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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down appeals covering a broad range of intellectual property disputes, including Epic Systems Corp.'s appeal of the Seventh Circuit's punitive damages cap in a $420 million trade secrets case, and one involving the limits of trademark functionality in a clash over candy-colored dental products.

Ethereum whales seem to have found a sweet spot in Shiba Inu and the newly listed Bored Ape Yacht Club's ApeCoin, splashing hundreds of millions of dollars in SHIB and APE purchases.

Despite only one coin among the top-80 declining over the past week, Tether and futures premiums show a lack of excitement in the market.

On-chain data shows the Bitcoin NUPL metric currently has values that would suggest the bear market is yet to hit in full swing, if the coin is in one. Bitcoin NUPL Value Still Not As Low As Previous Bear Markets As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC NUPL metric suggests market hasn’t neared a bear market bottom yet. The “net unrealized profile/loss” (or NUPL in short) is an indicator that tells us about the ratio of profit and loss in the Bitcoin market. The metric’s value is calculated by taking the difference between the market cap and the realized cap, and dividing it by the market cap. When the NUPL has a value greater than zero, it means there are more coins in profit than ones in loss at the moment. On the other hand, negative values of the indicator imply that investors are, on average, in a state of loss right now. Related Reading | Bitcoin Bullish Signal: Exchange Reserve Loses Another 50k BTC Over Past Week Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin NUPL over the history of the crypto: Looks like the value of the indicator is still above zero | Source: CryptoQuant As you can see in the above graph, the Bitcoin NUPL metric has often been able to predict top and bottom formations through its various colored zones. In the previous bear markets, the indicator’s value has usually fallen off below zero (blue) as a bottom approached. In the lead up to these bearish periods have been the yellow and green phases, but currently the NUPL still looks to be in the yellow zone. This may mean that if Bitcoin has already entered into a bear market, it has still some ways to go before total capitulation and bottom formation. Related Reading | What’s Bitcoin Role After End of Petrodollar System? Arthur Hayes Says However, it’s worth noting that there have been instances before where the indicator dropped into the yellow zone after a bull rally, but then jumped back up soon after as the bullish trend continued, indicating a mid-cycle bottom formation instead. The latest example of this was during the mini-bear period of May-July 2021, where the coin bottomed at around $28k and rallied on to a new ATH. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $41.4k, up 6% in the past week. Over the last month, the crypto has gained 8% in value. The below chart shows the trend in the price of the coin over the past five days. The price of the crypto seems to have held above $40k over the past couple of days | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com

A few days ago, Prince Phillip of Serbia was the guest of the Serbian TV talk show host Ivan Ivanović.

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AVAX and ETH lead top 10 crypto gains over the past week while Solana and Cardano also made some decent gains in the same timeframe so let’s read more today in our related altcoin news. A few leading cryptocurrencies rallied more than 10% in the past week with tokens behind the leading Layer1 network such […]

This week, the Ethereum network’s burn rate reached a milestone by surpassing 2 million ethereum burned worth $5.81 billion since August 5, 2021. Metrics show the crypto network has a 24-hour burn rate of 1.74 ether per minute, which equates to roughly $5K worth of ether destroyed every 60 seconds. 2 Million Ethereum Burned, More…

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The Cardano DeFi ecosystem grew 113% over the last month and now has a Total Value Locked (TVL) of $272 million.

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Bitcoin futures and options markets are pricing in higher volatility in the near future. Meanwhile, on-chain activity remains firmly in bear market territory, but continues to recover meaningfully.

Fiat, a government-issued currency, is still the best choice of financial criminals. Concerns have always centered on the possibility of crypto assets being used for nefarious reasons, however the US Treasury department just released something that dispels these anxieties. Despite widespread fears that cryptocurrency could be used for criminal purposes, a newly published report by the US Treasury indicates that the bulk of financial crimes are still committed using fiat money. The US Treasury presented a three-year report on money laundering, proliferation financing, and terrorist financing early this month. And they were all based on digital assets. And crypto detractors may believe this is all about digital assets being widely employed in these sectors. Related Story | Shiba Inu Exodus: 32,000 Holders Lose Interest In The ‘Dogecoin Killer’ It’s Fiat, Not Crypto Nevertheless, fiat currencies and traditional money are still more often utilized in this circumstance, thus they are more likely to come into play. The Treasury’s findings include a detailed discussion of virtual currencies, stating that both their user base and market capitalization have expanded dramatically since the previous risk assessment in 2020. However, these reports found that criminal flows via fiat currency and established networks continue to outnumber those involving cryptocurrency. Crypto total market cap at $1.805 trillion on the daily chart | Source: TradingView.com The US Treasury disclosed the following: “The use of crypto assets for money laundering continues to be significantly less prevalent than the use of fiat cash and other more traditional means.” Crypto Still A Good Choice For Crime According to the National Money Laundering Risk Assessment, “virtual assets” are an ever-evolving domain within money launderers’ expanding armory for concealing their finances. It singled out DeFi and “anonymity augmenting technology” as possible perpetrators. Throughout the pandemic, virtual assets have apparently been used extensively in phishing assaults and ransomware scams. Related Article | Bitcoin Breaks Past The $40,000 Barrier Again – Can It Sustain The Momentum? Shady operators may use pledges of profit from the unpredictable cryptocurrency market to entice victims into disclosing personal information or infecting their devices with viruses. The attackers may then demand payment in crypto following the attack, which is both pseudonymous and irreversible. In a recent Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report, many criminals use over-the-counter brokers to launder their cryptocurrencies. OTC brokers are individuals or businesses that assist transactions between buyers and sellers who do not wish to (or are unable to) conduct business on a cryptocurrency exchange. A Staggering Amount Meanwhile, a United Nations report says that money laundering costs the global economy between $800 billion and $2 trillion per year. This equates to between 2% and 5% of gross domestic output. Today, almost 90% of money laundering remains undetected. However, technological advancements have led in the development of more effective tools. Criminals continue to use these advancements to move dirty money. Simultaneously, government agencies and fintech firms utilize technology to identify transaction characteristics and assist in exposing fraud. Featured image from India Today, chart from TradingView.com