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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Circle says $3.3B of its ~$40B USDC reserves remain at Silicon Valley Bank and that the crypto payments firm will follow state and federal regulators' guidance — - After being largely silent on Friday, Circle said it has $3.3 billion in exposure to Silicon Valley Bank …
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| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase and Binance temporarily suspend conversions of USDC into USD; USDC depegged and traded at ~$0.90 as investors reacted to Circle's SVB exposure — The second-largest stablecoin in crypto fell from its intended $1 peg on Saturday, trading as low as 81.5 cents, hurt by the exposure …
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| New York Times: |
SBV collapse led to finger-pointing, as some crypto advocates preach and scold while some investors argue crypto collapses set the stage for SVB's collapse — The implosion of the Silicon Valley bank led to finger-pointing, as executives and investors jumped on the crisis for their own messaging.
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Circle's USDC has seen $1B in net redemptions since SVB's collapse and lost its $1 peg, after Circle said SVB is one of six banks managing USDC cash reserves — Stablecoin issuer Circle held an undisclosed amount of USDC's cash reserves at now-failed Silicon Valley Bank.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
How the FBI proved that NetWire was a Remote Access Trojan and not a legitimate remote admin tool, leading to the seizure of the website selling the malware — On Thursday, the U.S. government announced that it had seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cellphones.
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Krebs on Security and Department of Justice
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| Semafor: |
Sources: some hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits at SVB for 60 to 80 cents on the dollar; Filing: ~96% of deposits as of Dec. 31 were uninsured — Hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits stranded at Silicon Valley Bank for as little as 60 cents on the dollar …
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The Information, Insider, and Cooley
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Filing: crypto lender BlockFi, which filed for bankruptcy in November 2022, has $227M in uninsured funds in SVB; BlockFi may have violated US bankruptcy law — - Crypto lender Blockfi has millions in uninsured funds because the cash is a money market mutual fund, according to a bankruptcy document filed on Friday.
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Cryptonews and crypto.news
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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Gita Jackson / The Verge: |
Twitter is in decline and less stable under Elon Musk, echoing LiveJournal and Tumblr falling apart under new ownership that didn't understand their communities — Twitter is in a period of decline. The site still functions, people are still using it, but there's a familiar stink that lingers on the website.| Giovanni Colantonio / Digital Trends: |
After being prompted to create a Sudoku-like puzzle, ChatGPT “invented” a game called Sumplete that is nearly identical to at least one years-old mobile game — ChatGPT can add another job to its résumé: game developer. With just a few simple prompts from a user …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roblox and other companies disclose their exposure to SVB in SEC filings; Roblox says ~5% of its $3B cash and securities balance was at SVB as of February 28 — The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is impacting a range of startups and larger firms including …
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| Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: |
Filing: investors and depositors tried to pull $42B from SVB on March 9; the bank had a $958M negative cash balance on March 9, per a taking possession order — Investors and depositors tried to pull $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday in one of the biggest US bank runs in more than a decade … | Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Brazil is seizing shipments of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, due to its alleged use in criminal activity — The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency is seizing incoming Flipper Zero purchases due to its alleged use in criminal activity … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams as he re-launches his location-based social networking app at SXSW, 14 years after its debut — One of the original location-based social apps is relaunching at SXSW - 14 years after its debut — Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams …
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@jw
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
LinkedIn's decision to start publishing “AI-powered conversation starters” to provoke discussions is a milestone and may herald semiautomated social networks — It makes sense that LinkedIn would be the first major social network to push AI-generated content on its users.
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gHacks Technology News. Tweets:
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