As the title says, it seems like Bybit had been hacked for more than 1 billion dollars worth of ETH. The exact amount hasn't been confirmed yet l, but Bybit indeed confirmed suspicios activity. Seeing how Bybit is quite popular, probably some people here might be affected with this as well.
The Bybit exchange appears to have suffered a hack involving over $1.4 billion. Onchain sleuth ZachXBT reported suspicious outflows of over $1.4 billion from the top crypto exchange and listed certain addresses that were receiving these ETH outflows.
Meanwhile, the crypto exchange also reported an unauthorized transfer of ETH from its cold wallets due to masked UI spoofing accounts. However, it assured customers that other wallets remained secure. Source https://www.google.com/amp/s/coingape.com/bybit-suspected-to-have-been-hacked-of-over-1-4-billion/amp/ |
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As the title suggests, we're getting a new crypto debit card but as usual, it will be available only to Europeans. The only interesting aspect is that they claim card users will spend their crypto directly from their own wallets, so I guess something similar to what Metamask plans to do with their crypto debit card. Global payment giant Mastercard is expanding its support for non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets in a new collaboration that enables users to spend crypto while “being their own bank.”
After piloting a crypto debit card with the major self-custodial MetaMask wallet in August, Mastercard’s new partnership with the European crypto payments infrastructure provider Mercuryo will further connect traditional finance and crypto.
In the collaboration, Mastercard has enabled a new euro-denominated debit card that allows users to spend cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin stored on self-custodial wallets at more than 100 million merchants in the Mastercard network.
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Metamask announced earlier today that they are launching their own crypto debit card in partnership with Mastercard. For now, the card will be limited to a certain number of users in the EU and UK before it becomes more widely available. Given the popularity of Metamask, this could become a popular crypto debit card solution. In an exciting development for crypto natives and everyday consumers alike, MetaMask, Mastercard, and Baanx (Crypto Life) have launched the pilot of MetaMask Card - the world's first Mastercard payment card that enables direct spending from your MetaMask wallet. Eligible users can now make everyday purchases with their crypto anywhere Mastercard is accepted.
“MetaMask Card pilot gives people more freedom to spend their crypto,” says Lorenzo Santos, Senior Product Manager at Consensys. “MetaMask Card represents a major step to removing the friction that has traditionally existed between the blockchain and real-world commerce. This is a paradigm shift that offers the best of both worlds.” |
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News about Indian exhange WazirX being hacked is all over the twitter and looks like attacker withdrew several altcoins and then swapped them to ETH. Still no cofnirmation from the xchange about being hacked so its best to take this news with the grain of salt until official confirmation or more details.  https://x.com/CyversAlerts/status/1813834131165286464 |
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As the title says, after last year's announcement that they are working on LN implementation, Coinbase announced earlier today that "starting today, support for the Lightning Network via @lightspark will begin rolling out." and therefore joined many other top CEX (Binance, Kraken, Bitfinex etc) that already did that. Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange by trading volume, is rolling out support for the Lightning Network from today, enabling a faster and cheaper way for its users to send, receive or pay with bitcoin directly from their account. Previously, bitcoin transfers on Coinbase were processed on-chain, meaning transactions could take between 10 minutes and two hours, incurring high fees during periods of network congestion.
“Growing Bitcoin adoption increases economic freedom in the world. I’m thrilled that our Lightning integration is live to make Bitcoin more useful and accessible worldwide,” Coinbase’s protocol specialist and Lightning integration lead Viktor Bunin told The Block. “Offering faster and cheaper BTC payments through our partnership with Lightspark is another huge milestone for the ecosystem.”
Fees on the Lightning Network are broken down into a flat rate base fee as low as one satoshi — the smallest unit of bitcoin and equivalent to less than $0.01 — and a liquidity provider fee or fee rate as a percentage charged on the value of the payment. Node operators on the network can set their fees at varying levels to compensate for locking up liquidity.
