Welcome to the weekly news roundup here at Netcoins. Top stories this week include Satoshi rising up the ranks of the world’s richest, DNS attacks becoming the new hack of the day among decentralized platforms, India threatening to ban cryptocurrency once again, and traditional financial institutions continuing to make bigger moves to get a piece of the cryptocurrency pie. Pay special attention to the part about the Ethereum upgrade. Something special might be happening sooner than most of us expected!
Satoshi’s Got Bags
Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the original
Bitcoin
whitepaper, is now one of the richest people in the world. He is in the top 20 to be exact. It’s estimated that Nakamoto’s personal stash of bitcoins is
. The wallet address tied to the genesis block holds a million bitcoin. That’s 4.8% of all of the bitcoins in circulation right now.
You might think that if you were sitting on that kind of pile, you’d be spending it or cashing it in to invest in big businesses and live your dreams. Nakamoto hasn’t moved those coins at all. It will be interesting to see if the coins ever move.
The bottom line is, Satoshi’s got a bag big enough that even the Walton family (the founders of Walmart) is now in the rear-view mirror.
PancakeSwap and Cream Finance Get Hacked
Hackers are using DNS attacks to go after DeFi projects and decentralized exchanges. PancakeSwap and Cream Finance are the latest victims.
PancakeSwap
earlier this week addressing the issue encouraging users not to share private keys or seeds on a website.
A DNS attack is when a hijacker reroutes traffic to a new server that is malicious. The new server asks users for information that is usually sensitive and gives the hacker access to a user’s wallet.
Cream posted a lengthy
on its Medium page detailing the latest phishing scam.
Bitcoin Plunges as India Threatens Ban
Bitcoin’s price is dropping and a potential
ban of the cryptocurrency in India
is part of the reason why. While it has bounced back over the last day or so, it started the week down more than 5%.
The Indian government famously eliminated the use of specific denominations of banknotes and sent citizens scrambling to ATM machines
.
India is Asia’s third largest economy. The government doesn’t want that economic activity moving to decentralized platforms. The bill follows the government’s January agenda to talk about possibly banning private digital currencies in favour of a government issued digital currency.
More of these kinds of stories will definitely be coming out of the woodwork as cryptocurrency adoption continues to accelerate.
The Ethereum 2.0 Upgrade Might Be Coming Faster Than Expected
Vitalik Buterin released a note last week detailing the fact that Ethereum might be able to release its Beacon Chain onto the network in a lighter format. The whole goal is to implement that Beacon Chain and avoid any further agitation among miners as it’ll make the transition to a proof-of-stake ecosystem a lot easier for the developer community.
It makes sense for Buterin to try and get things moving faster as other altcoins like Cardano and Polkadot are making significant progress. The last thing any Ethereum bull wants is for the project to lose its first mover advantage.
for more details.
Other Big Crypto News This Week
Visa is joining the crypto party.
this week, CEO Al Kelly stated that the company plans to work directly with crypto wallets. MasterCard laid out its own crypto plan in
on the company’s website last month.
Not all big financial institutions getting involved in crypto are credit card companies of course. Investment bank Morgan Stanley
to its wealthiest clients. Clients will have to have at least $2 million USD in order to gain access to Bitcoin funds offered by the financial institution. Two of those funds are going to be hosted by Galaxy Digital, a blockchain investment firm run by its Canadian CEO Michael Novogratz.
That’s it for your weekly news roundup!
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