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As El Salvador continues to experiment with bitcoin and blockchain technology, the government has chosen asset tokenization company Koibanx to develop the country's blockchain infrastructure. Koinbanx CEO Leo Elduayen discusses the products they're building for El Salvador on the Algorand protocol. Fabrício Tota, director of Brazil-based crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin, also shares his views on the impact of El Salvador's Bitcoin Law on the state of crypto in Latin America.

24 sept. 2021

Koinbanx CEO Leo Elduayen and Mercado Bitcoin Director Fabrício Tota join “Community Crypto” to discuss El Salvador’s bitcoin law and blockchain projects and their impact on adoption elsewhere, particularly in Latin America. “What El Salvador is doing is an example for the rest of the countries,” Elduayen said.

24 sept. 2021

Bitcoin registered a series of lower price highs Friday, at one point shaving off $4,000 and meeting resistance at $41,000 following China’s renewed anti-crypto stance. The People’s Bank of China said bitcoin, ether and stablecoin tether do not qualify as legal tender and cannot be used in the currency market.

24 sept. 2021

The crypto markets continue to slide following China's declaration of cryptocurrency-related businesses as illegal. CoinDesk's Christie Harkin and Brad Keoun discuss the potential market impact China could have in the short-term, expanding on why this latest crypto ban could be its most severe to date. Plus, their takes on Tuesday's Evergrande scare, JPMorgan's CME trading analysis, takeaways from the Mainnet conference, and Twitter's crypto developments.

24 sept. 2021

CoinDesk Tech Managing Editor Christie Harkin discusses where the crypto markets could be headed next week as China tightens its crypto mining crackdowns and bans trading. Plus, CoinDesk's Markets Managing Editor Brad Keoun discusses his markets outlook since Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled tapering could happen at the Fed's next meeting in November.

24 sept. 2021

After weeks of teasing the release on Twitter, Yearn Finance's Andre Cronje has launched Artion, an NFT marketplace on the Fantom blockchain designed to serve as the groundwork for a vampire attack that could be an open-source competitor to NFT giant OpenSea. "The Hash" squad discusses what it potentially reveals about the larger move to decentralize the NFT marketplace ecosystem.

24 sept. 2021

Time magazine launched a new NFT collection dubbed "TIMEPieces" Thursday, offering "unlimited access" to its website through 2023. All 4,676 tokens, each priced at 0.1 ETH tied to digital artworks, were sold in minutes. But the sale also clogged the Ethereum blockchain, with buyers spending almost four times as much on transaction fees as they did on the NFTs themselves. "The Hash" hosts react, discussing the implications for a historic American institution getting involved in the NFT space.

24 sept. 2021

The People’s Bank of China announced Friday virtual currency-related business activities are illegal, warning they seriously endanger the safety of its citizens’ assets. Bitcoin slipped below $42,000 after the news and is down about 3% over the past 24 hours.

24 sept. 2021

“The Hash” team discusses CEO Jack Dorsey’s continued infatuation with crypto as part of a larger push to monetize content creators and bring blockchain awareness to the mainstream. Twitter users on Apple’s iOS can now connect third-party tipping services to their profile, including the ability to link both Bitcoin and Lightning Network addresses.

24 sept. 2021

China's central bank outlawed all crypto trading activities effective Friday as U.S. federal regulations are also increasingly coming into focus. What are the similarities and differences between the U.S. and China's crypto crackdowns? "[U.S. regulators] are trying to implement an actual regulatory regime ... that's a far sight from declaring transactions illegal entirely, and it does not look like the U.S. is heading down that path," CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De said. Plus, Kentucky ordered crypto lender Celsius to stop offering accounts in the U.S. state.

24 sept. 2021