Daily Crypto NewsEDITION #424, 23 March 2022

A tooth for a tooth, an eye for crypto

Hey Moni Maker 🦷

Today is Maritime Day in Bolivia. And we're sailors too, eh? We've got whales, we've got waves, and we've got our unusual disease - FOMO. Pirates are scammers, and ships are discord servers and telegram chats. Whistle everyone to Digest! 

Let's go!

Eye-Scanning Worldcoin...we wrote about them once. It's a project that will pay with crypto for an eye scan. The guys have raised another $100,000,000,000 in funding, taking their valuation to $3,000,000,000,000.

The whole move with free tokens for an eye scan was already stinging Edward Snowden, categorically dissuading everyone from the venture. 

However, a16, Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin, and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and LinkedIn co-founder Reed Hoffman all participated in the new funding round.

The Trust Wallet app for iOS became unavailable on the Apple App Store on 21 March at 13:00 hrs PST. Such a sad message was posted on the wallet's official channel.

The team said that the problem is being resolved, but what caused the removal is not yet precise but very interesting. There's talk of a DeFi connection. We don't know yet. 

If you use Trust, then this is what you need to know all about it:

- If the app is installed, you won't be able to update or reinstall it yet

- New users won't be able to download and install

- Android fans won't be affected

- The office is rustling and promising to fix everything soon

DeFiance Capital founder Arthur0x was scammed via a fake email disguised as a newsletter from a VC.

A seeming mastodon of the crypto industry, but even Vitalik has his share of bad luck. The hacker gained access to Arthur's hot and cold wallet and actively ransacked all crypto.

While Arthur describes the case on Twitter, the social engineering expert made him 585 ETH or $1.800.000 poorer. Even the pros can become victims! Be careful, please. 

Also, some bots for your protection: 

@VirusTotalAV_bot - check files

@siteshot_bot - goes by the link and make a screenshot

SBF, aka Sam from FTX, believes that Asia and the Pacific region lacks a crypto hub as no such hub has taken root there. In this role, he sees Australia as the country to take the initiative on the issue.

Therefore, the decision to open an FTX affiliate is a serious bid to establish Australia as the new crypto hub in the region.

Comparing bitcoin to the internet boom of the late 90s, 200,000 jobs are expected, the only thing to do is not to get bogged down with regulation and a proper legal framework, and everyone will be happy. And where would you open a crypto hub? 

Press: BAYC is creating a token and metaverse. Buterin at TIME. Cool collections! Digest is an aesthete. 

Read the digest! 

Hard Cap is a maximum fundraising goal that crypto startups can receive from investors on ICO/IDO/IEO and etc. Fun fact – there was no hard cap on Ethereum ICO.

And more you can find in our Glossary!

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