Top crypto news of the day – September 21st

NEW: France's 3rd largest bank now offers #Bitcoin services to institutions

— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) September 21, 2022

The #Ethereum #merge on 9/15 has brought on a shift in large address behavior. In the past 6 days since the shift to #proofofstake, addresses holding 1k to 10k $ETH have dropped 2.24% of their cumulative holdings. 100 to 1k addresses have dropped 1.41%. https://t.co/qdOVcdDjgC pic.twitter.com/fcFy8hTUGD

— Santiment (@santimentfeed) September 21, 2022

My first bitcoin investment was in 2015/16 at ~$400 (yellow circle), 2 yrs after I read the bitcoin white paper in 2013. My second investment was in 2018/19 at the bottom of the bear market at ~$4K, at the time when I published the S2F model. My third investment is now, at ~$20K. pic.twitter.com/mKVOB3l7x7

— PlanB (@100trillionUSD) September 21, 2022

END is HERE. Called Jerry Williams my trusted gold and silver dealer. He said “I can’t get gold or silver coins. The mint will not sell me anymore.” To me this means the end of FAKE $ is here. As stated in earlier tweet silver going to $100 to $500. Get some. Protect your self

— therealkiyosaki (@theRealKiyosaki) September 20, 2022

JUST IN: Tether agrees to produce court-requested documents to establish the reserves backing $USDT.

— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) September 21, 2022

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— Michael Arrington (@arrington) September 20, 2022

Impressed by @opensea's commitment to security.

I discovered a vulnerability on https://t.co/YQXXfgZBG4 and reported it through @Hacker0x01. In less than 12 hours they had triaged, reproduced, patched, and awarded me a sizable bounty! pic.twitter.com/Xgv2VGfrW5

— nix.eth (@nix_eth) September 20, 2022

Meta Has Begun Cutting Significant Numbers of Employees Through Restructuring, Sources Say — WSJ

Meta and Google Increasingly Reducing Costs by Eliminating Roles But Giving Employees Chance to Apply Elsewhere Within Company — WSJ$META https://t.co/KPpqF8yIZ3

— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) September 21, 2022

Global #bitcoin adoption in 2022
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1. Vietnam
2. Philippines
3. Ukraine
4. India
5. U.S
6. Pakistan
7. Brazil
8. Thailand
9. Russia
10. China
11. Nigeria
12. Turkey
13. Argentina
14. Morocco
15. Colombia pic.twitter.com/pPKQZDWTRa

— Documenting Bitcoin (@DocumentingBTC) September 21, 2022

Today the director of India's Central Bank gave this speech where he explained that the country's CBDC project isn't a pilot but rather a "phased implementation" that will start with wholesale and then move to retail

In other words: total monetary control pic.twitter.com/JZncNP45ph

— Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) September 20, 2022