BitDigest March 19 · Issue #618
- Crypto markets are late to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, but shining green this morning. Excluding dollar pegged stable coins, the top 50 digital currencies on Coinmarketcap.com are all in positive territory over 24-hours
- Singapore’s financial watchdog has released updated AML guidelines covering virtual assets
- South Korea and Canada are preparing own oversight regimes ahead of the G7’s upcoming FATF implementation deadlines
Every few days I ending up talking about one of the North American public companies participating in the digital currency ecosystem. While I will continue to report on their respective corporate announcements, I am going to start providing the following basic chart every week to show key market data. I am happy to consider adding names to this list.
The Headlines
Singapore Updates AML Crypto Guidelines
Canada to Increase Crypto Oversight and Surveillance
South Korea Preparing for FATF Crypto Framework
Hawaii Launched Digital Currency Innovation Lab
Gemini Growing European Team
Market Data
Bitcoin Activity Increasing
Competition Among Miners Increasing as Pool Dominance Subsides
Exchange, Custody and Product News
Huobi to Eliminate Sudden Liquidations of Leveraged Positions
BitGo Increasing Insurance Coverage Over $100M
Binance Introduces Peer-to-Peer Trading for South American Currencies
Thoughts on the Ecosystem
BitMEX Questions Regulatory Approval of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Bitcoin Will Still 'Moon'
Reports you may have missed
Court Partially Dismisses SEC's Lawsuit Against Coinbase, Kucoin Charged by DOJ and CFTC for AML Violations
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FTX Selling Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million, SWIFT Announces Phase 2 Results of Tokenization Experiments
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Core Scientific Looking for Expansion Opportunities, Philippines to Block Access to Binance
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Four Consecutive Days of Bitcoin ETF Outflows, WisdomTree Receives NY Trust Charter
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