CryptoCurrency News: Coinbase Offers US Feds New Crypto Surveillance Tools

Coinbase Analytics vaults the massive crypto exchange into a crowded field of blockchain tracing companies all vying for millions of federal dollars.

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CryptoCurrency News: Market Wrap: Bitcoin Flat as Stocks Swell on Positive Jobs Report

Bitcoin was dull in trading Friday as stock markets were having a big day. However, cryptocurrency stakeholders see it as a temporary market condition.

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CryptoCurrency News: Money Reimagined: The Ongoing Crisis Is Stirring a Crypto Awakening in Developing Nations

Peer-to-peer bitcoin transactions are up in the developing world. This has everything to do with "QE Infinity" and could be an opening for stablecoins.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Moves to Freeze Assets of Alleged $12M Crypto Investment Scam

The SEC is trying to freeze the assets of a cryptocurrency mining and multilevel marketing scheme that it claimed bilked investors of $12 million.

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CryptoCurrency News: The Biggest Realignment in the US-China Relationship Since Nixon, Feat. Graham Webster

How one of the world’s most important geopolitical relationships came to be what it is in 2020.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for June 5, 2020

It's bulls on parade as analysts see upward momentum for bitcoin. Here's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Derivatives Exchange OKEx Launches Options on Ether

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx rolled out option contracts on Ethereum’s ether (ETH) token on Thursday, ending the Panama-based Deribit’s virtual monopoly in the space.

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CryptoCurrency News: How Bitcoin Fits Into Lebanon’s Banking Crisis

Lebanon's crisis has been raging for years, but the devaluation of the Lebanese pound and a global downturn has made stable financial services even more urgent.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Why UN and Federal Reserve Experts Think CBDCs Could Kill Commercial Banking

U.N. and Federal Reserve experts think CBDCs can compete with commercial banks, New York and France enter a regulatory agreement while Europol has Wasabi Wallet concerns.

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CryptoCurrency News: Digital Currencies Could Replace Low-Interest Bank Accounts, Says UN Expert

Low-interest rates have removed one of the few remaining incentives for holding a bank account, meaning digital currency could be a better alternative, argues a UN expert.

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CryptoCurrency News: New York, French Finance Watchdogs Open Doors for Each Other’s Fintech Startups

The New York State Department of Financial Services and its French regulatory counterpart will work to "ease the entry" for fintech innovators into their respective markets.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Bloomberg’s Pie-in-the-Sky Bitcoin Call Looks Directionally Defensible

The $20,000 in 2020 prediction may be overly optimistic, but analysts agree bitcoin is likely heading north.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bullishness Building in Bitcoin Options Market, Data Suggests

Option traders look to be placing bets for a continued upward move in bitcoin.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitfinex Spin-Out Says Funds Are Lining Up for Its New Decentralized Exchange

DeversiFi says it has received interest in its DEX's privacy features from more 70 funds.

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CryptoCurrency News: The Free Market Will Determine Cardano’s Fate: IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson

A high token price gives a project crucial staying power, Hoskinson tells CoinDesk.

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CryptoCurrency News: Fed Paper: Central Bank Digital Currencies Could Replace Commercial Banks – But at a Cost

The research explores how "central banking for all" via digital currency could affect commercial banks.

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