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BIS Launches Innovation Hub With Nordic Central Banks Focusing on CBDCs

The launch of the Nordic hub marks the fifth BIS Innovation Hub Centre to be opened in the past two years.

News  ·  16 June 2021
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Step Finance to Aggregate Solana’s Decentralized Exchanges Onto Dashboard

The Solana ecosystem is backed heavily by Sam Bankman-Fried, and has been pitched as a faster, cheaper alternative to Ethereum.

News  ·  16 June 2021
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Kraken to No Longer Offer Margin Trading for US Investors Who Don’t Meet ‘Certain’ Requirements

Kraken said the changes come due to regulatory guidance about leveraged digital asset transactions.

News  ·  9 June 2021
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Bram Cohen’s Chia Drives Hard Disk Demand in Europe: Report

Research by Context shows just under 200,000 enterprise-grade nearline storage devices of 10TB capacity were sold to end-users in Europe this April.

News  ·  9 June 2021
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MicroStrategy to Offer $400M in Notes to Buy More Bitcoin Even as It Warns of $284.5M Impairment

Publicly traded business intelligence firm MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) said it intends to offer $400 million senior secured notes to raise funds to purchase more bitcoin even as the bitcoin it already has will likely result in a massive impairment. In fact, the added purchase of bitcoin would seem to be a doubling down of sorts, […]

News  ·  7 June 2021
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Sotheby’s Opens Virtual Replica of Its London Galleries in Decentraland

The virtual gallery is located in Decentraland’s Voltaire Art District and can be found using map coordinates 52,83.

News  ·  4 June 2021
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UK’s AML Rules Could Force Up to 50 Crypto Firms to Cease Trading: Report

The FCA has expressed concern that a "significantly high number" of crypto-asset businesses are not meeting its standards on AML.

News  ·  4 June 2021
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Japan’s BitFlyer Gives US Clients Access to Bitcoin and Japanese Yen Pair Trading

“The BTC/JPY spot market posted over $30 billion in trading volume, making it one of the world’s largest bitcoin to fiat markets,” says bitFlyer.

News  ·  3 June 2021
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UK’s Starling Bank to Lift Ban Blocking Payments to Crypto Exchanges in Three Weeks

The temporary ban was in response to concern about "high levels of suspected financial crime” associated with such payments.

News  ·  1 June 2021
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ETC Group to List First Bitcoin ETP in London on the Aquis Exchange

This is the first cryptocurrency ETP to be made available for trading on the U.K. market.

News  ·  1 June 2021
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Dutch Court Rules Bitonic No Longer Requires Crypto Wallet Verification

The central bank of the Netherlands reverses a rule it made last year.

News  ·  20 May 2021
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Ark Investment’s Cathie Wood Says Bitcoin Will Go to $500,000

Wood made the prediction even as the leading cryptocurrency tumbled on Wednesday.

News  ·  19 May 2021
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Riot Blockchain’s Q1 Mining Revenue Rose 881% to $23.2M

The company reported total mined bitcoin rose 62% from the previous quarter.

News  ·  18 May 2021
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Robinhood to Reveal IPO Filings as Early as Next Week: Report

The filing will give potential investors their first detailed look at the millennial-friendly investment platform’s financials and risks, according to Bloomberg.

News  ·  18 May 2021
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CBDCs May Be Disruptive for Financial Systems, Fitch Ratings Says

“Widespread adoption of CBDCs may be disruptive for financial systems if associated risks are not managed,” warn Fitch Ratings analysts Monsur Hussain and Duncan Innes-Ker.

News  ·  17 May 2021