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View More NewsBitMine Immersion Technologies, the top Ethereum treasury firm by total holdings, announced Monday that it added nearly 61,000 more ETH over the last week—right as the asset reclaimed a price of $2,000 per coin after sitting below that mark for the entire weekend.The publicly traded firm now holds 4,534,563 ETH after adding 60,976 ETH—about $123 million worth—over the last week. At a current price of $2,015 per coin, that puts BitMine’s Ethereum treasury at a value of approximately $9.14 billion. The company also holds $1.2 billion in cash, it said Monday, along with about $13.4 million worth of Bitcoin.Ethereum is…
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has received a preliminary notice of sanctions that could lead to a six-month partial business suspension, local media reports.The notice came from the Financial Services Commission’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which oversees anti-money laundering compliance for crypto firms under the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information.Regulators said Bithumb continued transactions with overseas virtual asset businesses that were not registered in South Korea and failed to properly enforce certain Know Your Customer procedures. The FIU proposed a six-month partial suspension and disciplinary action against the exchange’s chief executive.The restriction would apply only to…
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