The week of 3/13 in a nutshell –
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news is in constant turmoil. It can happen that crucial information gets lost in the daily information flow and that you miss important points. This format is there to remedy that. We return to the news of the past week in the Hebdo Crypto to keep you informed on the current situation of cryptocurrencies.
CRYPTO NEWS IN BRIEF
▶ After a hectic weekend, the situation is clearing up for Circle and the USDC . Thus, the company succeeded in recovering its 3.3 billion dollars deposited in the Silicon Valley Bank and the USDC regained its dollar standard.
▶ A lone miner pockets the jackpot on Bitcoin . A miner successfully validated a block on Ethereum without a mining pool. Thus, he pocketed the entire 6.25 BTC reward.
▶ OKCoin suspends dollar deposits . Thus, the US subsidiary of the exchange platform announced the suspension of deposits following the bankruptcy of Silvergate.
▶ Instagram is silently abandoning NFTs . After trying somehow to add NFTs to its social network, Meta is now backtracking and now wants to focus on artificial intelligence.
▶ Europe is attacking DeFi and smart contracts . The EU wants to flesh out the Data Governance Act and include rigorous access control mechanisms, not to mention the possibility of terminating or interrupting any transaction on a smart contract.
▶ Arbitrum airdrop finally announced . This will take place on March 23 and will reward the most relentless users of layer 2.
▶ The Shanghai hard fork will be deployed on April 12 . The update allowing the opening of withdrawals of ETH deposited in staking finally has a date for its deployment on the mainnet.
▶ Bitcoin has seen a significant rise this week. This is the right time for a little technical analysis to see more clearly about the situation.
