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Cryptocurrencies Price Prediction: Ledger, Bitcoin & Shibarium – American Wrap 14 December

Ledger attack details and new findings

New findings from the Ledger dApps attack show that the exploiter may have left their email address behind.
 

While Bitcoin’s decentralization gives many the freedom to transfer assets without the risk of censorship, malicious actors are also taking advantage of the network’s inherent privacy to move stolen funds. 

Before being sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in 2022, Tornado Cash was the prominent choice for hackers to launder stolen crypto. According to OFAC, over $7 billion in crypto assets have been laundered using the mixer since 2019. However, new findings from blockchain security firm CertiK show that there’s been a shift in 2023. 

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Shibarium transactions surpass milestone, exceed 105 million

Shiba Inu, one of the largest dog-themed meme coins in the crypto ecosystem, recently surpassed a key milestone. Shibarium, Shiba Inu’s scaling solution, has recorded a total of 105.95 million transactions as of Thursday. 
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