BlockFi will shut down this month, with Coinbase acting as a partner to support its customers' cryptocurrency withdrawals.
Crypto-eligible clients who did not withdraw their digital assets distribution from the BlockFi platform by the deadline of April 28, 2024 at 23:59 UTC (or did not complete an identity verification request by the deadline of May 10, 2024 at 11:59 UTC) from the current round of estate distributions will, rather than such assets being liquidated to cash, have funds made available in kind and can withdraw if they create or have an open and approved Coinbase account.
Additionally, the BlockFi web platform will shut down during May 2024. The specific date remains under consideration given ongoing work and initial distribution, but after this date clients will no longer be able to access the BlockFi platform. The specific date will be separately communicated over the next few weeks.
BlockFi will shut down this month, with Coinbase acting as a partner to support its customers' cryptocurrency withdrawals.
Crypto-eligible clients who did not withdraw their digital assets distribution from the BlockFi platform by the deadline of April 28, 2024 at 23:59 UTC (or did not complete an identity verification request by the deadline of May 10, 2024 at 11:59 UTC) from the current round of estate distributions will, rather than such assets being liquidated to cash, have funds made available in kind and can withdraw if they create or have an open and approved Coinbase account.
Additionally, the BlockFi web platform will shut down during May 2024. The specific date remains under consideration given ongoing work and initial distribution, but after this date clients will no longer be able to access the BlockFi platform. The specific date will be separately communicated over the next few weeks.
“To the extent it is used I fear it’s often for illicit finance. It’s an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions, and the amount of energy that’s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering,” the former Fed chairwoman said. Yellen’s comments have been cited as a reason for bitcoin’s recent losses. However, Yellen’s assessment of bitcoin as a inefficient medium of exchange is an important point and one that has already been raised in the past by bitcoin bulls. Using a volatile asset in exchange for goods and services makes little sense if the asset can tumble 10% in a day, or surge 80% over the course of a two months as bitcoin has done in 2021, critics argue. To put a finer point on it, over the past 12 months bitcoin has registered 8 corrections, defined as a decline from a recent peak of at least 10% but not more than 20%, and two bear markets, which are defined as falls of 20% or more, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Why Telegram?
Telegram has no known backdoors and, even though it is come in for criticism for using proprietary encryption methods instead of open-source ones, those have yet to be compromised. While no messaging app can guarantee a 100% impermeable defense against determined attackers, Telegram is vulnerabilities are few and either theoretical or based on spoof files fooling users into actively enabling an attack.
