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16.03 / 19:19

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In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Justin Kramer, CEO of Badgerland Home Crypto Mining and a long-time cryptocurrency investor. When he is not attending to his own mining rigs, Kramer provides consultation services to home-based operations and larger startups on how to set up mining farms.

16.03 / 17:03

Investments Trading Altcoin Cointelegraph Markets Pro VORTECS Report Summary — 179% gains from 4 alerts

In Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s latest VORTECS™ Report, the institutional-grade crypto alerts platform displayed how its members could have captured a cumulative 179% gain by following four trades based on four different Markets Pro indicators. The report depicts trading alerts generated between Feb. 26 and March 4, 2023.

16.03 / 05:07

Stablecoin Altcoin Circle Minting Circle clears 'substantially all' minting and redemption backlog for USDC

Stablecoin issuer Circle has announced it has cleared "substantially all" of the backlog of redemption requests for its stablecoin USD Coin (USDC).

15.03 / 13:03

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The investment arm of major cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin is moving to support new stablecoin initiatives by backing a Chinese yuan-pegged stablecoin issuer.

12.03 / 19:03

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Traders dumped risky assets following the crisis and failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The S&P 500 Index plunged 4.55% while Bitcoin (BTC) is down about 9% this week.

12.03 / 08:47

Stablecoin Adoption Binance Altcoin Banks Fiat Money Backed Do Kwon had the right idea, banks are risk to fiat-backed stablecoins: CZ

The death spiral of the Terra (LUNA) and TerraUSD (UST) ecosystem served as a catalyst to the 2022 bear market — causing losses in the millions, damaging investor sentiment and intensifying the regulatory spotlight over cryptocurrencies. However, the recent depegging of Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) led Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao to believe that traditional banks are a risk to stablecoins that are usually pegged 1:1 with fiat currencies, like the US dollar.

12.03 / 04:53

Blockchain Stablecoin defi Altcoin Circle Usd Coin Insolvency fears led many to turn to other stablecoins, sell USDC at a major discount

Several USD Coin (USDC) holders have fled to other stablecoins since March 10 amid fears surrounding its solvency following the disclosure that a small portion of USDC's collateral was held at Silicon Valley Bank.

12.03 / 00:11

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USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle plans to use "corporate resources" to cover the shortfall on its reserves following Silicon Valley Bank's shutdown, said the company in a statement on March 11.

11.03 / 22:27

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The Cosmos community has approved a vote to add “replicated security (RS)” to its chain, with 99.99% of votes in favor of the motion. The much-awaited upgrade is set to go live on March 15, 2023, with the v9-Lamba upgrade.

11.03 / 18:51

Adoption Altcoin Circle Banks Bitcoin Banks down? That is why Bitcoin was created, crypto community says

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse on March 10 has sparked fear, doubt, and uncertainty (FUD) across the crypto community, leading many to come back to crypto roots, reviving the Bitcoin white paper published just weeks after the Lehman Brothers meltdown in 2008.

11.03 / 14:29

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Bitcoin (BTC) refused to let $20,000 support die for good on March 11 as the weekend opened to a battle for lost ground.

11.03 / 14:15

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The stablecoin ecosystem felt an immediate effect as USD Coin (USDC) depegged from the US dollar due to a subsequent sell-off after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) did not process $.3.3 billion of Circle’s $40 million transfer request. Given USDC’s collateral influence, major stablecoin ecosystems followed suit in depegging from the dollar.

11.03 / 11:05

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Soon after Circle revealed that Silicon Valley Bank did not transfer $3.3 billion of its USD Coin (USDC) reserves, the market responded with a massive sell-off — depegging the stablecoin from the US dollar. However, not all investors were lucky enough to walk away with their funds amid the uncertainty.

10.03 / 09:09

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Hedera, the team behind distributed ledger Hedera Hashgraph, has confirmed a smart contract exploit on the Hedera Mainnet that has led to the theft of several liquidity pool tokens.

10.03 / 05:09

Ethereum Altcoin Developers Reddit Taxes Shiba Inu 'I anti-endorse these projects' — Buterin's shitcoin war sees him sent another 250K

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's latest salvo against “shitcoins” has ended up with him simply being sent more of it.

09.03 / 18:27

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XRP price extended its gains on March 9, rising around 1.5% to $0.40, despite a general downturn in the cryptocurrency market.

08.03 / 05:09

Ethereum wallet Altcoin Liquidity Airdrop Shiba Inu Vitalik dumps $700K worth of shitcoins that he never asked for

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has gone on a shitcoin selling spree, exchanging nearly $700,000 worth of tokens previously airdropped to him for Ether (ETH).

07.03 / 17:13

Investments Trading Altcoin Bitcoin recovery Recapping Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s Crypto Winter Recovery Summit

On its live summit, “The Crypto Winter Recovery Plan,” Cointelegraph Markets Pro revealed how traders could have mostly avoided a gut-wrenching 75% pullback in the crypto market while securing mind-boggling gains.

07.03 / 17:13

defi Hackers hacks Altcoin Decentralized Exchange Exploit DeFi lender Tender.fi suffers exploit, white hat hacker suspected

An alleged ethical hacker has drained $1.59 million from the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Tender.fi, leading the service to halt borrowing while it attempts to recoup its assets.

06.03 / 00:41

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The United States equities markets made a strong recovery this week but Bitcoin (BTC) failed to follow suit. This means that cryptocurrency investors stayed away and could be worried by the ongoing problems at Silvergate bank. These fears could be what is behind the total crypto market capitalization dropping to nearly $1 trillion.

02.03 / 22:53

Blockchain Adoption defi Altcoin Celo Celo president Rene Reinsberg explains why the protocol is optimizing for mobile

On Episode 10 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Celo president Rene Reinsberg joins Elisha Owusu Akyaw (GhCryptoGuy) to discuss the regenerative finance (ReFi) movement, which focuses on the building blocks of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the principles of regenerative economics. Reinsberg also explains how Celo intends to stay relevant in the multichain world of layer-1 blockchains and layer-2 networks.

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