The latest weekly publication of Bitfinex revealed that bitcoin (BTC) balances on centralized exchanges have retraced to levels last seen in January/February 2018. Bitfinex found that the balances have plunged by 32% from the 3.1 million BTC peak in March 2020 to 2.1 million now. At writing time, only 11% of BTC’ circulating supply was...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has recovered some of the funds it lost after being hacked in August 2016. The recovered assets will be used to compensate holders of the exchange’s Recovery Right Tokens (RRTs), which were issued to impacted creditors after the security breach. How Much Was Recovered? As announced by Bitfinex on Thursday, the United...Read More
A new report by the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex revealed that the latest on-chain metrics and investor behavior suggest the crypto market may be ready for the next bull run. In the weekly edition of the Bitfinex Alpha report, the crypto exchange noted that Bitcoin’s Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) and Net Unrealized Profit and Loss...Read More
Bitfinex became the first cryptocurrency exchange to be registered as a Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) by the regulators of El Salvador. The Latin American country is a pioneer in the industry, embracing bitcoin as a legal tender in 2021. Under the rule of President Nayib Bukele, it purchased amounts of the primary cryptocurrency on...Read More
Wybo Wiersma – a 40-year-old Dutchman who studied at Oxford’s St Cross College – will serve a 54-month prison sentence for stealing £2,156,000 (more than $2.6 million) using a cryptocurrency scheme. UK detectives linked the scam to the man who used the pseudonym Norbert van den Berg in his malicious website and university coursework. ‘Greed...Read More
Blockchain security firm PeckShield has disclosed a series of transfers from three addresses, including one from crypto exchange Bitfinex to Alameda Research’s consolidation wallet. According to Etherscan, the address labeled “Alameda Consolidation” received $13 million worth of crypto assets from three different wallets. The first belongs to the leading crypto exchange Bitfinex. It transferred approximately...Read More
Roche Freedman, the law firm behind several legal actions against crypto companies, was removed from representing the plaintiffs in the infamous lawsuit that accused crypto exchange Bitfinex and its sister company Tether of market manipulation. Filed in 2019, the lawsuit against the two companies seeks total damages up to more than $1 trillion. Roche Freedman...Read More
After one of its Founding Partner – Kyle Roche – made some astonishing claims in an inebriated state, two other law firms – Kirby McInerney LLP (Kirby) and Radice Law Firm, P.C. (Radice) – submitted a document this week to the court to remove the company as interim co-lead from the Tether and Bitfinex Crypto...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether have collaborated with Hypercore and have collectively created a new platform called Holepunch and launched a fully encrypted peer-to-peer (P2P) video calling application – Keet. Factoring in Privacy According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, Keet will facilitate real-time audio/video calls, text chat, and file sharing....Read More
Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, the self-claimed infamous “Crocodile of Wall Street” couple, were charged with trying to launder funds taken in a massive hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016. According to the latest development, though, the two are still negotiating a possible plea deal. Lichtenstein and Morgan were due...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, in collaboration with USDT issuer Tether, recently launched a digital asset fund and donated over $1 million in bitcoin to assist families in El Salvador affected by the ongoing gang violence in the country. Crypto Relief Fund Initiative is Bootstrapped With 25 BTC Bitfinex chief technology officer (CTO) Paolo Ardoino revealed that...Read More
By reasoning that Ilya Lichtenstein is a flight risk, a US Federal Judge ordered him to be detained pretrial while indicating that his wife and partner-in-crime – Heather Morgan – met the criteria for supervised release. As reported by The New York Times, Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the Federal District Court in the District...Read More
The world of cryptocurrencies, especially in its earlier years, had a reputation of being the playing ground of hackers and various malicious entities. And while this has changed to a huge degree in the past few years and the field received massive recognition and regulatory clarity, the ghosts of its past remain. One of the...Read More
Barely two days after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seized about $3.6 billion worth of BTC related to the 2016 Bitfinex hack, dozens of individuals have started laying claims on the bitcoin fortune. According to a Bloomberg report, the DOJ has seen a massive surge in the number of people who wish to regain...Read More
The FBI has arrested a husband and wife in Manhattan for allegedly conspiring to launder swaths of Bitcoin connected to the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. According to Reuters, over $3.6 billion worth of the asset has already been recovered by law enforcement. The couple allegedly responsible is Ilya Lichtenstein (34) and Heather Morgan (31). They...Read More
