CryptoCurrency News: Xapo to Discontinue Service to US Customers in March

Companies are being asked to transfer their bitcoins to other places, such as Coinbase.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Hits $29K for First Time Ever, Raising HODLer Hopes for $30K by New Year’s

"I would expect to see bitcoin charge past $30,000 as we enter the new year,” said one market observer.

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CryptoCurrency News: Serbia Legalizes Digital Assets Trading and Issuance

Serbia will now permit the issuance and trading of digital assets under a law that went into effect this week.

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CryptoCurrency News: What Is Proof-of-Stake?

Proof-of-stake is a method of maintaining integrity in a blockchain, ensuring users of a cryptocurrency can’t mint coins they didn’t earn.

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CryptoCurrency News: Market Wrap: Bitcoin Nears $29K While Ether Options Trader Makes Long-Shot Bet

Another day, another all-time high in bitcoin as the cryptocurrency changed hands as high as $28,871.78.

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CryptoCurrency News: Democracy Demands a Say in the Future of Money

The U.S. Treasury’s decision to impose know-your-customer rules to private cryptocurrency wallets is flawed in more ways than one.

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CryptoCurrency News: BitGo to Pay $93K to US Treasury to Settle 183 ‘Apparent’ Sanctions Violations

Bitcoin custodian firm BitGo agreed to pay $93,830 in a settlement pact with the U.S. Treasury over 183 “apparent violations” of multiple sanctions programs.

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CryptoCurrency News: Binance US Says It Will Delist XRP on Jan. 13

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that embattled token XRP will be delisted from Binance.US on Jan. 13, 2021, becoming the latest exchange to do so. The story is developing and will be updated.

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CryptoCurrency News: Coinbase Sued for Allowing the Sale of XRP

A man from Missouri is filing a suit against Coinbase for its sale of XRP, a California court filing reveals.

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CryptoCurrency News: What 2020 Taught Us About the ‘Dollar Milkshake Theory,’ feat. Brent Johnson

The Santiago Capital investor takes a look at what 2020 taught us about his notable economic theory.

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CryptoCurrency News: VanEck Proposes ETF for Bitcoin, Once Again

So far, the SEC has considered many applications for bitcoin-based ETFs and rejected them all.

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CryptoCurrency News: Genesis to Suspend XRP Trading, Lending

In an email sent to clients Wednesday, Genesis announced it would be halting XRP trading and lending in the new year.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Prices in 2020: Here’s What Happened

COVID-19 ravaged the world's economies but prompted mainstream financial markets to start taking bitcoin seriously. A look back at the year in bitcoin.

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CryptoCurrency News: All Major Mining Pools Now Support Taproot, Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrade in Years

Binance Pool represents 11% of Bitcoin’s mining hashrate. Adding it to the “yes” column pushes mining pool support for Taproot to about 91%.

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CryptoCurrency News: How DeFi ‘Degens’ Are Funding the Next Wave of Open-Source Development

Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki coins the phrase "regenerative finance" to describe the future of funding open-source development.

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CryptoCurrency News: LISTEN: Linda Lacewell, a Friendlier Regulator – Most Influential 2020

In this special episode of Markets Daily, CoinDesk's Lyllah Ledesma reads Nikhilesh De's profile of Linda Lacewell, one of CoinDesk's Most Influential People in 2020.

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CryptoCurrency News: CBDCs: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Almost 50 monetary authorities and central banks are researching and developing wholesale or retail CBDCs. What does 2021 hold in store?

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple to Meet With SEC in First Pretrial Conference on Feb. 22

Ripple and the SEC will meet over video call, according to a court order from the US District Court of the Southern District of New York.

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CryptoCurrency News: Statechains Scaling Solution Offers New Potential for Bitcoin Privacy

Statechains offer another way to scale bitcoin payments and could boost privacy as well.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Developers Are Focused on the Wrong Problem

If it's to reach its full potential, the decentralized economy needs to scale censorship resistance, say Solana's CEO and COO.

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CryptoCurrency News: Russian Oil Drilling Giant Opens a Crypto Mining Farm Run on Gas Energy

A unit of oil and gas giant Gazprom has opened a mining venue on an oil drilling site using gas produced as a byproduct to produce electricity.

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CryptoCurrency News: Valid Points: A Year in Review by Your Ethereum 2.0 Staking Experts

In our year-end Ethereum round up, we feature 4 charts from 4 Ethereum 2.0 staking experts recounting the best highlights of 2020.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Sets New All-Time High Above $28.5K; Bulls Back in the Driver’s Seat

Institutional investors are perceived to be driving this record-setting run.

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