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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum's Lifestyle Brand, Twitch's Crypto Discounts and MakerDAO's $1B Milestone

A Ripple executive built an XRP payments platform, a Washington. D.C.. court ruled bitcoin is money and Ethereum miners' profits are soaring.

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Blockchain Bites: Ghosn's Crypto Payments, Russia's Red Line and Why Banks Won't Bite

Carlos Ghosn’s smugglers were paid in crypto, cryptographers call out Craig Wright’s latest claims and it's unknown whether banks will custody crypto following the OCC's letter.

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Blockchain Bites: OCC's Crypto Letter, Eth 2.0's 'Official' Testnet and Dinwiddie's Tokenized Airball

Visa said crypto is part of "the future of money," members of the U.S. Senate think the dollar should go digital and OCC will allow banks to custody crypto.

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Blockchain Bites: Coinsquare Conclusion, Ethereum Fees and a GPT-3 Poet

Ethereum fees are up, as are users on the Bitcoin network. This is everything you need to know in crypto today.

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Blockchain Bites: China's BSN Integrations and Satoshi's Newfound Wealth

Ethereum Classic supporters are ditching the project, top exchanges are developing "Travel Rule" solutions and, FYI, YFI might have a backdoor.

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Blockchain Bites: PayPal, Mastercard Inch Closer to Crypto

Also, a longer look at crypto's reaction to GPT-3, "the biggest thing since bitcoin."

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Blockchain Bites: Binance's Bitcoin Mining, ConsenSys' Legal Trouble and Why Politicians Blame Twitter, Not Bitcoin

Binance will consolidate its bitcoin mining, ConsenSys is accused of intellectual property theft and Wonder Woman's illustrator will sell art on Ethereum.

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Blockchain Bites: Twitter Hack Fallout, A New Way to 'Yield Farm' and a Hurricane-Proof CBDC

What the Twitter hack means for Bitcoin, why stablecoins are on the rise in Hong Kong and a new way to farm yield using NFTs on Ethereum.

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Blockchain Bites: BitLicense Feedback, Digital Yuan Trial and How US Bills Could Threaten Privacy

A mega food retailer may trial the digital yuan, an a16z alum is launching a VC firm focused on distributed tech and Ethereum's new client is "basically ready."

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Blockchain Bites: Chainlink's Interest, Ethereum's 'ReGenesis' and Crypto Taxes

Retail interest in Chainlink is booming, Ethereum may follow Cosmos on its path to upgrade and the U.K. central bank is mulling a CBDC.

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