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2023-03-24 13:44:51 Interpol confirmed the arrest of crypto-fugitive Do Kwon

Interpol reports that the man arrested in Montenegro is Kwon Do Hyun, also known as Do Kwon, the disgraced founder of a bankrupt cryptocurrency company who is wanted in South Korea and the United States on charges of fraud and other crimes.

Kwon, a South Korean citizen, founded the blockchain platform for the stable mint TerraUSD and its sister coin Luna. Both coins lost their value in a matter of days in May 2022, wiping about $40 billion from the crypto market and causing panic in the speculative sector.

According to a CNN report, Kwon's identity was confirmed through fingerprint matching, the national Interpol central bureau in Seoul told CNN on Friday.

A day earlier, Montenegrin Interior Minister Filip Adzic wrote on social media that a man believed to be Kwon had been arrested in the capital Podgorica.

Kwon was based in Singapore when he ran blockchain platform Terraform Labs. In December, prosecutors in Seoul told CNN that the crypto-entrepreneur was in Serbia, where he had gone into hiding after leaving Singapore.

In September, a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for Kwon after investors accused him of fraud after the company collapsed.

Kwon was charged with fraud and violating South Korea's capital markets law. In October, he said he did not believe the charges were legitimate and said they were "politically motivated."

The cryptocurrency developer has repeatedly stated on Twitter that he is not "on the run," but has refused to disclose his whereabouts because of concerns for his personal safety. Open / Comment

2023-03-23 19:59:59 Liquid Mining will launch global sales on April 1st, 2023.

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2023-03-22 14:02:40 The head of OneCoin pyramid scheme compliance faces up to 40 years in prison

The U.S. Attorney's Office has charged Irina Dilkinskaya, the former head of the legal department and compliance of the cryptocurrency pyramid OneCoin, with fraud and conspiracy to launder funds.

According to the U.S. Justice Department, the defendant helped launder more than $400 million in illicit proceeds from OneCoin through shell companies. In addition, she destroyed compromising evidence after the arrest of the company's lawyer, Mark Scott.

On March 20, Dilkinska was extradited from Bulgaria to the United States. She faces up to 40 years in prison on the charges.

The financial pyramid scheme OneCoin was founded in 2014 by Ruja Ignatova together with Sebastian Greenwood. The project was initially positioned as a highly profitable cryptocurrency, in which investors profited not only from the growth of the asset, but also for attracting new participants.

As a reminder, in November 2019, Mark Scott was convicted by a court in the Southern District of New York of laundering nearly $400 million.

In the spring of 2020, Konstantin Ignatov, the brother of OneCoin's founder, was detained at the Los Angeles airport. He later pleaded guilty to several charges.

In February 2023, journalists reported the murder of Ignatova, who was on Europol and the FBI's most wanted list of criminals. Open / Comment

2023-03-21 17:49:00 Vice president resigned from the investment company Paradigm Capital

The vice president of cryptocurrency and Web3 protocol development, investment firm Paradigm Capital, has left the company. It was about Tal Broda's decision to leave the team and leave the organization. He announced this to his, already former colleagues, in an internal corporate memo back in late February 2023.

"Although I believe strongly in Paradigm Capital's mission and in the company's ability to realize its vision, I have decided that leading engineering activities in this organization, is no longer appropriate for me at this point in my life," Broda said. His departure was another shock for one of the cryptocurrency industry's largest investment funds.

The fact is that since the end of 2022, Paradigm Capital has lost several key engineers and other specialists at once. They were forced to leave the team amid a prolonged crisis in the industry. According to a Paradigm spokeswoman, the downturn in the cryptocurrency market led to the reduction of several internal projects at the firm.

The company has had to make cost cuts. In connection with this, part of the staff, including highly qualified specialists, was laid off.

Company officials recalled that Broda joined the Paradigm Capital fund not long ago. He joined the team less than a year ago in April 2022. The specialist remained in his position until mid-March of this year and only now announced his departure publicly. Prior to that, he helped with the day-to-day management of the engineering team.

Prior to joining Paradigm Capital, Broda led the platform at Citadel Securities. He led large engineering teams of more than 50 people. "I decided to pursue an opportunity that was more in line with my previous experience," he wrote. Open / Comment

2023-03-20 15:25:42 Taiwan will pass laws to regulate digital assets

Taiwan will adopt special legislation that will give the local Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) a mandate to regulate cryptocurrencies. The information was confirmed by the head of the agency Huang Tenmu, writes Bloomberg.

Speaking to CoinDesk, XREX platform co-founder and CEO Wayne Huang welcomed the imminent arrival of regulatory clarity. He said industry players can join forces to help the FSC develop a set of rules.

Principles for the document are expected by June, with a draft bill in the coming months.

The impetus for the initiative may have come from the FTX collapse - locals were, in relative terms, the largest users of the platform.

The island had previously taken a neutral approach to digital assets, requiring crypto exchanges only to comply with AML rules.

According to Juan, the FSC will focus on regulating virtual assets related to payments and trading, while the cabinet will hand over the rest to other government agencies. In particular, stabelcoins could be the responsibility of the central bank.

The commission would not regulate NFTs because of their "immature nature as an asset class," according to the CEO of XREX.

"Because of their extensibility and componentizability, non-interchangeable tokens can represent a wide range of things, from commercial products to commodities to securities," Wayne explained.

As a reminder, in July 2022, the FSC sent a letter to the banking association demanding a ban on the use of credit cards to pay for digital assets. Open / Comment

2023-03-19 22:02:15 Complaining about "Crypto Winter"?

