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  Monero Jumps 51% After 'Suspicious Transfer' of $333M in Bitcoin

  Privacy blockchain Monero (XMR) jumped 51% on Monday—and on-chain investigators pointed to hackers laundering $330 million in stolen Bitcoin as the likely culprit. Early on Monday, on-chain sleuth ZachXBT highlighted a “suspicious transfer” made from a “potential victim” of 3,520 BTC (worth approximately $333 million). Soon after, the funds were swapped to XMR via multiple exchanges. ZachXBT believes this was “theft” due to the high fees paid and the suspicious activity once the funds had been m...

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  Major Supermarket Chain Spar to Launch Bitcoin Payments Across Switzerland

  Spar supermarkets in Switzerland are preparing to roll out Bitcoin payments nationwide after a successful pilot backed by the crypto payments firm DFX Swiss, in a move that could make crypto a staple of everyday life. Earlier this month, Spar’s Zug location began accepting Bitcoin via the Lightning Network, using DFX Swiss’s OpenCryptoPay platform, an open, peer-to-peer standard designed for in-person crypto transactions.  A second Spar store in Kreuzlingen followed a few days later. “Zug was ju...