CryptoCurrency News: Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple

Coinbase said it will suspend trading of XRP, the cryptocurrency at the heart of an SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs.

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CryptoCurrency News: Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hovers Around $27K While ETH/BTC Pair Goes Bullish

Bitcoin takes a break after record price-setting Sunday while some traders are plowing BTC into ETH.

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CryptoCurrency News: Who Insures the Insurer? Cover Protocol Attack Exposes DeFi’s Promise and Peril

Defi insurer Cover Protocol, designed to reduce smart contract failure risks, was exploited by a bug in its smart contract on Monday morning.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Disapproves BOX Security’s Request to Report Stock Trading Data on Ethereum Blockchain

BOX proposed a rule change to the SEC for using the Ethereum blockchain to record and publishing end-of-day securities ownership balances.

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CryptoCurrency News: OKCoin to Suspend XRP Trading and Deposits on January 4

OKCoin said it will suspend XRP trading and deposits on its crypto exchange, effective on January 4, 2021, according to its statement on Monday afternoon. The exchange specified two key dates along the suspension timeline. “At 3 a.m. UTC time on January 4, the exchange’s users who have borrowed from the XRP/USD margin pair (incl. […]

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin, Bank Coins and Bonds, feat. George Goncalves

A macro and bond specialist joins NLW to discuss the economics of 2021.

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CryptoCurrency News: Lending Platform Vauld Raises $2M to Grow Into a Full Crypto Bank

Vauld, formerly called Bank of Hodlers, raised $2 million in a round led by Pantera Capital to expand its crypto banking platform.

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CryptoCurrency News: Cover Protocol May Launch New Token Following Attack

Cover Protocol announced it's exploring launching a new COVER token through the snapshot before the attack by a "white hat" hacker on Monday morning.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Obtains Emergency Asset Freeze Against Virgil Capital

Stefan Qin, the 23-year-old founder of Virgil Capital, has been accused by the SEC of “fabricated records” for failing to redeem $3.5 million in investments and attempting to withdraw $1.7 million in investor funds to pay off Chinese loan sharks.

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CryptoCurrency News: LISTEN: Charles Cascarilla – PayPal Whisperer – Most Influential 2020

In this special episode of Markets Daily, CoinDesk Podcasts editor Adam B. Levine reads Zack Seward's profile of Charles Cascarilla, one of CoinDesk's Most Influential People in 2020.

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CryptoCurrency News: 2020 Saw the Fewest Bitcoin ‘Obituaries’ in 8 Years

Bitcoin has only “died” 11 times this year.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Mining Company Riot Blockchain Passes $1B in Market Cap

Riot's value was less than $50 million when it started mining bitcoin three years ago.

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CryptoCurrency News: Whale Sightings Become Scarce, Removing Downward Pressure on Bitcoin: Analyst

Big bitcoin balance holders, or "whales," are moving less crypto onto exchanges, signaling some reduction of sell-side pressure, according to CryptoQuant.

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CryptoCurrency News: Charting Asia’s Dominant FinTech Frontier

Asia looks poised to continue its trajectory towards digital dominance, says the co-founder of Zilliqa.

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CryptoCurrency News: That Decoupling Sound: China, the US and a Year of CBDCs

This year China and the U.S. faced off over trade and technology bans. But the battler for monetary hegemony has only just begun.

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CryptoCurrency News: XRP is a Crypto Asset in Japan, Not a Security, Ripple Partner SBI Claims

The SBI Holdings statement refers to a research article by Sadakazu Osaki of the Nomura Research Institute indicating under Japanese law XRP is a "cryptocurrency asset" and not a security.

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CryptoCurrency News: Cover Protocol Attack Perpetrated by ‘White Hat,’ Funds Returned, Hacker Claims

The decentralized finance (DeFI) insurance project Cover Protocol was hacked earlier Monday in an infinite printing scheme, causing the price of the Cover token to plunge. Hours later, a so-called ‘white hacker’ claimed responsibility for the attack, saying all funds had been returned. The exploiter has cashed out over $4 million including about 1400 either, […]

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CryptoCurrency News: The Rise of the Bitcoin Class

How a VC working in China finally convinced her Dad to buy into Bitcoin. The winning argument: Protection against government seizure.

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CryptoCurrency News: Marathon Patent Agrees to Buy 70K ASIC Miners From Bitmain for $170M

The announcement comes after a holiday weekend in which the price of bitcoin hit a succession of new all-time highs.

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