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The Pew Research Center’s latest U.S. cryptocurrency report, published April 10, shows little in the way of surprises when it comes to the nation’s adoption and confidence in the burgeoning crypto market. Perhaps the biggest takeaway is Pew’s finding that 75% of U.S. adults who’ve heard of cryptocurrency have little or
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The President of Central Reserve Bank of Peru (CBRP), Julio Velarde Flores, announced in November 2021 that the country would cooperate with India, Singapore and Hong Kong to develop a CBDC. The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (CBRP) has recently published a report on the need for a well planned
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Trading firms Jane Street Group, Tower Research Capital and Radix Trading have been reportedly identified as Binance’s three “VIP” clients that were cited anonymously in the recent lawsuit filed against Binance by the United States commodities regulator.According to an April 5 Bloomberg report citing "people familiar with the matter,” Radix
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The company, to be called VitaTech, would leverage public funding to license longevity technologies developed in U.S. universities and support their continued development. The funds would come from research foundations and government grants such as the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR). Source
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In the wake of a damning report by short-selling firm Hindenburg Research, Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. (SQ) faced its worst week in over three years. NEW FROM US:Block—How Inflated User Metrics and "Frictionless" Fraud Facilitation Enabled Insiders To Cash Out Over $1 Billionhttps://t.co/pScGE5QMnX $SQ (1/n)— Hindenburg Research (@HindenburgRes) March 23, 2023 Hindenburg’s
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BitMEX, a crypto derivatives exchange, pointed out that F2Pool, a bitcoin mining pool, produced an invalid block at height 783426 on April 1, 2023. However, they did not state why and are still investigating the matter. F2pool seems to have produced an invalid Bitcoin block today, at height 783426.The hash for
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Millions of U.S. dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency has been sent to centralized exchanges (CEXs), most notably Binance, from wallets providing funds in support of Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, transaction data suggests. According to Ukrainian analysts, the money was transferred to the crypto trading platforms in order to be laundered.
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Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder of fallen crypto exchange FTX, has been paying for his legal defense with millions of dollars that he allegedly gave to his father using money from Alameda Research. The multi-million dollar donation financed by an Alameda loan was handed to SBF’s father, Joseph Bankman, a Stanford
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The group is "moderately sophisticated" and supports the strategic and nuclear objectives of the North Korean regime, according to Mandiant. It uses the proceeds from cybercrime to fund its operations, which target South Korean and U.S. government organizations, academics and think tanks focused on the geopolitics of the Korean peninsula,
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A report following a two-year investigation from Hindenburg Research claimed digital payments company Block had “systematically taken advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping,” alleging the firm inflated its user metrics and facilitated fraud.According to the March 23 report, Hindenburg Research said Block’s practices allowed users to set
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