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Another Friday is another opportunity to Scroll through the best and most important headlines in the space. Security continues to be crypto’s kryptonite and regulators like state senators and the Biden Administration are making moves to impact crypto. Keep on Scrolling for more ⛓👇🏼

• Biden Administration to force crypto miners to report energy data or fines will be handed out (PLTC)

• OPNX, an exchange founded by Three Arrows Capital co-founders to shut down (CT)

• China is emerging as a source of BTC demand (BM)

• Tether reports $2.9B in profit last quarter (TB)

• FTX drops plans to resurrect fallen crypto exchange (P)

• Binance launches marketplace for inscription tokens (TB)

• Layoffs hit the web3 and crypto market as Polygon Labs cuts 60 employees (19%) (DT)

• Valkyrie diversifies their Spot Bitcoin ETF holdings with Coinbase and BitGo exchanges (@BitcoinMagazine)

• Bitcoin Funds are attracting investors away from Gold ETFs at record pace

• Web3 gaming company Saltwater raises $5.5M seed funding (M)

• Crypto startup Velar raises $3.5M after perpetual swap (M)

• Ithica Finance emerges from stealth with $2.5M pre-seed round for decentralized options trading (CPOL)

• Animoca Ventures leads strategic investment in KIP Protocol along with a handful of DAOs and international VCs (CS)

• MC² Finance is partnering with DeFi leaders for major contests (CT)

• A16Z Partner Chris Dixon talks about ‘permissionless tech’ and the ‘need for crypto’ (CD)

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• Bitfinex securities begins in El Salvador (M)

• Argentine government drops crypto legalizing opportunity (NB)

• El Salvador to keep Bitcoin as legal tender in President Nayib Bukele’s second term (@BitcoinMagazine)

• Worldcoin under investigation in Hong Kong for data privacy (TB)

• SEC to receive $21M settlement from shut-down crypto lender, Genesis (DT)

• Nebraska, Wyoming, and North Carolina senators file to repeal SEC decision on crypto accounting rules (BLOCK)

• DeFi protocols lose $39.5M in exploits in January (M)

• SIM-swapping ring steals $400M in crypto, targeting FTX (A)

• Lending protocol Abracadabra hit by $6.5M exploit (TD)

• Binance froze $4.2M of XRP potentially related to the $112M hack (FM)

• Goledo Finance hacker willing to negotiate over $1.7M stolen (BiC)

• Blast accused of forking Optimums code (TD)

• 2023’s $2B losses in crypto assets is a major concern to Hacken (CN)

• Vitalik Buterin is seeing major pressure with links to Gatecoin Hack with the Ethereum Foundation in 2016 (BTCIST)

• ETH Dencun upgrade has one more testnet to pass (CD)

• ETH Founder Vitalik Buterin drops 30th birthday blog (MR)

• SEC likely to approve Spot ETH ETF (TB)

• ETH projects urged to donate 1% of token supply to support development (TD)

• Hong-Kong firm VSFG to apply for Spot Ethereum ETF in Q2 (BLOCK)

• BlackRock’s Spot Bitcoin ETF holds more than $3B of BTC (@WatcherGuru)

• US energy data agency to track crypto mining use (R)

• Crypto influencer Ben Armstrong is no longer live-streaming due to outrageous $25k production costs (@BitcoinNewsCom)

• $30M mansion hunt leads to $1.7B BTC seizure (CT)

• Bitcoin Ordinals sales dropped 61% in January (CT)

• Transak joins Visa payments for simple crypto-to-fiat payments (P)

• CoreScientific mined $812M worth of BTC in 2023 (M)

• Monthly registered users for Solana reaches all time high (BLOCK)

• Magic Eden releases their multi-chain NFT wallet 🔥

• Reasons people believe Bitcoin will die (CD)

• Florida is the most crypto tax friendly state in the US (CT)

• Vitalik outlines synergies between AI and blockchain (TD)

• BlackRock educating Wall Street with in-person advertisements

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