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Unwinding the collapsed crypto company has been made more difficult by poor record-keeping.

The service lets users in nine African countries tap into the Bitcoin Lightning network using basic feature phones. “Anyone who’s interested in using bitcoin and living on bitcoin should be able to do so easily,” founder Kgothatso Ngako said.

The crypto exchange has dipped another 17% over the past 30 days, bringing its year-to-date plunge to more than 85%.

What does the next year hold for crypto? We’ve rounded up predictions from smart people in the space – from the bullish to the skeptical.

The successful Ethereum Merge is just the start of a growing movement to leverage crypto rails to fight climate change.

Rediscovering the joy of creation and the passion for using crypto to solve society’s problems is the antidote to the calamitous past year.

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The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Dec. 20, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

The accelerator helps connect founders with potential investors.

Under the deal for restructuring $74.7 million of debt, Greenidge will host NYDIG’s new machines.

The round, which was funded by angel investors, will provide capital for the company to implement innovative sidechain solutions on the Bitcoin network.

The crypto lender clarified any digital assets held in wallets on the platform “unambiguously” belong to the customers.

The country was one of the first to declare bitcoin as legal tender.

USDN, the algorithmic stablecoin of the Waves ecosystem, fell as low as $0.53 early Tuesday.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX will attempt to recoup voluntary payments made to third parties prior to its collapse, pursuing them in court if necessary. These payments may include founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s political donations in recent years.

Visa said self-custodial wallets could use a unique “account abstraction” method to set up automatic recurring payments on StarkNet as existing smart contracts do not currently support such steps.

The BOJ unexpectedly lifted the cap on the 10-year Japanese government bond yield to 0.5% from 0.25%, finally ending the prolonged period of near-zero yields.

Taiwanese law makes it difficult for startups to incorporate on the island, explains a Taipei-based lawyer, meaning many locally based firms legally call another place home.

Online sleuths analyzed blockchain data and assets in the former president’s NFT collection, finding evidence of stolen art and shady wallet addresses, painting a picture of how the digital collectibles came to be.

Kazakhstan, one of the world’s largest bitcoin mining hubs, is working on new legislation for the industry.

Local media connected Andrei Lugovoi, a Russian politician accused of serious crimes in the U.K., to a cash-based OTC network in Moscow.

More than 100 bitcoins tied to the defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX were transferred out of cold wallets thought to be beyond anyone’s control over the weekend.

Top assets in the crypto market slid around 1%. Crypto Markets Today is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.

Founded in early 2022, Modulo operated out of the same luxury Bahamian condominium community where Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX employees lived.

OpenZeppelin’s Stephen Lloyd Webber writes about the plague of exploits that drained billions from crypto protocols – and how Web3 can better secure itself.

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Last week however, Reuters reported that Binance was being investigated for possible money laundering violations.

The Financial Services and Markets Bill which is currently being debated, will give regulators more power over crypto.