- The Ripple legal storm<\/a> continues with more thunders coming. At the beginning of this month, several XRP investors filed a new lawsuit<\/a> against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)<\/strong> for financial damage. Not much later, the firm Tetragon<\/a>, a significant investor of Ripple Labs, sued the crypto-company to recover its investment.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, by the end of January, another investor<\/a> decided to file a class-action lawsuit against Ripple Labs, after losing barely $48 because of the XRP price drop. It\u2019s supposed he\u2019s only trying to open the way for other investors to join. On the other hand, the first court date<\/a> for the case, in general, is February 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n- The Philippines has released new rules<\/a> for cryptocurrencies within its territory. <\/strong>Now, the cryptos will be treated as cross-border payments, and the providers must comply with anti-money laundering (AML) measures. Dubai is n\u00e1sledovat oblek<\/a>: according to Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), they\u2019ll regulate this year security, exchange, and utility tokens, as well as cryptocurrency firms.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- The proposal<\/a> by the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) about supervising \u201cunhosted wallets\u201d extended<\/a> its short comment period of the new rules to 60 days. Anyway, the new U.S. elected president Joe Biden froze<\/a> all federal regulatory processes for a minimum of 60 days<\/strong>, including the cryptocurrency-related ones.
<\/li>- Starting<\/a> on April 1, 2021, every government official in Russia will be banned from owning any kind of cryptocurrency<\/strong>. Meanwhile, United Kingdom could ban<\/a> the cybersecurity insurance firms to pay the cryptocurrency ransom for the companies in case of a ransomware attack. Mainly, because they\u2019d be funding the organized crime.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Cybersecurity and attacks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- There are around some fake trading and poker apps<\/a> infected with malware capable to steal cryptocurrencies.<\/strong> Besides, the hardware wallet provider Ledger suffered<\/a> this month another data leak, where 20,000 customer records were affected. The hackers could use that information to spread malware again<\/a> via email.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n- A dangerous robbery gang seems to be hunting cryptocurrency traders in Hong Kong<\/strong>. They lure<\/a> the victims with several successful virtual transactions before meeting in person, for a supposed bigger P2P trade. Then, they use brute force to rob the victim\u2019s cryptocurrencies and cash. They got away with around $1M so far.
<\/li>- The decentralized liquidy provider SushiSwap trp\u011bl<\/a> a minor robbery, where the hacker snatched 24h of DIGG\/WBTC swap fees <\/strong>(81 ETH \u2013 around $110.100). The native token and its price weren\u2019t affected, at the least.
<\/li>- The classic giveaway scams<\/a> on Twitter involving Elon Musk are on the rise<\/strong>. Podvodn\u00edci managed to steal<\/a> verified accounts on such social network, and then comment from them in the original Elon Musk\u2019s tweets to promote the scam. They invite the users to send them BTC, promising to return twice the amount. Of course, they only steal the funds.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Na trz\u00edch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- On January 8, Bitcoin reached its last All-Time-High (ATH), surpassing $41,900 per coin.<\/strong> Ethereum did it too<\/a> by the end of the month, with over $1,467 per token. Besides, they weren\u2019t alone: Cosmos (ATOM) reached a new peak of $10,13; Uniswap (UNI) established a new $15.5 record per token; Chainlink (LINK) surpassed $25.6 per coin, AAVE hit $305.4 and Dogecoin (DOGE)<\/a> made it to $0.074 per token [CoinMarketCap].<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n- After some milestones, the market acted bearish for a while.<\/strong> Bitcoin descended<\/a> to even $28.200, and it\u2019s still in recovery. Ethereum and most of the other ATH-altcoins said goodbye soon to their peaks, but they\u2019re still growing in green and with good perspectives ahead. Dogecoin is the exception because is still on the rise, breaking new records.
<\/li>- Despite its position by market capitalization and its popularity, EOS doesn\u2019t seem to be catching up with the bullish season. <\/strong>Daniel Larimer, its co-founder and CTO, resigned<\/a> to Block.one mid-January. The price of the cryptocurrency was affected for it, and now it\u2019s just stagnant, very far from its last ATH in 2018.
