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Thursday, January 14, 2021

CryptoCurrency News: Lido Protocol Does Eth 2.0 Staking but With a DeFi Twist



There's a new yield farm for those backing Ethereum 2.0.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: OCC’s Head Stepping Down, Anchorage to Become First National ‘Digital Asset Bank’



Brian Brooks finalized the controversial Fair Access to Banking rule in what could be his last act in office.

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CryptoCurrency News: Sci-Hub Leaves Handshake Blockchain After 2 Days, Citing Centralization Concerns



Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization.

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CryptoCurrency News: Coinbase Wants to List Your Crypto Asset



"Our directive is to list every compliant asset possible," the exchange wrote Thursday.

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CryptoCurrency News: Privacy Coin Firo Launches ‘Privacy by Default’ Protocol on Mainnet



Lelantus introduces “on-by-default” privacy while also allowing partial redemptions of Firo’s burn-and-redeem model.

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CryptoCurrency News: Latest Music Act to Launch a Social Token: Portugal. The Man



The Grammy Award–winning band is turning to Rally to join the ranks of musicians launching fan engagement tokens.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Jan. 14, 2021



With bitcoin bouncing back up and approval of the first federally chartered crypto bank, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest crypto news roundup.

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CryptoCurrency News: Grayscale’s Crypto Products Raised Over $3B Last Quarter, the Most Ever



Grayscale's popular bitcoin trust once again led the pack with over $200 million in inflows every week.

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CryptoCurrency News: Paxos Makes Fresh Push for DeFi Market With New Oracle Integration



Paxos’ stablecoin tokens have mainly been playing catch-up since the DeFi spike in 2020.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Briefly Revisits $40,000 as Bulls Pare Week’s Losses



Bitcoin has rallied nearly 15% in the past 24 hours. Ether hits $1,200.

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CryptoCurrency News: DC Magistrate Judge Calls Unhosted Wallet ‘Horror Story’ a ‘Fiction’



“Indeed, cash poses a greater challenge to law enforcement than cryptocurrency in unhosted wallets," wrote Judge Zia Faruqui in an opinion on a forfeiture case.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Forget Facebook’s Stablecoin. Now It’s $700B Bitcoin In the Crosshairs



Bitcoin's powerful move over the past couple months to a market value of more than $700 billion is suddenly commanding more attention from global financial regulators. 

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CryptoCurrency News: FinCEN Extends Comment Period for Controversial Crypto Wallet Rule by 15 Days



The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is providing an additional 15 days for comments on the proposed reporting requirements regarding unhosted crypto wallets.

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CryptoCurrency News: Fireblocks Rolls Out Staking Rewards for Eth 2.0, Polkadot and Tezos



The institution-focused crypto custodian is bringing staking services to its 165-plus customers.

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CryptoCurrency News: Twitter, Trump and the ‘Private Company’ Fallacy



Defending deplatforming as the right of private companies assumes that truly private companies are possible. They may not be.

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CryptoCurrency News: Winklevoss Twins Considering Taking Gemini Public: Report



"We are certainly open to it,” Cameron Winklevoss said in the interview.

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CryptoCurrency News: OKEx Adds More Coin-Margined Perpetual Swaps for Real-Time Settlement



OKEx adding more swaps to its real-time settlement function that went live on Dec. 29, 2020.

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CryptoCurrency News: UK Man Offers Council $72M If He’s Allowed to Search Dump and Finds Discarded Bitcoin Trove



A UK IT engineer who mistakenly threw away a hard drive with around £210 million ($288 million) of bitcoin on it is applying to the local government to search wasteland for the device. Read more: UK Treasury Calls for Feedback on Approach to Cryptocurrency and Stablecoin Regulation

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Bounces as Options Market Sees 20% Chance of $50K at Month’s End



While a 31% rally to $50,000 in two weeks may be challenging to envision, it is far from impossible, given bitcoin's prior rallies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Winklevoss-Founded Gemini to Offer Credit Card With Crypto Rewards



Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded by the Winklevoss brothers, has launched the Gemini Credit Card offering cryptocurrency rewards. Read more: Gemini Donates $50K to HRF to Help Fund Another Round of Bitcoin Developers in 2021

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CryptoCurrency News: Deribit Exchange Raises Maximum Bitcoin Options Strike Price to $400K



The eye-watering strike option supplants the company's previous $300,000 maximum offering listed on Jan. 9.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Buyers Face ‘Possible Limitations’ on eToro This Weekend



The company cited issues relating to poor liquidity in the face of heightened demand.

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