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Blockchain investors in Japan rejoice. The Japanese subsidiary of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced that customers could begin withdrawing funds from their accounts beginning on Tuesday, after a months long freeze. FTX Japan customers are among the first to get their money back following the exchange’s global…
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Do Kwon, the erstwhile CEO of Terraform Labs and its infamously unstable stablecoin Terra, now has another reason to remain on the lam. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged he and his company transferred 10,000 bitcoin worth hundreds of millions of dollars out of the Terra/Luna project before it…
If you were seeking any more reasons to be skeptical of the crypto market, here you go: Nearly a quarter of new coins minted on the blockchain that attained any value in 2022 fit the on-chain characteristics of a pump-and-dump scheme, according to
El Salvador, which has already lost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on its authoritarian millennial president’s beleaguered effort to embrace cryptocurrencies, now says it plans to open a “bitcoin embassy” in Texas. The Central American country’s continued commitment to bitcoin comes despite last year’s crypto…
