[New post] Musk fires Twitter execs, research stirs blockchain energy debate and CFTC brass shares crypto concerns: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 23-29
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Coming every Saturday, Hodler's Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter became final this week, after which he reportedly fired three top-level executives: CEO Parag Agrawal, head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde and chief financial officer Ned Segal. Musk reportedly claims the three were dishonest about Twitter spam accounts — an issue that almost caused Musk to abandon the Twitter deal. On a more positive note, Musk said he has big plans for Twitter, including ensuring free speech on the platform. Twitter also commanded other headlines this week as Binance invested $500 million in the platform, and the New York Stock Exchange delisted the now-private company.
Binance's BNB Chain will host Kazakhstan's central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. CBDCs have made headlines in recent years as regions across the globe have taken various steps toward the new form of money. The digital tenge, a product of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, will operate on BNB Chain. Binance has made regulatory strides in Kazakhstan — a country that has shown interest in crypto.
Much of the information floating around about blockchain carbon emissions lacks validity on several levels, according to a preprint produced by researchers from multiple universities. In short, the preprint states that numerous studies on blockchain energy consumption use incomplete data, lack clarity on electricity costs, and have made assumptions based on old data, among other points. Blockchains and their energy requirements have been a topic of much debate.
Australia will not be making Bitcoin legal tender, according to the country's latest federal budget. The document detailing the budget indicated that Bitcoin will be taxed in the same category as other crypto assets and not as a foreign currency, despite El Salvador's move to make BTC legal tender. El Salvador classified Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021. The Central African Republic also classifies Bitcoin as currency. Since 2014, Australia's tax authority has classified crypto in general as a type of investment rather than a form of currency, according to comments from Koinly head of tax Danny Talwar.
Equifax is working with blockchain firm Oasis Labs on a decentralized identity product that may improve Know Your Customer practices. Hosted on Oasis' platform and working with application programming interface (API) keys from Equifax, the solution will essentially let individuals provide identity confirmation without exposing sensitive information, with the information maintaining a trail on the organization's blockchain. Tech specifics for the solution were not revealed, however. Equifax's reputation is overshadowed by a significant global data breach it suffered in 2017.
Winners and Losers
At the end of the week, Bitcoin (BTC) is at $20,485, Ether (ETH) at $1,536 and XRP at $0.46. The total market cap is at $994.97 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.
Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin gainers of the week are Klaytn (KLAY) at 77.92%, Dogecoin (DOGE) at 46.52% and TerraClassicUSD (USTC) at 18.72%.
The top three altcoin losers of the week are Chain (XCN) at -23.33%, Maker (MKR) at -13.67% and Casper (CSPR) at -9.28%.
Early in the week, Bitcoin traded sideways between $19,000 and $20,000 with relatively little price fluctuation. On Oct. 25, the asset began moving up toward $21,000, finding resistance at the level on Oct. 26 before retracing back toward $20,000 on Oct. 27, according to Cointelegraph's BTC price index.
On Oct. 25, Eight CEO Michaël van de Poppe forecasted a possible near-term surge up to $30,000 for BTC. "Within 2-3 weeks, #Bitcoin will break out significantly," he tweeted, adding: "My take is the upside. My guess is probably $30K."
Commodity Futures Trading Commission head Christy Goldsmith Romero recently requested additional power from the United States government to ensure crypto problems do not affect mainstream finance. Romero drew parallels between the 2008 financial crisis and the current atmosphere by citing Terra's downfall as a contagion risk for mainstream markets. She noted that the crypto sector could negatively impact mainstream finance due to increasing crossover activity between the two worlds.
Following investigations, crypto exchange FTX and digital asset trading bot service 3Commas found the cause of suspicious DMG cryptocurrency trading on FTX. Hackers phished victims out of their FTX API keys via fake websites that looked like 3Commas', resulting in unauthorized trades for DMG asset pairs on FTX. Other methods, including malware, may also be at fault.
Bithumb ex-chairman Lee Jung-hoon faces fraud charges in South Korea for allegedly defrauding prospective Bithumb buyer Kim Byung-gun out of $70 million. Jung-hoon allegedly received $70 million from Byung-gun as a down payment for the purchase of the Bithumb exchange. However, the deal was contingent on Bithumb listing crypto asset BXA, which allegedly never occurred. If deemed guilty on Dec. 20, Jung-hoon could face eight years in prison.
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