The local government of La Molina, Lima (Peru), has implemented a Bitcoin payment platform to promote the use of cryptocurrencies and reactivate its local economy. This and more news in this practical summary daily so that you are always informed with events most latest that occur within the crypto world.
Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins
📍Happy Birthday Satoshi Nakamoto. The creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, would turn 47 on April 5, according to the only date of birth Registered at the P2P Foundation.
El April 5th 1933 The President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt declared a national emergency and signed an executive order prohibiting citizens from possessing large amounts of gold, so many in the crypto community consider that this date only marks another of the historical events that Satoshi wanted to record with express intention. .
Innovation, Development and Technology
📍In Peru, a mayor's office is promoting the adoption of Bitcoin. The local government of La Molina, one of the 43 districts that make up the province of Lima, Peru, has implemented a Bitcoin payment platform to promote the use of this cryptocurrency in the acquisition of goods and services, in order to promote economic reactivation.
The municipality of La Molina has also developed its own digital currency, called MoliCoin, with which it will educate and train its residents and local businesses on how the technology works. blockchain and cryptocurrencies, . La Molina's objective is to help its citizens adapt to new technologies.
Álvaro Paz de La Barra, mayor of La Molina, stated that the district will become a focus of innovation at the regional level. “This is a great step to continue bringing cryptocurrencies closer to society. “We firmly believe in this new way of paying for goods and services around the world,” said the mayor.
📍Taro, the new protocol developed by the Lightning Network to bring stablecoins to layer 2 of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Scalability Solution, Lightning Network, has presented a new protocol with which it will bitcoinize the US dollar. According to the developers, Taro will allow stablecoins to be used within applications developed on the Lightning Network, for example, Strike.
Currently, this protocol is in development, financed with funds raised by Lightning Labs in its $70 million Series B capital round.
Bitcoin and Blockchain Adoption
📍MicroStrategy increases its Bitcoin holdings to 129.218 BTC, with MacroStrategy's latest investment. MicroStrategy subsidiary MacroStrategy has invested $190,5 million in acquiring 4.167 BTC, bringing MicroStrategy's holdings up to 129.218 BTC. The average purchase price of these bitcoins is $30.700 per unit, so the company has invested nearly $3.970 billion in the cryptocurrency.
Based on the current price of Bitcoin, MicroStrategy's holdings total $5.840 billion. MacroStrategy made the purchase of the new BTC with the funds from the $205 million Bitcoin-backed loan provided by Silvergate Bank.
NFT and DeFi Markets
📍The first edition of the Non Fungible Conference welcomed more than 2.500 people. Held in Lisbon, Portugal, the Non Fungible Conference was a conference held from April 4 to 5 to discuss current topics related to metaverse and NFT. In his website Officially, the event indicates that it brought together more than 2.500 people, with the participation of more than 100 international speakers and speakers, as well as artists and investors.
Representatives from projects such as The Sandbox, Immutable, World of Women and NonFungible were present at this 2-day conference
Miners and Node Validators
📍Marathon Patent Group mined a record 1.258,6 bitcoins in the first quarter. American Bitcoin mining company Marathon Patent Group raised its Bitcoin holdings to 9.373,6 BTC, after mining more than 1.250 BTC in the first quarter of this year. Marathon reported a record 1.258,6 self-mined BTC, worth approximately $56,9 million currently. This amount of bitcoins represents an increase of 550% compared to the first quarter of 2021.
Cybersecurity
📍They close Hydra, the largest darknet market and confiscate bitcoins. The German Federal Criminal Police Office has closed the largest darknet market Hydra. In a release, authorities reported that 543 bitcoins were confiscated from the market, with a value of 23 million euros at the time of seizure. Authorities had been investigating the illegal market since August of last year. They point out that Hydra's operators and administrators still remain unknown.
📍US authorities are investigating the theft of $610 million from the Ronin Network. The founder of blockchain security company SlowMist, Yu Xian, said that US authorities have become involved in ongoing investigations into the multi-million dollar robbery of the Ronin Bridge cross chain bridge on the Ronin Network.
Until now, the hacker has been moving the funds through centralized cryptocurrency exchange platforms, such as Crypto.com and FTX. However, Etherscan shows that about 172.300 ether They are still at the address associated with the hack at the time of going to press.
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