Australians lost over $AUD 113 million ($81.5m) to cryptocurrency scams between January 1 and May 1 this year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Monday said.
According to ACCC, Australians lost a total of $AUD 205m ($148m) to various scams this year, a 166% increase compared to the same period last year.
Most cryptocurrencies have an equilibrium value of “exactly zero,” the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar said, even as he highlighted that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can “kill” whatever little case there could be for private digital currencies.
A new report by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that more than 46,000 people reported losing over $1 billion in payment scams involving cryptocurrencies since the start of 2021.
Tether (CRYPTO: USDT), the company operating the blockchain-enabled platform tether.to today announced the launch of MXNT, a stablecoin pegged to the Mexican Peso.
MXNT tokens will initially support Ethereum, Tron, and Polygon.
As we near the close of the first half of 2022, cryptocurrencies and traditional equities have two things in common: both markets have fallen from all-time highs and remain volatile.