Google Play in India blocks Binance 🇮🇳, Celsius transfers $125M ETH 💰, GameStop closes NFT marketplace 🚫

📌 Daily Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 Update 2024-01-15

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BlackRock drops ‘boomer’ Bitcoin ETF ad as marketing blitz ramps up (3 min read)

While other spot Bitcoin ETF issuers use pop-culture references and flashy imagery, BlackRock has seemingly taken a more “adult” approach.

Google Play Store in India blocks Binance, OKX in response to FIU notice (2 min read)

Although Google’s Play Store blocked Binance and OKX, the Binance application and website are still available and working for existing users.

Celsius transfers $125M of ETH to exchanges as FTX and Alameda dump (4 min read)

The embattled crypto firms have begun transferring large volumes of ETH to centralized exchanges amid wider efforts to start paying back creditors.

Riot, TeraWulf and CleanSpark best-positioned miners for Bitcoin halving — CoinShares (3 min read)

CoinShares projects the average cost of production for crypto miners post-halving at $37,856 per Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin greed index plummets to ‘neutral’ as ETFs fail to buoy prices (2 min read)

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has fallen back to “neutral” for the first time since October last year, despite the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States only days earlier.

Reported ‘transfer’ of $15B XRP was part of a failed exploit attempt (2 min read)

According to Bitfinex chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino, an attacker attempted to make use of XRP’s partial payments feature to exploit his crypto exchange but failed.

GameStop to shut down NFT marketplace due to regulatory limbo (2 min read)

GameStop’s decision to close its NFT marketplace comes after a series of cutbacks in its crypto services over the last two years.

Hong Kong Virtual Asset Consortium removes XRP from global crypto index (2 min read)

Solana took over XRP’s position in HKVAC’s top five cryptocurrencies global index, with AVAX replacing Tron amid market fluctuations in the past 30 days.