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5,000 Merchants in India Now Accept Payments in Digital Rupee: Deputy Governor
9.2.2023
5,000 merchants and 50,000 users are now participating in India’s CBDC pilot project, the RBI’s deputy governor has said, noting that the central bank intends to proceed with the project slowly to avoid unwanted fallouts.
Rabi Sankar, Deputy Governor at Reserve Bank of India (RBI), announced...
US Senator Elizabeth Warren Leads the Charge to Learn More About Crypto Mining Energy Usage – Regulation Incoming?
8.2.2023
Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senator who is known as a fierce crypto critic, is now part of an effort by lawmakers to learn more about the energy use of crypto mining.
The new initiative aims to increase the transparency requirements for crypto mining companies, particularly when it comes...
Lido presents its largest upgrade – Lido V2
8.2.2023
Contributors at Lido have come up with Lido V2, a step to further decentralize Ethereum. Lido V2 is being termed the biggest upgrade to date and an important step in the direction of decentralization. Lido V2 centers around Staking Routers and Withdrawals as the two major upgrades. Staking Router...
Binance Helps Turkey Earthquake Victims By Airdropping Free BNB Tokens – Here's What You Need to Know
8.2.2023
Binance will airdrop $100 worth of BNB tokens to its Turkish users affected by the recent devastating earthquake.
The world's largest crypto exchange announced Tuesday that it will airdrop BNB worth $100 to all Binance users identified to be living in 10 cities where the earthquake has had...
Stylus: An easy next-gen deployment to the Web3 ecosystem
8.2.2023
Offchain Labs has published a blog post to announce that Stylus is scheduled to go live later in 2023. Termed EVM+, Stylus is the next-generation programming environment by Arbitrum to boost the development of decentralized applications with interoperability features. The goal is to advance...
Brazil: $193m ‘Crypto Pyramid’ Firm Declared Bankrupt
8.2.2023
Indeal, the Brazilian company behind a suspected crypto pyramid scheme worth some $193 million, has declared bankruptcy.
The firm was at the heart of a major police operation back in May 2019. The police dubbed their operation Operation Egypt and worked in conjunction with the nation’s tax agency...
Digital Currency Group Announces Major Shake-Up: Genesis Trading and Lending Arms to be Sold
7.2.2023
The troubled crypto firm Genesis has reached an agreement with key creditors that would involve a sale of the crypto lending and trading arm of the company....
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Crypto Miners Blamed for Abkhazia Power Outages
7.2.2023
Major power blackouts in Abkhazia have been blamed on illegal crypto miners, marking a fresh setback for the region.
News headlines have been dominated by bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin mining in recent years in the de facto Caucasus-based state. Abkhazia sits in the northwestern corner of Georgia...
Small Victory for Sam Bankman-Fried: Prosecutors Resolve Dispute Over Bail Conditions – Here's What Happened
7.2.2023
After a tumultuous month for disgraced FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), finally prosecutors have given ground.
January was difficult for SBF. Despite being sat in home arrest in California, on a $250m bond. Last week US District Judge Lewis Kaplan imposed severe restrictions on...
Crypto Companies Rush to Help Turkey and Syria Earthquake Victims – Blockchain Beyond Borders?
7.2.2023
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake sent shockwaves across Turkey and Syria on Monday. The incident has been coined the 'deadliest in a decade'.
Caused by a 100km rupture at the East Anatolian fault, the epicentre was 26km East of Nurdagi. Only the third earthquake on the strike-slip fault to measure above...
South Korea Takes Major Step Toward Cryptocurrency Legalization with New Guidelines on Securities Tokens
6.2.2023
South Korea has taken a major step towards bringing crypto into the mainstream as the country’s main financial regulator introduces new guidelines on security tokens.
Under the new guidelines, security tokens, defined as financial assets issued by a centralized party and tokenized on a blockchain...
Brazil to Grant Prosecutors, Police New Crypto Confiscation Powers
6.2.2023
The Brazilian government looks set to grant the nation’s prosecutors, courts, and police officers new powers to confiscate crypto.
According to an official release from the Attorney General, the nation’s Federal Public Ministry (MPF) has prepared a draft crypto “guide” for prosecutors and...
Starknet Prover soon becomes open-source!
6.2.2023
StarkWare has published an official blog post to announce that it is going to open source StarkNet Provider under an Apache 2.0 license with the objective of boosting collaboration and increasing accessibility to developers in the community. Calling it a milestone in the evolution, StarkWare...
FTX Japan Bidding Deadline Extended
6.2.2023
Bidders have been given more time to register their interest in the crypto exchange FTX’s Japanese arm, FTX Japan.
The Japanese media outlet CoinPost reported that a bankruptcy court in the United States has pushed back the bidding date for the exchange from March 15 to April 19.
An auction...
CFTC Chair: Agency Well-Positioned to Regulate Crypto
4.2.2023
The Commodity Future Trading Commission is "well positioned" to address regulatory gaps in the crypto market, according to CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam.
In prepared remarks for a February 3 American Bar Association event, Behnam said his stance toward cryptocurrencies has not changed. He said...
Lodestar announces the mega launch of v1.4.0
3.2.2023
Lodestar has announced the launch of v1.4.0. The update brings several fixes to ensure that it offers security, stability, and the absence of all the vulnerabilities that were publicly reported between 2020 – 2022. Proposed first in November 2021, the mechanism is now ready to be used...
Binance Terminates Wallet Services to WazirX, Asks Exchange to Withdraw Assets
3.2.2023
Binance has stopped providing wallet services to WazirX, asking the Indian crypto exchange to withdraw any remaining assets held in Binance wallets.
In a Friday blog post, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world said it is terminating the use of its wallet services by WazirX due...
North Korean Defectors, Libyans Indicted for ‘Kimchi Premium’ Crypto Trading
3.2.2023
South Korean prosecutors have arrested a group of foreign nationals – comprising North Korean defectors and at least one Libyan national – over suspected “kimchi premium”-type crypto trading offenses.
Per Yonhap, prosecutors have charged and detained three individuals, including a 44-year-old...
Silvergate Bank Stock Plunges After Report of DOJ Investigation into Ties with FTX and Alameda
3.2.2023
Silvergate shares have seen a sharp drop in pre-market trading following the news that US officials have launched a probe into the crypto bank's dealings with fallen crypto giants FTX and Alameda Research. ...
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Billionaire Charlie Munger Says America Should Ban Crypto – Here's Why
2.2.2023
The US should follow in China’s footsteps and implement “a ban of cryptocurrencies,” according to billionaire investor Charlie Munger.
Writing in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Mr. Munger said crypto “isn’t a currency,” and likened the crypto market to a casino “with...