Famous crypto businessman Mark Hopkins went to jail for 15 months He was punished for privately exchanging (P2P) fiat for bitcoin Out of ignorance, he transferred the crypt to the participants of the scam Crypto entrepreneur Mark Hopkins (alias "Dr. Bitcoin" or "Rizzn") is leaving to serve his sentence in federal prison. He was given a...
Aggregator 1inch has prepared new awards for users of Optimism They will distribute 300k OP tokens Aggregator 1inch has prepared rewards for 1inch Wallet users on Optimism. They will distribute 300,000 OP tokens as prizes for their activity. The distribution will go through the Merkle drop and the tokens will be distributed among 3782 wallets of the...
One of the largest mining pools admitted its liquidity problems They froze the withdrawal from their wallet but launched incentive promotions for miners Poolin promises a new payout schedule "in 2-3 weeks" Poolin has suspended withdrawals from their wallets (Pool Account) due to liquidity issues. This is stated in a company statement. This was preceded by yesterday's scandal. One of...
Binance will not transfer USDT to BUSD At least for now Previously, the exchange introduced a forced conversion of three large stablecoins Yesterday, August 5, the Binance crypto exchange suspended support for USDC, USDP, and TUSD with their automatic transfer to Binance USD. Against this background, rumors spread that a similar fate awaits USDT, one of the...
Crypto Exchange Bitpanda Adds Commodity Derivatives Contracts By this, they offer to protect the portfolios of investors The minimum investment amount is 1 euro Austrian investment company Bitpanda has added a new product line. Now customers of the service will be able to trade energy resources (oil, natural gas) and goods (aluminum and wheat). Bitpanda is the...
Lending Platform Aave Has Temporarily Stopped Ether Borrowing This is due to the threat to liquidity pools amid hype and speculation The decision was made by the community The largest DeFi lending protocol, Aave, has suspended Ethereum lending. This decision was made by the community by vote. They were guided by the fact that increased demand for ETH...
Trezor wallets will have a mixer option It will be implemented by partner Wasabi Anonymizing will start working next year Trezor has confirmed plans to partner with Wasabi. They will jointly implement CoinJoin technology in Trezor hardware crypto wallets. The new option will be available from next year. CoinJoin works on the principle of a crypto-misher. It mixes direct connections between...
Binance adds a new advisor to its staff The seat on the advisory board was taken by the former head of the Central Bank of Brazil He also served as Minister of Finance from 2011 to 2013. Enrique Meirellis supports cryptocurrencies but recognizes the need for state control The former head of the financial regulator...
Blockchain domain name aggregator Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has been at the peak of popularity recently as the crypto community prepares for an imminent upgrade of the Ethereum network. Ethereum will upgrade next week In the coming days, the long-awaited update The Merge will take place in the crypto space - the transition of the entire Ethereum network from the...
The Canadian mining organization HUT 8 on the official website published reports on its BTC assets, which amounted to over 8100 coins in August 2022. It was reported that 375 bitcoins were mined in a month with an average daily mining rate of 12.1 BTC. While many profile companies are forced to sell off their assets in...