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Nisam bas bio aktivan ovih dana ali nisam primjetio da se spominje ovdje te mislim da je red da se podijeli ova dugo ocekivana novost jer ima nasih clanova koji ne prate Metu te im je moguce ova vijest promakla. Prenosim objavu u cijelosti. Thanks to PowerGlove, who did 90% of the work on this, the much-requested 2-factor authentication feature has finally been added. You can enable it in your Account Settings, and then you have to give the code when logging in. If you don't have 2FA enabled, you have to leave the OTP field blank when logging in. If you use the forgotten-password function, then there's an option to remove the 2FA. So 2FA does not provide any protection in case of a compromised email. Make sure that your email address is secure. If you don't want to set an email address, use something like yourUserName@invalid.bitcointalk.org; don't use a random nonsense email like y@x.com, since somebody might create that domain/email. Let me know if there are any bugs. Hvala theymosu a pogotovo PowerGlove na ulozenom trudu! |
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There is a rumour spreading on twitter that Poloniex wallet has been drained of at least 50+ million USD and counting.  https://twitter.com/peckshield/status/1722931275764474329So far there is no official confirmation but few minutes ago Poloniex announced that their wallet has been disabled for the "maintenance" so it might be that something dodgy has been going on. Our wallet has been disabled for maintenance. We will update this thread once the wallet has been re-enabled. edit: Just Sun confirmed that Poloniex has been indeed hacked.  |
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According to The Block, Phillippines based exchange Coin.ph (which I think is very popular among our Filipino members) got exploited on Tuesday and hacker allegedly managed to get away with 12 million XRP. After getting XRP, hacker sent it to OKX and few other crypto exchanges. Does anyone from Phllipines local has more info about this? The Philippines-based crypto exchange Coins.ph appears to have experienced an exploit on Tuesday that resulted in the loss of more than 12 million XRP tokens ($6 million).
Within about 30 minutes, a supposed hacker exchanged 999,999.999 XRP lots 13 times, in addition to another lot of 200,000 XRP, according to the blockchain explorer XRP scan.
After gaining nearly 12.2 million XRP tokens, the hacker then sent the coins through the crypto exchange OKX, the European crypto-to-fiat exchange WhiteBIT, the cross-blockchain exchange OrbitBridge, the crypto exchange SimpleSwap, two non-custodial exchange ChangeNOW and Fixed Float, as well as other destinations. |
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As the title says, Ferrari (who I believe doesn't need introduction) announced that they are accepting bitcoin payments for their cars. They are not accepting BTC (and a few other cryptocurrencies) directly but instead via Bitpay but its still a good thing for bitcoin when probably the most legendary car manufacturer decided to accept it even through a 3rd party. For now its only for US market but they plan to expand it to Europe too. Ferrari (RACE.MI) has started to accept payment in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars in the U.S. and will extend the scheme to Europe following requests from its wealthy customers, its marketing and commercial chief told Reuters.
Ferrari said the decision came in response to requests from the market and dealers as many of its clients have invested in crypto.
"Some are young investors who have built their fortunes around cryptocurrencies," he said. "Some others are more traditional investors, who want to diversify their portfolios." |
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As the title says, Binance decided to withdraw from yet another market and this time is one of the bigger ones, Russian by selling it to CommEx exchange(which I don't think I ever heard before). This is not a big surrpise really as they announced possibility of that happening recently. Binance has entered into an agreement to sell the entirety of its Russia business to CommEX. To ensure a smooth process for existing Russian users, the off-boarding process will take up to one year. All assets of existing Russian users are safe and securely protected.
There will be an orderly process for the migration of users. Binance and CommEX will partner to inform users how to migrate their assets to CommEX. A portion of Russian KYC’d new user registration will immediately be redirected to CommEX and will scale up over time. Over the next several months, Binance will sunset all exchange services and business lines in Russia. Every effort will be made to maintain a smooth user experience during this transition. |
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Justin Sun reported earlier today that HTX exchange (until recently known as Huobi) has been hacked for 5,000 ETH approximately worth $8 million. All funds are of course SAFU according to him, until they aren't.  So yeah, another reminder that storing your crypto on centralized exchange is not the smartest thing.  https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1706311251024822748?s=20 |
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After their biggest competitor Binance recently implemented LN, Coinbase finally decided to do the same. Their CEO was talking about possibility of them implementing it some time ago but he finally announced that decision has been made and that they will start working on it.  Tweet: https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1701806701853507886 |
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As the title says, yet another centralized exchange will introduce mandatory KYC starting from September 1st and seems like its just a matter of time before we are left with no non-KYC CEXes. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget is strengthening its know-your-customer (KYC) requirements for users, the company announced today.
