Resorts World Las Vegas is taking longer-than-expected to ramp-up, potentially weighing on operator Genting Berhad’s hopes to leverage the asset to wring more profits out of the US. The $4.3 billion Resorts World Las Vegas, which is the Strip’s most expensive integrated resort in terms of construction costs, opened last June. In the fourth quarter, […]

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Data shows more than $170 million in Bitcoin futures has liquidated over the past 24 hours as the price of the crypto makes sharp recovery above $38k. BTC Price Makes Sharp Recovery From Crash Due To Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Following the commencement of the Russian invasion of Ukraine yesterday, the price of Bitcoin took a deep plunge down as investors pulled out of the market. During this crash, the coin’s value went as low as $34.4k. However, today the value of the crypto already seems to have made some sharp recovery as the price hit $39k earlier in the day. At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $38.8k, down 4% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the crypto has gained 7% in value. The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days. BTC's price has made some sharp recovery today | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView Bitcoin Futures Liquidations Over The Past Day Reach More Than $170 million Due to this sharp price rise, there have been some mass liquidations in the futures market. In case someone isn’t familiar with what a “liquidation” is, it’s best to get a quick overview of margin trading first. As you may know, when investors purchase a buy or sell futures contract on a derivatives exchange, they have to put forth some initial investment, called the “margin.” Against this margin, users can loan Bitcoin amounts many times their actual position. This is called making use of “leverage.” Any profit that investors earn on this leverage is theirs to keep. Related Reading | Bitcoin Investors Haven’t Responded To Russia-Ukraine War With Large Inflows (Yet) However, if the price of the coin moves opposite to the direction they bet on, then their losses are also as many times more in magnitude as the leverage. After the user loses a large percentage of their margin because of these losses, the exchange forcibly closes the position. This is precisely what a “liquidation” is. Now, here is the latest data regarding the Bitcoin futures liquidations: Looks like the futures market has observed some mass liquidations over the past day | Source: CoinGlass As you can see above, more than $170 million in Bitcoin futures contracts have been liquidated over the past 24 hours. Related Reading | Bloomberg Strategist: This Is The Defining Moment To Buy Bitcoin Since these liquidations took place because of a sharp price move up, the majority of these are from short contracts. While this is a sharp and unexpected recovery for the crypto, it’s unclear how long it will last. The macro fears and uncertainties due to the Russia-Ukraine war are still abound at large as the invasion still rages on. Featured image from Unsplash.com, chart from TradingView.com

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Crypto thefts remain a key revenue source for North Korea this year as well as the last one so let’s read more about it in today’s latest cryptocurrency news. Cyber attacks on the crypto exchange have been a huge source of funds for North Korea as per the United Nations report so according to the […]

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The last 48 hours have seen unprecedented happening in the world of cryptocurrencies. According to Larry Cermak, VP of Research at Theblockresearch.com, the interest in futures exchanges has tanked dangerously by 20% in the last two days – from $18 billion to about $14.4 billion. The two exchanges which have seen the most severe carnage

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The company that backed away from purchasing PlayUp outright has instead decided to invest in the Australian-based gaming company that has a presence in the United States. PlayUp announced Thursday that crypto-exchange FTX agreed to invest $35 million into the company during the fourth quarter of last year. Ramnik Arora, head of product for FTX, […]

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This week in crypto news: Tom Brady’s celebrity NFT banks $170M, hackers stole more than $30 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum, and more.

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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at  Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis […]

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It is the second time this year that bitcoin has fallen below $40,000 hitting $38,642 mid-way through the Asia trading session. (Read More)

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