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FBI & DeFi, Difficult Bitcoin Mining, Saylor’s Battles, Ethereum’s Merge Risks, and 20 Crypto Jokes

The last week of summer has brought us a crypto crackdown in Afghanistan, FBI recommendations to DeFi users, and a new bitcoin mining difficulty record despite dropping mining profitability. Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor and his company MicroStrategy got hit with a tax fraud lawsuit and promised to fight back “aggressively,” while a bankrupt crypto lender Celsius asked a court for permission to release about USD 50m worth of tokens to certain custody account holders…. Read More: FBI & DeFi, Difficult Bitcoin Mining, Saylor’s Battles, Ethereum’s Merge Risks, and 20 Crypto Jokes

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Analysts Advise Ethereum Users to Avoid Transacting on Merge Day, Outline Numerous Risks

With Ethereum’s (ETH) Merge nearing, risks that the event could bring are increasingly being discussed, with crypto researcher Coin Metrics pointing to price discrepancies in DeFi protocols as one obvious danger, and advising users to refrain from transacting at all on the day of the Merge. In a new report titled Mapping Out The Merge, Coin Metrics stressed that while the Merge overall will bring benefits to Ethereum, “a lot can go wrong in a network migration of this magnitude.”… Read More: Analysts Advise Ethereum Users to Avoid Transacting on Merge Day, Outline Numerous Risks

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