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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,...

We are beginning to sound like a broken record at this stage, but it’s worth mentioning again that 2022 was arguably the worst year for the crypto space. Bitcoin, for example, lost more than 70 percent of its value. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap fell from an all-time high of about $68,000 per unit in November of 2021 to about $16,000 just 12 months later. Bitcoin Has Remained Upright It was a sad and ugly sight to see, and the crypto space lost...

The past seven days saw the cryptocurrency market decline considerably and lose around $60 billion of its total capitalization. This came on the back of a regulatory crackdown on behalf of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission toward cryptocurrency staking. It all started a couple of days back when a report suggested that the SEC is targeting the crypto exchange Kraken to allege that its staking offerings represented unregistered securities. The following day,...

The panic surrounding FTX just got a lot bigger. As if the company doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, it is alleged that as much as $415 million in crypto funds were stolen from the exchange in a hack just after it began its bankruptcy proceedings. FTX Has Lost More Money Than Originally Reported The idea that FTX was attacked by cyberthieves is not new. Several sources have been talking about this for weeks, though initially, the stolen amount was believed to be...

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