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Ukraine

Trustee Plus will represent Ukraine at Web Summit 2022 in Lisbon

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The Ukrainian cryptocurrency neobank Trustee Plus will take part in the large-scale IT conference Web Summit 2022. The event will take place from 1 to 4 November in Lisbon. In addition to Trustee Plus, 23 startups from Ukraine will take part in it. Neobank Trustee Plus is based on the principles of...

Ireland

The Irish became less interested in cryptocurrencies

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The Irish authorities have a negative attitude towards digital currencies and urge citizens not to invest in such instruments. The head of the Central Bank Dervill Rowland warned compatriots that buying bitcoin is fraught with great risks. According to Finder, the share of cryptocurrency investors...

Binance

Binance maintains its leading position in the crypto market

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Binance is confidently holding the first place in the ranking of cryptocurrency exchanges both in terms of trading volumes and in terms of popularity among Internet users. This platform is ahead of its competitors in terms of popularity in many countries. According to SimilarWeb, more than 300...

ftx

FTX crypto exchange earnings skyrocketed 1000% in 2021

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2021 turned out to be a good year for the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. The company's revenue grew by 1000% from $89 million to $1.02 billion. FTX is the third largest exchange after Binance and Coinbase in terms of the trading volume. Over the past 24 hours, the amount of transactions on this...

Thailand

Thai authorities reminded citizens of the risks of investing in DeFi projects

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The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) once again reminded the citizens of the country about the risks of investing in digital currencies. Only this time, the regulator urged investors to be as careful as possible when they decide to channel funds into projects deployed in the DeFi...

Tornado Cash

A rally against the arrest of Tornado Cash developer was held in Amsterdam

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On Saturday, August 20, a rally was held on Dam Square in Amsterdam in support of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev. On August 12, Dutch authorities arrested an unnamed man on suspicion of being involved in money laundering and hiding criminal financial flows through a cryptocurrency mixer....

Bitcoin

The correlation of Bitcoin and the US stock market fell to a yearly low

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The bitcoin rate over the past two days has fallen from $23,376 to $20,871. The night before, the coin won back a little and rose to $21,294. Over the week, BTC capitalization decreased by 12.55% to $409.852 billion. The pressure from the bears is intensifying, bitcoin has not been able to break...

blockchain

Blockchain companies have been able to attract investments of $6 B

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The financing of the business focused on the blockchain industry from September 2021 to June 2022 amounted to about $6 billion. The 40 largest corporations invested mainly in this sector, according to a study by Blockdata. At the same time, it is impossible to determine the scale of funding, since...

Hayes

Arthur Hayes bets on the growth of Ether after the activation of the Merge fork

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According to the ex-head of the BitMEX crypto exchange Arthur Hayes, in the event of a successful update of the Ethereum, the value of the network's underlying asset - ETH will begin to add. The sellers capitulated, the expert believes. Those who do not believe in its future have left the asset,...

South Korea

South Korea Urges Crypto Exchanges to Obtain Licenses by September 24

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Cryptocurrency exchanges must obtain licenses by September 24 to operate legally on the South Korean market. According to the Financial Services Commission (FSC), 16 foreign marketplaces operate in the country without licenses. If they do not complete registration within the deadlines set by the...

Genesis

Crypto company Genesis cuts staff by 20%

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Many companies in the crypto sphere are forced to lay off employees to reduce operating costs. Moreover, some teams have cut staff by more than 50% after the industry was in a state of crisis caused by the outflow of capital from digital currencies. Now this list has been added to the Genesis...

Jesse Powell

Kraken CEO criticizes US authorities for sanctions against Tornado Cash

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The imposition of sanctions against the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency service caused discontent among many experts and businesses focused on the blockchain industry. Jesse Powell, CEO of the Kraken exchange, joined the critics of the decision of the US Treasury. He believes that limiting the...

Doge

Dogecoin corrects as sales resume

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The Dogecoin rate soared to $0.0876 last Tuesday, the highest value since the beginning of June 2022. Altcoin began to add value at the end of last week. The Santimemt team has spotted a spike in whale activity on the Dogecoin network. The blockchain saw a surge in transactions of over $100,000....

Mining

Losses of the largest bitcoin miners exceeded $1 billion

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As a result of the collapse of bitcoin, the largest mining companies suffered heavy losses. The list of victims is headed by miners Core Scientific, Marathon, and Riot. Their total losses have exceeded $1 billion since the collapse of the Terra ecosystem. Other companies Bitfarms and Greenidge also...

Coinbase

Coinbase Plans to Suspend ERC-20 Token Transactions During Merge Update

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The largest American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the suspension of transactions with ERC-20 standard tokens during the September Merge update. Last Tuesday, the company's press service announced support for the long-awaited fork, designed to complete the transition of Ethereum to the...

Tether

Capitalization of Tether increased by $2 billion

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In early August, the US Treasury imposed sanctions against the Tornado Cash service, which allows anonymous sending of digital currencies. Washington has evidence that this site was used for money laundering. The capitalization of the stablecoin Tether (USDT) has increased by almost $2 billion...

investor

Institutional investors again began withdrawing capital from crypto funds

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CoinShares analysts recorded the first outflow of institutional capital from crypto funds in the last six weeks. The researchers estimate that over seven days, large investors withdrew $17 million from crypto-focused funds. Bitcoin instruments lost $21 million, but traders put $2.6 million into...

Kazakhstan

Binance is preparing to receive a license from Kazakhstan

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In May 2022, the CEO of the Binance exchange, Changpeng Zhao, visited Kazakhstan and conferred options for cooperation with the President of the Republic, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The crypto company expressed its readiness to help this Asian state in the formation of its own blockchain...

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