CryptoWeek
The crypto-news of the week, updated every Friday evening.
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Markets
- Bitcoin price slides as US seizes most of Colonial ransom - cnbc
- Some bitcoin miners in Xinjiang have been ordered to shut down - The Block
- Sichuan takes lenient stance on bitcoin mining amid national crackdown to deal with rainy season’s excess hydropower - South China Morning Post
- China Reconsiders Its Central Role in Bitcoin Mining - WSJ
- Baidu and Weibo are censoring keywords of Huobi, OKEx and Binance - The Block
- MicroStrategy Announces Proposed Private Offering of $400 Million of Senior Secured Notes - Microstrategy
- MicroStrategy’s Rough Life as a Bitcoin Tracker - WSJ
- Web traffic for cryptocurrency exchanges hit all-time high in May - The Block
- State Street sets up digital unit to capitalise on crypto craze - Financial Times
- Cryptocurrency Comes to Retirement Plans as Coinbase Teams Up With 401(k) Provider - WSJ
- Bitcoin Gains by Country: Who Benefited the Most from the 2020 Boom? - Chainalysis
Tech
- Newsletter #152 - Bitcoin Optech
- BIP32: Modified test vectors for hardened derivation with leading zeros by silencer-Tsai · Pull Request #1030 · bitcoin/bips
- Additional BIP32 test vector for hardened derivation with leading zeros by kristapsk · Pull Request #22095 · bitcoin/bitcoin
- Taproot Activation - Taproot Watch
- Bitcoin Mempool Explorer
- Johoe’s Bitcoin Mempool Size Statistics
- Empty Blocks, Full Mempool
- Bitcoin Tech Talk #243 - Jimmy Song
Ecosystem - El Salvador
- El Salvador Becomes First Nation to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender - NY Times
- El Salvador approves Bitcoin as legal tender Crypto News - Al Jazeera
- El Salvador To Declare Bitcoin As Legal Tender - Nasdaq
- Nayib Bukele’s bitcoin Law - Twitter
- Strike by Zap
- A Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network - Binance Academy
- Why Adopting Bitcoin Is A Bad Idea For El Salvador – Bitcoin Takeover
- IMF sees legal, economic issues with El Salvador’s bitcoin move - Reuters
- Does money grow on volcanoes? El Salvador explores bitcoin mining - Reuters
- Bitcoin lacks a solid foundation as an international currency - Financial Times
Ecosystem - Anonymous vs Elon Musk
- Anonymous Message To Elon Musk - YouTube
- Musk’s Crypto Tweets ‘Destroyed Lives,’ Anonymous Says as Hacker Group Targets Tesla CEO - CoinDesk
- Elon Musk Had the Most Elon Musk Response to Anonymous’ Cryptocurrency ‘Warning’ - News18
Ecosystem - Ransomware and Colonial Pipeline
- DOJ Targets Crypto Crooks As Ransomware Investigations Elevated To Same Level As Terrorism - Zero Hedge
- Let us take on bitcoin gangs, urge police - The Times
- Colonial Pipeline CEO tells Senate DarkSide hackers breached system using single ‘compromised’ password - as he defends decision to pay cybercriminals $4million ransom - Dailymail
- US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers - CNN
- USRetrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers - WSJ
- US Recovers Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers - Decrypt
- How Did the Feds Seize the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Bitcoins? - Vice
- Adam Beck - Bitcoin was NOT hacked. Ransom hackers used a rented cloud server - Twitter
Ecosystem
- Bitcoin 2021 Miami - Day 1 - YouTube
- Bitcoin 2021 Miami - Day 2 - YouTube
- Bitcoin 2021 Miami - YouTube
- Ledger, a Crypto-Security Startup, Raises $380 Million in Funding - WSJ
- Hardware Bitcoin And Crypto Wallet Manufacturer Ledger Completes $380 Million Fundraising Round - Forbes
- Jack Dorsey: Square’s hardware wallet - Twitter
- Solana Is Raising Up to $450 Million to Challenge Ethereum (Updated) - Decrypt
- BlockFi in Discussions to Raise ‘Several Hundred Million’ in Latest Round: Report - CoinDesk
- Amazon Looks to Hire Blockchain Staffers With Experience of DeFi - CoinDesk
Regulation
- CFTC commissioner criticizes DeFi, decries lack of intermediaries - The Block
- BIS Consultative document: Prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures - BIS
Regulation - CBDC
- New forms of digital money - Bank of England
- Bank of England Releases Discussion Paper on Stablecoins, CBDC - CoinDesk
- CBDCs beyond borders: results from a survey of central banks - BIS
- How China’s digital currency is leading the race to displace bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies - South China Morning Post
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