Nachdem bereits die CFTC und das FBI mit harter Hand gegen Avraham Einsenberg vorgegangen sind, reicht die SEC nun ebenfalls Anklage gegen den Exploiter von Mango Markets ein.
Bitcoin hits 5-month high as bulls push BTC above $23K
- Bitcoin hit highs of $23,342 on Binance, with a breakout above $22k extending year-to-date gains.
- BTC price is up 30% in a month and has recovered 47% since the decline to $15,500 lows.
- Short liquidations were around $376 million in the past 24 hours.
Bitcoin price roared to highs above $23,000 on Saturday morning, rising to $23,342 on Binance as the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap hit levels last seen in mid-August 2022.
BTC was changing hands around $22,900 at the time of writing, about 9% up in the past 24 hours after shedding some of the gains.
The price of Bitcoin was, however, still 35% up in the past 30 days, and as crypto trader and analyst Rekt Capital pointed out earlier this morning, BTC had rallied over 47% since falling to lows of $15,500 amid the FTX dump.
Bitcoin price chart showing BTC rally to $23,000 on 21 January, 2023. Source: TradingView
On-chain data platform Santiment noted just before today’s break above $23k that Bitcoin’s price rally has come amid a bullish outlook from large BTC investors. As the firm highlights in the chart below, whale addresses with 1,000 to 10,000 BTC have in the past two weeks accumulated over 64,638 bitcoins worth more than $1.46 billion.
🐳 #Bitcoin has now surpassed $22.7k for the first time since August 18, 2022. The price rise has come as the large whale tier group of addresses holding 1,000 to 10,000 $BTC has collectively accumulated 64,638 ($1.46 billion) $BTC in the past 15 days. 👍 https://t.co/H6jCsZDgUR pic.twitter.com/RaN2I48ybg
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 20, 2023
Over $376 million in shorts liquidated
As Bitcoin raced to highs near $23,350, liquidation data showed that in the past 24 hours, about 80,497 traders had been liquidated.
According to Coinglass, the largest short liquidation was on Bitmex where an order worth $4.53million was rekt. The total liquidations as of 06:10 am ET on 21 January were $376.61 million.
Notably, total liquidations are not at the levels seen when BTC/USD broke above $20,000 last week towards erasing all post-FTX losses. Nonetheless, it still shows some traders are convinced this could be a gigantic bull trap.
But as it is, further upside momentum could see bulls target $25,000 or possibly higher if sentiment across risk markets helps bouy buy pressure.
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Bitcoin-Kurs peilt Sprung auf 21.400 US-Dollar an, Gold könnte Katalysator sein
Bitcoin bildet oberhalb der wichtigen 20.000 US-Dollar-Marke eine Preisspanne aus und könnte durch die Korrelation zum starken Goldkurs bald massiv beflügelt werden.
Samsung expands mobile wallet app to 8 more countries
- Samsung has announced it will roll out its Samsung Wallet mobile app to another eight countries.
- The Korea firm launched the app in June 2022, and expanded it to 21 countries before the latest announcement.
- The wallet app integrates with the Samsung Blockchain Wallet for cryptocurrencies.
Samsung Electronics has announced that its unified mobile wallet application Samsung Wallet will now be available in eight more countries.
The South Korea-based tech giant revealed it would be rolling out the wallet app across Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Canada, India, Malaysia and Taiwan. Support for the Samsung Wallet in these countries will go live by the end of January.
However, the company noted in a news release that the exact timing of the launch will vary and depend on user devices and the specific market.
Samsung’s mobile payments platform grows
Samsung launched the wallet app in 2022, with support since its unveiling in June having increased from an initial seven countries to 21 countries by the date of the latest announcement.
Currently, the Samsung Wallet app is available for Samsung Galaxy users in Korea, UK, the US, Bahrain, China, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Vietnam, and the United Arab Emirates.
More than a payments platform, the app also integrates with the Samsung Blockchain Wallet and comes with safety features enhanced by Samsung Knox, an inbuilt proprietary security platform.
So, while Samsung’s wallet app is not crypto-specific, users with supported devices can leverage it to do things like keeping tabs on their digital assets portfolio. The wallet allows for this via an interface that enables access to cryptocurrency prices across multiple exchanges.
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Früherer FTX-Chefanwalt wirft FTX US unlautere Beauftragung von S&C vor
Daniel Friedberg behauptet, dass Ryne Miller die Insolvenzanwälte von Sullivan & Cromwell nur deshalb beauftragt hat, weil er Verstrickungen zu der Anwaltskanzlei hat.