{"id":604685,"date":"2023-02-04T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/the-week-in-crypto-sam-bankman-fried-ordinals-and-stablecoins\/"},"modified":"2023-02-04T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T01:51:58","slug":"the-week-in-crypto-sam-bankman-fried-ordinals-and-stablecoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/the-week-in-crypto-sam-bankman-fried-ordinals-and-stablecoins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Crypto \u2013 Sam Bankman Fried, Ordinals, and Stablecoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content_box\">\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/41169a86822e6585e2f87627f7d7ef3a?s=32&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"32\" width=\"32\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<p><span><span>By <a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/author\/mahu_bs\" title=\"Posts by Mark Hunter\" rel=\"author\">Mark Hunter<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>16 hours ago<span>Sat Feb 04 2023 09:26:07<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/The-Week-in-Crypto-Sam-Bankman-Fried-Ordinals-and-Stablecoins-02.png\" alt=\"The-Week-in-Crypto---Sam-Bankman-Fried,-Ordinals,-and-Stablecoins-02\" decoding=\"async\" title data-layzr=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/The-Week-in-Crypto-Sam-Bankman-Fried-Ordinals-and-Stablecoins-02.png\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span><span>Reading Time: <\/span> <span>< 1<\/span> <span>minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This week in the crypto world we saw Hong Kong lay out its plans for avoiding another Terra USD, Sam Bankman-Fried being told off for contacting witnesses (honestly, Sam), and Bitcoin maximalists kicking off about the blockchain actually being used for something.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>Heave ho!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Hong Kong Gets Stable-serious<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>Hong Kong\u2019s top financial regulator <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/hong-kong-stablecoin-licensing-coming-in-2023\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> this week that mandatory licensing will be required for all stablecoin issuers in 2023 and that algorithmic stablecoins will not be permitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The rules also state that any entity carrying out regulated activity in Hong Kong must obtain a license to provide stablecoin services, with the regulations aiming to avoid a repeat of the Terra\/LUNA crash, which has affected Hong Kong\u2019s reputation given that it was the home of Do Kwon\u2019s Terraform Labs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>SBF Told not to Contact Witnesses<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>He just can\u2019t help himself, can he? Federal prosecutors this week filed to have Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s bond agreement changed so he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/prosecutors-want-to-stop-bankman-fried-contacting-witnesses\"><span>stops trying to contact potential witnesses<\/span><\/a><span>. Bankman-Fried was caught trying to contact FTX\u2019s counsel Ryne Miller and other former FTX and Alameda employees over Signal, which prosecutors allege could be an effort to influence their testimony, an extremely serious offense and one that Bankman-Fried would do well to avoid being caught up in.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>UK Pushing Ahead with Digital Pound Plans<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>NFTs on Bitcoin? Not in my name! The furore over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/ordinals-nft-project-divides-the-bitcoin-community\"><span>NFTs running on the Bitcoin blockchain <\/span><\/a><span>has got the community up in arms this week \u2013 almost like it should be able to actually work as a blockchain\u201d. Some have labeled it a waste of the blockchain, while others have praised the, ahem, innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One thing it has definitely done however is drive up fees. Great.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fullycrypto.com\/the-week-in-crypto-sam-bankman-fried-ordinals-and-stablecoins?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-week-in-crypto-sam-bankman-fried-ordinals-and-stablecoins\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Mark Hunter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Hunter16 hours agoSat Feb 04 2023 09:26:07 Reading Time: &lt; 1 minuteThis week in the crypto world we saw Hong Kong lay out its plans for avoiding another Terra USD, Sam Bankman-Fried being told off for contacting witnesses (honestly, Sam), and Bitcoin maximalists kicking off about the blockchain actually being used for something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118816,22791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bankman","category-crypto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}