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The majority of altcoins launched since 2020 are dead, but bitcoin's latest rally could spark a revival
72% of crypto projects have died since 2020, with most coins disappearing last year, an new report …
Filip De Mott
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Altcoins are the alternative digital currencies to bitcoin - here's what they are and how they work
Altcoins, or alternative coins, are any cryptocurrencies not bitcoin. Learn why and how altcoins em…
Ryan Austin
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Obscure altcoin mana spikes 400% as Facebook's metaverse pivot spurs bet on virtual property token
The price of Decentraland, whose ticker is mana, peaked at $4.16 on Saturday. The ethereum-based to…
Isabelle Lee
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'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary expects a major capitulation event that will flush the bad actors out of crypto
"There's no big guy who has gone to zero yet… that would be very healthy for the market," O'Leary t…
George Glover
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ALTCOINS TO BUY: Crypto experts share the best investing opportunities they're seeing outside of bitcoin
Insider has talked to several experts about which altcoins they like most, why they're bullish, and…
Business Insider
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Leash, a token in shiba inu's ecosystem, surges 44% on metaverse real estate plans
The developers said they will introduce Shiba Lands, virtual properties inside shiba inu's metavers…
Isabelle Lee
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From Solana to Chainlink to Chiliz, here are 15 altcoins headlining a world of tokens that extends well beyond bitcoin - and what they're all used for
Insider spoke with experts on the wide world of crypto beyond bitcoin. Here are the key concepts an…
Isabelle Lee
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Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya says Visa and Mastercard will be the biggest business failures in 2022, losing out to altcoin-linked projects
Palihapitiya cited Amazon's decision to ban Visa credit cards in the UK due to high transaction fee…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Some federal lawmakers and their staffers are all in on cryptocurrency speculation as Congress mulls how (or how not) to regulate the coins
At least five members of the House and the Senate and 21 congressional staffers invested in cryptoc…
Kimberly Leonard,Camila DeCha…
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Bitcoin and ether slide for a second day, weighing on altcoins, as investors cash in on crypto record highs
Bitcoin dipped below $59,000, while ether neared $4,000, as investors sold cryptocurrencies for a s…
Camomile Shumba
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Around 41% of shiba inu's total supply is burned
About 41% of shiba inu's total supply is burned - meaning those coins are not in circulation anymor…
Isabelle Lee
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Laila Maidan
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NuCypher soars 1,134% in a single day as the altcoin touches $2 billion market valuation
While NuCypher celebrated its one-year anniversary on Friday, there was no indication as to what de…
Matthew Fox
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The surge in altcoins looks unsustainable and has echoes of the run-up to May's crypto crash, JPMorgan's bitcoin expert says
JPMorgan's Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou questioned whether the hype around altcoins such as cardano's ad…
Harry Robertson
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Investors plowed a record $13.2 million into solana-backed products last week, as altcoins continued to surge in popularity, CoinShares said
Investors piled a record amount of money into altcoins last week and solana's sol token was the big…
Camomile Shumba
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E-sports group FaZe Clan is distancing itself from gamers accused of running a ‘pump and dump’ crypto scam
This means that these influencers ‘pumped up’ the price of an altcoin, also called ‘meme coins’ …
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Elon Musk's tweet about a shiba inu sends the dogecoin spinoff token surging 16%
At 7:23 am ET, Musk published a tweet to his 57 million followers saying "My Shiba Inu will be name…
Isabelle Lee
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Elon Musk is sending prices of altcoins ‘to the moon’ but Bitcoin may be the first to actually land on the moon — literally
‘Going to the moon’ is the cryptocurrency jackpot. It’s when the price of a cryptocurrency skyrocke…
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A pair of 34-year-old former Credit Suisse traders turned crypto whales say they're beating bitcoin by owning ether - and downplay the energy-use concerns of mining and Elon Musk's impact
The two started a firm focused exclusively on cryptocurrencies, and they say their largest holding …