Bitcoin is down slightly at $54,350
Ethereum is up slightly at $1,677
and Binance Coin is up 5% at 254.71

Holo up 28%
Filecoin up 22%
Bittorrent up 15%

Bank of Japan forms CBDC committee.

Hut 8 mining corporation has purchased $30M worth of Nvidia’s new CMP.

New Zealand funds management limited put 5% of its KiwiSaver growth fund into BTC.

Benjamin Reynolds ordered to pay more than $571M for his fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme.

Links:

• Bank of Japan statement
• Hut 8 Buys $30M Worth of Nvidia's New Crypto Mining GPUs - CoinDesk
• Investment or speculation: KiwiSaver fund enters the bitcoin era | Stuff.co.nz
• Federal Court Orders UK Man to Pay More Than $571 Million for Operating Fraudulent Bitcoin Trading Scheme | CFTC

Bitcoin is down slightly at $11,558
Ethereum is down 2% at $385
and XRP is down 0.5% at 28 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Aragon network up 18%
Cosmos up 17%
and Ocean Protocol up 15%

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Mitiga identified a Monero mining script in a community AWS AMI.

Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say they’ve designed an AI for detecting would-be cryptojackers.

The CFTC is going after the owner of the fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme Control-Finance.

Links:

• An AWS Virtual Machine Is Infected With Mining Malware. There Could Be Others - CoinDesk
• CFTC seeks $572 million in penalty and restitution from the owner of 'fraudulent' bitcoin scheme Control-Finance - The Block
• Los Alamos Scientists Develop AI to Fight Cryptojacking - CoinDesk