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2023-03-19 18:23:52 56% of Dogecoin holders in profit, 65% of Shiba Inu holders in loss

Blockchain analysts at IntoTheBlock noted that most owners of the cryptocurrency meme Dogecoin (DOGE) are making a profit, while holders of the rival Shiba Inu (SHIB) are doing much worse.

According to researchers, 56% of DOGE holders are profiting from their investments, 34% are making losses, and 10% have reached the break-even point.

At the same time, only 29% of SHIB holders have "profit" status, while 67% have suffered financial losses.

This month, the Shiba Inu ecosystem saw the beta release of Shibarium's long-awaited Level 2 scaling solution. The Layer 2 protocol is built on the Ethereum smart contract platform.

Once the beta is completed, the Bone ShibaSwap (BONE) token will act as a management token for the new ecosystem, and the digital asset will be used to pay gas fees.

Lead developer Shiba Inu Kusama warned that the coins in the Shibarium beta are not real, and users should not spend their SHIBs trying to accumulate them.

All tokens on Puppynet are NOT real. Don't spend your hard-earned SHIB on these tokens, no matter how hard the salespeople try.

The project, announced back in May 2021, will allow developers to create low-cost and scalable applications. The beta testing phase should take about two months, and possibly until July. Open / Comment

2023-03-18 14:26:11 Smart Contractor: There's going to be a big Ether rally

Smart Contracter follows the movements of major ETH holders and thinks: Buterin's crypto will rise sharply.

Smart Contracter is the same person who predicted bitcoin's fall in 2018. Now he's talking about the rise of ether.

ETH is in correction and ready to grow:

ETH/BTC just hit a six-month low, just 3% below my main buying zone.

Not in the circumstances I expected this to happen (I thought ETH and BTC would fall, but ETH more so), but there is no chance I would miss the coming monster ETH rally.

The contrarian is looking at the ETH/BTC chart. And here's his explanation: ETH/BTC is correcting downward and almost touched Fibo support at 0.618. This level is called the bounce point.

The trader also looks at the movements of the top players. He studied the Santiment data. According to them, sharks (that's like whales, only smaller) have accumulated 3.6 million ETH worth $6.1 billion in 2022. That's a big number. The whales themselves (addresses with 10,000 to 10,000,000 coins) got rid of 9.4 million ETH in 2022.

Finally, Elliott waves are also for the growth of crypto. Waves reveal the behavior of a broad audience. This is where the ground is ready to move up. Open / Comment

2023-03-17 17:39:26 Bitcoin rate updated the maximum for nine months at $ 27 thousand.

Bitcoin rate updated its maximum for nine months, rising above $27 thousand - to $27.08 thousand, the mark of $27 thousand asset price crossed for the first time since June 13, 2022. According to CoinGecko, at 17:00 Moscow time, the coin is trading at $26.6 thousand, for the day its value increased by 6.2%.

Over the past 24 hours, the first cryptocurrency rose in price by $1.7 thousand. In the morning of March 17, its price exceeded the mark of $26 thousand after the opening of trading in the markets of Singapore and Hong Kong. During the day the value of the asset fell to $25.7 thousand, and then began to rise again.

Leading altcoins also rose in price. Ethereum (ETH) rose 5.5% to $1.74 thousand, BNB (BNB) rose 7.2% to $334, Polygon (MATIC) rose 5.1% to $1.19. Ripple (XRP) rose 3.9% to $0.378 and Cardano (ADA) rose 4.2% to $0.339.

During the day, 43,300 traders' positions totaling $159 million were liquidated on cryptocurrency exchanges. According to Coinglass, 76% of them were short. Orders with bitcoin accounted for $87 million, with Ethereum - $30 million. The largest forced position closing occurred on Bitmex exchange in pair XBT/USD - for $4.74 million. Open / Comment

2023-03-16 17:35:15 Analysts have recorded a unique dynamic in the NFT market

According to the latest data from Twitter account NFTStatistics, the market for non-flippable tokens (NFT) has recorded a unique dynamic. According to analysts, crypto token turnover increased as the market grew, but "flippers" have lost about 4,000 ETH weekly over the past 14 days. Flippers are people who buy a digital asset and resell it quickly, trying to make an instant profit or lose money.

The 30-day period saw the highest number of unsuccessful "flips" in the history of the NFT market. Analysts noted: losses from such traders' actions approached their all-time highs. Experts NFTStatistics assured that flippers have lost more than 12 thousand ETH on Blur cryptocurrency (BLUR) trading alone in the last month. According to experts, this was due to another unlocking of tokens and the second wave of airdrop.

In addition, the losses could be related to the downward trend of the NFT market. According to expert assurances, trading volumes led to high gas and royalty fees, which only contributed to the increased losses.

Industry analysts also recalled that the developers of Meta, Instagram and Facebook (these organizations are banned in Russia) decided to close their NFT offerings 6 months after their launch.

Manifold offered users "paid burns." The new feature allows creators to choose whether or not to add an additional fee to the ransom for destroying a released edition. In doing so, 100% of the funds go to the author.

Yuga Labs continued to expand the Bored Ape ecosystem with the launch of the new NFT Sewer Pass, as well as generative drop and its own digital art collection using the Ordinals protocol. Finally, Sotheby's announced the opening of an NFT exhibition and auction inspired by the "Strangely Satisfying" cryptocurrency subreddit. Open / Comment