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For $15K, He'll Fake Your Exchange Volume – You'll Get on CoinMarketCap

A 20-year-old college student explains how he made a business of faking trade volumes at crypto exchanges.

Alexey Andryunin

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Polkadot Tokens Valued at $75 Pre-Launch in Crypto ‘Futures’ Offering

They don't exist yet, but you can soon buy Polkadot tokens from CoinFLEX via a new mechanism: the initial futures offering (IFO).

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Bitcoin Could Help Stop News Censorship – From Space

An advocacy group is testing out the idea that the combination of bitcoin and orbital communication can help fight news censorship.

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Wala Was Africa's Perfect Crypto Success Story – Until It Collapsed

Wala went from serving customers in Uganda to shuttering its payments app. Here's what sources say happened.

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Coinbase Is in Talks to Launch Its Own Insurance Company

Coinbase is exploring plans to set up its own regulated insurance company with the help of broker Aon, sources told CoinDesk.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at Consensus 2019.

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Safety Without Silos: Why Businesses Will Learn to Love Public Ethereum

Enterprises are finally realizing that mainnet ethereum is a way to end decades of brittle, balkanized and bespoke system integration, writes John Wolpert.

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Billion-Dollar Returns: The Upside of Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

If Libra achieves even modest adoption, the payoff for Facebook and its partners could be in the billions.

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Casa Launches Lightning Node Mobile App for Bitcoin Newbies

Casa's new wallet aims to help aspiring cypherpunks graduate from getting their first bitcoin to running their own lightning node.

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'Disappointed' by Central Bank Blockchain, Russia's Largest Bank Eyes Alternatives

Enterprise blockchain project Masterchain is falling short of expectations – and Russia's largest bank is looking for other options.

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Monero and Zcash Conferences Showcase Their Differences (And Links)

The future of privacy coins relies on technologists getting the governance setup right. Here are both sides of the zcash debate.

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