Due to the rapid decline in the value of Bitcoin since the start of the year, the number of liquidations has also increased in recent weeks, with $372 million in long positions in the perpetual market across all exchanges being liquidated in only one day, January 22.

If you are panicking right about now, I implore you, in fact, I urge you to sell all of your bitcoin now. All of it. No this is not a joke. This article is not some trading analysis, pick-me-up full of hopium or copium. This is going to outline a series of straight up facts and reasons why you should dump your bitcoin, especially before it goes any lower. Because believe me, it will.

Want to buy some bitcoin? Better get your ID and front-facing camera ready. These days, the price of entry into cryptocurrency is usually not just your dollars or euros but also a wealth of personal data. The practice of gathering such data from users, known as know-your-customer, or KYC, has been increasingly adopted by major cryptocurrency platforms as regulators across the world grow concerned about the use of crypto by criminals. (Of course, bad actors still find ways to sneak in, as a recent CoinDesk investigation found.)

As cryptocurrency investors reel from the sharp sell-off in bitcoin and other digital currencies, some fear the worst is yet to come. Bitcoin, the world’s largest virtual currency, briefly plunged below $33,000 Monday to its lowest level since July. It’s since recovered back above the $36,000 mark, but is still down almost 50% from a record high of nearly $69,000 in November.

Cryptocurrencies tumble in wake of global stock sell-off, proposed Russian crypto ban.

Cryptocurrency is not merely a bad investment or speculative bubble. It’s worse than that: it’s a full-on fraud.

Cryptocurrency is not merely a bad investment or speculative bubble. It’s worse than that: it’s a full-on fraud.

Russia's central bank on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory, citing threats to financial stability, citizens' wellbeing and its monetary policy sovereignty.

In a blog post published in the early hours of Thursday morning, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com acknowledged that the company had lost well over $30 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum after a hack that took place on January 17th. The company has been criticized for vague communication around the hack, which was only officially confirmed yesterday by CEO Kris Marszalek.

When the Mozilla Foundation took to Twitter on New Year's Eve to announce it was going to begin accepting cryptocurrency donations, it likely didn't think about potential blowback from one of its founders, but that's what it got. In response, Mozilla has said it's pausing cryptocurrency donations.

Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block (formerly Square) is going to start mining for bitcoin. In a string of tweets, Block’s general manager for hardware, Thomas Templeton, laid out the company’s plans for next steps.

Bitcoin adoption continues to grow. Not a week goes by without an announcement making headlines. This doesn't directly affect the price of Bitcoin on the spot market, but it makes sense: there's always a lag between the price of Bitcoin and the events that reinforce its revolution.

Measuring Bitcoin’s environmental impact with “energy per transaction” is misleading and disingenuous.

A cryptocurrency CEO has become one of the richest people on Earth.

In some parts of the developing world, cryptocurrency is changing lives for the better.

Bitcoin is a decentralized payment system: a central institution to verify and settle transactions does not exist. What drives the transaction fees in this system? Can it remain tamper proof in the long run? We develop an empirical model to study how the demand for bitcoin influences transaction fees. To identify supply and demand effects, we analyze two types of events—two rapid price increases since late 2017 and the introduction of a new feature called Segwit.

Here we go again. Kosovo is axing Bitcoin miners. It’s just the most recent in a long list of nations that are banishing the industry. China’s crackdown on Bitcoin mining last year, culminating in a full ban in September, unleashed a diaspora of producers seeking new homes. Many flocked to green sources in the Nordic nations, while others tapped coal and natural gas in Kazakhstan, Iran, Kosovo, and tiny Abkhazia; by last fall, more than one-quarter of all of the signature currency’s coins were being minted in Kazakstan and Iran alone.

After announcing that it would accept cryptocurrency donations last week, the Mozilla Foundation has put them on hold following critical comments.

Bitcoin can be used to measure investor's risk appetite.

Unrest in the central Asian country – the second-largest centre for mining of the cryptocurrency – led to an internet blackout