Blockchain Bites


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Blockchain Bites: Aave's Advance, BitMEX's Block, Turkey's Bitcoin Trot

Turkey is in a bitcoin bull run, a Fed branch is studying blockchains to possibly support a "digital dollar" and Aave unleashed unsecured borrowing on DeFi.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin's Weary Bulls, ETC's Action Plan, INX's IPO

INX is gearing up for a landmark IPO while 1 billion tether jumped from Tron to Ethereum.

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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum's Fees, Bitcoin's Pullback, Ren's Great Week

Stablecoin demand may become unbalanced if traders ditch a “market-neutral strategy" while Ethereum gas fees drive Tether to adopt a new rail.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin in Space; Prime Brokerage Race; Nodes You Can't Trace

The OCC's door is open for banks looking to discuss getting involved in crypto services, a Russian bank issued a token-backed loan and bitcoin has been sent from space.

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Blockchain Bites: Hashrates Drop, Bitcoiners Hodl and an Open Letter to Bankers

Floods are dampening bitcoin mining hashrates, Ethereum Classic may be thrown off its most liquid exchange and bitcoin is moving off exchanges.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin on DeFi and DeFi on Bitcoin

More bitcoins are being tokenized than mined, DeFi is coming to the Bitcoin system and a former Prudential Securities CEO thinks crypto is a safe bet.

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Blockchain Bites: Ripple's Rebuff, DeFi's 'Degens' and China's CBDC

Both the U.S. and China are advancing on their central bank digital currency (CBDC) designs while a Bitcoin developer created a new programming language.

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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase's Loans, Ethereum's Fees, YAM's Bug

Ethereum fees and miners' profits are at all-time highs. Coinbase is offering bitcoin-backed loans and the Tor Network is subject to a crypto scam.

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Blockchain Bites: Avanti's New Money, DeFi Deepens and 'How Much Ether?'

Caitlin Long has a new take on money. Russia wants to de-anonymize crypto. And Coinbase wins in court.

Caitlin Long speaks at Invest 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

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Blockchain Bites: MicroStrategy's $250M Bitcoin Bet, India Booms, Banks Open to Custody

MicroStrategy bets $250 million on Bitcoin's safe haven thesis. Indian crypto is booming. And David Marcus has a new role at Facebook.

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