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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...

Spanish Crypto Exchange 2gether Won’t Reimburse All Stolen Funds From the 2020 Hack

Spanish Crypto Exchange 2gether Won't Reimburse All Stolen Funds From the 2020 Hack

Spanish cryptocurrency exchange 2gether has announced that it won’t compensate users for the full amount of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) stolen in August 2020. The exchange said that almost 5,000 of its customers won’t receive their cryptos under the compensation plan.

Company Asks 9% of Its Users for More Time to Gather the Remaining Funds

According to the announcement, 91% of the users will be fully compensated as part of the firm’s capital round to gather enough funds for the purpose. The crypto exchange argues that it cannot pay the full amount because of the higher prices seen in BTC and ETH.

However, the company offered some solutions to the 9% of users affected by the measure:

The company has offered these users the best solution it can reach with the funds raised in this round — a solution that involves replacing a maximum of 99% of the BTC and ETH stolen and not converted, and at a minimum, the value in euros that was lost at the cyberattack time. It excludes what was converted into capital or 2GT tokens, depending on the amount stolen in each case.

Customers can choose to either accept or reject the proposal made by 2gether. If the users decide to reject the mentioned solution, the exchange asks them to give the company “more time to try recovering the total amount of funds as soon as possible.”

The Spanish crypto firm also said it will enable a feature in its app to allow users to proceed with the solution offered. However, the company didn’t provide a timeline to obtain the remaining funds for the full compensation.

Per a newsletter sent via email to all 2gether customers, the capital round gathered over 1.5 million euros ($1.8 million).

Controversy on Social Media After the Announcement

However, the announcement sparked controversy among the crypto exchange’s customers on social media. On Twitter, a user expressed his disappointment on the matter:

Total disappointment. When subtracting the funds, you take from us all equally (well, not those who had BTC and ETH). Now it’s time to return, and you decide to shut up, giving everything back to some, to others 60% and to others between 30% and the rest to be paid in 4 years. Was this the fair thing to do?

On Aug. 1, 2020, 2gether suffered a cyberattack that affected several crypto trading accounts. At the time, the amount stolen by the hackers was over 1 million euros ($1.2 million as of press time).

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