CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Brokerage River Financial Raises $17M: SEC Filings

River Financial's equity sale comes as the high-end brokerage embarks on a major hiring push.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Is Now a Trillion-Dollar Asset: Where Do We Go From Here?

The milestone isn’t just psychological, and potentially opens entire new groups of investors who couldn’t participate previously.

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CryptoCurrency News: Money Reimagined: Tucker Carlson Is Right About Financial Privacy

Say what you will about the Fox News host, but he deserves credit for highlighting Bank of America’s transaction snooping, writes Marc Hochstein.

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CryptoCurrency News: The Business of Art and How NFTs Will Change It, With Nanne Dekking

With big brands like Christie’s auction house and the National Basketball Association getting involved and some tokens already selling for six-figure sums, the question isn't if NFTs will force a very old industry to adopt some very new practices, it's when.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why Everyone Wants an Invite to Clubhouse Crypto

The 11-month old audio app is the latest vector for crypto adoption – memes and all. Here's why everyone wants in.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Is Worth $1T and OKCoin Delists BCH and BSV

Bitcoin, now worth more than most U.S. corporations, first reached "dollar parity" 10 years ago.

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CryptoCurrency News: Austrian Regulator Reports Rise in Crypto Fraud

The FMA reports two-thirds of the investment fraud reports filed in 2020 were related to cryptocurrency and digital currency trading products.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin’s Price Surge Accelerates After Passing Milestone of $1T Market Value

The price could go higher, unless traders start taking profits.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 19, 2021

With the market cap of bitcoin breaking above $1T for the first time plus a look at the emerging asset class known as NFTs, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ethereum Core Developers Eye Mid-April for ‘Berlin’ Hard Fork

The hard fork will facilitate live swapping Ethereum from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake blockchain.

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CryptoCurrency News: MicroStrategy Raises $1.05B in Latest Debt-for-Bitcoin Offering

MicroStrategy's business strategy is to buy as much bitcoin as it possibly can.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Market Value Tops $1T as Price Passes $53,697

A year ago, bitcoin's market value was $178 billion.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Bitcoin Meets ‘Torrent’ as Lowly Binance Coin Gets $40B Valuation

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance's in-house BNB tokens have shot to a $40 billion valuation, ranking them third among digital assets behind bitcoin and Ethereum's ether.

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CryptoCurrency News: OKCoin Delists Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV to Avoid ‘Misleading’ New Bitcoin Clients

It became a choice between protecting Bitcoin’s open-source ethos or championing free-market fundamentals. In the end, community won out.

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CryptoCurrency News: Even Skeptics May Need to Consider Crypto Exposure: WSJ’s Heard on the Street

Cryptocurrency's viability as an investment may not be in its value as an asset but in the way the financial world is evolving because of it.

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CryptoCurrency News: A Sudden Loss of Faith in Tether Would Pose Risk to Bitcoin, JPMorgan Says

"If any issues arise that could affect the willingness or ability of both domestic and foreign investors to use USDT, the most likely result would be a severe liquidity shock to the broader cryptocurrency market," the report says.

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CryptoCurrency News: Second Canadian Bitcoin ETF Begins Trading on TSX Today

This is the second bitcoin ETF approved to trade in Canada.

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CryptoCurrency News: Kiss’ Gene Simmons Buys $300,000 Worth of Cardano

The Kiss bassist and frontman says he believes in Cardano because of its affordability compared with other cryptocurrencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Volvo Owner Geely and Concordium in JV to Offer Blockchain Services, Apps in China

Geely will own 80% of the venture while Concordium will own the rest.

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CryptoCurrency News: New Jersey Crime Watchdog Says Crypto ATMs Need More Regulation

State regulation of crypto ATMs is poor and federal laws aren't much better, the commission said in a report.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 18, 2021

With the both of the top two cryptocurrencies setting new record high prices plus a look at what dogecoin says about our world, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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CryptoCurrency News: What Happens if All Stablecoin Users Have to Be Identified?

If the U.S. reins in pseudonymity in stablecoin transactions (as seems possible) there could be big implications for the crypto industry, says our columnist.

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CryptoCurrency News: BitPay to Pay $500K to Settle OFAC Sanction Violation Charges

BitPay is accused of facilitating over 2,100 transactions with individuals in sanctioned nations.

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CryptoCurrency News: Nvidia Redesigns Graphics Cards to Limit Their Use in Ethereum Mining

Nvidia is also launching Cryptocurrency Mining Processors (CMP) specifically for Ethereum miners.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bill Gates Says He’s ‘Neutral’ on Bitcoin

Gates has previously criticized cryptocurrencies and said he'd short bitcoin "if there was an easy way to do it."

