Bitcoin Price Rally Breaches $1,050
Bitcoin price continues to surge with a week-long rally that has seen bitcoin gain over 10% in value since the end of January. Bitcoin struck a new 30-day high of $1,056, today. Reverting to a bullish trend similar to the beginning of the year when bitcoin broke the $1000 milestone on its way to reach gold parity, bitcoin is booming. A crackdown by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), China’s central bank led to significant turmoil, leading to bitcoin losing a third of its value to hit a January low of $751 within days of reaching a high of $1139 on the Bitstamp Price Index. Brushing aside....
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Bitcoin and its fellow cryptocurrencies registered a bullish rally over the last 24 hours that helped push the entire crypto market’s market cap to over $1 trillion for the first time since October 5, 2022. For its part, the alpha crypto was finally able to break through the $20,000 as it is trading at $20,201 […]
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Data breaches remain a lucrative business for Internet criminals, especially when they want to sell information for Bitcoin. A data dump containing over 33 million hacked Twitter accounts are now up for grabs in exchange for 10 Bitcoin. According to ZDNet, the hacker selling these Twitter details has been linked to the recent LinkedIn, Tumblr, and Myspace data breaches. But this time, the individual – or collective – went after a much bigger platform by targeting Twitter. As it turns out, platform users have had their passwords exposed somehow. Malware seems to be the most likely culprit,....