Daily Crypto News | 13.01.2021
1- Brian Brooks, Head of OCC says “My thesis is that it is inevitable that the future of finance will go on the internet like information did 25 years ago, and we need to prepare banks for that world and we need to prepare banking charters for that world.” He also adds “Crypto is about freedom. There is no CEO to deplatform. If you didn’t believe freedom mattered last week, you should believe it matters today.”
2- BitMEX will be consulting with Chainalysis to “identify, investigate and stop illicit transactions.”
3- Yearns Finance introduced their proposal of YFI buyback program with their revenue, only to redistribute it after.
4- Arxnovum has filed a Bitcoin ETF application in Canada, with Gemini Trust as sub-custodian.
5- Bulgarian crypto exchange owner Rossen Iossifov is sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering.
6- ECB president Christine Lagarde said: “[Bitcoin] is a highly speculative asset, which has conducted some funny business and some interesting and totally reprehensible money laundering activity.”
7- Coinbase’s former compliance executive has joined BitGo as their new CCO.
8- SIMBA Chain has been granted $1.5M research fund to develop US Navy’s supply chain using blockchain technology.
9- UK-based cryptocurrency service provider GateHub announced that they will continue their support for $XRP, despite the legal charges faced by Ripple.
10- Huobi has partnered with AdvCash to support Russian ruble deposits and withdrawals.
11- SolidX announced that they had filed a lawsuit against VanEck, alleging the company with stealing their Bitcoin product and using it to file an application SEC for $BTC ETF.
12- You can check this link to see the top 100 richest bitcoin addresses.
13- MIT professor Gary Gensler is nominated by the president-elect Joseph Biden to lead SEC.
14- Goldman Sachs’ global head of commodities research Jeffrey R. Currie said that Bitcoin will mature as the institutional interest grows.
15- Asset management company Arca raised $10M in funding round led by RRE Ventures.
16- People’s Hospital of Chengmai County in China has issued their first e-bill on blockchain.
17- Bitcoin is up 3.5% at $35,767.
18- THORChain (RUNE) is the highest gainer in top 100 list with a 36.0% daily profit.
19- Solana (SOL) is the highest loser in top 100 list with a 5.7% daily loss.
20- $BTC = $BTC | 1 Satoshi is 1 Satoshi.