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Marshall Islands legally recognizes DAOs as domestic limited liability companies

The law enables legal entities registered in the country to formally adopt DAO structures and governance tools.

SBF sent home after his parents put up their house to cover his astronomical bail bond

The former billionaire, who has since claimed to be worth no more than $100,000, is out of jail on a $250 million bond.

The driving forces behind crypto adoption in Latin America in 2022

Inflation has fueled crypto growth in the region, stimulating asset tokenization and remittance infrastructure development.

Brazilian president signs crypto bill into law

The law included many digital currencies under the definition of legal payment methods in Brazil and established a licensing regime for virtual asset service providers.

North Korean hacking activity ceases after regulators implement KYC - Report

Intelligence officials that out of $620 million in crypto stolen by North Korean hackers this year, none were related to South Korea.

Third parties could return FTX funds directly to customers: Law firm

According to Louise Abbott, FTX users could claim in court that assets “remained their property at all times” and could be treated separately from bankruptcy proceedings.

Bitcoin dips below $16.7K as US GDP meets fresh BTC price 'death cross'

Bitcoin has never seen this particular "death cross" before in its life, one analyst notes as BTC price weakness continues.

Bitcoin dips below $16.7K as US GDP meets fresh BTC price 'death cross'

Bitcoin (BTC) fell at the Dec. 22 Wall Street open as United States equities reversed previous gains.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

Bitcoin risks new and unseen "death cross

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD dipping to intraday lows of $16,650 on Bitstamp.

The pair remained a conspicuous stocks copycat as the S&P 500 opened down 1.6% and the Nasdaq Composite Index traded down 1.8% at the time of writing.

The weakness appeared to be a reaction to stronger-than-expected U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Q3, data for which was released prior to the open.

Despite notionally a sign of recovery, concerns focused on the Federal Reserve continuing its restrictive economic policy on the assumption that the economy would be able to withstand the measures.

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5 cryptocurrencies to keep an eye on in 2023

It has been a tumultuous year for the crypto investors who have witnessed the total crypto market capitalization tumble from about $2.2 trillion at the beginning of 2022 to about $850 billion in December. The sharp erosion in valuation was caused due to several high-profile bankruptcies in 2022.

The entire Terra ecosystem imploded with the collapse of its LUNA token and TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin. The failure of Three Arrows Capital followed this black swan event, and the final blow came as FTX underwent a bank run and imploded. These back-to-back events triggered a liquidity and credit crunch and appear to have caused the most damage to the crypto industry.

A prolonged bear market tends to test investors’ patience, but it offers one of the best opportunities to buy fundamentally sound cryptocurrencies at lower levels. Smart investors who can go against the herd and invest during periods of panic tend to benefit the most when the trend eventually turns.

Crypto market data daily view. Source: Coin360

While a bear market is a great time to build a portfolio, traders tend to make the mistake of buying the coins that have fallen the most in the hope that they will recover to their previous glory. Most times that does not happen because every bull market has a new set of leaders. Generally, the ones that are resilient during the fall or recover quickly from the bottom tend to lead on the way up.

Let’s look at five cryptocurrencies that are showing promise for 2023.

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5 cryptocurrencies to keep an eye on in 2023

Analysts expect the bear market to loosen its grip in 2023. Here are five cryptocurrencies to keep an eye on.

5 cryptocurrencies to keep an eye on in 2023

It has been a tumultuous year for the crypto investors who have witnessed the total crypto market capitalization tumble from about $2.2 trillion at the beginning of 2022 to about $850 billion in December. The sharp erosion in valuation was caused due to several high-profile bankruptcies in 2022.

The entire Terra ecosystem imploded with the collapse of its LUNA token and TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin. The failure of Three Arrows Capital followed this black swan event, and the final blow came as FTX underwent a bank run and imploded. These back-to-back events triggered a liquidity and credit crunch and appear to have caused the most damage to the crypto industry.

A prolonged bear market tends to test investors’ patience, but it offers one of the best opportunities to buy fundamentally sound cryptocurrencies at lower levels. Smart investors who can go against the herd and invest during periods of panic tend to benefit the most when the trend eventually turns.

Crypto market data daily view. Source: Coin360

While a bear market is a great time to build a portfolio, traders tend to make the mistake of buying the coins that have fallen the most in the hope that they will recover to their previous glory. Most times that does not happen because every bull market has a new set of leaders. Generally, the ones that are resilient during the fall or recover quickly from the bottom tend to lead on the way up.

Let’s look at five cryptocurrencies that are showing promise for 2023.

