablecoin USDT, published the response on the company’s website on Nov. 7, an announcement that
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According to recent findings, the surge of Bitcoin price in 2017was a result of market manipulation from one single whale, using USDT.Most of the crypto community, especially Bitcoin hodlers, are almost always hoping for a spike like the one that happened in 2017, which saw the king coin hit its
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We can barely catch a breath with positive Ripple and XRP news breaking daily, yet the price remains the same, we’ll cover that a little below. Yesterday Ripple announced new offices in Washington DC, the political and regulatory hub of the U.S., they also hired four former financial regulators. Every federal regulator
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A New York-based legal firm has filed a lawsuit against Tether and Bitfinex, accusing them of cryptocurrency market manipulation.“Largest bubble in history”Roche Freedman filed a class-action suit claiming that stablecoin firm Tether and its affiliate crypto exchange Bitfinex have been involved in defrauding investors, manipulating markets and concealing illicit
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Stablecoin firm Tether and its affiliate exchange Bitfinex anticipate a lawsuit alleging that Tether token (USDT) is involved in market manipulation as the result of an unpublished paper.Tether and Bitfinex to defend its positionOn Oct. 5, both Tether and Bitfinex published statements claiming that they had become aware of
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Crypto experts have indicated that Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) may be manipulating the price of Bitcoin(BTC)trade in a systematic order. A recent research article by a Norwegian crypto news group, Kryptografen, has waved red flags over a shocking discovery of sharp plunges in Bitcoin’s value each time CME contracts expire.Another
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Arcane Research has found a systematic pattern of shorting just before the CME Bitcoin Futures settlement every month, since January 2018. Thus, the speculations of manipulation are being weighed-in.This week has turned to be a major disappointment for Bitcoin investors as Bitcoin price lost 20% by now. Earlier on Wednesday,
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Researchers have published evidence of what they claim is a coordinated pump and dump manipulation involving the Chainlink (LINK) token — the native cryptocurrency of Japanese messaging giant LINE’s service-oriented blockchain.A blog post published on Sept. 11 by AnChain.Ai researchers contains an analysis of apparently suspicious LINK token transactions
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CoinFlex, a Hong Kong-based exchange that offers physically-delivered Bitcoin and Ether futures contracts, says it’s determined to do all it takes to help Asian retail traders to avoid falling victims to cryptocurrency price manipulation that is often associated with cash-settled futures contracts, reports South China Morning Post, August 26, 2019. CoinFlex
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