– Sam Altman has been removed from his CEO position at OpenAI and CTO Mira Murati is now serving as interim CEO.
– BlackRock has filed for a spot Ether ETF with the SEC, following its registration of the iShares Ethereum Trust.
– The Australian Taxation Office has confirmed that Australians are liable for capital gains taxes when wrapping and unwrapping crypto tokens.
– An FTX Foundation staffer is fighting for a $275,000 bonus promised by SBF, with the outcome to be determined by a Delaware bankruptcy judge.
– WisdomTree has filed an amended Form S-1 spot Bitcoin ETF prospectus with the SEC, proposing a rule change to list and trade shares of the WisdomTree Bitcoin Trust.
– The top altcoin gainers of the week are Celestia, yearn.finance, and THORChain, while the top losers are Gas, FTX Token, and Neo.
– Bitcoin is at $36,419, Ether at $1,946, and XRP at $0.61, with a total market cap of $1.38 trillion.
– Notable quotations from Navin Gupta, John Palmer, Brad Garlinghouse, French Hill, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Joana Cotar.
– Bitcoin traders are targeting a dip to $30.9K as the price hovers around $36,000.
– Cybersecurity company Unciphered warns that up to $2.1 billion in crypto stored in old wallets is at risk due to a vulnerability called “Randstorm.”
– Swan Bitcoin announces it will terminate customer accounts found interacting with crypto-mixing services due to regulatory obligations.
– The founder of Ethereum Name Service urges Unstoppable Domains to drop a recently awarded patent or face a lawsuit.
– Cointelegraph Magazine journalist Felix Ng shares his experience of working in virtual reality for a week.
– An overview of recent developments in Hong Kong exchanges, tokenized bonds in the Philippines, and China’s stance on civil protection for crypto.
