The police service of the Canadian city of Calgary is launching a Cryptocurrency Investigations Centre in partnership with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to help combat crypto crime. The center “will enable law enforcement to tackle crime that takes place using blockchain technology,” Chainalysis described.
Canada’s Cryptocurrency Investigations Centre
The police service of Calgary…
As AI agents like Auto-GPT speed up generative AI race, we all need to buckle up | The AI Beat
April 17, 2023
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
If you thought the pace of AI development had sped up since the release of ChatGPT last November, well, buckle up. Thanks to the…
NFTs Will Persist for as Long as Communities Are Willing to Use Them — Lostworlds Co-Founder
April 17, 2023
According to Quaison Carter, the co-founder and CMO of the location-based NFT platform Lostworlds, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are still not widely used due to what he called “user friction.” Carter, however, insists that the value of NFTs will persist for “as long as…
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Moves Below $30,000 on Monday, as US Dollar Rallies
April 17, 2023
Bitcoin started the week trading below $30,000, as the U.S. dollar strengthened during Monday’s session. USD/JPY rose to a one-month high, with the greenback also gaining against the euro and British pound. Ethereum was also lower, falling below $2,100.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin () dropped below the $30,000 mark on Monday, as a strong U.S. dollar weakened cryptocurrency markets.
/USD fell to an intraday…
SEC Charges Crypto Exchange Bittrex With Operating Unregistered Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency
April 17, 2023
After the report revealing that the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex had received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the securities regulator charged Bittrex and the company’s CEO on April 17 for “operating an unregistered exchange…
Inflation soars in Argentina, El Salvador licenses digital assets, Venezuela probes crypto corruption
April 17, 2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic development news from Latin America during the last week. In this issue: Inflation in Argentina goes over 100%, El Salvador issues its first digital assets licenses, and the crypto-linked…
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
VCs are salivating over generative AI companies, opening their checkbooks for very large funding rounds despite the present economic climate. For example, in the back half of 2022, in the U.S. alone, Jasper raised $125 million in series A funding while…
Police in Kosovo Seize Crypto Mining Rigs From Serbs
April 17, 2023
Kosovo police have seized dozens of crypto mining devices from residents of a majority Serb region in the north of the country. Authorities in Pristina and Belgrade exchanged accusations over the move, which has the potential to raise tensions in the ethnically divided…
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries, streamlining processes, and, hopefully, on its way to improving the…
With Close to 10 Billion Stablecoins Redeemed, BUSD's Supply Drops to Lowest Level Since April 2021
April 16, 2023
Statistics recorded on April 15, 2023, show that the number of coins in circulation for the stablecoin BUSD dropped below the 7 billion range to 6.68 billion, marking the lowest number of BUSD in circulation since April 2021. Furthermore, data indicates that the supply of BUSD has shrunk by 19.8% over the past 30 days.
BUSD Stablecoin Supply Hits Lowest Point in Two Years
BUSD, which was once…
