CryptoCurrency News: Retail Traders Sue Robinhood Over Meme Stock Restrictions

Robinhood faces suits in Chicago in New York just hours after it's GME buy freeze.

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CryptoCurrency News: China, Singapore Look Ahead to CBDC Future at World Economic Forum

A former deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China compared notes with the chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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CryptoCurrency News: Longtime Bitcoin Developer Jonas Schnelli Receives Open-Source Grant

Jonas Schnelli joins other Bitcoin developers who are sponsored by high-caliber Bitcoin companies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: DOGE Chases After GameStop, Guggenheim Doubts $30K Bitcoin

Following a tweet from “WSB Chairman" inquiring about the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin prices went haywire.

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CryptoCurrency News: OCC Halts Fair Access Banking Rule

The rule would have prohibited US banks from denying services based on ideological factors.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Rebounds From Early Losses, Markets Still Distracted by GameStop

GameStop's stock drama has had a galvanizing effect on stocks, bitcoin and even dogecoin.

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CryptoCurrency News: Inside Iran’s Onslaught on Bitcoin Mining

Iran has been clamping down on mining farms, but it also wants to use crypto mining to boost the sanctioned nation's revenue stream.

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CryptoCurrency News: Who Let the DOGE Out? Meme-Based Cryptocurrency Soars 250% to Record High

A large chunk of the gains had retraced by mid morning, however.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for Jan. 28, 2021

With digital-market traders taking GameStop’s stock gyrations as a moment for self-reflection, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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CryptoCurrency News: Dalio Expects to Soon Offer Alt-Cash Fund, Says ‘Bitcoin Won’t Escape Our Scrutiny’

"Bitcoin looks like a long-duration option on a highly unknown future that I could put an amount of money in that I wouldn’t mind losing about 80% of," Dalio said.

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CryptoCurrency News: Prime Trust, tZERO Partner on Digital Asset Custody, Trading

The integration will enable Prime Trust to manage the custody of digital securities and cryptocurrencies for its customers using tZERO for trading.

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CryptoCurrency News: Scarcity Gives Bitcoin Value, but Not the Way You Think

Bitcoin is "scarce" (and therefore valuable) when demand for it exceeds the available supply, not because of its 21 million hard cap, says our columnist.

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CryptoCurrency News: WallStreetBets Reddit Group: What Is It?

How an army of amateur traders from the WallStreetBets Reddit channel is turning the tables on traditional investors.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: Crypto Gawks at GameStop, Sees Shades of Self

Digital-market traders found amusement in the GameStop saga. They also saw an opportunity for self-reflection. Here's what Niall Ferguson, Caitlin Long, Mati Greenspan and Jonathan Mohan said.

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CryptoCurrency News: Europol, Spanish Police Bust Alleged Scam Posing as Crypto Investment Training Firm

Europol worked with Spain’s Civil Guard and Catalan police to arrest six suspects aged in connection with the scheme.

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CryptoCurrency News: Algorand Teams Up With Crypto Custodian Curv for ‘Trusted DeFi’

The firms aim to build technology that "appeals to traditional institutions, payment providers [and] governments."

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CryptoCurrency News: Hard-Hit Argentinian Farmers May Get Boost From Trading Platform for Tokenized Produce

Farm assets like soybeans will be tokenized on a platform from CoreLedger for trading against other assets like cattle or fiat currency.

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CryptoCurrency News: ‘The Squeezening’: How the Gamestop Backlash will Curtail Freedom

Gamestop's "squeezening" is likely to increase calls for curbs on "memetic disturbances." That could be dangerous for free speech.

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CryptoCurrency News: Digital Asset Manager Grayscale Eyes DeFi Space With New Trust Filings

Trusts for aave, cosmos and polkadot, as well as privacy coin monero and cardano, have been registered in Delaware.

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CryptoCurrency News: WallStreetBets Fever Hits Dogecoin, Price Soars 142% After Twitter Mention

A Twitter account not officially affiliated to WallStreetBets prompted DOGE's latest social media-based price boost.

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CryptoCurrency News: Australian Crypto Exchange to Delist BSV Over ‘Bullying’ Threat to Bitcoin Developers

The exchange's CEO said "Recent talk of legal action against developers working to improve the Bitcoin ecosystem proved to be the final straw."

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CryptoCurrency News: Guggenheim CIO Says Institutional Demand Not There to Sustain Bitcoin Above $30K

Scott Minerd said he doesn't believe bitcoin's investor base is "big enough" or "deep enough" to keep price at current levels.

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