#crypto

A man from Limassol reported to police on Thursday that he had fallen victim to a scam involving cryptocurrencies, where he claimed to have lost $260,000. According to the 49-year-old’s ...

A 34-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a €50,000 robbery investigation. A police bulletin said at around 1:30pm on Tuesday, a 36-year-old man in Limassol met with another ...

Move over dogecoin? “Memecoins” – a hyper-speculative, ultra-volatile and somewhat peculiar class of crypto – are back in the spotlight after the latest digital token hit the market with stratospheric gains. Pepe, ...

What do you get when you cross cryptocurrencies with artificial intelligence? A seemingly sentient bitcoin that codes itself in the style of Japanese haikus? Alas not, though you do get ...

Major cryptocurrency bitcoin breached the key $30,000 level for the first time in 10 months on Tuesday, adding to its steady gains as investors raised bets that the US Federal Reserve will ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested after a 43-year-old reported being defrauded out of €200,000 in an alleged cryptocurrency scam, police said on Wednesday. According to Limassol police, on February 21 the ...

Satoshi Nakamoto would be proud. Adolescent bitcoin may finally be repaying its creator’s faith. The 15-year-old cryptocurrency has filled many roles – from source of speculation to hedge against inflation – ...

The US Security and Exchange Commission’s warning shot on Binance’s stablecoin over whether or not it is a security could offer a hint at what type of dollar-pegged ...

The world of stablecoins is suddenly looking shaky. Seismic shifts may be afoot in the $137 billion market after New York-based Paxos Trust Company, which mints Binance’s stablecoin, said it ...

It’s alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise. Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain – which hosts most trading – jumped to $780.2 ...

Crypto companies offering their customers eye-popping yields through so-called “staking” products are earning the ire of the US securities regulator who says such services should be registered. Crypto exchange Kraken ...

North Korea stole more cryptocurrency assets in 2022 than in any other year and targeted the networks of foreign aerospace and defense companies, according to a currently confidential United Nations report ...

Have bitcoin and ether finally turned a corner? It’s looking that way, if crypto options traders are anything to go by. The volume of bitcoin options traded on Deribit, ...

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX sued crypto lender Voyager Digital on Monday, seeking to claw back $445.8 million in loan repayments that FTX made before collapsing into bankruptcy in November 2022. FTX and ...

European Union lawmakers backed a draft law on Tuesday to implement the final leg of post-financial global bank capital rules, adding “prohibitive” requirements to cover risks from cryptoassets. The European ...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday and charged by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday with defrauding investors in what regulators called a “brazen, ...

Dec 1 (Reuters) – 2022 has been a rough year for the crypto industry. The price of bitcoin has dropped 65 per cent since the start of the year, the cryptocurrency Luna suffered a ...

The Chairman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) George Theocharides this week released a missive on investor education on the risks of crypto asset investment in Cyprus. Theocharides ...

Ethereum, the blockchain that underpins the world’s second-largest crypto token ether, will soon undergo a major software upgrade that promises to slash the amount of energy needed to create ...

Police on Saturday said that yet another person, a 48-year-old man from Limassol, has fallen victim to an online crypto scam, losing €33,000 in the process. According to the police, the ...

Who can save bitcoin? The world’s biggest cryptocurrency can’t seem to catch a break. It finally looked to be regaining strength this month, breaching $25,000 for the first time ...

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) said on Monday it would propose “robust” global rules for cryptocurrencies in October, following recent turmoil in markets that has highlighted the need to regulate ...

The shrimps of the crypto world have joined the whales in a glorious last stand to banish the bleak bitcoin winter. These two contrasting groups are both HODLers – investors in ...

By Maria Demertzis France’s finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, has compared crypto markets to the wild west. At the end of last week, in the last moments of France’...