CryptoCurrency News: Japan’s LINE Starts Crypto Lending Service

The makers of Japan's popular messaging app LINE is launching a crypto lending service through its BITMAX exchange.

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CryptoCurrency News: This Self-Sovereign ‘DocuSign’ Uses Bitcoin for Digital Proofs

Woleet provides a digital ID software suite which allows its clients to authenticate documents and signatures using Bitcoin’s blockchain.

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CryptoCurrency News: These 3 Trends Are Driving Crypto Market Growth Now

The latest CoinDesk Quarterly Review looks at some of the main drivers of crypto market evolution including DeF, derivatives and stablecoins.

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CryptoCurrency News: The UK Bans Crypto Derivatives

The crypto industry reacts to a big move from the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority, which banned crypto derivatives.

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CryptoCurrency News: Israeli Government Reportedly Investigating Unsuccessful Hack Targeting Crypto CEOs

Mossad and Shin Bet are reportedly investigating an early September hack that hit 20 cryptocurrency executives.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: FCA’s Crypto Crackdown, McAfee’s Charges, Ethereum’s Store of Value

John McAfee was charged with promoting ICOs without disclosing his payments while the U.K.'s FCA has banned certain crypto derivatives.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Oct. 6, 2020

As traders remain hopeful and mainstream investment funds increase their exposure to bitcoin miners, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

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CryptoCurrency News: MetaMask Gets Into the Decentralized Exchange Aggregation Business With Token Swaps

MetaMask announced a new feature Tuesday: token swaps directly within the popular Ethereum browser extension and mobile application.

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CryptoCurrency News: CoinDesk Live: Inside the Ethereum Economy

Why all the hype behind yield farming and food-inspired tokens? Should investors take them seriously or are they a fading trend?

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CryptoCurrency News: Stablecoin Growth Knocks Silvergate Exchange Network Volume Over $100B

All-time transaction volume on the Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN), a fiat pathway into bitcoin markets, has reached $100 billion.

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CryptoCurrency News: US-Regulated Bitcoin Derivatives Market Bitnomial Raises $11.6M

The disclosure comes shortly after U.S regulators' crackdown on retail competitor BitMEX.

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CryptoCurrency News: CFTC Enforcement Director McDonald to Leave This Week

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Tuesday Division of Enforcement Director James McDonald will depart the agency this Thursday, Oct. 8. McDonald has served as director of Enforcement since April 2017.

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CryptoCurrency News: Downvoted: Security Researchers Slam Voatz Over Stance on White-Hat Hackers

A broad ruling on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could “chill” security research by white-hat hackers, making tech less secure.

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CryptoCurrency News: CBDC Design Needs to Address Risk to Users, Says Bank of Canada

Building an anonymous central bank digital currency (CBDC) presents security risks – not only to the issuer but to the users themselves, says the Bank of Canada.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Bitcoiners May Not Care if Dollar Keeps Its Reserve Status

What if the dollar keeps its reserve status? PLUS: FCA ban, McAfee arrest, commercial real-estate wipeout.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin’s Options Market Retains Long-Term Bull Bias Despite Sluggish Price

Options market data suggests the longer term path of least resistance for bitcoin is to the higher side.

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CryptoCurrency News: FCA Bans Sale of Crypto Derivatives to Retail Consumers in UK

The U.K. watchdog said it considers derivative products to be ill-suited for retail consumers due to the risks they pose.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple Has Mixed Success in Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Alleging Securities Fraud

The judge threw out some of the claims in the lawsuit but the case can continue based on others relating to allegedly misleading statements by CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Unlikely to Replace US Dollar as Global Reserve: Marc Chandler

"Backing the dollar is the world's biggest, deepest and the most transparent government bond market," said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex and author of the book "Making Sense of the Dollar."

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CryptoCurrency News: Oman Central Bank Warns on Crypto ‘Risk,’ Singles Out Dagcoin

The central bank warned citizens and residents that they use cryptocurrencies at their own risk.

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CryptoCurrency News: Guggenheim, MoMA-Collected Artist to Release Digital Artwork on the Blockchain

A prominent Taiwanese-American multimedia artist considered a pioneer of internet-based art is releasing her work on blockchain-based platform MakersPlace.

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