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24th Aug: Crypto & Coffee at 8 🎙️
⚡Shopify + Solana for payments 🚨 Tornado Cash co-founders charged, 🔴Bitcoin Mining Difficulty new ATH🚀Bitcoin Exchange Reserve Bitstamp ends Ethereum staking for US Investors❌

⚡Solana Pay integrates a plug-in with Shopify for Circle USDC payment. The article also states Shopify accounts for 10% of total U.S. e-commerce and $444 billion worth of global economic activity, according to its website. The Solana ecosystem has over 11.5 million active accounts. Article here https://lnkd.in/dZe8eaM6

🚀 SOL is up by 7.10% since the last 24 hours
❕ Solana Pay has been adopted by big crypto names like Circle and Phantom as well as payment processors like Checkout.com and CITCON.

❗ Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Money Laundering And Sanctions Violations.
🔥 Roman Storm and Roman Semenov Charged with Operating the Tornado Cash Service, Laundering More Than $1 Billion in Criminal Proceeds Official news here https://lnkd.in/ddATWsr2 Check out our episode for yesterday via Spotify here https://lnkd.in/dv5Befxz we go ahead and explain the drama and it today’s episode we provide an update on the case.

❗ Official news here via United States Attorneys’​ Offices of New York here https://lnkd.in/ddATWsr2 &U.S. Department of the Treasury here https://lnkd.in/dAztbe-h

- What does this mean for the future of DAO?
- What does it mean for similar privacy-preserving protocols

📊 According to data from Coinwarz, the Bitcoin mining difficulty is at 55.62 TH/s after the recent dump in BTC price. BeInCrypto states Despite the 12% correction in Bitcoin (BTC) prices, the mining difficulty has reached an all-time high, and the balance in miners’ wallets continues to increase. Article here https://lnkd.in/dj_8iJyn

🚨 Does an increase In Hash Rates reflect high investor confidence In Bitcoin?

🔴 CryptoQuant states Bitcoin exchange reserves have registered a large increase. Info here. The article here https://lnkd.in/dpk_mZGg states reserves on Coinbase, and Binance are up. this trend can cause bearish implications for the cryptocurrency’s price.. This just means people may be willing to sell their #BTC.

❌ Bitstamp ends Ethereum staking for US In