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A look at Do Kwon's algorithmic UST stablecoin, designed to trade at $1, after it fell as low as $0.60; CoinMarketCap says there are 18.5B UST in circulation — Algorithmic stablecoins, like their more “traditional” counterparts, are supposed to provide calm in the chaos of crypto.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Binance has temporarily suspended withdrawals of LUNA and UST tokens due to a high volume of pending withdrawals and “network slowness and congestion” — Binance has resumed withdrawals of LUNA and UST tokens after the two tokens crashed on Tuesday on the back of a broader fall in the crypto markets.
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
CoinMarketCap: UST stablecoin loses its USD peg, falling as low as $0.80, after the Luna Foundation Guard pledges $1.5B of its bitcoin reserves to support UST — TerraUSD (UST) has lost its dollar peg for the second time in three days, falling to as low as $0.95 on Monday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin fell ~10% to around $31,000, its lowest level since July 2021, as investors flee riskier investments; Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and others also fell — Bitcoin rebounded from a swoon below $30,000 as a selloff in stocks eased and a bout of calm washed across global markets.
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| Laurence Fletcher / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Tiger Global has lost about $17B in 2022 during the tech stock sell-off, erasing around two-thirds of its gains made since 2001 in four months — Hedge fund suffers ‘breathtaking’ drop as speculative stocks sink from pandemic peaks — Tiger Global has been hit by losses …
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique that has not been previously documented publicly in attacks — Security researchers have noticed a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique …
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Sources: Meta is considering reducing the money it gives news outlets and focusing on news content as short videos on Facebook rather than as links to articles — Meta Platforms is considering reducing the money it gives news organizations as it reevaluates the partnerships it struck …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Study claims the implementation of EU's GDPR has reduced the number of apps on Google Play by a third, increased costs, and reduced revenues for app developers — Privacy rules increase cost, reduce choice, slash revenues, study concludes — Europe's data protection regime has reduced …
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| James Pearson / Reuters: |
The UK and EU say Russia launched a cyberattack on satellite internet network Viasat at the onset of the Ukraine war in late February, affecting many in Ukraine — Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network which took thousands of modems offline at the onset … | Washington Post: |
Researchers: Elon Musk, who vowed to defeat Twitter's “spam bots or die trying”, has long benefited from “fanbots” boosting Tesla shares and deriding critics — Mechanized accounts have sought to boost Tesla shares, deride critics and push the pending takeover of Twitter.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Crypto exchange KuCoin raises a $150M pre-Series B led by Jump Crypto at a $10B valuation, up from $100M in November 2018, and says it has 18M+ users — KuCoin's valuation has surged to $10 billion in its first financing round in four years as the global cryptocurrency exchange looks …
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Match Group sues Google, alleging the company abuses its power with a requirement that developers use Google's billing system for Android apps in the Play Store — Match Group Inc. accused Alphabet Inc.'s Google in a lawsuit of acting as a monopolist with its app store billing rules …
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The Keyword, The Verge, Engadget, PCMag, Protocol, New York Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fossbytes, FOSS Patents, Mashable, TechCrunch, and Neowin. Tweets: @jbursz
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Sony reports Q4 gaming revenue rose 4.9% YoY to ~$5.1B; PS5 sales were 2M, reaching 19.3M in total, around 3.1M behind the PS4 at the same point in time — Sony announced that it sold just 2 million PlayStation 5 units last quarter (Q4), bringing its overall total to 19.3 million.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Paddle, which provides a billing backend for SaaS companies, raises a $200M Series D led by KKR at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total raised to $293M — Software as a service has become the default for how organizations adopt and use apps these days, thanks to advances in cloud computing and networking …
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