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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a report on Monday warning that central bank monetary and fiscal policy is putting the global economy in danger.  It claimed that U.S. interest rate hikes in particular will cut $360 billion in future income from developing countries.  A Crisis in Developing Countries According to the report, UNCTAD projects a global economic growth slowdown to 2.5% in 2022, and 2.2% in 2023. This will cost the planet...

Pro-Russian outfits have resorted to digital asset funds in a bid to support the war efforts against Ukraine while evading international sanctions. A new report suggests that these groups are raising a massive amount of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies via crowdfunding campaigns. According to Chris Janczewski, head of global investigations at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence resource identified around $400,000 in cryptocurrency raised since the beginning of the...

Major stablecoin issuer Tether has further reduced its commercial paper holdings to less than $50 million, with more than half of its backing in US Treasury Bills. The continuous reduction in Tether’s commercial debt holdings is in line with the firm’s plans revealed earlier in the year. In an update posted on Twitter on Monday (October 3, 2022), Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino announced that the company’s total US Treasury portfolio is currently at 58.1% as of September 2022. This...

Long before the Ethereum network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), censorship concerns have been a bone of contention. To mitigate these risks, Vitalik Buterin has proposed “partial block auctions.” In the latest blog post, the Ethereum co-founder suggested that builders should have a more limited amount of power to prevent ETH censorship post Merge. Instead of letting them have full rein to construct the entire block if they win an auction, builders would have a more...

Bitcoin miners are now holding fewer than 2 million BTC on reserve, according to data from IntoTheBlock.  That’s the lowest amount of Bitcoin held by all tracked pools and miners since 2010, following a steady decline over the past decade.  Dwindling Miner Reserves IntoTheBlock’s data tracks the Bitcoin belonging to the on-chain addresses of various major miners and mining pools – including Poolin, F2Pool, Binance, Bitfury, and others.  In aggregate, total reserves numbered...

The creator of the bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model – PlanB – admitted that recently he made his third BTC investment. At the time of the purchase, the primary cryptocurrency was hovering around $20,000. Due to its significant price depreciation compared to the all-time high of $69,000 in November 2021, many people proclaimed bitcoin dead in the past several months. However, PlanB revealed that each of his crypto investments was at a time when pessimism was reigning. PlanB...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against Kim Kardashian for promoting a crypto security – Ethereum Max. The popular US media personality, model, and businesswoman agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle the charges. CryptoPotato reported in January this year a lawsuit filed in California against Floyd Mayweather and Kim Kardashian, claiming that they misled investors by promoting a cryptocurrency security called EthereumMax (EMAX). The SEC announced on...

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Bitkub, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and four other offenders of their alleged involvement in wash trading. The individuals will have to pay a fine of over $600,000. Bitkub Involved in Wash Trading Case? According to a press release on Tuesday (September 27, 2022), the Thai SEC claimed that two individuals – Mr. Anurak and Mr. Sakon Srakawee – carried out wash trading on the Bitkub platform....

In a two-year-old gaming app fraud case, the top Indian financial crime investigating agency has frozen 85.9 bitcoins, equivalent to $1.6 million, held in an account on Binance. Separately, it also froze WRX, the native coin of WazirX, and USDT together, worth nearly $550,000. Earlier this month, the agency raided several premises in Kolkata in this case and recovered Indian currency equivalent to $2.2 million. The accused in this estimated $8.5 million scam is 25-year-old...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused two companies, their executives, and a supposed international gold trader, of running a fraudulent scheme to boost demand for their digital token. The false promotion of the token netted proceeds of over $36 million for the defendants, the agency said. A Fake $10 Billion Gold Bullion Acquisition According to a lawsuit filed on Friday (September 30, 2022), a Bermudan company called Arbitrade, a Canadian...