Popular rock band Muse teams up with CryptoKitties to release collectible cats. The FBI and other authorities' investigation continues and points to a 16-year-old whose involvement in the Twitter hack may have been more significant than Graham Clark himself. These and more news stories in this handy daily roundup.
📍The FBI recently charged another teenager with being a key player in the hack on Twitter on July 15. According to the report, this is an unidentified 16-year-old boy residing in Massachusetts, who also posed as a company employee to obtain access credentials to the platform, as did the teenager Graham Ivan Clark. So, although Clark was identified by the authorities and accused as the mastermind of the hack thanks to the records of a Discord chat he maintained with other people, the 16-year-old teenager used an encrypted messaging system, such as Signal and Wire, so his identification became much more difficult for the authorities. So far, the FBI has filed a registration letter against the Massachusetts teenager.
📍Muse, a British rock band signed a contract with Dapper labs to launch their own “cats” within the popular game CryptoKitties based on technology blockchain. According to release, Dapper Labs will release 2 new limited edition cat characters that will be inspired by the popular rock band and their latest album “Simulation Theory”. These new characters represent the first officially licensed musical collectibles on the blockchain within CryptoKitties.
📍The high profitability that miners experience Ethereum The mining activity, today more than ever, is exceptional. In just 24 hours, the miners of this network achieved profits in the order of 17 million, surpassing the historical maximum of January 2018.
Source: The Block
The profitability of ETH mining is due to the high commission rates that the network currently experiences. Meanwhile, ETH miners are Bitcoin They only made 9% of these profits, with rewards in the order of $1,5 million in 24 hours.
📍The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently denounced 20 companies were accused of making false claims that they were registered with the entity. Among the companies accused of fraud and deception are several companies that provide services related to cryptocurrencies, as the Bitfx24option.com, who claims to have the permits and licenses to trade in Bitcoin and Fidelityfxtrade.com, which claims to be a cryptocurrency investment and forex platform. These and other companies stated on their websites that they were registered with the CFTC and had a membership with the National Futures Association (NFA) in the United States.
📍On the other hand, the CFTC announced the approval of the request for LedgerX to remove the limitation on digital currencies on cryptocurrency exchanges. According to the statement, LedgerX's application for permission to settle futures and options on futures, and the request to remove the limitation on digital currency is consistent with the requirements imposed by the Act and the corresponding applicable regulations, so the CFTC granted LedgerX registration as a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO).
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