HEBDO CRYPTO #206 – BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY NEWS OF THE WEEK

The week of 8/29 in a nutshell – Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news is constantly boiling. It can happen that crucial information gets lost in the daily information flow and that you miss important points. This format is there to remedy that. We return to the news of the past week in the Hebdo Crypto to keep you informed on the current situation of cryptocurrencies.

CRYPTO NEWS IN BRIEF
▶ No, 200,000 BTC from MtGox was not released this week . Indeed, the rumor that ran on social networks was false. Thus, we do not yet have a date for their return to the injured users of the platform.

▶ Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, sued for tax evasion . He has never paid his taxes in Washington, although he has lived there for more than 10 years.

▶ Reopening withdrawals at Celsius? It would seem that the option is open to customers who have used the Custody Program and Withhold Accounts services and whose balance was less than $7,575.

▶ Aave Company obtains its electronic money institution license . This will allow the company to offer fintech financial services to users of the protocol. Will we soon see an Aave bank card?

▶ Layer 2 Arbitrum is rolling out its Nitro update . This aims to improve the performance as well as the scalability of the rollup.

THE 5 METRICS OF THE WEEK
➤ 800 million , this is the number of ETH that have been frozen on the MakerDAO protocol . Thus, an update made these funds inaccessible. At least until a patch is applied with a minimum delay of 7 days.

➤ 2 billion dollars , this is the amount stolen by Faruk Fatih Özer via the Thodex platform . Finally, he was arrested last Tuesday in Albania during his run.

➤ $10 million is the amount received in error by a Crypto.com user . Thus, the platform credited him with this amount instead of $100. A blunder that the platform took seven months to notice.

➤ $100 million , this is the value of all NFTs stolen between July 2021 and July 2022 . This was revealed by a study by Elliptic. In practice, this would represent only 0.65% of the total volume of NFTs over the same period.

➤ $600,000 is the amount that was frozen by a developer of the OptiFi protocol on Solana . Thus, the latter carried out a false manipulation during the update of the protocol, making the entire TVL of the protocol inaccessible.

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