The Bank of Japan raised interest rates to levels unseen in three decades and signaled its readiness for further hikes beyond next year, taking another landmark step in ending decades of huge monetary support and near-zero borrowing costs. More here

According to ZachXBT, at around 23:00 UTC on January 10, a victim lost more than $282 million worth of LTC and BTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam. The attacker then converted the stolen LTC and BTC into Monero via multiple instant exchanges, briefly driving a sharp