CryptoCurrency News: Custodian Anchorage Seeks Charter From Crypto-Friendly US Bank Regulator OCC

If its application is approved, Anchorage would be the first crypto company to get a national bank charter.

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CryptoCurrency News: Origin Protocol Loses $7M in Latest Flash Loan Attack

Blockchain project Origin Dollar (OUSD) has sustained an oracle manipulation attack. The attacker used flash loans to grab $3.25 million.

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CryptoCurrency News: My Data, My Money: Data Dividends and the Digital Economy

On Nov. 18, CoinDesk’s Ben Powers explores the data dividend: Is it an opportunity to restructure the digital economy on more equitable terms, or merely a redesign of the current data ecosystem?

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CryptoCurrency News: Uniswap May Re-up Rewards as Sushiswap Angles to Catch Itinerant Yield Farmers

A new governance vote would continue liquidity mining rewards for certain asset pairs as the original allocation ends.

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CryptoCurrency News: IBM Scores Patent on Proposed Blockchain Consensus for Transactions in Multiplayer Games

The patent was awarded to IBM last week and proposes using a blockchain consensus model to carry out and verify purchases made within multiplayer games.

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CryptoCurrency News: Coinbase Goes Down as Bitcoin Nears $17K

Coinbase has suffered a number of outages during busy trading periods this year including most recently on Oct. 27.

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CryptoCurrency News: Market Wrap: Bitcoin Ascends to $16.8K; Uniswap and Tether 35% of Ethereum Transactions

Bitcoin is at bullish 2020 highs while Ethereum transactions prove out DeFi’s fundamental use case.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin at $318,000 Next December? One Citibank Exec Says It’s Possible

Breaking down a recent report that has Bitcoin Twitter salivating and skeptical at the same time.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Data Unions. Hard Forks. And One Citi Analyst’s Case for $300K BTC.

MIT researchers resoundingly reject blockchain-based voting. A Citibank MD thinks bitcoin could break out. And another DeFi protocol was hit with a flash loan attack.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why FinCEN Wants Details on All Cross-Border Transactions Over $250

At an event Monday, FinCEN staffers discussed the “why” of a new proposal that has crypto fans concerned.

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CryptoCurrency News: Scaramucci’s $9.2B SkyBridge ‘May Seek Exposure to Digital Assets’

SkyBridge Capital is giving itself an opening to indirectly invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why Bitcoin Thrives (and Why It Won’t Replace the Dollar)

A world in which bitcoin becomes the global reserve currency is a world many of us would not want to live in.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Execs Need Liability Insurance

When crypto companies are denied liability insurance, they are disincentivized from innovating.

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CryptoCurrency News: Binance Discontinues UK Pound Stablecoin Calling It Just an ‘Experiment’

The exchange is discontinuing its own BGBP stablecoin, an "experiment" that obviously wasn't a success.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Stimulus Seen (for Bitcoin) Since Moderna Won’t Save Spirits from Third Wave

Rise in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths could dent consumer confidence and retailer revenue during the crucial holiday shopping season.

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CryptoCurrency News: China’s Crypto Miners Struggle to Pay Power Bills as Regulators Clamp Down on OTC Desks

Miners in China have reportedly been struggling to pay for electricity after authorities started cracking down on OTC brokers in the country.

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CryptoCurrency News: MakerDAO Loans Can Be Gamed to Hold Out Funds From Liquidation, Startup Finds

A loophole in MakerDAO’s collateralized debt market enables positions to be closed far more leniently than intended due to an oversight in the auction process.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Stepping Down at End of Year

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton will leave his role at the end of this year.

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CryptoCurrency News: Belarus Bank to Offer Bitcoin Purchases, With Litecoin and Ether Coming Soon

A Belarusian bank is launching a bitcoin buying service via bank cards for citizens of Belarus and Russia

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CryptoCurrency News: Cory Doctorow: The Monopoly Web Is Already Here

The science fiction writer on how monopolies came to dominate today's economy and why the orthodoxy of tech criticism is wrong.

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CryptoCurrency News: Microsoft Exec Joins Blockchain Gaming Platform Enjin to Lead Enterprise Push

Enjin is aiming to widen its enterprise focus with its latest hire hailing from over 20 years at tech giant Microsoft.

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CryptoCurrency News: Record Levels of Negative-Yielding Debt Strengthen Case for Bitcoin: Analysts

With negative-yielding bonds at a new high, investors are looking elsewhere for returns.

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CryptoCurrency News: The SEC Is Still Working Out What ‘Qualified Custodian’ Means for Crypto

The SEC’s recent statement about qualified custodians shows the federal agency is still puzzling out important questions for the crypto space.

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CryptoCurrency News: Fidelity’s Crypto Arm Responds to 6 Common Bitcoin Criticisms

Fidelity Digital Assets has responded to some of bitcoin's most frequent criticisms citing heightened interest in the cryptocurrency.

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CryptoCurrency News: Citibank Executive Says Bitcoin Could Pass $300K by December 2021

A senior executive at U.S. financial giant Citibank has released an internal report drawing on similarities to the 1970s gold market and bitcoin.

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