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Yat Siu’s Big Ideas: We’re already living in the Metaverse

Magazine: Animoca was a successful mobile gaming company, with 10 million downloads and various apps in the top 10 on Apple’s App Store. Then you were suddenly thrown off the store in 2012. How did that change your views on Big Tech?

Yat Siu, Animoca co-founder:The fact that platforms could become as powerful as they became — the App Store, Google Play, Facebook, you name it — caught many of us by surprise. Open source had become the predominant form in which code was written, and it was kind of a wake-up call when Apple basically just decided to push the button and get rid of us.

We didn’t fully know the exact reasons, but there was no discussion, negotiation or process. Hundreds of people were potentially out of work, and millions of customers lost access to the apps they loved because of the decision of some person or some small group of people who can never be held accountable. And that, to us, was basically a shock. It’s not that we saw blockchain and decentralization as the solution back then — it’s just that we knew there was a problem.

Deplatforming users with no explanation seems very authoritarian, like having rulers but not courts and no solid laws.

Pretty Pet Store was one of the games deplatformed. Source: Animoca

Exactly. Blockchain is not only a technological solution but also, in many ways, a political-socioeconomic movement. That’s when people get into it. They don’t get into it because “Oh, look, it’s a decentralized ledger. I can have copies of everything!” No, they get into it because it means freedom. It means a kind of digital sovereignty they yearn for because they lost it during the transition to the digital world.

Animoca’s Pretty Pet Store mobile game was thrown off the App Store in 2012

Yat Siu’s Big Ideas: We’re already living in the Metaverse

Magazine: Animoca was a successful mobile gaming company, with 10 million downloads and various apps in the top 10 on Apple’s App Store. Then you were suddenly thrown off the store in 2012. How did that change your views on Big Tech?

Yat Siu, Animoca co-founder:The fact that platforms could become as powerful as they became — the App Store, Google Play, Facebook, you name it — caught many of us by surprise. Open source had become the predominant form in which code was written, and it was kind of a wake-up call when Apple basically just decided to push the button and get rid of us.

We didn’t fully know the exact reasons, but there was no discussion, negotiation or process. Hundreds of people were potentially out of work, and millions of customers lost access to the apps they loved because of the decision of some person or some small group of people who can never be held accountable. And that, to us, was basically a shock. It’s not that we saw blockchain and decentralization as the solution back then — it’s just that we knew there was a problem.

Deplatforming users with no explanation seems very authoritarian, like having rulers but not courts and no solid laws.

Pretty Pet Store was one of the games deplatformed. Source: Animoca

Exactly. Blockchain is not only a technological solution but also, in many ways, a political-socioeconomic movement. That’s when people get into it. They don’t get into it because “Oh, look, it’s a decentralized ledger. I can have copies of everything!” No, they get into it because it means freedom. It means a kind of digital sovereignty they yearn for because they lost it during the transition to the digital world.

Animoca’s Pretty Pet Store mobile game was thrown off the App Store in 2012

Yat Siu’s Big Ideas: We’re already living in the Metaverse

Magazine: Animoca was a successful mobile gaming company, with 10 million downloads and various apps in the top 10 on Apple’s App Store. Then you were suddenly thrown off the store in 2012. How did that change your views on Big Tech?

Yat Siu, Animoca co-founder:The fact that platforms could become as powerful as they became — the App Store, Google Play, Facebook, you name it — caught many of us by surprise. Open source had become the predominant form in which code was written, and it was kind of a wake-up call when Apple basically just decided to push the button and get rid of us.

We didn’t fully know the exact reasons, but there was no discussion, negotiation or process. Hundreds of people were potentially out of work, and millions of customers lost access to the apps they loved because of the decision of some person or some small group of people who can never be held accountable. And that, to us, was basically a shock. It’s not that we saw blockchain and decentralization as the solution back then — it’s just that we knew there was a problem.

Deplatforming users with no explanation seems very authoritarian, like having rulers but not courts and no solid laws.

Pretty Pet Store was one of the games deplatformed. Source: Animoca

Exactly. Blockchain is not only a technological solution but also, in many ways, a political-socioeconomic movement. That’s when people get into it. They don’t get into it because “Oh, look, it’s a decentralized ledger. I can have copies of everything!” No, they get into it because it means freedom. It means a kind of digital sovereignty they yearn for because they lost it during the transition to the digital world.

Animoca’s Pretty Pet Store mobile game was thrown off the App Store in 2012

Immunefi says it has facilitated $66M in bug bounty payouts to whitehats since inception

The average bug bounty payout over 1,248 confirmed reports was $52,800.

Still bullish: 40% of survey respondents plan to buy crypto in 2023

Despite a challenging year for the crypto industry, nearly 40% of respondents indicated a plan to purchase cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in 2023.

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