CryptoCurrency News: Market Wrap: Bitcoin Fails to Reach $16.5K; Wrapped BTC Hits $2 Billion

Bitcoin’s price is climbing for the third straight day as more of the cryptocurrency is locked into the Ethereum network.

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CryptoCurrency News: PayPal Rolls Out Crypto for All US Customers

Crypto Twitter reacts to the announcement and answers the question: Just how big a deal is this?

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CryptoCurrency News: Token Projects Are Not Happy With KuCoin’s Handling of $280M Hack

Some token projects say they're left holding the bag following a hack that drained the KuCoin crypto exchange of $280 million.

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CryptoCurrency News: Payza Founders Sentenced in $250M Money Laundering Case

Canadian brothers Firoz and Ferhan Patel are headed to prison after admitting their payments company had broken the law.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Bankrupted Cred’s Missing Millions, Bitcoin Miners’ Quarterly Losses and More

The top stories in bitcoin, crypto and more – all in one place.

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CryptoCurrency News: Developers Debate Disclosure Protocols After ‘Accidental’ Ethereum Hard Fork

Ethereum’s largest client Geth hard-forked after a bug was tripped Wednesday. Developers are now weighing the merits of security disclosures methods.

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CryptoCurrency News: Money Reimagined: The US’ Kodak Moment

China's moves on digital currency have potential to rock the global economy. The U.S. risks getting left behind, like Kodak.

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CryptoCurrency News: Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Nets $44.3M in Q3

Galaxy Digital was trading slightly higher on the news.

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CryptoCurrency News: This Crypto Custody Breakthrough Will Bring Banks Closer to Digital Assets

Shard X is claiming to be the first company to successfully run multi-party computation (MPC) on hardware security modules (HSMs).

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CryptoCurrency News: Bank of England Official Balks at Shielding Banks Against Digital Currencies: Report

Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe says protecting bank business models is not BoE's responsibility.

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CryptoCurrency News: From PayPal to Libra: Big Tech Has Forced Central Banks to Wake Up to CBDCs, Says Benoit Coeure

Libra was the final wake-up call for central banks that prompted serious consideration of digital currency issuances, according to the head of the BIS Innovation Hub.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Why the Fed Cares About Remote Working – and What It Means for Bitcoin

The potential economic impact of a shift to widespread remote working is a matter of risk management: Authorities should be mapping out scenarios.

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CryptoCurrency News: US Company Now Lets Travelers Pay for Passports With Bitcoin

Payments for passport renewals and name changes are being processed by Coinbase Commerce.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple Files Trademark for Possible New Payments Service

The new title and logo suggest Ripple has another payments product in the works.

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CryptoCurrency News: $300M in Bitcoin Flow to Binance From Huobi as China Gets Tougher on Exchanges

The Chinese government cracks down on the crypto exchanges (again), but Binance has been benefiting.

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CryptoCurrency News: Algorand-Backed Axelar Raises $3.75M in Seed Funding to Help Blockchains Communicate

Axelar is a decentralized protocol designed by the founding members of Algorand to make it easier for dapps to work across blockchains.

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CryptoCurrency News: Payments Provider BitPay Rolls Out Cryptocurrency Payroll Service

With the launch, BitPay now provides a new alternative to crypto payroll services such as BitWage.

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