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Saturday, October 31, 2020

CryptoCurrency News: BitMEX Chiefs Looted More Than $440M From Exchange After Finding Out About Probes, Suit Alleges



The suit seeks an order of attachment against the parent company of BitMEX.

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CryptoCurrency News: US Banks Could Seek to Partner With or Buy Crypto Custodians, OCC’s Brooks Says



The OCC's July ruling that allowed banks to provide custody spurred the newfound interest, Brooks said.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Is Less Scary Than Halloween



The great Twitter hack of 2020 highlighted the scariest thing about crypto: being tricked by scams. Here is how to avoid being a victim.

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CryptoCurrency News: China Should Take Part in Creating Regulatory Framework for Digital Currency, Xi Says



China's president said the nation should proactively participate in setting the international framework.

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CryptoCurrency News: The World Is Never Getting Off Government Stimulus



The Breakdown weekly recap looks at bitcoin buying by Iran, JPM Coin and the latest round of lockdowns coming to Europe.

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CryptoCurrency News: $14K: Bitcoin Hits Highest Level Since January 2018



Bitcoin has carved out a 33-month high, showing resilience amid growing instability in the traditional markets.

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Friday, October 30, 2020

CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Lender Celsius Taps Horizen for ‘Proof of Reserves’ Proof of Concept



The proof-of-reserves pilot would take information that appears on Celsius’ website and have it fed from a public Horizen sidechain instead.

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CryptoCurrency News: Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $13.6K as DeFi Total Value Locked Dips Below $11B



Bitcoin’s price hit $13,600 before retrenching while some investors pulled crypto out of DeFi.

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CryptoCurrency News: Desperation Among Filecoin Miners Creating a Big Market for FIL Borrowing



The Filecoin network is facing liquidity problems, forcing some miners to borrow the native token at outrageous rates.

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CryptoCurrency News: MakerDAO Members Voting on a Safeguard Against BProtocol Flash Loan-Type Attack



The Maker DAO community is voting on a proposal to harden the protocol's governance structure against flash loan voting.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Developers Still Divided on Specifics of Taproot Activation



The code for Taproot is ready to go, but developers are still discussing how to deploy the update across Bitcoin’s distributed network.

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CryptoCurrency News: Prime Broker Bequant Adds Risk-Monitoring Service in Push for Added Compliance



Bequant is adding New York-based Solidus Labs’ surveillance tools to its digital asset services business.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why Satoshi Chose Halloween to Release the Bitcoin White Paper



Was Satoshi’s release of the Bitcoin White Paper an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?

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CryptoCurrency News: Overstock Touts Voatz Blockchain Voting App as Solution to US Election Fracas



The comments come days before a ballot count marred in uncertainty.

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CryptoCurrency News: INX to List on Canadian Securities Exchange Following IPO



INX will list on the CES once it closes its $117 million IPO.

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CryptoCurrency News: Money Reimagined: Who Are the Real Monsters?



Next to the frightening creatures of the legacy financial system, bitcoin is the normal, wholesome outlier, like the niece from TV’s “The Munsters.”

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CryptoCurrency News: Ethereum Developers Pencil In January for Eth 1.x ‘Berlin’ Hard Fork



Ethereum developers are eyeing January for the Berlin hard fork. The backwards-incompatible upgrade of the existing Eth 1.x blockchain was first set for July.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Ripple’s MoneyGram Pump, OKEx’s Bitcoin Cash Plan, Bitcoin’s Birthday



Tomorrow marks the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper.

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CryptoCurrency News: Deribit Sees Record Bitcoin Options Volume as Activity in $36K Calls Surge



Daily volume for bitcoin options have hit lifetime highs on crypto derivatives exchange Deribit.

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CryptoCurrency News: Library of Congress Reports Surge in Crypto Law Searches



The surge comes as America's largest library rolls out a crypto regulatory guide.

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CryptoCurrency News: Swiss Arm of Russia’s Gazprombank Launches Institutional Bitcoin Offerings



Gazprombank (Switzerland) has been authorized by FINMA to launch institutional cryptocurrency services in Switzerland.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Bitcoin Heads for 24% October Gain as US Election Countdown Begins



Pantera's Dan Morehead looks at negative images of GDP charts and counts words in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper to chronicle bitcoin's "movement."

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CryptoCurrency News: ETH Gobbles Up Larger Share of Genesis Loan Book as Trading Firms Feast on DeFi Summer



Genesis Trading saw the share of bitcoin in its loan portfolio drop, mainly due to demand for liquidity mining on DeFi protocols.

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CryptoCurrency News: FTX Raises ‘TRUMP’ Futures Margins as Price Suggests Lower Expectations of Election Win



FTX said the price of one TRUMP contract roughly equals the president's expected chances of reelection.

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CryptoCurrency News: Huawei’s Mate 40 Phone to Ship With Digital Yuan Wallet



The upcoming Mate 40 line of devices will feature a built-in hardware wallet for China's central bank digital currency.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Traders Can Now Bet on $40K Price With New Deribit Options



Options at a $40,000 strike price expiring in March 2021 and June 2021 went live on Deribit early on Friday

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CryptoCurrency News: UK Police Find no Crime in Alleged $3M Crypto ‘Staking’ Scam



Investors who say they lost hundreds of thousands of pounds in an alleged cryptocurrency fraud have had no luck persuading the police that there was in fact a crime committed.

