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Payouts will begin on March 10 and will be made in both BTC and fiat. As of now, the applicants will receive about a fifth of the claim amount. For 2019, the exchange balance was 142 thousand BTC ($3.3 billion), 143 thousand BCH ($19 million) and $510 million in Japanese yen. It must be said that the situation with Mt.Gox was so hopeless that many investors perceived the receipt of their coins as a gift from the gods. In addition, bitcoins were lost at a completely different price. Adam Beck, CEO of lending company Blockstream, says: “I pretty much wrote off the bitcoins I had on Mt.Gox as a loss. So philosophically, whatever I get now is a cold storage bonus.”

PeckShield, a blockchain security firm, warns that zero-transfer scammers are behind two of the largest gas spenders. The scheme is as follows: 🛑 Fake addresses are created by imitating real ones. 🛑 The TransferFrom function is then used to make a zero transfer from any wallet to a smart contract. 🛑 As a result, a fake transaction history is created and shown in users' wallets and on Etherscan. The only thing left to do is wait for the transfer from the victims who did not thoroughly check the address before sending the money.

Hivemapper has finished beta testing a recorder that can be used to earn Honey tokens for contributing to the development of a decentralized global mapping. The technology is simple: 📌 You get paid for videos of routes you plot on maps. 📌Others buy these videos if they suffer from complete lack of sense of direction. 📌Founders of the project make money by selling its car recorders at the cost of an airplane wing. We once joked that people would soon start mining with kettles. And we were right, though wrong about the device. - Patrick, Move-to-Earn is off the table! - If not M2E, then what? - Drive-to-Earn.

Over the last day, Voyager Digital transferred assets worth approximately $9.6 million to Coinbase, Binance US, and Kraken, including 4.9 million VGX, 221,000 LINK, 3,050 ETH, and 270 billion SHIB. Another interesting fact: one of the addresses has 6.8 trillion SHIB, putting it in 18th place among the largest owners of the meme coins after the transfer. We've got a riddle for you: you're broke, you need money, the enemy is nearby, so you transfer 270 billion coins to the exchange. Is it for a far-off journey or an inheritance?

Blockchain technology has been used to pilot Brazil's digital real. Execution took place on the Stellar infrastructure of the local Mercado Bitcoin exchange. The experiment included a KYC procedure, a fraud protection check using decentralized identity identification, and direct fund transfers. All worked well, no violations of the country's laws were detected (thankfully, the tests had not yet been banned), though Mercado's head teased that the Central Bank's real motive was to see how things would unfold if it lost its direct control over money.

The charismatic founder of BitMEX has revealed his vision for the market. Spoiler: he moves liquid fiat money from treasury bills to cash and intends to invest it all in high-risk assets (bitcoin and other crypto, of course). Key takeaways from Arthur Hayes' post: 📌 S&P500 is up 40% in 3 months; 📌 Fed balance sheet will drop $100 billion every month; 📌 The market will get an extra $500 billion out of the Treasury General Account (TGA), which will accelerate inflation; 📌 When the money runs out (sometime in July), Congress will vote to increase the debt ceiling; 📌 The market will end up flooded with unbacked debt liabilities; 📌 The world's banks will be forced to resort to printing more money (this process has already begun). "The party has begun!", Arthur concludes.

Balance CEO Ric Burton says Uniswap founder Hayden Adams, who he once considered to be his closest friend, has fooled him. According to Burton, he invested a lot of effort to take Uniswap to the market. He paid for developer services, paid for Adams' rent, dipped into Balance's money to cover his expenses. Burton was sure that Hayden would include him in the Uniswap round for this help. But he never became the co-founder of Uniswap. And now, when his $25,000 would be worth $18 million, he has brought this story public. Of course, it's not about the money. It's all about justice.