Bitfinex 2016 hack mastermind Ilya Lichtenstein has been released early, citing sentence reductions under the U.S. First Step Act signed by President Trump in 2018. Lichtenstein was sentenced to five years in November 2024 for laundering nearly 120,000 BTC (~$4.5 billion at the

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "Vitalik is right, that the paradigm of the transaction will be replaced with a proof, that's the way to go—they started with scalability like rollups but now they're realizing they need to do privacy at the same time." $NIGHT

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we gotta start putting up numbers. Our MAUs, TVL, and stablecoin issuance have to go up by a factor of 10x to 100x. The growth of $ADA is going to come from the DeFi system getting big."

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson signals more upside potential for $XRP, says "XRP, that was just a return to a historic high, because Gensler was gone, so they went back because they were always a top 5 cryptocurrency. It's a very large and very old ecosystem."

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