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Scam Twitter Profile Impersonates 6 Different Crypto Accounts

Filmmaker Seif Elsbei's Twitter account has been hacked, and took on the personas of at least six different cryptocurrency developers and exchanges.

Joseph O’Conner was accused of participating in a Twitter cryptocurrency scam.

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Kraken CEO: Crypto Exchange Won't Answer New York AG's Inquiry

An exchange that left New York in 2015 has been contacted by the state's Attorney General. They're not happy about it.

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Finance

Craig Wright Moves to Dismiss 'Shakedown' Bitcoin Lawsuit

The man who claimed to be bitcoin's founder won't stand for this "attempted shakedown" in U.S. federal court.

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What Crypto Exchanges Are Saying About New York's New Inquiry

Some of the cryptocurrency exchanges named today in the New York Attorney General's "inquiry" into the ecosystem say they welcome the move.

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Amazon Sees Bitcoin Use Case in Data Marketplaces

The e-commerce giant describes how merchants and law enforcement could make a bitcoin transaction stream more valuable by splicing it with other data.

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Blockchain Taps Former Goldman Exec for Institutional Investor Push

Blockchain's new hire oversaw Goldman Sachs' relationships with institutional clients managing $1.49 trillion in assets.

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Economists Explore Bitcoin's 'Equilibrium Price' in New Paper

Two economists have developed a model for pricing bitcoin and other assets in decentralized financial networks.

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Finance

Barclays Is Talking to Clients About Opening a Crypto Trading Desk

A person with knowledge of the situation said all major banks are likely to be weighing the same decision.

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Finance

CFTC Chairman: I Am Not a Cryptocurrency Evangelist

A flood of misplaced Twitter love has pushed the #FUDBuster to set the record straight.

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Credit Karma: Almost No One Is Reporting Crypto Tax Gains

Tax firm Credit Karma reported that less than 1 in 250 users reported cryptocurrency gains or losses on their tax forms.

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