<\/li>- Mluvit o Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mince<\/a>, Ethereum now has over 2% of its total supply locked inside ETH. 2.0 staking contract.<\/strong> That means<\/a> over $3.1b staked on this (future) network, and make it the third<\/a>-largest blockchain by staked value. The calculated Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is around 9.76%.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Dal\u0161\u00ed novinky<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- Businessman Craig Wright, who\u2019s been proclaiming without definitive proofs that he is Satoshi Nakamoto<\/a> (Bitcoin creator), threatened with legal actions against the Bitcoin original whitepaper hosters.<\/strong> This, supposedly, for copyright infringement, even when Bitcoin is still an open-source and free software. As a result, the whitepaper was removed from Bitcoin j\u00e1dro<\/a>, the main Bitcoin client.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Also, as a result, it was quickly created a movement on Twitter under the hashtag #BitcoinPdf<\/a> for the users and companies to share the document on their own websites and networks. Thousands of them have joined, including Microstrategy, Fidelity Digital Assets, Coin Center, Chaincode Labs, Paradigm, Casa, NYDIG, Riccardo Spagni, Square, Novi; and even the governments of Miami and Estonia. Of course, we also shared it na Alfacash<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Fotka od mohamed Hassan z Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n - Wladimir van der Laan, the main Bitcoin Core maintainer, stepped down from his role this January<\/strong>. The decision came after a break in his responsibilities since the last year. According to his blog post<\/a> about it, Bitcoin needs more decentralization and it\u2019s become stressful for him to be the ultimate leader of its development. The announcement arrived the same day of Craig Wright\u2019s claims about the whitepaper, so, this is maybe one of the main reasons for Laan\u2019s departure.
<\/li>- Bitcoin institutional mining is growing.<\/strong> This same month, the Chinese sports lottery firm 500.com ozn\u00e1mil<\/a> its plans to invest around $14.4m to buy Bitcoin mining machines. Also, the government of Pakistani province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa schv\u00e1len\u00fd<\/a> the funds to install mining farms and then boost the local economy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Not much later, the firm BitCluster<\/a> created the first Bitcoin mining farm in the Arctic Circle around Siberia. Following suit, the videogames operator The9 Limited<\/a> signed five agreements to acquire 26,000 Bitcoin mining equipment. Finally, the crypto-company Blockstream ozn\u00e1mil<\/a> an investment of $25m to expand its mining operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- If losing passwords, hard drives and private keys of old Bitcoin wallets is something very common, recover them isn\u2019t very usual. That\u2019s why a Redditor<\/a> made history this month and went viral when he successfully recovered 127 BTC from an old PC<\/strong>. They were dormant there since 2012. And now, he became a millionaire for it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Bitcoin institutional mining is growing.<\/strong> This same month, the Chinese sports lottery firm 500.com ozn\u00e1mil<\/a> its plans to invest around $14.4m to buy Bitcoin mining machines. Also, the government of Pakistani province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa schv\u00e1len\u00fd<\/a> the funds to install mining farms and then boost the local economy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Wladimir van der Laan, the main Bitcoin Core maintainer, stepped down from his role this January<\/strong>. The decision came after a break in his responsibilities since the last year. According to his blog post<\/a> about it, Bitcoin needs more decentralization and it\u2019s become stressful for him to be the ultimate leader of its development. The announcement arrived the same day of Craig Wright\u2019s claims about the whitepaper, so, this is maybe one of the main reasons for Laan\u2019s departure.
- Despite its position by market capitalization and its popularity, EOS doesn\u2019t seem to be catching up with the bullish season. <\/strong>Daniel Larimer, its co-founder and CTO, resigned<\/a> to Block.one mid-January. The price of the cryptocurrency was affected for it, and now it\u2019s just stagnant, very far from its last ATH in 2018.
- After some milestones, the market acted bearish for a while.<\/strong> Bitcoin descended<\/a> to even $28.200, and it\u2019s still in recovery. Ethereum and most of the other ATH-altcoins said goodbye soon to their peaks, but they\u2019re still growing in green and with good perspectives ahead. Dogecoin is the exception because is still on the rise, breaking new records.
- The decentralized liquidy provider SushiSwap trp\u011bl<\/a> a minor robbery, where the hacker snatched 24h of DIGG\/WBTC swap fees <\/strong>(81 ETH \u2013 around $110.100). The native token and its price weren\u2019t affected, at the least.
- A dangerous robbery gang seems to be hunting cryptocurrency traders in Hong Kong<\/strong>. They lure<\/a> the victims with several successful virtual transactions before meeting in person, for a supposed bigger P2P trade. Then, they use brute force to rob the victim\u2019s cryptocurrencies and cash. They got away with around $1M so far.
- Starting<\/a> on April 1, 2021, every government official in Russia will be banned from owning any kind of cryptocurrency<\/strong>. Meanwhile, United Kingdom could ban<\/a> the cybersecurity insurance firms to pay the cryptocurrency ransom for the companies in case of a ransomware attack. Mainly, because they\u2019d be funding the organized crime.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- The proposal<\/a> by the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) about supervising \u201cunhosted wallets\u201d extended<\/a> its short comment period of the new rules to 60 days. Anyway, the new U.S. elected president Joe Biden froze<\/a> all federal regulatory processes for a minimum of 60 days<\/strong>, including the cryptocurrency-related ones.
- The Philippines has released new rules<\/a> for cryptocurrencies within its territory. <\/strong>Now, the cryptos will be treated as cross-border payments, and the providers must comply with anti-money laundering (AML) measures. Dubai is n\u00e1sledovat oblek<\/a>: according to Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), they\u2019ll regulate this year security, exchange, and utility tokens, as well as cryptocurrency firms.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n