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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