CryptoCurrency News: India’s Leading Bitcoin Exchange Raises $13.9M From Block.One, Coinbase Ventures

India's largest cryptocurrency exchange, CoinDCX, has raised $13.9 million in a Series B funding round led by Block.one.

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CryptoCurrency News: ‘There Is No Emergency Here’: Coinbase Asks FinCEN to Extend Comment Period on Wallet Regs

Two weeks during the holiday season and a pandemic is not enough time, the exchange said, asking for the customary 60 days.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple CEO Warns SEC May Sue Company Over XRP Sales

"It’s an attack on the entire crypto industry and American innovation," Brad Garlinghouse told Fortune.

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CryptoCurrency News: Central Banks Had to Up Their Money Game This Year – And They Did

Faced by the rise of stablecoins and other blockchain experiments, central banks had to up their monetary game – and they did.

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CryptoCurrency News: Linzhi Begins Rollout of Long-Awaited Ethereum Miner ‘Phoenix’

Linzhi’s “Phoenix” Ethereum ASIC miner is three times more powerful than other machines on the market, as well as more energy efficient.

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CryptoCurrency News: Raoul Pal on the Coming Transformation of Monetary and Fiscal Policy

The founder of Real Vision joins NLW for a discussion of CBDCs, bitcoin and why he remains "irresponsibly long."

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CryptoCurrency News: Author Ben Mezrich on Capturing the Winklevii and Plans for a ‘Bitcoin Billionaires’ Movie

Mezrich, who wrote the book that became "The Social Network," says that movie failed to present the real Winklevoss twins.

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CryptoCurrency News: Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Launching a Bitcoin Fund

Anthony Scaramucci's $9.2B hedge fund manager is launching its first bitcoin fund.

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CryptoCurrency News: Uniswap Is the Number One Gas Guzzler on Ethereum

Decentralized exchange Uniswap burns through more gas than any other application on Ethereum.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Dec. 21, 2020

With BTC retreating from its eight-day streak of gains and MicroStrategy's most recent bitcoin splurge, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with another crypto news roundup.

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CryptoCurrency News: Grayscale Halts Bitcoin Trust Inflows as JPMorgan Warns Slowdown Could Hit BTC Price

Without new capital inflows, Grayscale will not be able to buy more bitcoin or ethereum.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bank of Russia Chair: Digital Ruble Is No Threat to Banks

Russian banks are concerned the digital ruble might hurt their business, but the Bank of Russia is nonchalant

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitgrail Operator May Have Hacked Own Exchange to Steal €120M, Police Allege

Italian police said the FLorence-based man is either behind the breaches or took no action after the first attack came to light.

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CryptoCurrency News: Public Blockchains Are Set to Reshape Global Commerce (2020 Was the Start)

EY's blockchain leader says blockchain technology's biggest impact will be in lowering transaction costs in the global economy.

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CryptoCurrency News: India’s State-Led Payment Network Is Growing. Now India Wants to Export It

India’s state-led payments system, United Payments Interface (UPI), was first rolled out in 2016 and is currently used by 175 million people.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: As Markets Turn Ugly, Bitcoiners Thank Secular Trend

At start of October, bitcoin analysts were bullish, but few would have guessed the cryptocurrency's price could double by the end of 2020.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Exchange EXMO Says Hackers Have Stolen 5% of Total Assets

The incident saw losses of bitcoin, XRP, zcash, tether, ether and ethereum classic, according to early analysis.

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CryptoCurrency News: Tezos Israel Develops Hardware Device to Protect Network Validators’ Staked Assets

Innovation hub Tezos Israel has built a hardware security device it says will better secure the staked assets of Tezos' network validators.

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CryptoCurrency News: Robot Ventures, Others Back ‘Crypto Stripe’ Flexa in $20M Raise

The crypto payment provider has raised $20 million from a private sale of its AMP token used for its new backend.

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CryptoCurrency News: MicroStrategy Splurges Another $650M in Latest Bitcoin Investment

MicroStrategy is transforming itself into corporate America's boldest bitcoin bull, now owning bitcoin worth over $1.596 billion.

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CryptoCurrency News: IBM Launches Test Service Using ‘Holy Grail’ of Data Privacy Technology

The privacy technology, called fully homomorphic encryption, keeps data hidden even when being processed.

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CryptoCurrency News: Puerto Rico-Based FV Bank to Offer Regulated Crypto Custody in the US

FV Bank says it has received permission from a Puerto Rico banking regulator to provide custody services for bitcoin, ether and more in the U.S.

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CryptoCurrency News: Decentralized Stock Trading Launches on DeFi Platform Injective Protocol

The tokenized stock offerings initially include Airbnb, Tesla, Amazon and Google.

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CryptoCurrency News: A Slowing of Grayscale Bitcoin Fund Inflows Could Prompt Price Correction: JPMorgan

Digital asset investment firm Grayscale is sucking up so much bitcoin it could sway prices.

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