Bitcoin $233K forecast, SEC X account hacker arrested, and more: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 13 – 19

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried intends to call on a financial expert to rebuff testimonies from Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh and Adam Yedidia. 990 Total views 2 Total shares Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers are planning to put forward an expert witness to counter testimony from former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and other witnesses

Digital assets under custody reached a new milestone this month, BitGo says. 1213 Total views 7 Total shares BitGo, whose investors include Galaxy Digital Ventures, Goldman Sachs and Valor Equity Partners, reported Wednesday that digital assets under custody have surpassed $16 billion for the first time, offering further validation that institutional demand has arrived. In an…

The firm reported that although the market downturn had caused the value of NFTs to “slump,” scammers stole an estimated 4,647 of the tokens in July 2022. 187 Total views 6 Total shares Cryptocurrency risk management firm Elliptic has released a report suggesting that scammers stole more than $100 million worth of nonfungible tokens, or…

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has secured $4.7 million in funding from China’s central government for its blockchain trade finance platform. The funding will be administered over three years and has been designated for research and development projects.The blockchain platform was initially revealed by the PBoC in Shenzhen during September 2018. The platform is…

Zuckerberg and Ek’s concerns highlight the need for balanced regulation of emerging technologies.

Researchers at the University of Zurich have been accused of undertaking an unauthorized four-month-long experiment on a Reddit board using artificial intelligence-generated comments to test whether AI could alter people’s opinions.  As part of the experiment, AI-powered accounts faked a variety of personas, including a rape victim, a person opposed to specific social movements and