payment systems
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Alex Jones Gets $7 Million Crypto Gift After Losing Sandy Hook Defamation Suits
Disinformation peddler, human tomato, and InfoWars host Alex Jones has an anonymous benefactor shoveling millions of dollars of bitcoin into his crypto wallet. The windfall comes on the cusp of a financial disaster for Jones: he’ll soon know just how much he’ll be liable for after losing multiple defamation lawsuits over his lies that the…
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Feds Charge Unnamed Person for Helping People Evade U.S. Sanctions with Crypto
As pressures mount for crypto on the world stock exchange, prosecutors and the courts aren’t too far behind looking to slap down the crypto free-for-all.
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Tether Sinks Below $1 in Nightmare Scenario for Bitcoin’s Future
The cryptocurrency market continued to haemorrhage money Thursday, with the most popular coins down double-digit percentages over the past 24 hours. And absolutely no one knows when things will bottom out, with many people worried the entire market of fake digital money could go to zero as the stablecoin Tether officially traded below $US1 for…
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Despite Its Name, Terra’s Stablecoin Value Plummets
In yet another case of stablecoins being less-than-stable, terraUSD (UST) plunged below its $US1 ($1.44) price peg for the first time since its inception. Bloomberg spotted the coin slipping to about 99 cents ($1.37) over the weekend, before plunging to roughly 60 cents ($0.83) on Monday night. As of this writing, Coindesk reports that the…