The mining difficulty of Bitcoin increased by 7.56% to 46.84T at block height 782208, setting a new record high. The current average hashrate is 340.23 EH/s. Bitcoin price has risen 70% since January; mining difficulty has risen 30% this year.
Korean pop singer Kwon Ji-Yong, who has hundreds of millions of fans, will release the "Archive of PEACEMINUSONE" series of NFTs on the OpenSea platform. The first phase of the sale price is 0.27 BNB ($88).
According to CNA, Taiwan will announce at the end of March that exchanges and cryptocurrencies will be managed by the Financial Supervisory Commission. First, the industry will self-regulate, while referring to international norms, and finally establish a special law. Taiwan investors lost heavily in FTX Crash.
Bitcoin ATM maker GENERAL BYTES issues highest severity security incident. The attacker identified a security vulnerability in the master service interface used by Bitcoin ATMs to upload videos to server. This resulted in ability to read and decrypt API keys used to access funds in hot wallets and exchanges.
FTX group had a $6.8 billion shortfall in its balance sheet when it filed for bankruptcy last November. In total, the group of companies had debts of about $11.6 billion, the majority of that in customer claims, against $4.8 billion in assets, according to a presentation filed to the bankruptcy court on Friday.
A total of 625,143 addresses eligible for the Arbitrum airdrop, accounted for 23.5% of the total addresses. The average airdrops is 1,895, of which 625 are the main proportion, accounting for 16.8%; the number of addresses that meet the full allocation airdrop conditions is 4,428.
Coinbase announced that it will suspend trading for Rally (RLY), DFI Money (YFII), Mirror (MIR), OMG Network (OMG), Loom Network (LOOM), & Augur (REP) on March 29, 2023, because they are no longer meet listing standards.
Circle announced that it had redeemed 2.9 billion USDC and minted 700 million USDC on March 13. That was down from an earlier estimate of $4 billion to $12 billion without a U.S. government's help for banks. Circle says it will continue to add new transaction banking partners with 24/7/365 capabilities.
Shares in Arizona-based Western Alliance Bancorp plunged more than 80% after SVB collapsed; shares in First Republic, PacWest and other smaller banks also fell. Former FDIC Chairman William Isaac said there was no doubt more bank failures would follow.