Goldman Sachs cuts Coinbase price target and downgrades it to ‘sell’ June 27, 2022 Goldman Sachs reduced Coinbase’s price target from $75 to $40 and cut its rating to “sell” from “neutral” as the crypto market experiences a severe rout. In a report today, the banking giant cited falling cryptocurrency prices and lower industry activity for the downgrade. “We believe current crypto asset levels and trading volumes imply further [...]
Short Bitcoin ETF launches after ‘enormous outflows’ led to crypto crash June 27, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows the price of Bitcoin was slowly recovering throughout last week, moving from around $20,000 to around $21,500.
Hedge funds short Tether after Terra crash June 27, 2022 Hedge funds have Tether in their crosshairs as they keep betting against the stablecoin following TerraUSD’s collapse last month. Larger numbers of traditional hedge funds are shorting Tether, the world’s biggest stablecoin, through major crypto brokerage Genesis Global Trading Inc., the Wall Street Journal said. “There has been a real spike in the interest from [...]
Matt Hancock calls for ‘attractive’ tax regime to boost UK crypto sector June 23, 2022 Matt Hancock has called for the introduction of an “attractive” tax system and “liberal” regulatory regime to help the UK become "the jurisdiction of choice for crypto".
Singapore will clamp down on bad behaviour in crypto market June 23, 2022 Singapore’s regulators will crack down on bad behaviour in the crypto industry, the chief fintech officer of the country’s central bank has warned. Sopnendu Mohanty at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) questioned the need to be friendly to the crypto industry. “We have no tolerance for any market bad behaviour. If somebody has done a bad [...]
Bank of England official compares crypto crash to dotcom bubble June 22, 2022 The Bank of England’s Deputy Governor has compared the recent crypto crash to the dotcom bubble more than two decades ago. Jon Cunliffe said those that survived the crash could become the technology companies of the future and rival the likes of tech giants Amazon. “The analogy for me is the dotcom boom, when $5 trillion was [...]
Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX sued by Dogecoin investor over alleged “pyramid scheme” June 17, 2022 Elon Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX were hit by a $258bn (£210.2bn) lawsuit on Thursday by a Dogecoin investor accusing them of engaging in a “Crypto Pyramid Scheme (aka Ponzi scheme)” relating to the cryptocurrency. The complaint, filed in a Manhattan court, alleged that the world’s richest man and the two companies he runs, electric vehicle [...]
Bitcoin miners hit by crypto crash as prices drop June 16, 2022 The recent crypto rout has hit bitcoin miners hard as prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plunged. Miners have cut back on producing more Bitcoin as falling prices reduced the money they made for successfully mining the cryptocurrency. Mining involves using powerful computers to solve complicated puzzles that provide miners with new Bitcoin. The total [...]
Sam Bankman-Fried criticises lack of international coordination on crypto June 16, 2022 The founder of crypto exchange platform FTX called out the lack of global cooperation on crypto regulation. Sam Bankman-Fried said today that most countries were approaching crypto regulation on their own, and that there was a need for a globally harmonised approach. Speaking at a Financial Times conference on Thursday, the FTX CEO said the [...]
Crypto crash to get worse with deeper price drops as a multibillion-dollar hedge fund struggles to survive June 15, 2022 The price of leading cryptocurrencies continued to plummet today, with industry experts warning that the “crypto winter” could last for years. Bitcoin dropped about 3.87 per cent per cent today to $21,392.46 trade at $, while Ether fell 3.73% per cent to $1162.52. Bitcoin is now down near 70 per cent from it’s all-time high of [...]