CryptoCurrency News: Why Ledger Kept All That Customer Data in the First Place

Sunday’s dump of customer emails and addresses serves as a sobering reminder that even a maker of hardware crypto wallets can become a data honeypot.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Price Caps Best Week in 20 Months With 23% Gain

Bitcoin ended the week trading just below $23,500.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin Is More Than a Hedge Against Inflation – It’s a Hedge Against ‘Crazy’

For many, bitcoin is hedge against inflation. But it's also a safety play for a world where old ideas about economics are up in the air.

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CryptoCurrency News: US Lawmakers ‘Hours Away’ From Stimulus Bill, McConnell Says: WSJ

Negotiators on Sunday were hammering out final details of a $900 million pandemic stimulus, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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CryptoCurrency News: The Graph’s Token Soars as a Bevy of Exchanges Add the Cryptocurrency

Coinbase, Kucoin, OKEx, Kraken, Binance and other exchanges are now allowing trading of the GRT token.

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CryptoCurrency News: You Say You Want a Bitcoin Revolution

The way the Beatles revolution was corporatized has lessons for Bitcoin's future. It needs to remain true to its roots.

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CryptoCurrency News: Square’s Cash App Now Lets Customers Get Bitcoin Back on Purchases

Previously, Cash App had only allowed clients to get U.S. currency back on transactions.

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CryptoCurrency News: Warp Finance Says It Recovered 75% of the $7.76M Funds Taken in Flash Loan Attack

The recovered funds should be distributed sometime late Sunday night.

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CryptoCurrency News: Road to IPO: Coinbase’s Power Struggles

A new book about Coinbase, which this week announced plans for an IPO, lifts the lid on executive infighting at the startup in 2018 and 2019.

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CryptoCurrency News: Where Peer-to-Peer Finance Grabbed Hold This Year

Nigeria, China, India, the U.S. and Vietnam were leading markets for peer-to-peer finance. South Africa and Turkey saw more stablecoin use.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why Bitcoin and Rehypothecation Don’t Mix

A reading of Jeffrey Snider’s latest essay and Caitlin Long’s companion tweet thread.

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CryptoCurrency News: Dogecoin Jumps 20% After Elon Musk Twitter Shout-Out

Musk fired off a series of bitcoin-related tweets too.

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