Bitlucky, a Croatian cryptocurrency investment business, has reportedly collapsed and lost $75 million in customer money. Thus, prompting authorities to launch an inquiry. Croatian media sites claimed earlier this week that the company’s director, Luka Burazer, emailed the company’s 700 or so customers to explain a slew of mistakes. Bitcoin
May 24, 2023 1 min read
Significant revisions to the bill establishing the digital ruble have been submitted to the Russian parliament as the project moves forward. These amendments seek to alter the original legislation with respect to debt operations, services for non-residents, and the function of the central bank. The lower house of the Federal
May 23, 2023 2 mins read
OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange, aims to recruit about 100 staff in France over the next three years as it seeks to join the 74 other firms that have been granted regulatory authorization by France’s Financial Markets Authority (AMF). The Seychelles-based company has applied for Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) status
May 23, 2023 2 mins read
On Monday, MicroStrategy Inc (NASDAQ: MSTR) wrote to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in response to the FASB’s proposed accounting rules for crypto assets. In response, MSTR backed the regulators’ push for fair value accounting for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. MicroStrategy claims to have more Bitcoin than any other
May 22, 2023 1 min read
A record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) punishment was issued by the Data Protection Commission of Ireland against the social networking company, Meta. It is forbidden to send information on European Facebook users to the U.S. This is a serious breach of European Union data privacy laws. Because of Meta’s disregard
May 22, 2023 1 min read
On Friday, Sotheby’s completed the auction of many rare non-fungible tokens (NFTs) confiscated from the extensive collection of defunct crypto hedge firm Three Arrows Capital (3AC), netting $2,482,850. The Grails collection of NFTs, developed as part of 3AC’s asset portfolio which began in 2021, was the focus of the auction
May 21, 2023 1 min read
Mobile access to ChatGPT is now available on iOS. OpenAI has finally released its famous AI chatbot as an official iOS app, months after the App Store was flooded with illegitimate services claiming to be affiliated with OpenAI. The business claims that the new ChatGPT app will be available for
May 20, 2023 1 min read
On May 18, the Economic Development Board of the Kingdom of Bahrain announced that the Whampoa Group, a Singaporean family office, will establish a digital bank in the country. The Group plans to launch the bank before the end of the year, targeting customers all around the world. In addition
May 19, 2023 2 mins read
On May 19th, Jay Yao, a consultant working on the Paraspace NFT protocol, resigned from his job in the firm amid the ongoing controversy about the locations of the protocol’s funding. The missing funds and a storm of CEO and consultant charges against one another made headlines last week over
May 19, 2023 1 min read
This year has been a roller-coaster for the NFT-based ApeCoin because of its erratic highs and lows. Recently, the APE project’s governing DAO approved a community request. That would lead to the creation of an Accelerator program. That encourages the incubation of businesses that use ApeCoin tokens (APE) to enhance
May 18, 2023 1 min read
