FTX begins talks to relaunch exchange
FTX is making efforts to relaunch the exchange and has begun talks to do so, WSJ
writes.
The company "has begun the process of engaging stakeholders to reboot FTX com,"
CEO John J. Ray III said.
Deals
Binance will not delist anonymous coins in Europe
Binance has cancelled the delisting of anonymous coins in Europe, following a
review of local legislation.
The list included DASH, XMR, DCR, ZEC, ZEN, PIVX, NAV, SCRT, XVG, FIRO, BEAM and
MOB.
BlackRock close to registering a bitcoin-ETF
BlackRock, a $10 trillion asset manager, is close to filing for a bitcoin-ETF.
CoinEx Charity awarded scholarships to children at a Buddhist orphanage in Vietnam
The CoinEx Charity Foundation has partnered with the Royal Melbourne University
of Technology (RMIT) charity in Vietnam and held its first CoinEx Dream Grant
event. This was reported in a press release from the trading platform.
The organizations also visited local orphanages, where they distributed
educational supplies and toys to
The U.S. has reached an agreement to raise the national debt limit
Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement to raise the
national debt limit. The final bill will come up for a vote on Wednesday, May
31. Its details are not yet known.
Markets took the news positively, and BTC appreciated to $28K and ETH to $1900.
Jump Trading is accused of unjust enrichment of nearly $1.3 billion
A class action lawsuit was filed against Jump Trading. The victims accuse the
company of having ties to the collapsed Terra-Luna project, pumping UST
liquidity and unjust enrichment to the tune of $1.28 billion.
The suit says that for "bailing out UST," the firm was allowed to
Frenchman to spend 1.5 years in jail for buying car for bitcoins
A court in Casablanca sentenced Frenchman Thomas Clausy to 18 months in prison
for illegal use of cryptocurrency. The defendant will also pay a $3.7 million
fine.
Clausi's crime was a BTC payment. He sent the coins to a French woman living in
Casablanca. It was a
The Central Bank of Ireland called BTC "lotteries"
The Central Bank of Ireland commented on the recent MiCA bill. They issued a
press release on their website from Gabriel McLough, the head of the agency. He
believes Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme and a lottery, not an investment.
"Such a purchase can be like buying a lottery
Bhutan secretly uses hydropower to mine bitcoin
Bhutan's state-owned company Druk Holding & Investments has been secretly mining
bitcoins since 2019, when BTC was worth about $5000. Apart from that, the
holding company also mined Ethereum.
The country mines the lion's share of BTC through green mining.
Number of NFT Ordinals exceeds 1 million
A record number of NFTs were created in Bitcoin blocks in early April. The
reason was the appearance of a new token standard - BRC-20.
This standard was proposed by anonymous developer Domo as a counterpart to the
ERC-20 standard, but with more limited functionality.
More than 170 BTC were