Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: The Central Bank of Argentina is pushing for the introduction of the digital currency “as soon as possible,” Bitfinex makes P2P transactions free in Argentina, Colombia, and Venezuela, and the Salvadorean vice-president links…
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Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer (CTO) at crypto exchange Bitfinex, has expressed his support for the RGB protocol as the “best opportunity” for issuing stablecoins on the Bitcoin network. In an interview with crypto news outlet The Block, Ardoino said he sees RGB as the “rightful successor” to the Omni protocol, which was previously…
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In response to the recent regulatory challenges faced by Bitfinex, iFinex Inc., the Hong Kong-based parent company, is set to repurchase shares worth $150 million from its shareholders, constituting approximately 9% of the company’s total outstanding capital. This move, reported by Bloomberg on October 10, aims to provide iFinex with greater control over its private…
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Bitfinex hack victims from 2016 received iFinex shares as compensation, as the crypto exchange didn’t have enough cash to make users whole. Bitfinex’s parent company, iFinex, has proposed buying back $150 million worth of the company’s shares from users who were offered them as compensation for the $71 million hack on the Bitfinex crypto exchange…
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Two transactions showed lump sums of $50 million in USDT transferred from Bitfinex to the Tether treasury only a few minutes apart. Two 50 million Tether (USDT) transactions have been transferred from Bitfinex to the “Tether Treasury” address, according to transfer receipts from Whale Alert. Both transactions took place on Oct. 2, 2023, two minutes…
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) value dipped under the $25K mark on Monday, a level unseen in 88 days, pushing the global cryptocurrency market cap perilously close to falling below the $1 trillion benchmark. Presently, BTC is hovering just above the $25K mark at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday afternoon. A Tale of Two Markets: Bitcoin Drops…
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Ethereum (ETH), boasting its position as the second most dominant cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is held by a staggering 242,686,839 unique addresses. Fast forward to September 3, 2023, and a mere ten ether addresses command a whopping 34.18% of its entire supply. Let’s dive in for an insightful glimpse into the top ten ETH wallets…
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Over the past three years, there’s been a notable movement in bitcoin holdings. Since September 1, 2020, a whopping 804,000 bitcoin, equivalent to $20.79 billion, has been pulled from centralized exchanges. Notably, 184,000 BTC of that sum, valued at $4.75 billion, was withdrawn in just the last three months. Billions in Bitcoin Withdrawn from Centralized…
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Amid swirling speculations about the third biggest bitcoin wallet, chatter has now emerged linking the fifth largest BTC wallet to the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, former owner of the Wagner private military company (PMC). However, a straightforward blockchain explorer search clearly indicates the wallet bears a label identifying it as property of the U.S. government. Nevertheless,…
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This week, various reports and social media discussions have centered around the third-largest bitcoin (BTC) wallet, a long-standing enigma that potentially maintains the same ownership despite changes in its address.
Billion-Dollar Mysteries: The Cryptic Evolution of Bitcoin’s Third-Largest Wallet
The mysterious bitcoin wallet has garnered attention as it rose to the third largest…
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