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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
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Blockchain Bites: Ledger’s Breach, Celsius’ Contradictions and DeFi’s Next Frontier

Liquidity mining is coming to PoS blockchains, Ledger was breached and why bitcoin's rally has legs.

News  ·  29 July 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s New ETP, Ethereum’s ‘Woodstock Moment’ and Silvergate’s SEN Zen

Bitcoin is tracing gold to yearly highs, a crypto hedge fund folded and a Swiss firm launched bitcoin's first actively managed ETP.

News  ·  28 July 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum’s Lifestyle Brand, Twitch’s Crypto Discounts and MakerDAO’s $1B Milestone

A Ripple executive built an XRP payments platform, a Washington. D.C.. court ruled bitcoin is money and Ethereum miners' profits are soaring.

News  ·  27 July 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Ghosn’s Crypto Payments, Russia’s Red Line and Why Banks Won’t Bite

Carlos Ghosn’s smugglers were paid in crypto, cryptographers call out Craig Wright’s latest claims and it's unknown whether banks will custody crypto following the OCC's letter.

News  ·  24 July 2020
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Blockchain Bites: OCC’s Crypto Letter, Eth 2.0’s ‘Official’ Testnet and Dinwiddie’s Tokenized Airball

Visa said crypto is part of "the future of money," members of the U.S. Senate think the dollar should go digital and OCC will allow banks to custody crypto.

News  ·  23 July 2020
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Blockchain Bites: Coinsquare Conclusion, Ethereum Fees and a GPT-3 Poet

Ethereum fees are up, as are users on the Bitcoin network. This is everything you need to know in crypto today.

News  ·  22 July 2020
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Blockchain Bites: China’s BSN Integrations and Satoshi’s Newfound Wealth

Ethereum Classic supporters are ditching the project, top exchanges are developing "Travel Rule" solutions and, FYI, YFI might have a backdoor.

News  ·  21 July 2020