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2021-08-26 18:42:29 POLICE IN BRAZIL ARRESTED $28.6 MILLION IN CRYPTO

Brazilian Federal Police seized 150 million Brazilian reals ($28.7 million) worth of crypto during operation "Kryptos", linked to an alleged pyramid scheme.

Law enforcers arrested five people. In addition to digital assets, the police ended up with $3.6 million in cash in US dollars, 21 premium cars and various jewelry.

According to investigators, the organizer of the criminal scheme was the owner of a consulting business in the field of digital assets in Rio de Janeiro.

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2021-08-26 17:13:09 FACEBOOK TO INTEGRATE NFT INTO DIGITAL WALLET

According to Facebook executive David Marcus, the company is considering building products and features related to nonfungible tokens.

Support for such assets is planned to be added to the Novi digital wallet. With it, users will be able to create, store, rent and sell tokens.

Facebook intends to introduce Novi into the market at the same time as its Diem stablecoin.

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2021-08-26 11:25:41 BITCOIN points to its WORST day in August on the surprise Bank of Korea's rate hike.

Bitcoin surpassed $49,000 mark, then tumbled to $46,600 as Bank of Korea raised benchmark rate for first time in 15 months.

The rate hike makes the Bank of Korea the first major central bank in ASIA to start TAPERING ️‍

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2021-08-26 07:47:24 BITCOIN MINING DIFFICULTY SURGES 13.24%

According to the latest data from BTC.com, the BTC mining difficulty increased by 13.24% to 17.62T.

This situation may be caused by the increase in the number of miners after the Chinese clampdown on mining activities.

Earlier, in mid-August, the difficulty of mining digital gold increased by 7.31%.

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2021-08-25 19:14:41 HACKERS USED GAMES TO STEAL INFORMATION ABOUT CRYPTO WALLETS

Kaspersky Lab experts discovered the Swarez Trojan-Dropper, which, among other things, stole data from crypto wallets.

The peak of activity was in the spring of 2021. Attempts to download such files were recorded in 45 countries.

The attackers used the games Among Us, Battlefield 4, Battlefield V, Control, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, FIFA 21, Fortnite, GTA V, Minecraft, NBA 2K21, Need for Speed ​​Heat, PUBG, Rust, The Sims 4 and Titanfall 2.

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2021-08-25 14:11:13 BUDWEISER BOUGHT THE BEER.ETH DOMAIN FOR 30 ETH

Beer brand Budweiser acquired the decentralized domain Beer.eth for 30 ETH (approximately $ 95,000).

The company also updated its Twitter profile picture with an image of a rocket developed by the Rocket Factory NFT platform.

According to the OpenSea, the NFT with the rocket displayed in the Budweiser profile was bought for 8 ETH ($25,000).

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2021-08-24 18:04:39 BLOCKSTREAM RAISES $210 MILLION AND BECOMES UNICORN

Infrastructure company Blockstream raised $210 million in a Series B funding round. The investment earned it unicorn status with an estimate of $3.2 billion.

Part of the funds raised by Blockstream will be used to promote and develop products and services focused on Bitcoin mining. The firm plans to use the infrastructure it builds to mine cryptocurrency in partnership with third parties.

The rest of the investments are used to create an ecosystem of Bitcoin-based financial products around the Liquid Network sidechain, which is developed by Blockstream.

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2021-08-24 16:35:08 KRAKEN TO GET A LICENSE FROM THE EUROPEAN REGULATOR BY THE END OF 2021

By the end of 2021, the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange will enter the European market. According to CEO Jesse Powell, the company is in talks with regulators in several countries to obtain an operating license.

According to Powell, in January 2021, Kraken attracted more users than in the entire previous year. In the first six months, the trading volume on the platform reached $ 485 billion, exceeding the 2020 figure by more than three times.

Kraken also donated $250,000 to developers involved in the modernization of the Ethereum network.

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2021-08-23 22:15:54 SUBSTACK STARTED ACCEPTING BITCOIN PAYMENTS

The Substack online platform, which allows you to create and charge for access to newsletters, has added support for Bitcoin payments on the Lightning Network.

At the moment, this feature is only available for selected publications.

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2021-08-23 16:29:16 POLY NETWORK HACKER RETURNED THE REMAINING $141 MILLION

The organizer of the attack on the Chinese Internet protocol Poly Network provided the key to the multisig wallet and returned the remaining $141 million from the stolen funds.

In a commentary on the transaction, the hacker explained the delay in the final payment by blocking the stolen USDT in the amount of about $ 33 million. He added that the problem with Tether is excessive centralization.

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