U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down the sentence at a Manhattan court hearing after rejecting Bankman-Fried's claim that FTX customers did not actually lose money and accusing him of lying during his trial testimony.
Save Carbon County is suing Stronghold Digital Mining and Pennsylvania State for pollution from their bitcoin mine, claiming Pennsylvania State has failed to protect the environment.
Bitcoin rose 5.35 per cent to $70,850-level, as per data suggested by Coinmarket cap. The market capitalization of the oldest crypto current stood at $1.39 trillion mark.
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The total global crypto marketcap inched up in the last 24 hours to $2.78 trillion, while the total crypto market volume has increased over 16 per cent to $133.74 billion.
Bitcoin's latest surge has been powered by the approval of Bitcoin ETFs, upcoming halving event and institutional buying.
Bitcoin, the largest and the oldest crypto token, climb about 3 per cent during the trading session on Monday, to top $71,600 mark for the first time.
The surge in value reflects the ongoing momentum of the world's largest cryptocurrency.
The Enforcement Directorate has filed a charge-sheet against 299 entities, including 10 Chinese ones, alleging defraud of investors by promising substantial returns through cryptocurrency mining.
FTX and BlockFi have reached a settlement, with FTX agreeing to pay BlockFi up to $874 million, including a $250 million priority payment and $185.3 million for BlockFi's trading account.
The cryptocurrency's rally has been supported by investor interest in U.S. spot exchange-traded crypto products and expectations of falling global interest rates.
The digital dollar-pegged token is designed to keep a constant value, something Tether says that it does by holding dollar-denominated reserves for every token it creates.
The world's largest cryptocurrency hit a high of $69,202, topping November 2021's all-time peak of $68,999.99. Investor interest has increased since the Securities and Exchange Commission approved 11 spot bitcoin ETFs in late January.
The surge in trading activity follows a period of low volumes experienced by these exchanges during the bear market of 2022-23, exacerbated by a 30 per cent tax imposed by the government on cryptocurrency trading.
Bitcoin gained more than 9 per cent to scale $68,785.95 in the last 24 hours, just 2 per cent away from it's all time high at $68,789.63, it scaled on November 10, 2021.
Bitcoin rallied to a two-year high on Monday, breaking above $65,000 as a wave of money carried it within striking distance of record levels.
Bitcoin scaled a two-year high on Monday, breaking $64,000 as a wave of money carried it within striking distance of record levels.
The global crypto market cap jumped more than 8 per cent to $2.33 trillion. The total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours stood at $198.71 billion, up 110 per cent.
 Bitcoin headed for its biggest monthly gain in more than three years on Thursday and is within range of a record high as cash rushing to listed bitcoin funds propels a strong rally.
Lawyers fo sam bankman-fried  told a U.S. judge on Tuesday that a sentence ranging from 63 to 78 months would be an appropriate punishment for the FTX founder's conviction  for stealing $8 billion from customers of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange.
According to coinmarketcap, the total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours stood at $111.13 billion, registering a rise of more than 108 per cent during the period.
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