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Lebanon Financial Crisis: Banks Torched After Pound Taps New Low Versus the US Dollar
22.2.2023
The Lebanese pound’s fall to its lowest ever versus the U.S. dollar, 80,000 to 1, has piled more misery on residents whose local currency-denominated savings have been decimated by inflation. The ongoing strike by banks demanding the passage of capital control legislation has compounded...
Binance Increases USDC Holdings as BUSD’s Market Cap Slides Lower
21.2.2023
Eight days ago, Paxos announced that the company would no longer mint the stablecoin BUSD. Since then, the coin’s market capitalization has been sliding lower as redemptions have become more prominent. Meanwhile, a data researcher from Nansen has discovered that Binance, the largest...
Onecoin Cryptoqueen Killed in Greece in 2018, Report Claims
21.2.2023
Ruja Ignatova, founder of the crypto pyramid Onecoin, may have been murdered in Greece a year after her disappearance. According to an article, quoting а leaked report from a police informant, the “missing Cryptoqueen” was killed on a yacht in the Ionian Sea more than four years ago. Murder in...
What Are VCs Funding After FTX? More Decentralized Infrastructure
21.2.2023
Infrastructure projects and regulatory-resistant protocols have attracted cautious investors
Nifty News: PROOF cancels NFT conference, Bitcoin meme creator cashes in $150K and more
21.2.2023
The conference known as “Proof of Conference” was slated to run in May has been canceled due to “less interest than anticipated,” according to co-founder Kevin Rose
Your Early Access launch? It (kinda!) is your launch...
20.2.2023
Also: market share stats for subscription platforms, and lots more
Ethereum’s Transition to Proof-of-Stake Yields Deflationary Results
20.2.2023
After the transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), Ethereum’s annual issuance rate has been reduced to negative 0.057%, according to statistics 158 days after The Merge. The metrics indicate that more ethereum tokens have been removed than issued, and if the chain were...
TOTHESMART Is Transitioning to Its Own Token What Is the TTS Token Phenomenon?
20.2.2023
PRESS RELEASE. TOTHESMART is a PlayToEarn mining farm built on Binance Smart Chain blockchain. The project works on decentralization principles and believes that the best way to develop community and promote blockchain industry in Mass Adoption is a game engine with open rules of the Game...
Helium Network Migration to Solana Blockchain in March Drives Significant Gains for SOL and HNT Tokens
20.2.2023
Over the past seven days, the crypto asset solana has increased more than 23% against the U.S. dollar after the announcement that the Helium Network plans to migrate to the Solana blockchain on March 27. Helium Network’s native token, helium, has also risen, jumping 25% over the past week...
Ordinal Inscription Collections on Bitcoin Blockchain Grow as Creators Monetize Art
20.2.2023
With more than 150,000 Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain, there are now numerous collections as creators and artists have found a new way to monetize their artworks via blockchain technology. In the past month, people have launched collections such as Ordinal Punks, Ordinal Penguins...
Bank of Russia to Start Testing Digital Ruble With Real Users on April 1
20.2.2023
The Central Bank of Russia plans to launch test operations with digital ruble transactions between real customers at the beginning of April. More than a dozen banks will join the upcoming stage of the pilot project, a high-ranking representative of the bank announced to Russian media. Russia’s...
Nifty News: Yuga in doghouse over Kennel Club logo, NFT marketplace wars rage on and more
20.2.2023
The logo for a popular Yuga Labs NFT collection is being changed after it was seemingly ripped off from a follow-along children's drawing creator
Democrats to Return 2.2% of $45.2 Million Donation Made by FTX’s Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
19.2.2023
After the disgraced co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), donated $5.2 million to Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 and more than $40 million to Democrats leading up to the U.S. midterm election cycle, three major Democratic organizations plan to return 2.2% of the funds, or $1 million,...
San Francisco Fed is Seeking CBDC Developer as More Countries Join the Race
19.2.2023
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has announced a vacancy for a CBDC developer as the federal bank aims to explore the cost and benefits of the potential technologies for central bank digital currencies.
The San Francisco Fed posted a job opening titled “senior application developer...
SEC Clampdown Has Crypto Space Abuzz, Pantera Capital Says We’re in Bull Market, and Much More — Week in Review
19.2.2023
There’s been no shortage of news in past weeks when it comes to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) taking action against crypto exchanges and companies. From Kraken, to Paxos, to Terraform Labs, it seems enforcement is in the air when it comes to chair Gary...
African Fintech Startups Raised $1.45 Billion in 2022 — Sector’s Share of the Continent’s Total Funding Drops
19.2.2023
Despite seeing their share of Africa’s startup funding drop from 48.3% seen in 2021 to 43.4% in 2022, fintech still managed to raise 39.3% more capital in 2022 ($1.45 billion) than they did in 2021 ($1.04 billion). Nigeria was again the best-funded country after 180 of its startups raised...
Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS Share Predictions About Further Fed Rate Hikes
19.2.2023
Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and UBS have shared their predictions about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates further. Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, for example, now expect the Fed to raise interest rates three more times this year. Major Banks Predict More Fed Rate Hikes...
Filecoin’s FIL Token Jumps More Than 30%, Sparking Interest in Virtual Machine Launch
17.2.2023
It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the rally
Terraform Labs, Do Kwon Transferred More Than 10K Bitcoin Out of Platform Accounts After Collapse: SEC
17.2.2023
Around $100 million have since been withdrawn from the Swiss account, the securities regulator said in a court filing as it sued the company for misleading customers
Crypto Miner Core Scientific Paid More Than $1M to CEO-Affiliated Personal Jet Company
17.2.2023
The bankrupt bitcoin miner stopped making payments to the company right before it stopped paying off its debt