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Blockchain Bites: Hodl Hodl’s No-KYC Bitcoin Lending, Voyager’s Token Merging M&A Deal, Crypto’s Reaction to PayPal

Hodl Hodl announced a no-KYC, P2P lending service. Reactions to PayPal's crypto market entrance. And a token-merging M&A deal.

News  ·  22 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin and the BSA, Signature Deposit Growth, Darknet Crypto Donors

Here's all the news people are talking about in crypto today.

News  ·  20 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Filecoin Strike, Bitcoin Fees Fall, Coinbase Censorship

Five Filecoin miners have gone on strike. Bitcoin miners are seeing depressed earnings. And Binance is closing its Jersey branch.

News  ·  19 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: OKEx Freezes Withdrawals, DeFi Audits Queue, Nigeria Urges Crypto Adoption

OKEx has frozen withdrawals, audit firms are experiencing a backlog of DeFi projects and the Trump administration is examining DLT for national defense.

News  ·  16 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Filecoin’s Mainnet, M&A’s Upswing, Tarbert’s Environmental Concerns

Crypto M&A deals are on pace to surpass last year, CFTC Chairman Tarbert is "impressed" with Ethereum and Filecoin flies.

News  ·  15 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum Power Users, Composability Questions, Staking Solutions

This special edition of Blockchain Bites covers everything you need to know from CoinDesk's invest: ethereum economy conference and the news from elsewhere in the cryptoverse.

News  ·  14 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Your Guide to Invest Ethereum Economy

The fully virtual CoinDesk invest: ethereum economy goes live today. Here's everything you need to know about the event.

News  ·  14 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: G20’s CBDC Rules, Ethereum 2.0’s Tests, Blockchain’s $1.7T Boost

PricewaterhouseCoopers thinks blockchain will add $1.7 trillion to the global economy while the G20 mulls CBDCs.

News  ·  13 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin on Ethereum – The Whos, Whats and Whys

Elon Musk disupted claims of a Gigafactory Bitcoin ATM, BitMEX hired a head of compliance and there's nearly $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum-tokenized bitcoin.

News  ·  12 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Crosses $11K While DOJ Takes Aim at Crypto

Bitcoin crossed the $11,000 threshold, central banks enumerate "core principles" for a CBDC, Coinbase sees 60 employees walk.

News  ·  9 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Square’s $50M BTC Investment, MetaMask’s 1M Users, BitMEX’s New CEO

Square became the latest publicly traded firm to pile cash reserves into bitcoin while members of BitMEX's founding team resign.

News  ·  8 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Crypto’s Top Universities, Bitcoin’s New Addresses, MetaMask’s Token Swaps

MetaMask unveiled token swaps, a rise in new bitcoin addresses invites speculation and Ripple threatened to leave the U.S. for a friendlier regulatory environment.

News  ·  7 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: FCA’s Crypto Crackdown, McAfee’s Charges, Ethereum’s Store of Value

John McAfee was charged with promoting ICOs without disclosing his payments while the U.K.'s FCA has banned certain crypto derivatives.

News  ·  6 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum’s Economy, Estonia’s CBDC Research, Coinbase’s Severances

Estonia will research the viability of blockchain-based digital currency, the SEC is open to the idea of a tokenized ETF and Coinbase employees have begun taking severance packages.

News  ·  5 October 2020
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Blockchain Bites: BitMEX Investigation, Trump’s Diagnosis, Babel’s Leaked Audio

Elsewhere, another European central banker has called for a "digital euro," Atari's cryptocurrency has a sale date and Venezuela built a national stock exchange on Ethereum.

News  ·  2 October 2020