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The US-based bitcoin miner – Marathon Digital Holdings Inc. – reportedly has exposure of more than $80 million in one of its hosting providers – Compute North. Two weeks ago, the latter joined the list of troubled entities affected by the ongoing crypto winter, filing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Multi-Million Exposure According to a coverage by Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency miner had invested $10 million in convertible preferred stock of Compute North. It had allocated an...

The financial services corporation – Visa – collaborated with the cryptocurrency exchange – FTX – to offer debit cards in 40 countries across the globe. The cards are already available in the United States and will reach other Asian, Latin America, and European nations soon. Visa’s Next Crypto Move In an interview for CNBC, Visa’s Chief Financial Officer – Vasant Prabhu – noted that the ongoing crypto winter has not deterred the interest in digital currencies. He explained...

After losing millions of dollars worth of assets in a cross-chain hack, the team behind BNB Chain – formerly Binance Smart Chain (BSC) – plans to conduct on-chain governance votes to determine what to do with the stolen funds.  Recall that BNB Chain temporarily halted all network operations after an attacker exploited a vulnerability on the BSC Token Hub cross-chain bridge to siphon two million BNB valued at $600 million. BNB Chain Hacker Absconds With $100M  The hacker still...

The past 24 hours were quite tumultuous, with one of the largest blockchain networks – BNB Chain – suffering a security breach that saw the millions worth of cryptocurrency being compromised. And while the process of freezing and recovering the stolen assets is ongoing and the network is back to its normal functioning, someone took the opportunity to pull off another scam. Enter the BNB HACK INU Token BNBHACKINU – a token created in a clear reference to both the recent BNB...

After spending a fortune on fortune on deals and investments in 2022, Binance may still have a mountain of dry powder left to deploy before the year closes.  The CEO of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), recently said that his company may ultimately spend over $1 billion this year on acquisitions and investments.  Binance’s Billion-Dollar Plans As detailed by Bloomberg, Binance has already committed $325 million across 63 projects in 2022. In 2021, it...

The payroll and job reports from the world’s largest economy were slightly above expectations for September. However, BTC reacted with a sharp price decline, as it typically happens when the US publishes any sort of data lately. Although the numbers for September are below August and the average for 2022, the States added 263,000 new jobs during the month, and the unemployment rate decreased to 3.5%, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These figures are slightly above...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) conducted an 8-month trial on different technologies and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It determined that such monetary products could take part in the global financial ecosystem and assist cross-border payments. The CBDC Experiment Earlier this year, SWIFT launched a program whose purpose was to link different CBDCs systems and thus ease the difficulty in cross-border settlements. Back then,...

Binance has announced a pause across the entire Binance Smart Chain (BSC or BNB Chain) following what appears to be one of the largest exploits in DeFi history.  An attacker has reportedly hacked another BNB chain user for 2 million BNB, worth $600 million.  Another DeFi Catastrophe According to BNB Chain on Twitter, the “temporary” pause is due to “irregular activity,” and a “potential exploit.” “All systems are now contained, and we are immediately investigating the...

The world’s largest cryptocurrency platform – Binance – received a permanent license from Kazakhstan’s AIFC Financial Services Authority (AFSA) to operate a digital asset platform and provide custodial services in the country. Earlier this month, the company and the Kazakhstani monetary regulators signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a safe environment for domestic crypto investors and diminish crime in the sector. Two months ago, Binance obtained in-principal...

Investors are currently fleeing bitcoin and gold amidst a strengthening US Dollar and rising interest rates. This has negatively impacted both – the world’s largest crypto and the precious metal. As a result, the correlation between the two has shifted and has hit its highest level in more than a year. Bitcoin and Gold Correlation Over the past year, bitcoin has been mostly uncorrelated with gold. Its correlation hovered between negative 0.2 and positive 0.2. But this year...