Paxos’ $500K Bitcoin fee, FTX tokens sales set to begin and other news: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 10-16

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Paxos confirms it’s liable for paying a $500K Bitcoin transaction fee

The Bitcoin miner who received 19.8 BTC successful fees from blockchain infrastructure steadfast Paxos has returned the funds pursuing Paxos’ assertion that it made a mistake successful paying implicit $500,000 successful transportation fees. On Sept. 10, Paxos paid the six-figure interest to determination $2,000, with the mean web interest typically being astir $2. The institution aboriginal acknowledged the mistake, confirming the transportation came from its servers. Almost a time aft Paxos’ claims, the Bitcoin miner who received the funds went connected X (formerly Twitter) to express frustrations aft agreeing to refund the magnitude to Paxos. The funds were returned connected Sept. 15.

Court approves merchantability of FTX integer assets

A bankruptcy tribunal has approved the merchantability of FTX integer assets successful play batches done an concern advisor and nether preestablished guidelines. The merchantability does not see Bitcoin, Ether and “certain insider-affiliated tokens,” which tin beryllium sold done a abstracted determination by FTX aft 10 days’ notice. FTX income are not expected to person a dense interaction connected markets. According to a caller shareholder update, the bankrupt speech has $833 cardinal worthy of Bitcoin and Ether. A full of $3.4 cardinal is held successful Digital Assets A — the apical 10 assets the institution holds — which see Solana, Bitcoin, Ether, Aptos and others.

Gemini Earn users could retrieve each funds successful caller DCG remuneration scheme

Digital Currency Group has projected a caller statement plan for the creditors of the now-bankrupt Genesis Global. The program estimates unsecured creditors volition person “a 70–90% betterment with a meaningful information of the betterment successful integer currencies.” Additionally, the remuneration program says the betterment of claims for Gemini Earn users would beryllium projected astatine “approximately 95–110%” without immoderate publication from Gemini. According to the filing: “If Gemini were to hold to supply $100 cardinal to Gemini Earn users nether the Proposed Agreement, arsenic it antecedently did, determination would beryllium small uncertainty Gemini Earn users would person much than afloat recovery.”

Franklin Templeton files for spot Bitcoin ETF

Asset manager Franklin Templeton applied with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to motorboat a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded money (ETF). According to the application, the money would beryllium structured arsenic a trust. Coinbase would custody the BTC, and The Bank of New York Mellon would beryllium the currency custodian and administrator. Franklin Templeton has $1.5 trillion successful assets nether absorption and joins a agelong database of plus managers waiting for regulatory approval. The SEC precocious delayed decisions connected spot ETF applications from WisdomTree, Valkyrie, Fidelity, VanEck, Bitwise and Invesco connected Aug. 31.

Two much apical executives depart Binance.US amid layoffs, SEC action

The exodus of executives from crypto speech Binance has reached the firm’s offshoot successful the United States, arsenic astatine slightest 3 apical employees near Binance.US implicit the past fewer days. This week’s departures included the exchange’s CEO, Brian Shroder, alongside ineligible caput Krishna Juvvadi and main hazard serviceman Sidney Majalya. The wide exit is believed to beryllium tied to the ongoing U.S. probe into Binance and Binance.US. The SEC sued Binance.US, Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao successful June for allegedly engaging successful unregistered securities operations and different improprieties. On Aug. 28, the bureau requested to record sealed documents successful the case, fueling concerns astir a transgression probe by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Winners and Losers

At the extremity of the week, Bitcoin (BTC) is astatine $26,465, Ether (ETH) astatine $1,628 and XRP astatine $0.50. The full marketplace headdress is astatine $1.05 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap.

Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the apical 3 altcoin gainers of the week are Toncoin (TON) astatine 21.30%, VeChain (VET) astatine 11.94% and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) at 11.36%.

The apical 3 altcoin losers of the week are ApeCoin (APE) astatine -16.82%, Astar (ASTR) at 14.47% and Flare (FLR) at 12.61%.

For much info connected crypto prices, marque definite to work Cointelegraph’s marketplace analysis.

Most Memorable Quotations

“I deliberation my procreation and younger than maine are the ones that are truly going to alteration that communicative for investing, whether it’s successful cryptocurrency oregon different investments moving forward.”

Scotty James, Australian snowboarder

“The lone state I would not promote you to commencement a institution close present is successful the U.S.”

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple

“We’re inactive successful the fax epoch of planetary payments.”

David Marcus, erstwhile PayPal enforcement and co-founder Lightspark

“I don’t deliberation everybody successful D.C. really afloat realizes however almighty the crypto voting assemblage artifact is.”

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase

“You cannot get 100% transparency and 100% privacy.”

Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen

“Climate alteration is inactive a systemic menace to our species. I deliberation arsenic a society, we benignant of beryllium it to ourselves to bash thing that we can.”

Marek Olszewski, CEO of Celo

Prediction of the Week

Bitcoin terms all-time precocious volition precede 2024 halving — New prediction

Bitcoin has a $250,000 target for aft its adjacent artifact subsidy halving — but caller all-time highs volition travel sooner, according to the latest BTC terms prediction from BitQuant, a fashionable societal media commentator who sees a rosy aboriginal for the largest cryptocurrency.

On Sept. 15, the pseudonymous “central banker and Bitcoiner” revealed a pre-halving people supra $69,000. “No, Bitcoin is not going to apical earlier the halving,” helium wrote successful portion of the commentary.

Bitcoin has conscionable implicit six months earlier the halving, the lawsuit that cuts miner rewards earned per artifact by 50% each 4 years. “No, BTC is not going to $160K due to the fact that the magnitude of each pullback is large,” helium wrote, adding that “this means it volition highest aft the halving, successful 2024. And yes, the people terms is astir $250K.”

FUD of the Week

SEC charges institution down Stoner Cats NFT bid with unregistered securities sale

Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2), the institution down the Stoner Cats animated web series, has agreed to a cease-and-desist order and different measures imposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission aft being charged with conducting an unregistered offering of crypto-asset securities successful the signifier of nonfungible tokens (NFTs). According to the SEC, SC2 sold much than 10,000 NFTs for astir $800 apiece. The merchantability took 35 minutes and occurred connected July 27, 2021, and the proceeds were utilized to money the series. Besides agreeing to the cease-and-desist order, SC2 volition wage a civilian punishment of $1 million.

OneCoin co-founder Greenwood gets 20 years successful US jailhouse for fraud, wealth laundering

Karl Greenwood, co-founder of OneCoin with Ruja Ignatova, was sentenced successful the United States to 20 years successful situation and ordered to wage $300 cardinal connected Sept. 20. Ignatova remains astatine large. Greenwood, who is simply a national of the United Kingdom and Sweden, was sentenced successful a tribunal successful New York. In a connection by the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams called OneCoin “one of the largest fraud schemes ever perpetrated.” The multilevel selling and Ponzi strategy reaped $4 cardinal from 3.5 cardinal victims, the connection said. Ignatova has not been seen since October 2017 and is connected the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Ten Most Wanted List.

North Korea’s Lazarus Group liable for $55M CoinEx hack

The onslaught connected crypto speech CoinEx, which drained astatine slightest $55 million, was carried retired by the North Korean hacker radical Lazarus, according to blockchain information steadfast SlowMist and pseudonymous on-chain researcher ZachXBT. The hacker radical was identified aft it inadvertently exposed its address, which was the aforesaid 1 utilized successful the caller Stake and Optimism hacks. On Sept. 12, CoinEx saw ample outflows of funds to an code without immoderate anterior history. Security experts instantly suspected that the speech was breached, with archetypal estimates reaching astir $27 million.