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CryptoCurrency News: Libra Co-Creator’s VC Firm Co-Leads $12M Round in ‘Decentralized GitHub’

“Web 3 developers should be building on open protocols,” NFX General Partner Morgan Beller said of Radicle, a platform for crypto-native code collaboration.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Who ISN’T Dabbling as Bitcoin Passes $52K, Ether Tops $1,900

The $8.7 trillion-asset BlackRock is "dabbling" in cryptocurrencies – becoming the norm as bitcoin and ether rally to all-time high prices.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin May Be a Better Investment Than Gold, Says DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach

Gundlach has previously said, "I don't believe in bitcoin."

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CryptoCurrency News: ‘Evil VASP’ Simulation Preps Crypto Exchanges for FATF Travel Rule

Backed by CipherTrace, TRISA looks to get virtual asset service providers (VASPs) ready for new anti-money laundering rules.

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CryptoCurrency News: Russia’s Digital Ruble Model to Get Bank-Friendly Redesign

Banks had feared being drained of liquidity under the original concept for the digital currency.

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CryptoCurrency News: No, Bitcoin Is Nothing Like the South Sea Bubble

Those who compare Bitcoin to the great bubbles of the past need to check the historical books. This moment is very different.

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CryptoCurrency News: Safello Partnership Enables Direct Crypto Purchases From Users’ Bank Accounts

A new tie-up with payments firm Klarna brings the exchange access to more than 5,000 banks across Europe.

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CryptoCurrency News: How Crypto Transforms Prediction Markets

Betting can be used to predict the future. That's the crazy idea behind prediction markets. Here's how they work and where cryptocurrency fits into the picture.

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CryptoCurrency News: Kia Motors America Victim of Ransomware Attack Demanding $20M in Bitcoin, Report Claims

BleepingComputer claims to have evidence that the ransomware gang DoppelPaymer is demanding 404 BTC from the car firm.

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CryptoCurrency News: Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’ Has Started Accepting Bitcoin, Ether for Tax Payments

Local firm Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with the canton of Zug, converting cryptocurrency tax payments into Swiss francs.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ether Looks Overleveraged as Cryptocurrency Hits New High Over $1,900

Ether's derivative market looks overheating amid the cryptocurrency's rally to new record highs.

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CryptoCurrency News: Top Auction House Christie’s to Accept Ether Cryptocurrency for Digital Art Sale

The sale gives Christie's a chance to "dip its toes" in crypto, said a New York representative.

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CryptoCurrency News: Malaysian Bitcoin Mining Gang Stole Over $2M in Electricity, Say Police

Police seized 1,746 bitcoin mining machines across 21 premises in raids this week.

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CryptoCurrency News: Chinese Retailer Goes From Bubble Tea to Crypto Mining in Unlikely Pivot

Urban Tea has hired two new executives ahead of its expansion into cryptocurrency mining.

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CryptoCurrency News: How Staking and Eth 2.0 Makes the Ethereum Economy More “Sustainable”

In this episode, Christine Kim and Will Foxley discuss with David Hoffman, the co-founder of Bankless, the market implications of a dual Ethereum blockchain and what new realities staking presents to the long-term value proposition of ether.

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CryptoCurrency News: Robinhood to Allow Deposits, Withdrawals for Cryptos Including Dogecoin

Currently, users of the popular trading app can only buy and sell cryptocurrencies within their Robinhood accounts.

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CryptoCurrency News: Japan’s SBI Investing ‘Eight-Figure’ Sum in Swiss Crypto Bank Sygnum

SBI's digital assets subsidiary will lead a round that will have raised around $30 million for the Swiss firm over six months.

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CryptoCurrency News: US Lawmakers Looking Into China’s Role in GameStop Pump: Report

Some Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee want to look into Reddit’s ties to Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent and Robinhood rival Moomoo.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 17, 2021

With BTC surpassing $51K and analysts remaining bullish on the price, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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CryptoCurrency News: Russia’s Crypto Tax Bill Passes First Reading at State Duma

The bill proposes to recognize cryptocurrency as property for purposes of taxation.

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CryptoCurrency News: DJ 3LAU to Auction Full Album Tokenized on Ethereum Blockchain

3LAU is partnering with blockchain platform Origin to launch an auction for the Ultraviolet Vinyl NFT Collection.

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CryptoCurrency News: Mastercard Launches Prepaid Card for World’s First CBDC in Bahamas

The Bahamian Sand Dollar can now be used for payments anywhere Mastercard is accepted.

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CryptoCurrency News: Coinbase Hires Former Stripe Exec as Chief Compliance Officer

Melissa Strait will take charge of Coinbase's compliance initiatives ahead of its planned public listing.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why the US Needs Bitcoin

Elon Musk and other VIPs have endorsed it. Here's why the Federal Reserve should seriously consider BTC for its balance sheet.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: What’s Next After Bitcoin Hits $50K? Another $1K Gain

Analysts are still mostly bullish on the cryptocurrency's price, even at lofty levels compared with those just a few months ago.

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