Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Binance Wins Registration as Crypto Asset Service Provider in Cyprus

The crypto exchange can now offer more types of digital-asset services.

Binance has registered an entity with regulators in Cyprus. (Sasha Cures/Unsplash)

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El cofundador de Terra, Do Kwon, sigue afirmando que no está prófugo

El desarrollador coreano también continuó desestimando las afirmaciones que dicen que fueron congelados US$67 millones en los exchanges de criptomonedas OKX y KuCoin.

Do Kwon. (CoinDesk)

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Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Still Says He's Not on the Run

The South Korean developer also continued to dismiss claims that $67 million was frozen on crypto exchanges OKX and KuCoin.

(Terra)

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Meta Platforms Follows Blockchain Firms in Joining Cryptographic Privacy Group MPC Alliance

The Facebook parent joins the likes of Bolt Labs, Ciphermode Labs and Partisia Blockchain in becoming a member of the group.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has joined an industry privacy group that includes many blockchain companies. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

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Lazarus, un grupo de hackers norcoreano, apunta contra las empresas de criptomoneda japonesas

El grupo Lazarus ha estado atacando a empresas japonesas con links de phishing a través de emails y redes sociales.

Flags fly in Pyongyang, North Korea (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin tardó más de una hora en minar un bloque y retrasó miles de transacciones

Un intervalo de 85 minutos dejó más de 13.000 transacciones pendientes el lunes.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

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Arbitrum Founder Dismisses Launch of First Mainnet zkEVM

Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder has said that a zkEVM is "not 12 days away from mainnet."

The co-founders of Offchain Labs, the firm behind Arbitrum. (Offchain Labs)

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Bitcoin Fails to Produce 1 Block for Over an Hour

An 85-minute block interval left more than 13,000 transactions stuck in a pending state on Monday.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

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North Korean Hacker Group Lazarus Targets Japanese Crypto Firms

Lazarus Group has been targeting Japanese firms with phishing links via email and social media.

Flags fly in Pyongyang, North Korea (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

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'Baby Al Capone' Agrees to Pay $22M in AT&T SIM-Swap Case

Ellis Pinsky, the hacker, was the point person in a scheme to steal about $24 million in cryptocurrencies while he was still in high school.

Ellis Pinsky, aka "Baby Al Capoine, will pay $22 million in a SIM-swap case. (Andrey Metelev/Unsplash)