CryptoCurrency News: OKEx Suspends Withdrawals as Exchange Key Holder Cooperates With Law Enforcement

Withdrawals are suspended as a key holder is "out of touch," preventing withdrawal authorizations.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Filecoin’s Mainnet, M&A’s Upswing, Tarbert’s Environmental Concerns

Crypto M&A deals are on pace to surpass last year, CFTC Chairman Tarbert is "impressed" with Ethereum and Filecoin flies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Oct. 15, 2020

With bitcoin falling back towards $11K and news out of the Invest: Ethereum Economy conference, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

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CryptoCurrency News: Trump Says He Would Increase Stimulus Offer to Reach Deal With House Democrats: Report

There's still a chance a stimulus package can be passed before the presidential election, but those chances are fading, said the U.S. president.

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CryptoCurrency News: Authorities Arrest 20 Suspected of Ties to Russian Rapper’s Alleged Money Laundering Syndicate

Authorities accuse QQAAZZ of mounting a laundering-as-a-service operation for the criminal underworld.

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CryptoCurrency News: China’s Digital Yuan Blurs the Lines Between CBDCs and Crypto

An in-depth analysis of China's digital yuan project reveals more similarities to crypto than you might think. Upshot: seismic disruption to the financial system.

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CryptoCurrency News: Immutable Calls: AP Election 2020 Results Will be Recorded on Everipedia’s Blockchain

The Associated Press’s (AP) 2020 election results will be recorded on Everipedia’s EOS-based blockchain network, a first for the nearly 200-year-old news agency.

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CryptoCurrency News: Filecoin Launch Finally Brings $200M ICO to Fruition

Filecoin, designed as a decentralized alternative to Amazon Web Services, is now live as of block height 148,888, or 14:44 UTC.

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CryptoCurrency News: Taproot Has Been Merged Into Bitcoin Core: Here’s What That Means

Bitcoin’s long-awaited Taproot update is one step closer to fruition.

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CryptoCurrency News: Libra Hires HSBC Veteran Ian Jenkins as CFO, Risk Chief of Digital Payments Unit

Ian Jenkins joins fellow HSBC alum James Emmet, now the stablecoin group's CEO.

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CryptoCurrency News: How the DeFi Craze Made Its Way to China

DeFi is booming in China, with startups adapting and building on popular western projects within the nation's active crypto economy.

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CryptoCurrency News: New York’s Financial Regulator Targets Crypto Firms for Digital Reporting Initiative

The New York Department of Financial Services intends to digitize financial reporting in a tech initiative that will initially focus on cryptocurrency companies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Block.one Debuts Big-Business Version of EOSIO Blockchain

Block.one has released “EOSIO for Business,” an enterprise-focused version of its software.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: As Ethereum Enthusiasm Builds, ‘Bear Case’ Could Still See Prices Double

There's a lot of money to be made in and around maturing Ethereum-centric markets, where a "bear market" means prices double.

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CryptoCurrency News: Securitize Goes License Shopping With Acquisition of SEC-Registered Broker-Dealer

Security token firm Securitize announced Thursday its planned acquisition of Distributed Technology Markets (DTM).

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CryptoCurrency News: The Inevitability of ‘Big Blockchain’

The blockchain industry already exhibits signs of the same forces that have driven over-consolidation in the broader economy.

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CryptoCurrency News: World’s Growing Stockpile of Negative-Yielding Debt a Positive for Bitcoin, Say Analysts

The search for profit is likely to intensify with amount of global debt offering negative yields more than doubling in the past seven months

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CryptoCurrency News: Isle of Man Regulator Says Bitcoin, Ether Not Considered Securities in New Guidance

The island's Financial Services Authority has set out how it will treat cryptocurrencies and crypto assets and which might be regulated as securities.

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CryptoCurrency News: New Zealand Man Charged With Money Laundering Via Crypto and Luxury Cars

As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds.

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CryptoCurrency News: Breitling Goes Live With Ethereum-Based System to Put All New Watches on the Blockchain

Breitling is the first luxury watchmaker to offer an Ethereum-based digital passport for all its new timepieces.

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CryptoCurrency News: Algorand’s New Europe Accelerator to Boost Startups With up to $500K in Funding

Startups working with Algorand's blockchain may receive up to $500,000 in seed funding through the program.

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