Cointelegraph

⁠Brazillian police have arrested ten people suspected of operating a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme worth 850 million reals ($210 million)

⁠Cryptocurrency research firm Diar indicates that the market capitalization for USD stablecoins has hit all-time highs and exceeded $4 billion

⁠The engineering manager at cryptocurrency custodian BitGo, Sean Coonce, has fallen victim to a SIM swapping hack with a loss of over $100,000

⁠Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says that regulations are to blame for Circle staff cuts

⁠Mike Novogratz’s crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital has sold its shares in EOS developer Block.one for $71.2 million

⁠The Ethereum Foundation has announced where its $30 million in earmarked development funding will go over the course of the coming year

⁠The New Zealand-based blockchain collective BlockchainNZ will request that the country’s parliament form a national blockchain strategy

⁠Laos’ central bank has warned financial market participants against accepting, buying or selling cryptocurrency

⁠Firefox Quantum has an opt-in cryptojacking protection feature

⁠Per Diar’s recent report, institutional traders have registered record high volumes on bitcoin derivatives exchanges

⁠Bitfinex and Tether lawyers move to dismiss case versus the New York Attorney General, arguing that purported location and subject matter for jurisdiction is wrong

⁠BlockFi asset management has adjusted interest rates for accounts holding bitcoin and ether

⁠Chinese e-commerce giant JD has reportedly filed for approximately 200 blockchain patents

⁠“In terms of general blockchain space, I think the biggest challenge today is lack of objective experts.” An interview with Marta Piekarska, director of Hyperledger’s ecosystem

⁠A new court filing revealed that stablecoin issuer Tether said that it had invested some of its reserves in bitcoin

⁠The CEO of CIrcle, Jeremy Allaire, says that existing law is inadequate in addressing cryptocurrencies

⁠Canadian cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital will use the services provided by Ledger Vault, the custody arm of French hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger

⁠Japanese parliament passes new crypto regulations for consideration by the upper house

⁠The U.S. SEC has brought legal action to operators of several scam companies targeting crypto investors

⁠As largely predicted, the VanEck SolidX bitcoin ETF proposal has been postponed again by the SEC. However, a slight chance remains that a crypto ETF might come this year

⁠Australian Securities and Investments Commission red flagged another alleged crypto-related scam operating without a license

⁠Craig Wright has filed U.S. copyright registrations for the Bitcoin white paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto

⁠Bitcoin sv is reporting more than 102% gains on the day as reports emerge that Craig Wright has filed copyright registrations for the bitcoin white paper and code

⁠The director of Russia’s federal security service has warned that terror groups are increasingly being financed through cryptocurrencies

⁠Russia is delaying the adoption of its crypto regulation due to a FATF requirement to legislate terms such as “bitcoin” and “crypto”

⁠The CEO of Digital Currency Group has suggested that the recent rise in bitcoin prices could be linked to the U.S.-China trade war

⁠Of the ether stolen from hacked New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, a portion has been moved and deposited to a different crypto exchange

⁠Major global blockchain player Bitfury has partnered with a Kazakhstan-based financial hub to collaborate on blockchain projects

⁠An alleged bitcoin mining fraud scheme involving $23 million sees an arrest in the Netherlands

⁠Major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its spin-off Ethfinex have launched a new initial exchange offering platform dubbed Tokinex