🦎🚀 Is this the death of privacy? 💀

By rahmat hidayat

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Don't miss out on the juiciest news in the crypto space! Stay in the loop to ensure that you receive our latest newsletters, right in your inbox! Did you think it was over, Geckos?     As the crypto markets continue to dip once more, the question on everyone's mind is - when will it end?    In today's news:   Samourai in the slammer 🚨 That's some pricy paper! 📒   Read on! 24h Hot Searches Worldwide 🔥 MUMU THE BULL    (+17.2%) Apu Apustaja            (-19.4%) Baby Doge Coin       (+10.5%) Pixels                          (-12.0%) Hedera                        (-9.9%) Ethereum                    (-3.5%) ezETH                          (-3.6%)   Buckle up and get ready! CoinGecko's Virtual Meetup is back again! For Meetup #31, we'll be diving into our 2024 Q1 Crypto Industry Report and peering into the Polkadot ecosystem!     Date: Thursday, 25 April 2024 Time: 08:30 AM EDT (UTC -4) [Check your local time]    Tune in for our Virtual Meetup #31, featuring an exciting panel of speakers: Zhong Yang Chan, Head of Research, CoinGecko (Moderator) Ingo Ruebe (Founder, KILT Protocol) Bill Laboon (Director of Education & Governance Initiatives, Web3 Foundation) John Linden (CEO & Co-Founder, Mythical Games) Save your seat today Top Centralized Crypto Exchanges   Binance regained its market share after facing a slump throughout 2023. It achieved a 48.5% dominance in 2024 Q1.   The top 10 centralized crypto exchanges saw volumes hit $2.3 trillion in the same period, figures last seen in November 2021. Read more Samourai in the slammer 🚨   From one mixer to another.   The Department of Justice has just charged and arrested both founders of the crypto mixing tool Samourai Wallet with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.   According to a press release by the US Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York, Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill marketed the software with a specific "focus" on the "black/grey circular economy".  The platform is alleged to have facilitated over $100M worth of money laundering transactions from the dark web.   Besides that, the press release also claimed that Samourai had cumulatively facilitated over $2B in illegal transactions since 2015.   While operating the coin mixing service, prosecutors alleged that the pair had collected over $4.5M in fees across various asset pools.   Should the charges stick, both founders may potentially face a maximum total of 25 years in prison.   Since the announcement by the Department of Justice, the price of Bitcoin fell slightly by 1.4% from $64,725 to a low of $63,812.   Editor's Take: This isn't the prosecution's first move against privacy-focused software, and it definitely won't be the last. Yet, there is hope as there is still a long way to go before the developers of these projects are actually convicted of being guilty. We will have to wait until May 14th to witness the  verdict against the developers of Tornado Cash, which will very well decide the fate of all other Coin Mixer operators.   What if you could have your own AI agent? You now can, with  ALIagents.ai, built on the AI Protocol. Watch now That's some pricy paper! 📒   Could this be the most expensive notepad ever sold? A page out of an ordinary notepad, used as a sign with the words 'Buy Bitcoin', has just been sold for the staggering sum of 16 BTC (~ $1.02M). The winning bidder, known pseudonymously as 'Squirrekkywrath' collected the sign at the Pubkey Bar in New York after a week-long auction. The famous sign rose to prominence after its appearance behind Janet Yellen, the former chairman of the Fed, during a speech in 2017.   The notepad also includes notes from Christian Langalis, the man behind the sign, and several mock drawings of the sign from that fateful day. CoinGecko Turns 10!     Celebrate CoinGecko's 10th Year Anniversary with us with weekly giveaways in April, and learn more about our anniversary partners, Zeebu, Polkadot and Pixels! Learn more     Build an Interactive OHLCV Candlestick Chart   In this intermediate Python tutorial, learn how to build an interactive candlestick chart with on-chain pools OHLCV data on Streamlit, that chains multiple API calls together. Learn more In Other News...   Another NFT card game. The Ethereum card game 'The Lost Glitches' is coming to the Layer-3 network Xai.   Game Migration. Play-to-earn 'Puffverse' to migrate to Ethereum gaming network Ronin from BNB Chain.   Stacking satoshis. Jack Dorsey's Square allows businesses to automatically convert a portion of their sales into Bitcoin with a new feature.   To support the network. Worldcoin's subsidiary expects to sell WLD tokens from treasury to support network growth.   5X growth in Q1. Institutional staking infrastructure provider Figment says it recorded fivefold year-over-year growth in Q1, passing $15B in assets staked from over 500 institutions.   Reembracing crypto. KPMG survey finds 39% of Canada's institutional investors had exposure to crypto assets in 2023. 🦎Tell us what you think!   We've just revamped our newsletter with a new and fresh format!   Whether you're a long-time subscriber or just passing by, do let us know if you like the changes and what we can improve on! Let us know Track us everywhere. Stay connected with us. CoinGecko.com • Store • Terms of Service • Privacy Policy 📈 Track DEXs at GeckoTerminal ⌨️Try our API for FREE

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