El Salvador makes Bitcoin payments voluntary in $1.4B IMF loan deal

DeFi is "flourished by human greed," according to a developer for the exploited project 3326 Total views 21 Total shares There may be good news on the horizon for the victims of one of DeFi’s largest-ever exploits. At 5:30 AM UTC today, a Meerkat Finance developer identifying themselves as “Jamboo” posted a short message in a…

Venezuela’s рresident, Nicolas Maduro, has raised the reference value of the national cryptocurrency, Petro, against the background of the country’s ongoing hyperinflation, the president’s official Twitter tweeted Nov. 30.According to major Latin American television channel TeleSur, Maduro first announced the new Petro rate on Thursday. Nov. 29. The value of the Petro is now set…

On March 10, major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced it has partnered with crypto forensics firm Chainanylsis following the passing of new Korean crypto regulations.Bithumb will employ Chainalysis’s “Reactor” investigations tool to examine suspicious activity on its platform in a bid to comply with Korea’s recently amended Special Financial Transactions Information Act.South Korean crypto…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is growing fast. Total value locked, a measure of money managed by DeFi protocols, has grown from $10 billion to a little more than $40 billion over the last two years after peaking at $180 billion.Total value locked in DeFi as of Nov. 2022. Source: DefiLlamaThe elephant in the room? More than…

The Foreign Ministry of Thailand has revoked the passport of an alleged crypto scammer, which has reportedly rendered him unable to return to his home country for prosecution, the Bangkok Post reports Wednesday, Oct. 10.According to the report, Prinya Jaravijit was in the U.S. after a cryptocurrency investment scheme surfaced in which he and several…

"The load on our systems are way too much," said CEO Nischal Shetty. 1212 Total views 13 Total shares Major Indian crypto exchange WazirX experienced disruptions caused by system failures for more than four hours Sunday. In a tweet at 5:24 PM UTC, WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty reported that the crypto exchange had “hit some internal…