Coinbase has announced a new support phone line for customers who believe their account has been compromised by outside actors. Users will be able to speak to a live support agent, who can kick off an investigation immediately. In an
August 19, 2021
The cryptocurrency market got off to a slow start on Aug. 19 after stimulus tapering talks from the U.S. Federal Reserve put pressure on global financial markets, but momentum within the crypto market picked up in the afternoon session as
Ethereum scalability infrastructure developer Polygon said it will form a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, for all of its community members as well as projects in decentralized finance. In a Thursday announcement, Polygon called on its members to express their
In the past 7 days, Bitcoin (BTC) failed to break through the $48,000 resistance, but the price remained flat even as Minneapolis Federal Reserve chairman Neel Kashkari bashed the industry. During an appearance at the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region annual
Financial news site Bloomberg and Galaxy Digital Management have expanded their crypto offering to track the performance of the decentralized finance space. In a Thursday announcement, Bloomberg said it would launch an index currently tracking nine different decentralized finance, or
Ohio man, Larry Dean Harmon, has pleaded guilty to laundering more than $300 million while operating the Darknet-based Bitcoin mixing service, Helix. On August 19, The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the 38-year-old pleaded guilty to laundering more than
Japanese exchange Liquid has been hacked with about $80 million in digital assets moved off the platform. The exchange confirmed the security breach in a tweet that exposed the wallet addresses implicated in the breach. The following assets had been
Coinbase, the largest American cryptocurrency exchange, has stockpiled a war chest worth about $4 billion in cash in preparation for decreased crypto retail trading volumes and higher operating costs brought on by regulatory hurdles. It reportedly expects to use the
