Crypto market today

BTC - $16543 -0.08%. Bitcoin is trying to break above $16650, but there is not enough support to break through the resistance. Altcoin charts are red.

Growth leaders among altcoins are BIT, TON, TWT.

The leaders of the fall are XCN, HBAR, SAND.

BTC dominance is 42.2%.

Alt season index 24.

 

The wallets of the late CEO of the Korbit and Bitstamp exchanges have been hacked.

A South Korean hacker cloned the SIM card of Kim Jong-joo, who left this world in 2022. He entered his wallet on Korbit and withdrew $6.7 million worth of crypts in twenty-seven transactions.

 

The police took the burglar in hot pursuit. The district court in East Seoul sentenced him to 6 years in prison and a fine of $89,000.

 

Interestingly, there should have been much more funds in the wallets, because Zhu's fortune was estimated at $10.7 billion.

 

The Chinese are launching the first NFT marketplace.

The grand opening of the platform for NFT trading is scheduled for January 1. The ceremony will take place in Beijing.

 

“Chinese Digital Asset Trading Platform” (yes, creativity is tight in China) will sell not only NFTs, but also digital art copyrights.

 

Trading will be conducted for fiat money. The ability to buy NFTs with crypto is not available due to the ban on cryptocurrency transactions in September 2021.

 

Japan will allow the use of USDT in 2023.

Local regulators will reconsider the policy regarding stablecoins issued in other countries. First of all, this concerns USDC from Circle and USDT from Tether.

 

If the ban is lifted, the maximum transaction with them will be limited to 1 million yen (in dollar terms - $ 7.5 thousand).

 

Exchanges will also collect and store the personal data of customers working with stablecoins, following the AML policy.

 

A database of 400 million Twitter users has been posted on the Darknet.

Hudson Rock experts checked 1,000 sample accounts and confirmed their authenticity.

 

Among them are the emails and phones of Vitalik Buterin, Kevin O'Leary, Mark Cuban and other famous cryptans.

 

The owner of the information obtained it at the beginning of the year. He offers Musk to buy it for $276 million. Otherwise, it will end up on the network and can be used to steal funds from Twitter accounts.

 

A snowstorm in the United States has worsened bitcoin mining by a third.

Due to a winter storm that tore power lines, the bitcoin network lost almost 30% of its power.

 

Riot Blockchain, Core Scientific, Compass Mining have disabled their installations. Blockchain hash rate dropped from 230 to 155 EH/s.

 

This is the amount of computing power that is used to process transactions. The lower it is, the longer the blocks are mined and the lower the stability of the network.

 

Turkey announced a successful test of the digital lira.

In 2022, the country's central bank made several transactions using CBDC.

 

The project was recognized as promising. The study will continue in 2023 with the involvement of private companies.

 

The regulator prioritizes the development of economic and regulatory restrictions for virtual currency.

 

Large traders have accumulated over 400,000 BTC

 

Analysts say bitcoin whales have stepped up. This may be a harbinger of an early rise in the price of cryptocurrency.

 

Since November 9, when the price of BTC fell below $18,000, whales have invested more than $6.73 billion in the coin. Over the past week, more than 70,000 BTC have entered major wallets.