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Ron DeSantis – Governor of Florida and one of the Republicans’ presidential nominees – stated that the “war on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency” that Biden’s administration has supposedly waged will cease should he become the next political leader of the United States.  He also reiterated his hostile stance toward central bank digital currencies, saying such a financial product will not see the light of day if he gets elected. DeSantis’ Pro-Bitcoin Promise The US presidential...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested that the bail bond of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, be revoked and that the court impose a detention order against him due to his attempts to tamper with witnesses. According to a letter submitted to Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York, SBF’s attempts to tamper with witnesses in his fraud case would interfere with the...

Amid regulatory turmoil elsewhere, Binance’s Dubai affiliate, Binance FZE, managed to score an Operational Minimum Viable Product license from the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Binance has now become the first crypto trading platform to receive Dubai’s Operational MVP license enabling it to offer services such as exchange and broker-dealer services. The company is permitted to serve only institutional and qualified retail investors for now. Binance’s Dubai...

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, released an assurance report on Monday covering its financials as of June 30. The Q2 attestation showed that the issuer now holds over $3.3 billion in excess reserves to back its USDT tokens. Tether’s Massive Surplus As explained by Tether in an accompanying blog post, the issuer’s excess reserves stem from the profits generated by its existing reserves. These profits are not distributed to shareholders and are instead solely...

An early user of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) just reclaimed tens of thousands of Ether (ETH) that he’d locked up in the old ENS registrar over 4 years ago. Having appreciated substantially since that time, the value of those 39,712 ETH is now worth roughly $74 million. Reclaiming Old Funds According to blockchain analysts at Lookonchain, darkmarket.eth was responsible for reclaiming the funds – the largest owner of locked Ether within the old registrar until now. After...

Robert Kiyosaki, an American businessman and author of the best-selling book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, believes the United States is broke as the country’s debt keeps increasing, countering claims that the world’s largest economy is strong. In a recent tweet, Kiyosaki called the media agency Wall Street Journal (WSJ) “numb nuts” because it failed to decipher whether the stock market was up due to President Joe Biden raising America’s debt ceiling. America is Broke: Kiyosaki...

CRV – the native token of the DeFi exchange Curve Finance – has plunged over 12% following the recent exploit on several stable pools of the project. However, the token’s price took a somewhat interesting trajectory on the leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges Bithumb and CoinOne, currently trading at a 510% and a 220% premium, respectively. Separately, Upbit (another major Korean digital asset platform) paused CRV deposits and withdrawals shortly after the latest...

Cybercriminals are increasingly moving away from ransomware attacks and opting for a more covert strategy of utilizing stolen computing power to mine digital currency. To increase their likelihood of success, these malicious entities constantly vary their tools, tactics, and procedures, remaining adaptive and evasive in their approach. According to SonicWall, the publisher of cyberattack intelligence and ransomware data, cryptojacking incidents are soaring alarmingly. This...

The Bank of Canada published a report on Wednesday outlining Canadian crypto ownership trends last year. Its Bitcoin Omnibus Survey found that Bitcoin (BTC) ownership across the country declined from 13% to 10% of the population in 2022. The report noted that the ownership decline occurred on the back of Bitcoin’s massive price decline of over 50% throughout the year and increased regulatory scrutiny after FTX’s collapse in November. Altcoin ownership also decreased in 2022....

According to recent research by CoinGecko, two-thirds of the 30 biggest global banks by assets under management (AUM) support crypto trading through regulated exchanges. Furthermore, around 74% of the top 50 banks worldwide support crypto trading by connecting to regulated exchanges, the report added. “However, none support retail crypto trading or on-ramping from respective native platforms.” 1/ How many of the top 30 banks in the world support crypto trading? 66% or 20 out...