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By the end of 2022, PayPal held over $600 million in digital assets in crypto on behalf of its users. That included $291 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and $250 million in ETH.  According to PayPal’s annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the remainder of its $63 million in crypto was spread between Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC). In total, the firm held $604 million in digital assets. In dollar terms, that’s less than what the firm held in Q3 – when...

Jamie Dimon – the man in charge of JPMorgan Chase, arguably one of the biggest financial companies in the world – really can’t stand bitcoin. In fact, he recently had a long conversation about how much he doesn’t care for it. Jamie Dimon: BTC’s Biggest Hater? In a recent interview, he referred to bitcoin as a big “waste of time” and didn’t think anybody should spend a single moment talking or even thinking about the asset or its alleged prospects. He said: I think all...

It’s happened again, folks. Another bankruptcy is in the crypto books. This time, the company that’s falling victim to alleged bankruptcy proceedings is Genesis, the crypto lending unit of the Digital Currency Group that has worked heavily with Gemini, a crypto exchange in New York run by the Winklevoss Twins. It Looks Like Genesis Will File for Bankruptcy The company is complaining of a “liquidity crunch” in recent posts. Does that sound familiar? If not, it should....

India’s retail CBDC pilot, launched on December 1, has onboarded 50,000 users and 5,000 merchants. In the two-month period, 0.77 million e-rupee transactions were carried out, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said. Right now, digital rupee (e-rupee) transactions are available in a closed group of banks, cities, and merchants. India CBDC Plan will Go Slow “We want the process to happen, but we want the process to happen gradually and slowly. We are in no hurry to make something...

The past 24 hours brought some more pain for the bulls as BTC slipped to another three-week low at under $21,500. Most altcoins are in no better shape, including the ETH liquid staking coins, many of which have seen double-digit price drops. BTC Drops Again The start of the month was highly positive for the primary cryptocurrency, which pumped to $24,200 after the latest interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve on February 2. However, the landscape changed in the...

LocalBitcoins ist eine Peer-to-Peer-Bitcoin-Austauschplattform mit Sitz in Helsinki, Finnland. Sein Service erleichtert den außerbörslichen Handel von lokaler Währung gegen Bitcoins. Plattform LocalBitcoins zieht einen Schlussstrich: Das in Finnland ansässige Unternehmen war sozusagen ein Traditionsunternehmen in der Bitcoin-Branche. LocalBitcoins war definitiv einer der wichtigsten Bitcoin-Services der letzten Jahre: LocalBitcoins hat den Handel...

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of the blockchain payment company that fights the US SEC in court over the status of XRP, believes there’s a lot of positive news in terms of crypto adoption worldwide. He made these comments following the recent crackdown from the Securities and Exchange Commission against Kraken and its crypto staking services. Step Back and Review Being the world’s largest economy, the actions undertaken by the US, its government, and the local regulatory bodies...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol dForce has suffered a reentrancy vulnerability attack leading to the loss of $3.6 million worth of crypto assets. The attacker targeted the protocol’s vault on the automated market maker (AMM) platform Curve Finance, which operates on the Arbitrum and Optimism blockchains. dForce Exploited for $3.65M  The hack was first flagged by Twitter user @ZoomerAnon who announced that dForce had lost about $1.7 million in a series of flash loan...

Following the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s crackdown against Kraken’s staking service on Thursday, one of its members is railing against her agency’s decision.  Hester Peirce – aka ‘Crypto Mom’ – issued a statement on Wednesday arguing that the SEC’s enforcement action is neither “efficient nor fair,” and that exchanges were never given a realistic pathway to registration, to begin with.  The SEC’s Enforcement Style  According to Peirce, the fundamental question...

On Feb. 9, Gary Gensler and his SEC took aim at Kraken and its staking-as-a-service products. The regulator claims that the U.S. crypto exchange is offering unregistered securities through its staking services. Consequently, Kraken suspended staking-as-a-service, and crypto markets have slumped. On Feb. 10, popular analyst and trader Alex Krüger put a positive spin on the latest regulatory crackdown by Uncle Sam. He said that a ban on staking, which the SEC is angling for,...