Adrian Zmudzinski - Spark Newswire

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UK Regulator Bans Crypto ATMs: ‘People Should Be Prepared To Lose All Their Money’

Today, 8:03 AM

United Kingdom financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has ordered all cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs) — machines autonomously selling cryptocurrency, usually Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) — to be shut down.

BTC

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Shiba Inu Burn Rate Is Up 6,700%: The Supply Is Going Up In Flames

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Major memecoin Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) saw an astonishing uptick in the rate at which its tokens are being burned — which means they are being destroyed permanently, diminishing SHIB's circulating supply and acting as a deflationary mechanism.

$SHIB

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Russian Capital Flees To Dubai Through Crypto

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Cryptocurrency companies located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are seeing an unprecedented influx of requests from Russian customers who wish to liquidate billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency as the Russian ruble plunges due to increasingly harsh economic sanctions.

BTC

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Ukraine’s Call For Help Disregarded By Tether

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Ukraine First Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov requested in a Friday tweet that Tether — the operator of the Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) dollar-pegged stablecoin — and its CEO Paolo Ardoino put a stop on any transactions that involve Russia.

BTC

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$2.3M Of Bitcoin Forfeited In Deep Web Black Market Vendor Arrest

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Binh Thanh Le, a 25-year-old from Brockton, Massachusetts, was sentenced to eight years for selling MDMA, ketamine and alprazolam (Xanax) through the dark web under the nickname EastSideHigh — he was also ordered to forfeit over 59 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) worth over $2 million and $115,000 in cash.

BTC

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Ripple Scores ‘Huge Win’ Against SEC As Judge Rules Defense Legally Sufficient

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Ripple — the firm behind financial services cryptocurrency XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) — and its community is rejoicing after it scored a victory in its legal battle against the United States Security and Exchange Commission.

$XRP

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Bitcoin To Eat Ethereum? This $165M Fund Bets It Will

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Major cryptocurrency exchange Okcoin partnered with Stacks Accelerator and Stacks Foundation to launch Bitcoin Odyssey, a project aiming to bring the decentralized application (DApp) ecosystem that Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is known

$ALGO

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Cardano Community Attacks Journalist After She Accuses Crypto’s Founder Of Lying About Education

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Cryptocurrency journalist Laura Shin accused Cardano (CRYPTO: ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson of lying about being a math undergraduate in her recently released book “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craz

$ADA

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Dogecoin Was Just The Beginning: Slim Jim Has Metaverse Plans

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

Slim Jim — a sausage brand owned by Conagra Brands (NYSE: CAG) — plans to jump onto the metaverse bandwagon after launching

$DOGE

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LimeWire Comes Back To Life, This Time To Sell Music NFTs

By Adrian Zmudzinski

Today, 8:03 AM

LimeWire — a now-defunct file-sharing service that was used widely for pirating music in the early 2000s — announced that it is coming back to life to relaunch as a music non-fungible token service.

$MATIC