Daily Crypto NewsEDITION #1068, 10 October

GOT BIT

Today is World Mental Health Day, pls. watch it. 

Now, here's a quick summary of the important stuff. After all, we value your time, and time is Moni.

What's up? 

Everyone's talking about it: Mr. Andryunin, the head of GotBit, was arrested in Portugal.

The U.S. Prosecutor's Office has charged 18 people with fraud and market manipulation in the crypto world. One of the accusations is for "creating fake trading volumes." GotBit is, of course, one of these 18.

A lot of people are feeling pretty tense right now. Phew. Influencers, companies, market makers – who’s next?

Two things to note:

a) The U.S. is actively tightening its grip on the crypto market. What did you expect? When Trump or Harris shout that crypto is awesome, they mean it's awesome when it's regulated by Americans.

b) If any federal investigation or similar comes up, we have no connection to this group or the people in it, we don't know how we ended up here, maybe added by a third party, and we don't support any actions taken by members of this group. Everything we post here is purely satire and will be treated as such in court. We have committed no crimes and am an innocent bystander.

Other important news:

- Swell launched a checker. Go check it out.

25k tokens are worth $1000, according to the premarket, which values $SWELL at $0.05 per token.

- Don't forget to check out the new airdrop from Optimism. Here's the link.

We personally didn’t receive it, although the criteria seem pretty reasonable for active users.

- Less than 7 days left to claim Alphabot. Go claim it.

We have 10k, how about you?

- Pavel Durov turned 40! Cheers! Wishing him to celebrate 41 not in jail.

- Yesterday, news broke that U.S. authorities recognized Bitfinex as the "sole victim" of the 2016 hack when 119,756 Bitcoins were stolen.

It’s a murky story. Two years ago, they caught a couple – Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan,
supposedly responsible for 2000 illegal transactions and moving the money.

Well, let them think what they want. No point in commenting on that.