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Binance Announces Intent to Buy FTX After Exposing Solvency Issues
Both CZ and SBF have tweeted about the potential deal.
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Prices Slump Amid FTX Solvency Concerns: Binance Goes For Kill Shot
CZ and Binance appear to have taken this action due to recent regulatory lobbying efforts that SBF and FTX have made to the US Government, including lobbying against Binance behind their back.
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BitMEX Renews Gleb Naumenko’s Bitcoin Developer Grant
BitMEX has extended Gleb Naumenko’s Bitcoin developer grant until May 2023, a six month extension from the previous grant. This is the fourth consecutive time BitMEX has provided Gleb a grant and BitMEX continues to support his work for the long term.
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Tor Project Releases Annual Financial Statements
We upload all of our tax documents and publish a blog post about these documents in order to be transparent.
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CashApp Sold $1.76B Worth of Bitcoin to Users During Q3 2022: Down 3% Year Over Year
Block reported $1.76 billion in bitcoin revenue in its Cash App unit during the third quarter, down 3% year-over-year and lower than the $1.79 billion reported in the second quarter.
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Using LNsploit to Steal from LND Nodes: How to Exploit the Recent Transaction Bugs
This post walks through how to use LNsploit to steal funds from an LND node affected by some of the recent critical bugs, in regtest.
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Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Digital Gave NYDIG 26200 ASICs in Exchange for Relief from $67.4 Million of Debt
Stonghold Digital (SDIG) closed on the seventh and final tranche of bitcoin miner deliveries to NYDIG that had served as collateral for financing agreements with NYDIG, the miner said in a Tuesday press release.
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Major South African Supermarket Chain 'Pick n Pay' Now Accepts Bitcoin: Plans to Roll Out Support to All 1628 Stores Over Coming Months
Customers can pay with any lightning enabled wallet. Tested in 10 stores over the past five months and is now available in 39 stores across the country.
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Second Critical LND Bug in Less Than a Month Causes LND Nodes to Fall Out of Sync with Chain Again
Only impacts LND nodes, other lightning implementations are still in sync. Nodes can still make and route payments, but are not aware of current chain state until updated.
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Coinbase Backed Surveillance Compliance Group 'TRUST' Expands to Europe: 67 Companies are Participating
TRUST, which was originally kick-started in the U.S. by Coinbase (COIN) with help from BitGo, Gemini, Kraken and Fidelity, said earlier this year it had established a footing in Canada and Singapore. As part of its European advancement, the TRUST membership has grown to 67 firms
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BitMEX Renews Chris Coverdale’s Bitcoin Developer Grant With a Focus on StratumV2
BitMEX has extended Chris Coverdale’s Bitcoin developer grant until May 2023, a six month extension from the previous grant. This is the third consecutive time BitMEX has provided Chris a grant and BitMEX continues to support his work for the long term.
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SIAM is a Computer System Used on Iranian Cellular Networks, Providing Operators Remote Commands to Alter, Disrupt, and Monitor How Customers Use Their Phones
The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where.
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