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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin in Space; Prime Brokerage Race; Nodes You Can’t Trace

The OCC's door is open for banks looking to discuss getting involved in crypto services, a Russian bank issued a token-backed loan and bitcoin has been sent from space.

News  ·  19 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Hashrates Drop, Bitcoiners Hodl and an Open Letter to Bankers

Floods are dampening bitcoin mining hashrates, Ethereum Classic may be thrown off its most liquid exchange and bitcoin is moving off exchanges.

News  ·  18 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin on DeFi and DeFi on Bitcoin

More bitcoins are being tokenized than mined, DeFi is coming to the Bitcoin system and a former Prudential Securities CEO thinks crypto is a safe bet.

News  ·  17 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Ripple’s Rebuff, DeFi’s ‘Degens’ and China’s CBDC

Both the U.S. and China are advancing on their central bank digital currency (CBDC) designs while a Bitcoin developer created a new programming language.

News  ·  14 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Loans, Ethereum’s Fees, YAM’s Bug

Ethereum fees and miners' profits are at all-time highs. Coinbase is offering bitcoin-backed loans and the Tor Network is subject to a crypto scam.

News  ·  13 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Avanti’s New Money, DeFi Deepens and ‘How Much Ether?’

Caitlin Long has a new take on money. Russia wants to de-anonymize crypto. And Coinbase wins in court.

News  ·  12 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: MicroStrategy’s $250M Bitcoin Bet, India Booms, Banks Open to Custody

MicroStrategy bets $250 million on Bitcoin's safe haven thesis. Indian crypto is booming. And David Marcus has a new role at Facebook.

Markets  ·  11 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Inside Cosmos, Bitcoin at $200B, DeFi Surges

Traders are expecting bitcoin to go higher. DeFi is surging in web traffic. And Cosmos is alive and well, despite internal feuding.

News  ·  10 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Goldman’s Hire, Ether’s Options, Bitcoin’s Patronage

The Fed is rushing ahead with a payments platform, Goldman Sachs is building out a digital assets team and NBA stars have backed Dapper Labs.

News  ·  7 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Bulls Reborn, Backrunning Bots, Bitmain Blowout

Ethereum Classic was hit with another 51% attack and Instagram is seeing a proliferation of crypto scams.

News  ·  6 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Square’s Revenue Surge, Eth 2’s Final Testnet, c-Lightning’s Latest Update

Square’s Bitcoin revenues increased 600% year-over-year and a blockchain-based voting system in Russia may have been hacked.

News  ·  5 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: XRP Sales, INX IPO and Bitcoin Mining Woes

China's bitcoin miners are in a rut during a period of intense flooding, Ripple shows signs of sales growth and INX scaled down its IPO vision.

News  ·  4 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Hedge Fund Down, Banana Bets and the Twitter Hack Fallout

Another crypto hedge fund has called it quits, the teenage Twitter hacker reportedly had millions in bitcoin and Huobi sees DeFi as its next venture.

News  ·  3 August 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Dollar’s Decline, Ether’s Moneymakers and Coinbase’s Considerations

Coinbase is considering adding 19 new assets, the SEC tapped CipherTrace for its Binance-specific tracing tools and 132% of Ether wallets are in profit.

News  ·  31 July 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Plus Token Ponzi Popped, Cardano Forked and tZERO Cut

Cardano is now running as a proof-of-stake network, the Marines banned crypto mining and crypto reacts to the congressional inquiry into Big Tech's market dominance.

News  ·  30 July 2020