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Official web portals from various jurisdictions, including India, Nigeria, Egypt, Colombia, Brazil, and Vietnam, are funneling users to a bogus MetaMask website. Visitors receive a phishing warning from Microsoft Defender the moment they access the site. Ignoring this alert and connecting one's MetaMask could result in catastrophic loss of funds.The fraudulent website is depicted beside the authentic one in a screenshot. Crypto Regulation in Brazil
Brazil reigns as the most substantial cryptocurrency hub in Latin America. Yet, its regulatory stance towards digital currencies is confounding. On one hand, they're not recognized as legitimate money; on the other, there's a push towards legitimizing crypto transactions. 
For undisclosed reasons, Worldcoin has suspended the use of its eye scanner, Orb, for biometric verification in Brazil, India, and France. According to company representatives, this decision was made to comply with regulatory requirements in these countries. 
Brazil's Central Bank has officially christened its digital currency as 'Drex', moving away from its previous moniker, the digital real.
The visual identity of Drex has also been released, featuring two arrows, with one integrated into the uppercase 'D', illustrating the transition of Brazil's conventional fiat currency to its digitalized form.
Does the green hue symbolize perpetual growth? 
Blockchain technology has been used to pilot Brazil's digital real. Execution took place on the Stellar infrastructure of the local Mercado Bitcoin exchange.
The experiment included a KYC procedure, a fraud protection check using decentralized identity identification, and direct fund transfers.
All worked well, no violations of the country's laws were detected (thankfully, the tests had not yet been banned), though Mercado's head teased that the Central Bank's real motive was to see how things would unfold if it lost its direct control over money. 1 - 15 of 15 results