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Cryptocurrency as Payments in Brazil? Not exactly – Let’s talk about some confusion and misinformation being spread

I'm seeing a lot of misinformation about the "Brazil Crypto Bill". Which many news portals are promoting as legal approval of using cryptocurrencies as payments in Brazil. TL;DR: Things are not what they seem. The bill began to be worked on in 2021, based on an old project from 2015, which was based on a…
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Binance, Coinbase, Kraken ordered to disclose user data in hack probe: FT

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Can the rented NFT’s be sold?

I was going through rental protocol and noticed that owner will have no claim over their assets/NFT or all the permission gets transferred to user who rented it, can the user then sell/transfer the asset/NFT ? submitted by /u/Aakasmika [link] [comments]

Report: Nigerian Securities Regulator to Exclude Crypto in its Digital Asset Agenda

According to Lamido Yuguda, the director general of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission, the regulator does not plan on including cryptocurrencies in its digital asset agenda. Yuguda reportedly said the commission will only change its stance on cryptos when Nigerian regulators agree on the standards to protect digital asset investors. Commission to Promote ‘Sensible […]

Scams and Fraud Make Up More Than 50% Of All Crypto-Related Complaints in the US

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What Type Of Data Will We Use To Build Our Web3 Reputation

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Gemini gets regulatory greenlight in Italy, Greece amid lending halt

Winklevoss’ Gemini exchange received the latest regulatory approvals days before its lending product Gemini Earn faced major issues.

Football Fever Is Infecting DeFi Project With Excitement

PRESS RELEASE. Doha, Qatar: For the next couple of weeks, over a billion people are glued to the TV every day watching players of their favorite team working brilliantly together to win the ultimate prize. What’s really different this time around is how much crypto plays a role in football, with team fan tokens and […]

Binance Market Share Allegedly Hits 77%; Criticism Grows As Even Jack Dorsey Speaks Out

It is no secret that Binance benefits from FTX’s insolvency. After the second largest exchange in the world went belly up, other exchanges had to divide FTX’s market share among themselves. And that Binance is one of the biggest winners now seems to be confirmed by recent data. The Block claims that Binance now has a 75% market share on the spot market, 8.5 times more than the second Coinbase. 🚨Binance now represents 75% of all exchange volume, and almost 8.5x that of the second (Coinbase) Good or bad for the ecosystem? pic.twitter.com/ykPisGn3W2 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 30, 2022 Other Data Providers Do Not Agree The chart is based on CryptoCompare data and shows that total volume for the month was $642.7 billion. Binance’s share of the yet-to-be-completed month of November reportedly equates to $481.7 billion. However, there are discrepancies with other data providers. Their data doesn’t find a massive dominance by Binance. Coinmarketcap, which was acquired by Binance in April 2020, shows that the exchange currently has $12.5 billion in daily trading volume. It is followed by Coinbase Exchange with $1.5 billion dollars, Kraken with $626 million and KuCoin with $495 million. Related Reading: Litecoin (LTC) Continues To Impress With 25% Rally In Last Seven Days With a total volume of $44.985 billion over the past 24 hours, this only calculates to a much healthier 27.8% market share for Binance. CoinGecko, on the other hand, tracks 544 crypto exchanges with a total 24-hour trading volume of $59.5 billion. Binance’s market share is actually only 21.7% based on this figure. However, both data providers only provide daily volumes and thus not a complete picture. Binance Is In The Crosshair Due To Other Reasons Regardless of the discussion about Binance’s market supremacy, the exchange is in the crosshair of critics due to other reasons. One of the harshest critics is Bitcoin analyst Dylan LeClair. As he notes, BNB has made 9x in two months during the bull run with barely a retrace, 10x versus BTC since 2021. “Must be a new paradigm,” LeClair wrote and shared the following chart. The analyst drew comparisons to FTX and commented ironically; “I’m sure it was retail that sent BNB 10x in two months. Same with FTT, right?”, and shared a chart of FTT and BNB with a similar price trend. “It definitely wasn’t the exchange operator with an incentive to drive up the price of their own token to create a feedback loop of attention, hype, and more users…. Definitely not,” LeClair further commented. Related Reading: Bitcoin On Exchanges Keeps Sliding, 1 Million BTC Pulled From These Platforms He argues that the outperformance against “everything” is significant, and one should wonder what the reason is. Who is supporting this market (we know), and do they have infinite money? […] Think of some alts that outperformed this bull run? SOL (Alameda leverage and fraud), AVAX (3AC), LUNA (perpetual motion machine), etc. To support his conjecture, LeClair also looked at the volume side profile for BNB/BTC spot market and BNB/USDT perpetual swaps (leverage) on Binance. He found a striking disparity. While Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said the exchange never uses leverage, users are encouraged to do so by means of various offers on Binance, according to the claim. Also, CZ reiterated after the FTX collapse that Binance has never used its BNB token as collateral and has never taken on debt. LeClair only commented, “CZ my man, I really hope you’re telling the truth.” Jack Dorsey And Others Also Express Criticism Remarkably, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey took a stand on the matter, commenting: “All made up.” Dorsey is known as a Bitcoin proponent, but his statement is vague. His only other comment on the subject was a response to “Bitcoin, not shitcoin” with “yes,” leaving the community in the dark as to whether he supports LeClair’s theses. All made up — jack (@jack) November 29, 2022 Renowned on-chain analyst Willy Woo also expressed cautious criticism of Binance, specifically on its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU): SAFU is misleading marketing. It was boosted to “$1 billion,” but if you look at it closely and factor out the correlated impact of BNB and to a lesser extent BTC, the fund is really only good for 0.5% of the $68 billion in assets on Binance. This is not hate, it is informing the public. At press time, BNB was down 0.9%, while BTC experienced a small surge and posted a daily gain of 2.5%.

BTC price taps $17K as analysis warns of inbound Bitcoin ‘risk events’

Bitcoin faces more than just FTX fallout in December, with macro data due and the Mt. Gox payouts getting closer.