Turkish rug pull, Facebook stablecoin, Binance chief exec
—by Protos Staff
Listen to the most important stories in Bitcoin and crypto covered by our newsroom in the past week.
The UK arrives fashionably late to the CBDC conversation
CBDC critics suggest governments find the tech interesting because it allows economic surveillance unattainable with regular digital cash.
Facebook’s Diem is closer but it’s still a boring stablecoin
Diem will work similarly to payments services like PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App. Except, those support Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Binance US hires ex-Coinbase exec to compete with Coinbase
Some call Brian Brooks the “CryptoComptroller,” as he helped pave the way for traditional banks to one day tap the crypto market.
Billion-dollar crypto exit scam labelled ‘biggest fraud’ in Turkish history
Photographers snapped Thodex’s chief exec at the airport waiting for a flight to Albania, in what looks to be a $2 billion exit scam.