Anyone who keeps bitcoin in an app relies on the company behind it, and this week one showed the cost. Block agreed to pay about $764 million over Cash App’s anti money laundering controls, Bitcoin Magazine reported on November 4. The same quarter, its bitcoin gross profit fell 50% to $52 million after it cut Cash App’s bitcoin fees on purpose. So this crypto update asks who carries the cost when a company holds the coins.
Those costs never reach a trader who keeps his own keys, and Pepeto is building for him, a presale exchange that never holds user coins, with more than $11.2 million raised.
Crypto Update: Block Agrees to Pay $764 Million Over Cash App
Block said in a November 3 filing that it will pay about $764 million to settle a Justice Department probe. The gross figure is about $964 million, cut by roughly $200 million of credit for earlier state penalties, and the deal still needs final terms and court approval.
It is a deferred prosecution, so it does not claim Block laundered money, and Block had reserved the full amount by September 30. Bitcoin rose about 4% on November 5 to near $80,400.
However, Block’s fee cut was a choice to push bitcoin as a way to pay, and other platforms still charge on every swap. Uniswap takes 0.30% of a swap and PancakeSwap 0.25%, the same rate on $1,000 or on $1 million.
This leaves the crypto update pointing at custody, because the company holding coins carries the compliance bill and controls when users can move them. Pepeto is building an exchange where coins never leave the trader’s wallet, and it sells at the presale stage bitcoin’s early buyers once had.
Pepeto’s Exchange Never Holds Coins, and $11.2 million Followed
More than $11.2 million has gone into Pepeto because its exchange removes the two costs Block’s quarter put in view, a company holding the coins and a fee on every trade. Pepeto is a presale meme coin whose PepetoSwap lets a trader swap straight from his own wallet.
Most traders notice the fee only when the fill comes back short. PepetoSwap charges 0.00%, with gas the only cost, so a trader who swaps $8,600 on the first of every month keeps $309.60 a year against Uniswap and $258 against PancakeSwap. Orders pass through a private relay that blocks front running bots by default.
A $0 bridge across five chains and an AI security scanner are being built beside it, and SolidProof audited the project and its KYC. Only community members and big investors already in hold testing access, granted privately.
The current stage price is $0.0000001905, and stakers earn 160% APY at today’s rate. A stage ends when its timer runs out or its sales target is hit, and the price then steps up.
Every fee a trader keeps is a reason to trade there again, and each of those trades runs through a token capped at 420 trillion units. That repeat use builds demand with the platform, ahead of the expected Binance listing.
Conclusion
Block’s $764 million bill falls on a company that holds coins for users, yet the same company once showed what buying early looks like. On October 8, 2020, Square, Block’s old name, bought 4,709 BTC for $50 million, about $10,600 each. Bitcoin set a record of $126,198 five years later, so each $1,000 of that purchase grew to about $11,900.
This crypto update leaves bitcoin needing about 57% to regain that record on a $1.6 trillion base. Pepeto offers the stage Square chose in 2020, a low entry price, with more than $11.2 million committed.
Square’s gain came from one decision, buying while the entry was open. Pepeto’s stage price is open today, and buying before the next stage closes is the same decision Square made.
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