PuraVida
Retired in Costa Rica and sometimes in Florida.
Joined Nov 2022
It turns out that Sam Bankman-Fried went to secret Masonic parties to persuade a whole bunch of Hollywood movie stars and American politicians to “invest in crypto with FTX.”
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JUST IN: Binance shuts down over 100 Hamas-linked accounts amid ongoing conflict, Israeli authorities target 200 more and seize millions in cryptocurrency.
#crypto
“Digital assets are going to become mainstream very, very rapidly.”—Swift’s Head of Securities Strategy Jonathan Ehrenfeld
#crypto
CFTC Charges Crypto Trading Platform Mosaic for Fraud.
#crypto
https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/cftc-charges-crypto-trading-platform-mosaic-for-fraud
JUST IN: Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's co-founder, had his X account hacked, leading to a phishing site that drained over $800,000.
DON'T CLICK ON ANY LINKS YOU DON'T KNOW ARE THE REAL THING!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ANYONE WOULD FALL FOR A POST SAYING VITALIK WAS GIVING OUT FREE CRYPTO.
myDMV now accepts cryptocurrency as payment for DMV services
#crypto
Republican Lawmakers Demand Gensler Tell Them How Prometheum Got SEC Approval
Financial services platform
@Matrixdock
, a brand wholly owned by
@realmatrixport
, has integrated #Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR) to help secure the minting of tokenized short-term U.S. Treasury bills.
Ethereum's Buterin worries about #Worldcoin's "Proof-of-Personhood" identity system due to privacy, accessibility, centralization, and security issues.
Judge rules XRP is not a security in SEC's case against Ripple.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ripple-wins-case-against-sec-as-judge-rules-xrp-is-not-a-security
Powell testifies crypto 'appears to have some staying power' in U.S. economy.
Israel's Knesset passes bill for tax benefits to crypto sector, giving foreign residents exemption & employees tax reduction to 25%. Country embracing crypto to stay competitive with London & NY.
Bittrex files motion to dismiss SEC lawsuit. Exchange claims SEC lacks authority to regulate cryptocurrencies as securities unless expressly authorized by Congress.
Canadian lawmakers have published a comprehensive report supporting blockchain technology.
#crypto
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/canadian-lawmakers-back-blockchain-with-landmark-recommendations
Those scams are actually easy to avoid. Just as easy as bank scams and any other. If they don't have the info they need it can't happen.
Also, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!
JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan's Nat'l Tax Agency Says Unrealized Gains from Company-Issued Crypto No Longer Taxable for Easier Business in Japan.
Deutsche Bank applies for digital asset license.
Seems Binance has satisfied the SEC for now. Well actually the judge in charge more than the SEC.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/technology/binance-shutdown-sec-crypto.html
The Blockchain Association has requested records connected to the crypto startup Prometheum from the SEC, after the CEO’s testimony before Congress triggered scrutiny of the company.
Despite the SEC's enforcement actions against crypto exchanges, major banks are still pursuing blockchain solutions.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/top-banks-work-to-make-blockchains-interoperable
PuraVida
Retired in Costa Rica and sometimes in Florida.
Joined Nov 2022