Blockchain Bites


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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Moons, Crypto Orbits, Celebrities Struck by NFTs

Also: Paxos' $142 million Series C, Amex' FalconX investment and Core Scientific's massive ASIC purchase.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Crushes All-Time High, Surges Above $20K; 'Free Ross' Movement Gains Trump's Ear

Bitcoin is trading above $20,000, Ruffer confirmed its 45,000 BTC allocation and President Trump is weighing a pardon for Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht.

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Blockchain Bites: Pornhub's Privacy Predicament, Argentina's Crypto Boom, Israel's DeFi Darlings

Cryptocurrency is now, by default, the only form of payment Pornhub accepts, while new KYC rules raise difficult questions about privacy and data protection.

Cryptocurrency is now, by default, the only form of payment Pornhub accepts.

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Blockchain Bites: Google Goes Down, Nexus CEO and US Treasury Get Hacked

Yearn continues to rapidly expand through acquisitions, leading some to call it the Amazon of DeFi. A U.S. Treasury hack serves as a reminder of the amount of financial data in circulation.

U.S. Treasury Department seal

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Whales Throwing Their Weight Around, Virgil Griffith's Rights

There are more bitcoin "whales" than ever, and new data shows how they drive market movements.

Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith speaks at Consensus: Singapore 2018

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Blockchain Bites: Paxos' Banking Play, France's KYC Terreur, FinCEN's Personal Data Honeypot

U.S. lawmakers are asking the nation's financial guardians to clarify crypto custodianship while France wages war on anonymity.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Shorts In, MicroStrategy Stock Downgraded, Bitwise Index Trades

Bitcoin’s options market has flipped bearish for the short term while Citi analysts downgrade MicroStrategy's stock.

Traders on of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Blockchain Bites: Square's Green Bitcoin Pledge, $15B AUM in Crypto Funds

Crypto markets are trading sideways, while Spain's second-largest bank is reportedly planning a leap into the digital asset industry.

Square CEO Jack Dorsey

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Blockchain Bites: $187M Blockchain Bond, $522M BTC Mining Revenue and 'Ethereum-First' Institutional Investors

Singapore is funding blockchain R&D. Germany's second-largest stock exchange's crypto app saw $1.21 billion in trading volumes this year. Grayscale is seeing a growing number of "Ethereum-first" institutional buyers.

sonnenshein, grayscale

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Blockchain Bites: Price Point! Bitcoin at $50K? $60K? $318K?

Traders have begun unwrapping tokenized bitcoins. The U.S. Treasury Department will keep a vigilant eye on digital innovations. And trading volumes on OKEx have plummeted.

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