The crypto exchange said that starting from Sept. 1, newly signed-up users must complete level-one KYC verification to deposit and trade digital assets on Bitget. This move is “to comply with regulatory requirements in the global cryptocurrency sector and create a secure cryptocurrency trading environment,” Bitget said.
For users who signed up before Sept. 1, they must meet the level-one KYC requirements before October 1. Otherwise, the exchange clarified, they will only be able to withdraw, cancel orders and close positions. |
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Payment processor Alphapo was hacked for 23 million USD in BTC, ETH and XRP. Did anyone here use them because I can't remember I ever heard about them before. Alphapo, a payment processor for various gambling services, reported a breach of their hot wallets today, July 23, 2023. The breach resulted in a loss of over $23 million in Ethereum (ETH), TRON (TRX), and Bitcoin (BTC) cryptocurrencies. The exact amount of BTC stolen remains unclear.
The stolen funds on Ethereum were swapped for ETH and then bridged to Avalanche and Bitcoin. The addresses involved in the breach include:
0x040a96659fd7118259ebcd547771f6ecb9580d17
0x6d2e8a20b8afa88d92406d315b67822c01e53c38
TKSitnfTLVMRbJsF1i2UH5hNUeHLDrXDiY
TDoNAZHa7WxarUAFbQUhiijTGtd7EpbzRh
TJF7mdFxDuHB4tb9hoyR4SCpKxk7gr23ym1 |
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Is anyone else having the same issue for the last hour or so? All the other pages are opening very fast but for some reason bitcointalk is extremely slow to the point of being barely usable.
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After Binance failed to acquire virtual asset service provider (VASP) license that is needed to meet AML requirements, which resulted in Binance having to leave Netherlands market alltogether so from July 17th user from Netherland will be able to withdraw only and no new users will be accepted as of today. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is leaving the Netherlands, after failing persuade the Dutch regulator to issue a virtual asset service provider (VASP) license, which attests that it meets anti-money laundering (AML) guidelines.
As of July 17, Dutch residents will only be able to withdraw their funds from the platform, according to a statement from the exchange.
“We regret to announce that Binance is leaving the Dutch market,” Binance said on its website. “This unfortunately means that no new users residing in the Netherlands will be accepted as of today. Starting from 17 July, 2023, existing Dutch resident users will only be able to withdraw their assets from the Binance platform. No further purchases, trades or deposits will be possible. We encourage those users to take appropriate action by withdrawing assets from their accounts.”
Binance said it has been in a comprehensive registration application process as a virtual asset service provider with the regulator. “Although Binance explored many alternative avenues to service Dutch residents in compliance with Dutch regulations, unfortunately this has not resulted in a VASP registration in the Netherlands at this time.”
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After suing Binance and CZ yesterday, SEC focused on Coinbase today claiming that they acted as an unregistered broker. SEC claims that SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, SAND, AXS, CHZ, FLOW, ICP, NEAR, VGX, DASH, and NEXO that are all listed on Coinbase are securities. Interesting days ahead and I can see bitcoin price going even more down. Coinbase operates a trading platform (the “Coinbase Platform”) through which U.S. customers can buy, sell, and trade crypto assets. The assets that Coinbase makes available include crypto asset securities. Coinbase is the largest crypto asset trading platform in the United States and has serviced over 108 million customers, accounting for billions of dollars in daily trading volume in hundreds of crypto assets. The Coinbase Platform merges three functions that are typically separated in traditional securities markets—those of brokers, exchanges, and clearing agencies. Yet, Coinbase has never registered with the SEC as a broker, national securities exchange, or clearing agency, thus evading the disclosure regime that Congress has established for our securities markets.
All the while, Coinbase has earned billions of dollars in revenues by, among other things, collecting transaction fees from investors whom Coinbase has deprived of the disclosures and protections that registration entails and thus exposed to significant risk.
Throughout the Relevant Period, Coinbase has made available for trading crypto assets that are being offered and sold as investment contracts, and thus as securities. This includes, but is not limited to, the units of each of the crypto asset securities further described below—with trading symbols SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, SAND, AXS, CHZ, FLOW, ICP, NEAR, VGX, DASH,
and NEXO—(the “Crypto Asset Securities”) |
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