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Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said Monday it had acquired fraud detection startup Alterya. According to Business Insider, the deal carried a price tag of $150 million. Chainalysis, the largest company that tracks illicit crypto flows on behalf of financial institutions and governments, plans to strengthen its scam-stopping capabilities with Alterya, CEO Jonathan Levin told CoinDesk. […]

Pakinomist – According to an on-chain data provider, 1,850 worth $175.7 million have landed on major crypto exchange Binance in recent hours. The transaction has caught the attention of the crypto community, involving a mysterious crypto whale that took a ride with 1,850 BTC, resulting in a staggering $13 million loss in just six days.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon is nothing if not consistent when it comes to his views on Bitcoin (BTC). “Bitcoin itself has no intrinsic value,” he said in an interview with CBS News on Sunday. “It’s used extensively by sex traffickers, by money launderers, ransoms. So I just don’t feel good about Bitcoin.” Like

Pakinomist – Max Keiser, a prominent maximalist and currently BTC advisor to the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has shared his take on why Bitcoin continues to run now despite major bullish drivers. Among them is MicroStrategy’s recent frequent BTC purchases. After falling from nearly $102,000 to just under $93,000 between January 7 and

One of the largest investment companies in the world with more than 2.3 trillion dollars in assets under management, Los Angeles-based Capital Group has become one of the largest shareholders of Metaplanet. Based in Japan, Metaplanet was a hospitality investor that has gained notoriety over the past year for its bitcoin (BTC) financial strategy modeled

Pakinomist – On January 12, 2009, a groundbreaking milestone occurred that would forever change the landscape of digital finance. Satoshi Nakamoto, pseudonymous creators, performed the first peer-to-peer (P2P) transaction on the Bitcoin network. This historic moment at block 170 saw Satoshi transfer 10 BTC to computer scientist Hal Finney, making him the recipient of the

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 3246.57, down 4.2% (-143.25) since 16 ET Friday. One in 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XRP (+1.4%) and ADA (-2.6%). Laggards: RENDER (-10.7%) and NEAR (-10.4%). The CoinDesk

Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns stock in MicroStrategy and Semler Scientific (MSTR). Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy (MSTR) has increased his bitcoin (BTC) holdings for the tenth consecutive week. In the week ending January 12, MicroStrategy bought 2,530 BTC for $243 million, bringing its total holdings to 450,000 BTC. The average price of the

New records continue to be set in the bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem, which has seen the mining difficulty adjustment rise to a new all-time high of 110.45T (trillion). 110.45 trillion means that the difficulty is approximately 110.45 trillion times harder than it was at the time of Bitcoin’s genesis block. The difficulty adjustment adjusts every 2,016

Bitcoin (BTC) started the new week on a negative note as major investment banks reassessed their expectations for Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate cuts following Friday’s strong jobs report. The leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization fell below $93,000 during European hours, representing a 1.6% drop on the day, according to data source CoinDesk. Prices looked