A large chunk of the bitcoins stolen from the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack was moved by the hackers to an unknown wallet earlier today. Bitfinex 2016 Hacked Funds on the Move According to data from the live cryptocurrency transactions monitor Whale Alert, the hackers have moved over 64,000 BTC in 21 separate transactions. The first...Read More
The issuer of the stablecoin leader USDT – Tether – faces yet another class-action lawsuit with familiar accusations. Lawsuit Against Tether According to the official document, the two plaintiffs, Matthew Anderson and Shawn Dolifka in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused Tether of misleading the consumers regarding the attributes...Read More
Just months after adopting BTC as legal tender, the small Central American country plans to create a Bitcoin City with the help of Blockstream and Bitfinex. Separately, the country said it will buy $500 million more of BTC. Bitcoin City in El Salvador The country made the news earlier this year by indicating that it...Read More
The United States Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Tether and Bitfinex to pay fines worth $42.5 million. In a release from today, October 15th, Tether Holdings Limited, Tether Limited, Tether Operations Limited, and Tether International Limited – all companies associated with the issuer of the largest stablecoin USDT, Tether, were ordered to...Read More
The cryptocurrency market never ceases to amaze. One of the most popular centralized exchanges – Bitfinex – spent over $23 million worth of fees to send $100K USDT using Ethereum’s network. In what seems to be the most expensive transaction made on Ethereum, Bitfinex, the well-known cryptocurrency exchange, paid over $23M worth of ETH. Interestingly...Read More
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has announced the launch of a new trading platform focused on Security Token Offerings (STOs). Bitfinex said in a recent announcement that the new platform will operate under the financial laws of Kazakhstan, as provided by the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA). The STO exchange, dubbed Bitfinex Securities Ltd, has been launched...Read More
A year after the release of XAUt – a commodity-backed token pegged to gold – Bitfinex has announced the launch of a perpetual contract for the trading pair Tether Gold/Bitcoin. The new product will be settled in BTC and will offer up to 100x leverage for users. XAUt/Bitcoin Perpetual Contract on Bitfinex Launched in 2012,...Read More
Tether and Bitfinex will no longer be able to trade with New York citizens and will have to pay $18.5 million in penalties as their two-year-long legal case with the New York Attorney General office came to an end. The case started in April 2019 when the NYAG office alleged the popular exchange Bitfinex of...Read More
Following the recent attack on the Yearn.Finance protocol, major U.S. dollar stablecoin company Tether froze $1.7 million worth of USDT stolen from the platform. Meanwhile, Bitfinex disclosed that it had made the last loan repayment to Tether. Tether Freeze Raises Centralization Concerns Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino announced the news of the USDT freeze via his...Read More
The January 15th deadline passed, and, as somewhat expected, the parties in the NYAG v iFinex case are yet to conclude the production and submission of the requested documentation. As reported by CryptoPotato earlier, January 15th was a much-anticipated date regarding the case between the New York Attorney General’s office and iFinex – the parent company of...Read More
On the one hand, Bitcoin’s price breaking above $34,000 and $35,000 might have started an endless debate on whether there will be a spillover to other cryptocurrencies or not. On the other hand, another critical debate relates to the whale movement associated with the market’s top cryptocurrencies. This is a crucial debate, especially since the...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced the launch of a new product offering on its P2P lending platform, Bitfinex Borrow, according to a press release shared with AMBCrypto. Bitfinex Borrow will now offer Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) personal loans, which will enable users to obtain loans in BTC and ETH. Borrowers can use US Dollars (USD),...Read More
The prominent cryptocurrency exchange, BitMEX has been tightening the loose compliance ends within the exchange. The exchange has been assessing and introducing new tools to keep the compliance in check and the latest addition to the toolbox has been Refinitiv’s World-Check One tools. This new tool will allow the exchange’s compliance team to monitor for...Read More
Bitfinex’s derivatives platform is in the news today after it announced the launch of its perpetual contracts for IOTA, Chainlink, and Uniswap. Each of these contracts will offer users maximum leverage of up to 100x, leverage that is typical of such contracts and they will be settled in Tether (USDt) tokens. Interestingly, according to a...Read More
Over $400 million worth of the most popular stablecoin Tether (USDT) has been sent to the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi over the past couple of hours. Two of the transactions were sent from an unknown address with a total worth of around $304 million, while another transfer worth $100 million was sent from Bitfinex. Over $400...Read More
