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crypto industry is awaiting the outcome of the Fed's two-day policy meeting, which will be released on Wednesday. The hawkish stance from the Fed and signals of four rate hikes in 2022 has spooked the global markets lately. With a sharp correction in global equity markets, particularly in tech stocks, the crypto cart followed the carnage and eroded wealth worth $1 trillion from the global crypto market cap. However, the crypto traders are showing some signs of recovery, but the volumes have remained muted as the traders are eyeing Fed's commentary on the issue.

crypto, in which case a winter is worse. The chilling term refers to a sharp slump, followed by a drop-off in trading and months of market doldrums — a phenomenon that memorably befell the crypto market in 2018. Bitcoin’s price plunged by more than 80% to as low as $3,100 from the end of 2017 through December of the following year, a period characterized by the boom-and-bust of initial coin offerings and several big banks shelving their plans to start cryptocurrency trading desks. Bitcoin wouldn’t reach a new high until December 2020, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Memories of 2018 are sparking fears that a repeat is playing out now after the world’s largest cryptocurrency plummeted 50% from its most recent high of almost $69,000 in November. The crypto universe has shed more than $1 trillion in market value on growing conviction that the Federal Reserve is set to start ratcheting back the ultra-accommodative policy settings that fueled a boom in risk assets. The pullback has hit all corners of the crypto ecosystem, from Bitcoin to memecoins and publicly listed crypto exchanges. While the collapse has been rattling enough on its own, it has spawned an even bigger concern that the pain may persist for many months, according to UBS.

cryptocurrency market was a huge blow to the investors as it wiped out $1 trillion in market cap from the industry. The carnage was so intense that major cryptocurrencies, including behemoths like Bitcoin and Ethereum, lost up to half of their value from the peak, while other altcoins felt more pain. The tapering cues from the Federal Reserve, rising bond yields, crackdown signals and regulatory strictness weighed on the sentiments of the crypto space.

Crypto.com after the platform was hit by a $34 million hack, its CEO Kris Marszalek has been forced to respond on social media how best they can get back their accounts. Thousands of people took to social media to complain that they could not get back into their accounts, begging for help. In a tweet thread, Marszalek finally responded, saying if you can't get back into our app following access reset this week, «in 95/100 cases you are simply using the wrong email to login».

Robinhood has announced that it has begun rolling out crypto wallets to 1,000 users from the top of the wallets waitlist. By March, the company said it will expand the programme to 10,000 users before rolling out crypto wallets to the rest of the WenWallets waitlist. «We are excited to announce that the next phase of our Wallets programme, the Beta program, is officially live,» the company said in a blogpost.

The detainees told police they worked for G.A.S. Consulting & Technology, a cryptocurrency investment firm founded by a former waiter-turned-multimillionaire who is the central figure in what is alleged to be one of Brazil's biggest-ever pyramid schemes. Police say the company owned by 38-year-old Glaidson Acacio dos Santos had total transactions worth at least $7 billion ($38 billion reais) from 2015 through mid-2021 as part of a Bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme that promised investors 10% monthly returns.

Bitcoin dropped again on Saturday and was last down around 4 per cent for the day, hovering around the $35,000 level. Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is now about half its $69,000 peak in November. It was last at $35,049, after falling as low as $34,000 and following a steep fall on Friday. The currency has had wild price swings and has been hit as risk appetite has fallen on inflation fears and anticipation of a more aggressive pace of interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

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Crypto assets and blockchain are no longer a nascent fad for investors or the government. The number of homegrown startups engaged in the sectors is rising exponentially, despite regulatory uncertainties. The startups and the new age companies associated with the industry are seeking clarity from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the upcoming Union Budget over issues like taxation, legislation, exemptions and regulations. They are keen for Sitharaman to acknowledge the potential of the industry and frame some clarity of operations to aid their operations and growth in the future. The Finance Minister will table the Union Budget of February 1.

web3.' The VCs and their LPs do.,Jack Dorsey tweeted this esoteric salvo in late December, not long after he stepped down as the head of Twitter to focus on advancing his Bitcoin ambitions. The post, swiping at the power held by venture capitalists and their limited partners as they try to reorganize the internet around blockchain technology, an effort known as web3, soon set off a public feud among members of the Silicon Valley ruling class. The dispute over what many herald as the next arena of technological revolution has drawn increasingly hard lines. Elon Musk is with Dorsey; Marc Andreessen is his enemy. The web3 revolution, backers say, promises the democratization of commerce and information by building a better internet on blockchain networks — distributed ledger systems that form the basis of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It theoretically would cut out traditional middlemen and gatekeepers, letting users transact directly and have a greater stake in the programs they use.

Crypto prices dipped on Tuesday, following a national holiday in the US, and showed few signs of reversing any time soon. Barring Cardano, all other altcoins fell in tandem with the numero uno digital token.Bitcoin was holding above the $42,000 mark whereas Ethereum slipped below $3,200 levels. The trading volumes remained tepid during the early trade. Trading was light as investors looked for signs that Bitcoin's downward spiral has reached an endpoint. Barring Cardano and dollar-pegged Tether, all other eight out of top-10 digital tokens were trading lower during the early trade on Tuesday. Cardano zoomed over 7 per cent although Terra tanked over 10 per cent.

Bitecoin has zoomed 8,57,63,221 per cent over the past one week, implying that the currency has turned an investment of Rs 1,000 into a mind boggling Rs 85.76 crore in just a week, suggests the data from Coinmarketcap. The penny token has witnessed a surprising rally of 19,650 per cent in the last one day as it zoomed to $0.0006462 from $0.000003271 in the last 24 hours time range. This token commands a market capitalisation of more than $3 billion. However, the volumes of token have dropped about 21 per cent. However, the volumes have remained a little more than $125,000.

crypto bill has taken a back seat. That said, it is highly unlikely that the crypto industry will go unnoticed by the Finance Ministry. Domestic exchanges have some major demands they wish to be acknowledged by the government. Majority of exchanges have demanded clarity about the taxation over the income earned from the crypto assets and GST rules implemented on the trading platforms to ease the operations for all the parties involved.

According to the decree, digital money may also be used to fund city projects.

Cryptocurrencies traded in the green early on January 15. The global cryptocurrency market-cap stood at $2.05 trillion, a 0.53 percent increase over the last day. The total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours was $84.28 billion, which come to a 16.66 percent fall.

Cryptocurrencies traded in the red early today with the global crypto market capitalisation standing at $1.96 trillion, a 0.46 percent decrease over the last day. The total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours stands at $102.90 billion, a 44.45 percent increase.

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Cryptocurrencies were mixed early on January 10. The global cryptocurrency market cap is $1.97 trillion, a 0.13 percent increase over the last day. The total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours is $71.09 billion, a 22.95 percent decrease.

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Cryptocurrencies traded in the green early on January 5. The global crypto market cap is $2.23 trillion, a 0.98 percent increase over the last day. The total cryptocurrency market volume over the last 24 hours is $103.68 billion, which makes a 17.29 percent increase.