The Weekly News Roundup, ending 16 October 2022

The regulatory steamroller keeps plowing ahead. You can fight this by making noise and educate your friends.

Keep educating yourself, and keep stacking- bear markets don’t last forever.


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Reports and Recommended Reading:
–Censored Ethereum Blocks Hit the 51% Threshold Over the Past 24 Hours
–Bankless: State of Ethereum Report — Q3 2022
-Bankless: SEC investigates Bored Ape creators


Headlines


Adoption
–BNY Mellon Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum Custody Services for Investment Firms
–NFC Bitcoin Card Launches In El Salvador
–Google Cloud to Let Users Pay With Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin
–Police Complaints in This Indian District Are Going on the Polygon Blockchain
–UK Passes Bill That Could See Trade Documents Stored Using Blockchain


CBDC (are just Surveillance Tokens)


COMPANIES AND PROTOCOLS
–Dapper Labs NFT Wallet Restricts Russian Users After EU Sanctions


CRIMES AND SCAMS
-[DeFi] Bumper Year: Crypto Hackers Step Up With Record $3 Billion Theft This Year


DAO


DeFi and Lending
–This Week In DeFi – October 14
–‘Horrendous’ KYC risks on show as website detailing Celsius users’ losses goes live
–Why Celsius exposed their users info and what you can do about it
–Celsius To Shell Out Some $5M on Independent Examiner
–Voyager Digital’s Creditors Push Back Against Plans to Provide Execs With Legal Immunity


Exchanges
–Bittrex Fined $29M, Largest Sanction in Crypto History


Fundraising and Sponsorships


Gossip and Commentary
–Why Paul Tudor Jones Always Has Money In Bitcoin
–Research: 60% understand little or nothing about crypto
–Huobi allegedly transfers 74M tokens to Justin Sun, HT up 7.7%
–TRON becomes legal tender in Dominica
–The Economist’s cover featuring Bitcoin along with major currencies has Twitter guessing
-Arca: “That’s Our 2 Satoshis” — The Disingenuous TRIBE DAO Liquidation Exemplifies a Governance Farce
–NYDIG Lays Off a Third of Its Staff: Report


Implementation and Infrastructure


Metaverse / Web3


Mining
–Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits New ATH Jumping Over 13.5%
–A Huge Glut of Bitcoin Mining Rigs Is Sitting Unused in Boxes
–Binance Pool Starts $500 Million Fund to Support Bitcoin Mining


Nation States (and other political jurisdictions)


NFTs
–OpenSea Daily Volume Hits 15-Month Low
-[Bankless]


Regulation, Legislation & Legal Matters
–White House Regulating Bitcoin With CBDC
–G20 to Review Crypto Regulation Framework This Week
–EU signals regulatory intent with study on ’embedded supervision’ of Ethereum DeFi
–Coin Center sues US Treasury over Tornado Cash sanctions
–CFTC Commissioner to Pitch Retail Investor Definition to Get Set for Crypto


STABLECOINS
–Tether reduces commercial paper reserves for USDT to zero
–Sam Bankman-Fried: Stablecoins Are ‘Lowest-hanging Fruit’ for Crypto Regulation


Taxation
–Portugal will implement 28% tax on crypto in 2023


The Wall Street
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–Grayscale files opening brief in Bitcoin ETF battle against SEC


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