Crypto News Weekly Digest 11.08.2023

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2023-08-11

 

Crypto market

BTC - 29408 -0.49%.

Growth leaders among altcoins are RUNE, SUI, FTM.

Fall leaders are GMX, KAS, APT.

BTC dominance is 50.45%.

Altseason index 31.
 

33 million% EARNED by a Bitcoin miner.

The miner who mined 150 BTC in 2009 sold them in 2022 after 13 years of storage.

At the time of extraction, the BTC was worth 13 cents, and the entire amount was $19.50.

He sold them in 2022 in batches of 50 BTC for $6.5 million.

 

515 people were ARRESTED due to the illegal withdrawal of the crypto.

In China, the limit on the purchase of foreign assets is $50,000 per year.

But there are intermediaries with their own base of deepfakes, who buy cryptocurrencies for fake full names and bring them to crypto exchanges.

They were recently arrested. It turned out that they bought the information of 1 million customers from a local delivery service.
 

HACKED LEDGER: 100% invulnerable hardware wallet.

Ripple for $300,000 was debited from the account of an American woman. She turned to support, but they did not immediately help her.

As a result, they sent a new wallet, and in it she saw a transfer to an unknown address. Sid-phrase did not tell anyone.

 

$37 million GONE after the interview.

Lazarus hackers wrote to a CoinsPaid employee on behalf of the Cryptocom exchange and invited him for an interview.

He followed the link and downloaded a malicious file on a PC that opened access to crypto wallets.

According to the same scheme, a year ago, the TOP-1 crypto game Axie Infinity was hacked for $620 million.
 

Brazil's digital currency is called DREX.

Already in 2024, public transport, state employees, pensions and social benefits will be transferred to digital reals.

 

PayPal launches its PYUSD stablecoin.

PayPal USD will be issued on the Ethereum (ERC-20) blockchain and backed by $deposits and treasury bonds for:

 

- Payment for goods and services.

- Transfers to PayPal and compatible wallets.

- Conversions to any crypto supported by PayPal.

 

Musk pays $25,000 to X Premium owners.

The Twitter Blue tick is now officially X Premium and content creators earn ad revenue. Payment terms:

 

- From 15 million message views in the last 3 months.

- From 500 subscribers per account.

- Age not younger than 18 years.

 

A 70-year-old pensioner made 100 x on a Bitcoin.

She bought it for 10k shekels in 2013 on the advice of her nephew, and received 1 million in 2021.

Bank Hapoalim, where she had an account for 40 years, refused to transfer the crypto to fiat. While 2 years of litigation, Bitcoin fell by 50%.

 

SQUID GAME TOKEN investors were robbed twice.

The developers promised to make a cool game, raised money in 2021 and made a Rugpull - they brought it to their wallet.

Later, a law firm appeared and began raising money to file a lawsuit. Collected hundreds of thousands of dollars and disappeared.

An account advertising appeared on Reddit 4 days before the ragpull. It looks like they are the same people.
 

Attention! Huobi is insolvent.

Justin Sun pours USDT to support his other projects, and the exchange has $90 million in USDT, not $630 million, as the audit shows.

Binance is selling USDT in bulk. Withdraw money from Huobi if you trade.