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CryptoCurrency News: Advising the Advisers: ‘On Purpose’ Podcast Live Taping Party



As a financial adviser, you might feel pressured to know every answer to your clients’ portfolio needs. But you’ve got some burning questions about digital assets like bitcoin. Now’s your chance to ask: On Purpose podcast host and Onramp Invest CEO Tyrone Ross invites the public to CoinDesk’s first podcast live taping party and AMA […]

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple Keeps Pumping Funds Into MoneyGram



All in, Ripple has funded the money sender to the tune of over $52 million for providing liquidity to one of its payments products.

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

CryptoCurrency News: Leaked Docs Reveal How Binance Dealt With US Regulations: Report



Crypto trading colossus Binance created a corporate plan for profiting from the U.S. market while avoiding regulatory scrutiny, Forbes reported Thursday, citing a 2018 document it obtained.

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CryptoCurrency News: Harvest Finance Boosts Bounty to $1M for Information Leading to Return of Exploited Funds



Harvest Finance is offering $1 million for information leading to the return of funds from Monday's $24 million exploit.

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CryptoCurrency News: Mirage Recovery: What ‘Record’ GDP Growth Tells Us About the Economy



The Department of Commerce’s new report shows 33.1% annualized GDP growth in Q3, but does this really tell us much about the state of the economy?

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CryptoCurrency News: ‘Flash Loans’ Have Made Their Way to Manipulating Protocol Elections



BProtocol used a flash loan to speed up election results on MakerDAO. The DeFi platform is now weighing changes to its voting process.

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CryptoCurrency News: Audius, the ‘Decentralized Spotify,’ Is Moving Part of Its Service to Solana Blockchain



Decentralized music app Audius announced Thursday that it will migrate its content management system over to Solana’s high-speed blockchain from an Ethereum sidechain operated by the POA Network that runs on a set of trusted validators. Audius occupies a similar space to popular music players like Pandora or Spotify, but it allows artists to set […]

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CryptoCurrency News: US Charges Stanford Crypto Group Director With Defrauding His Former Employer – the Fed



Lawrence Rufrano allegedly hid his work at Stanford and blockchain startup Factom from disability benefits regulators.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Transaction Fees Rise to 28-Month High as Hashrate Drops Amid Price Rally



The cost of doing transactions on bitcoin is surging at a time the network is suffering its worst congestion in nearly three years.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Card, Avanti’s Approval, FTX’s Fractional Stocks



Meanwhile, The Graph's $12 million raise is one in a line of many public token sales this year.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto and Fintech Share Goals: They Should Talk



The missions of programmable money and autonomous finance overlap, so it's surprising people from crypto and fintech don't collaborate more.

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CryptoCurrency News: Casa Rolls Out ‘Bank-to-Wallet’ Bitcoin-Buying Services for US Customers



The cryptocurrency custody startup announced on Thursday that users will now be able to buy bitcoin (BTC) on the Casa app using their bank accounts.

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CryptoCurrency News: All-In on DeFi: Why the Days of Centralized Exchanges Are Numbered



The CEO of Binance on why DeFi will come to dominate CeFi.

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CryptoCurrency News: Huobi Beefs Up Venture Arm With Former DragonFly Partner Leading DeFi Investments



Alex Pack from DragonFly will Join Huobi to help invest "tens of millions of dollars" in decentralized finance.

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CryptoCurrency News: Iran Amends Law to Allow Imports to Be Funded With Cryptocurrency



Strapped for international currencies, Iran is turning to cryptocurrency to allow imports to continue to flow.

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CryptoCurrency News: New York’s Financial Regulator Wants Firms, Including Crypto Miners, to Look Closer at Climate Change Risks



The New York Department of Financial Services expects all firms, including virtual currency businesses, to start assessing climate change-associated financial risks.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Firm Figment Raises $2.5M in Funding Round Led by Bonfire Ventures



Figment said the latest round will enable it to continue developing its blockchain staking, governance and developer tools.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Bitcoin Falls as Covid Surges, ECB’s Lagarde Steps Up, US GDP Hits 33%



The enthusiasm jolt from bitcoin's ascent toward $14K ran into realism, and options traders see low probabilities of a new price record this year.

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CryptoCurrency News: Fidelity Digital Assets Expands Crypto Custody Service to Asia



The cryptocurrency-focused arm of financial services giant Fidelity Investments is expanding its custody service through Singapore-based Stack Funds.

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CryptoCurrency News: Voyager Digital Revenue Rises Over 1,000% on Increased Crypto Adoption



Publicly traded digital-asset brokerage Voyager Digital registered four-digit growth in revenue in the last fiscal year.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bank of Canada Governor Says Digital Dollar Project Moving Past Trial Stage



Tiff Macklem said Canada's digital dollar initiative is progressing past the experimental phase and that the G7 needs to coordinate on digital currencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin’s Options Market Sees Just 6% Chance of $20K Before Year’s End



At press time, bitcoin was seeing a 6% probability of bitcoin trading above the historical 2017 all-time high of $20,000 by the end of December.

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CryptoCurrency News: FTX Launches Bitcoin Pairs for Top Stocks Like Amazon, Apple and Tesla



The crypto derivatives exchange has launched a novel way to trade the world's most popular stocks.

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