Key Takeaways The transition happened when TTD exceeded 10,790,000 around 1:45 UTC. Goerli test net was the third and final test run before the Mainnent Merge schedule on Mid-September. Ethereum’s final testnet ahead of the Merge went live on Goerli…
Crypto assets worth around $267.2 million have been laundered through RenBridge since 2020. $2.4 million in crypto assets stolen during the Nomad hack went through RenBridge.
Approximately $570,000 was drained from users. Hacker used a Domain Name Service spoofing hack, cloned the site, and redirected the DNS point to their IP address
Wladimir Van Deer-Lead Bitcoin Core Maintainer states it is time to leave BTC for other things. Recently, Bitcoin Maximalists are increasingly lashing out at BTC developers and crypto analysts who don't follow their body of thought.
Prosecutors accuse 3 BitMEX Co-founder and Dwyer of servicing U.S. clients despite announcing its withdrawal from the U.S. market in 2015. Prosecutors filed charges against the four in 2020 for viola
105 websites dedicated to advocating virtual currency marketing, publishing, and pushing explainers on cross-border currency speculation and virtual currency mining were closed. Social media giants Weibo, Baidu have closed 12,000 illegal accounts that promote virtual currency investments.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes ETC is a better PoW alternative to Ethereum.
EtherMine released a beta version of EtherMine Staking that will offer stake pool services for the post-Merge era.
f2pool, the second largest Ethereum mining pool, acknowledges the new Era of PoS."
Chainlink will no longer have proof-of-work (PoW) forks, while BitMEX has said it will launch a linear futures contract for its users to get exposure to ETHPOW.
Act plans to decrease Inflation by raising an estimated $739 billion in revenue — $433 billion of which would be spent on energy and climate programs. Many argue the IRA Act could lead to Inflation and a possible recession. The Act allocates $45 billion to Internal Revenue Service specifically to provide digital asset monitoring and compliance activities.
66% of the cryptocurrency investors in Spain are male, while 34% are women. 41% of those with paychecks over 3,000 euros have invested in crypto. 43% of the crypto investors have university diplomas
798 crypto-related scams in the first half of 2022– a 105% increase from the same period in 2021
HK$387.9 million has been drained from Hong Kong-based digital asset firms and individuals between January and June 2022.
Cryptocurrency scams make up the top 3 types of cyber crimes in Hong Kong.
