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This Bitcoin Skeptic Wants to Make 'Stable' Cryptos for Venezuela

Economist Steve Hanke has joined the board of the P2P cryptocurrency exchange AirTM and will guide its Latin American expansion, including a new system for price-stable assets he will design.

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Coinbase CTO: Time May Be Right for Home Crypto Mining

Mining innovator Balaji Srinivasan pivoted away from that business in 2017, but now believes the time is right for a home miner.

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Buy or Sell? What Traders Think About Today's Bitcoin Cash Fork

With Thurday's hard fork of the bitcoin cash blockchain likely to result in a split, what are the traders planning to do with their holdings?

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How to Watch the Bitcoin Cash Fork As It Happens

Part system upgrade, part political battle, Thursday's BCH hard fork could get interesting.

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Bitcoin Veteran Jameson Lopp Named CTO of Crypto Startup Casa

Casa has boosted Jameson Lopp to CTO eight months after he joined the crypto custody solutions startup as an infrastructure engineer.

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What Fork? Asian Traders Are Buying Bitcoin Cash

While bitcoin cash is seeing an internal war ahead of Thursday's hard fork, traders in Asia are betting that the upgrade will result in "free money."

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Airdrops Are a Marketing Ploy (And That's OK)

A currency is nothing if not widely used, and that can't be achieved unless people make some cost-incurring effort to encourage widespread usage.

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Sexual Assault Survivor Uses Crypto to Crowdfund Anonymously

Cryptocurrency is helping women who've suffered sexual harassment or assault gain financial independence while protecting their privacy.

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Crypto Exchanges Should Take a Hard Look at IP Address-Masking Services

Cryptocurrency exchanges will likely have to reckon with VPN access as part of any regulatory or law enforcement actions for market manipulation.

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The Little-Known Ways Ethereum Reveals User Location Data

At Devcon4, Geth developer Péter Szilágyi detailed the little-known ways that data about ethereum users can become public.

(CoinDesk archives)