❗️PAXOS ПО ОШИБКЕ ВЫПУСТИЛ СТЕЙБЛКОИНЫ PAYPAL НА СУММУ $300 ТРЛН.⨯ [Bloomberg] ............................................................. → В среду эмитент стейблкоинов Paxos по ошибке создал токены PYUSD на сумму $300 трлн, а через несколько минут сжёг их. Транзакции были видны на Etherscan, но ни один пользователь не пострадал.
Для сравнения:
весь крипторынок оценивается в $3,8 трлн, а USDT от Tether — $180 млрд.
Ошибка показывает контроль эмитентов стейблкоинов — по сути, программируемых «центробанков», способных создавать или удалять миллиарды долларов кодом.
❗️PAXOS ПО ОШИБКЕ ВЫПУСТИЛ СТЕЙБЛКОИНЫ PAYPAL НА СУММУ $300 ТРЛН.⨯ [Bloomberg] ............................................................. → В среду эмитент стейблкоинов Paxos по ошибке создал токены PYUSD на сумму $300 трлн, а через несколько минут сжёг их. Транзакции были видны на Etherscan, но ни один пользователь не пострадал.
Для сравнения:
весь крипторынок оценивается в $3,8 трлн, а USDT от Tether — $180 млрд.
Ошибка показывает контроль эмитентов стейблкоинов — по сути, программируемых «центробанков», способных создавать или удалять миллиарды долларов кодом.
It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information.
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