CryptoCurrency News: Peter McCormack on a Defiant New Era For Bitcoin

Why the narrative of 2019 was protest and dissent and why 2020 will see bloodletting in the alt markets.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ethereum Network Draws Developer Ire After Scheduling New Year’s Day Upgrade

The organization behind ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency, is drawing criticism from developers after scheduling an upgrade on New Year's Day - a work holiday in most countries.

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CryptoCurrency News: MARKETS DAILY HOLIDAYS: What’s a ‘Satoshi’?

On today's holiday episode of Markets Daily, we take a look at the term "Satoshi", it's origin, what it means and why it matters.

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CryptoCurrency News: Unlike Libra, Digital Yuan Will Not Need Currency Reserves To Support Value: PBOC Official

PBOC wants to distinguish its own digital currency from rival private initiatives.

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CryptoCurrency News: Poloniex Drops KYC for Withdrawals Below $10,000 Following US Exit

The new KYC requirements come a week after Poloniex completed its U.S. exit.

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CryptoCurrency News: Into The Ether: 90% of All ETH Wallets Now ‘Out-of-The-Money’

Ether is down significantly from record highs and the majority of its holders are losing money on their investments.

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CryptoCurrency News: Corporations Need Bitcoin. They Just Don’t Know It Yet

Bitcoin could be the basis for a new corporate operating system, writes Iterative Capital managing partner Chris Dannen.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Futures Provider Bakkt Names Mike Blandina as New Head

Bitcoin warehouse and Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt officially has a new head.

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CryptoCurrency News: 2020 Vision: 7 Trends Bringing Blockchain Into Focus in the Year Ahead

As the blockchain industry moves from experimentation to implementation, futurist David Shrier is following these seven bellwethers.

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CryptoCurrency News: Smashing Through Surveillance Capitalism With Blockchain

The founders of RadicalxChange argue that we need to focus on the political economy if we want technologies like blockchain to produce better social outcomes.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why the SEC Asked Blockforce Capital to Pull a Bitcoin ETF Proposal as Soon as It Was Filed

Reality Shares ETF Trust, a branch of Blockforce Capital, filed an ETF proposal under the condition that it would pull the proposal after one day.

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CryptoCurrency News: Lawsuit Shows How a Public Firm’s $80M Bet on Bitcoin Miners Went Terribly Wrong

The legal dispute between bitcoin miner Ebang and Chinese public firm Wholeasy reflects the prolonged magnitude of last year's market sell-off.

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