🚨 Some Major news from yesterday🚨
- Bitcoin Mining Startup, Nodal Power, Raises $13 Million to Turn Trash Into BTC
- Thailand’s New Pro-Crypto Prime Minister, Srettha Thavisin, was an Active Crypto Investor and set to airdrop 10,000 thai baht ($300) to every Thai citizen 16 years and over
- Ex-OpenSea Head of Product, Nathaniel Chastain, convicted in first NFT insider-trading case sentenced to three months in jail. Also ordered to forfeit 15.98 ETH ($26,000) and pay a $50,000 fine.
- Bitcoin difficulty jumps 6% to new peak as miners remain confident despite BTC price dip.
- Binance is reportedly facilitating transfers to/from five blacklisted Russian lenders linked to the Ukraine invasion.
- FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to fraud charges
- 32 old James Charles Rivera, known on the dark web as “JuicePal,” sentenced to 8 years behind bars. He distributed illicit steroids in almost every state in the US and also sold to customers from the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and countries across the European Union.
- Alameda Research and Fir Tree Partners launched GrayscaleLitigation . com for potential co-plaintiffs against Grayscale Investments. They seek a refund on their investment due to fees paid on Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and Ethereum Trust, unrelated to BTC or ETH themselves.
- BTC, XRP Only Top Projects From 2013 to Remain in Market’s Top 10
- Australia’s Central Bank: Australian CBDC may be useful for payments, tokenization
- Balancer Users Withdraw $200 Million Amid Balancer V2 Pool Critical Vulnerability Threat
- Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Says Will Take Salary In Bitcoin If Elected President — Slams Ron DeSantis Over Only Anti-CBDC Stance
- BlockFi argues FTX, Three Arrows Capital aren’t entitled to repayments
- Mastercard Launches CBDC Partner Program
- Binance Partners with Moonpay for USD
On-Ramping
- Nigerian Crypto Trading Platform, Patricia, Unilaterally Converts User Funds to New Stablecoin — Move Sparks Exit Scam Fears
- Crypto’s ‘Illusory Appeal’ Should Be Met by Regulation, Not Bans, Basel-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Study Says
- Police seek charges in fraud case against crypto businessman Moshe Hogeg; accused of sex offenses and using $290 million raised in false crypto projects for personal benefit
- Retirement plans try to juice their returns but observers see risks if hedge fund borrowers suffer losses
- European crypto ETP inflows rise after BlackRock bitcoin filing
- Crypto exchange EDX Markets partners with Anchorage as its custody provider. Unlike other exchanges, EDX Markets doesn't hold customers' digital assets.