Pastor indicted for fraud over crypto scheme that came ‘in a dream’
Washington pastor Francier Obando Pinillo was charged with 26 counts of fraud and could spend up to 20 years behind bars.
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AML and KYC: A catalyst for mainstream crypto adoption
For Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin (BTC), the motivation to create a new payment ecosystem from scratch in 2009 stemmed from the economic chaos caused by the banking sector’s over-exuberant and risky lending practices mixed accompanied by the bursting of the housing bubbles in many countries at the time. “And who do you think picked…

Crypto whales suffer huge losses due to USDC depeg, SVB collapse
The depegging of the USDC stablecoin has affected other stablecoins, wreaking havoc on crypto projects and stakeholders in a massive chain reaction. 1788 Total views 22 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTIn response to the extraordinary depegging event of the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin caused by the collapse…

BREAKING: Stablecoin firm Circle to go public in $4.5B blank-check deal
Backed by American investment bank Goldman Sachs, Circle is a major stablecoin partner of payments giant Visa. 1636 Total views 4 Total shares Circle, a Goldman Sachs-backed fintech company focused on stablecoin development, has officially announced Thursday its plans to go public.Under the terms of the agreement, a new Irish holding company will acquire both…

Price analysis 3/2: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, LUNA, SOL, ADA, AVAX, DOT, DOGE
The speculation regarding the U.S. Federal Reserve’s tightening cycle and recent geopolitical developments may have resulted in panic selling by short-term traders. Analysis from Glassnode suggested that traders who had purchased Bitcoin (BTC) near the November 2021 high liquidated their positions in the past two and half months. This supply was absorbed by high conviction…

Waste Management Firm Launches Blockchain Platform in UAE City
A blockchain-enabled waste permit portal will be launched in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the country’s official news agency, Emirates News Agency (WAM), reported on Feb. 17.The blockchain-based waste permit portal will be jointly developed by environmental, recycling and waste management company Bee’ah and the Hamriyah Free Zone Authority (HFZA) — the city of…

Afraid to buy the dip? Bitcoin options provide a safer way to ‘go long’ from $38K
The last time Bitcoin (BTC) traded above $50,000 was Dec. 27, 2021. Since then, four months have passed, but traders seem somewhat optimistic that inflation has hit the necessary threshold to trigger cryptocurrency adoption.In theory, the 8.5% inflation in the United States means that every five years, the prices increase by 50%. This essentially turns…

Indian Supreme Court recovers YouTube account from XRP scammers
XRP scammers hacked the Supreme Court of India’s YouTube account, and although it was recovered, it lost its subscriber base.