must Read: JOB Seekers Beware of fraudulent offers conceal Dangerous crypto malware
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Crypto Malware Disguised as Job Listings Is Preying on Job Seekers. Job seekers are being targeted by a sinister scheme, with fake listings installing hidden cryptocurrency mining malware that silently hijacks systems and drains resources.
Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike has revealed details of a phishing scheme in a blog post published Tuesday, outlining how attackers manipulate the firm’s hiring procedures to distribute cryptocurrency mining malware.
must read: DOGE ’extremely quiet’ social chatter could be an opportunity: Analyst Dogecoin crowd sentiment is at a low point, which could point to a buying opportunity before the crypto market starts moving higher again, according to Santiment.
A decline in social media posts and overall sentiment around Dogecoin could signal a buying opportunity for traders, according to crypto analysis firm Santiment.
“Crowd sentiment has been near its lowest point over the past year,” Santiment said in a Jan. 9 report.
The analysis firm gave Dogecoin DOGE tickers down $0.3396 a “bearish” crowd sentiment rating of 1 out of 5, which is significantly lower than the 4 out of 5 ratings for XRP XRP tickers down $2.35 and Solana SOL tickers down
Nation-state Bitcoin adoption to drive crypto growth in 2025: Fidelity Fidelity Digital Assets research analyst Matt Hogan said not making any Bitcoin allocation could become more of a risk to nations than making one. El Salvador, Bitcoin ETF, RWA Tokenization Top nation states holding Bitcoin. Source: FDA
Hogan also predicted that digital asset-structured and managed products would “go mainstream” in 2025, adding it was “difficult to overstate the success” of spot Bitcoin and Ether ETH tickers down $3,369.68 exchange-traded funds.
“With the initial success of these products, it would not be unreasonable to expect 2025 to bring about more structured passive and actively managed digital asset products to the world of TradFi.” Hogan also predicted that tokenization will be the “killer app” of 2025, with onchain value doubling from $14 billion to $30 billion by the end of the year.
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“Tokenization is often seen as a buzzword in the world of blockchain technology, but its potential in financial services and beyond is only beginning to be realized,” he said.
The Fidelity researchers said investors should “prepare for acceleration” with “increased adoption, development, interest in, and demand for digital assets.”
They added that “investors are not too late to join the digital asset movement” and believed “we may be entering the dawn of a new era for digital assets, one poised to span multiple years — if not decades.”
Bitcoin investor ordered to hand over crypto keys in landmark tax case A Texas federal court judge ordered Frank Richard Ahlgren III and any associates to hand over any crypto public and private keys, accounts and access codes.
An early Texas Bitcoin investor was ordered to surrender his crypto and other wallet private keys and access codes as part of a restraining order after being sentenced in December to two years in prison for tax fraud.
Frank Richard Ahlgren III, who falsely underreported capital gains on over $3.7 million in Bitcoin BTC$95,294 sales between 2017 and 2019, owes the US government about $1.1 million in restitution.
Austin Federal Court Judge Robert Pitman on Jan. 6 ordered Ahlgren and any of his family, friends or representatives to identify and provide any physical devices used to store his cryptocurrency, along with any public keys, private keys, seed phrases or passphrases.
Bitcoin BTC tickers down $101,649 punched through $100,000 at the Jan. 6 Wall Street open as bulls cleared liquidity for a return to six figures.
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BTC price needs daily close above $101,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed a snap spike taking BTC/USD to nearly $101,506 on Bitstamp.
Bitcoin thus began the first full TradFi trading week of 2025 at its highest levels since Dec. 19.
The move followed a fresh buy announcement from business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, which added another 1,070 BTC to its corporate treasury.
Among the casualties was what popular trader Skew described as a “passive seller” on Binance, the owner of significant ask liquidity at the $100,000 mark.
“New bids moving up here which is important for the support of rallies,” he reported in part of his latest analysis on X. #BTCUSDTAnalysis
Bitcoin ETFs roar back with second day of $900M+ inflows
While the spot Bitcoin ETFs smashed industry expectations in 2024, the products finished poorly with outflows in six of the last eight trading days.
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the United States alone scooped up almost three times the nearly 14,000 coins produced by miners during the month.
December 2024 was a huge month for spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US, which accumulated a total of around 51,500 BTC, according to data averaged from Apollo and BiTBO.
Momentum was driven by spot markets, with the asset reaching an all-time high of $108,135 on Dec. 17, according to CoinGecko.
Meanwhile, only 13,850 coins were added to the circulating supply in the month, according to Blockchain.com — meaning Bitcoin demand from ETFs alone was approximately 272% more than the amount supplied.#Bitcoin ETF