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Blockchain Bites: What the Bitcoin Halving Means for Miners and Prices

Predictions and price models abound ahead of Bitcoin's halving, expected in less than two weeks.

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Blockchain Bites: WEF, IBM and a Chinese City Show Support for Blockchain

IBM and the WEF both have plans for solving disruption to supply chains disrupted by the coronavirus crisis.

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Blockchain Bites: Capital-Constraining Compliance and Tether's 'Interoperability Bridge'

The researchers developing the "digital yuan" have tapped an AI firm to look for financial use cases while Dole unveiled a 5-year blockchain plan.

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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Oracle, Gun Sirer’s Grants and Lightning-Powered Private Messages

Coinbase's new service may outcompete Chainlink while AVA Labs is looking to fund DeFi development on its public testnet.

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Blockchain Bites: China's Miners, Africa's Venmo and Cuba's New Exchange

Binance launches the Venmo of Africa, Cuba gets a new exchange and Starbucks will trial the "digital yuan."

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Blockchain Bites: DeFi Hacker Is Back, Oil Craters and Big Tech Won't Sue You

Big Tech vows not to sue developers using their patents to build solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic while a hacker returns funds stolen this weekend.

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Blockchain Bites: ConsenSys Cuts, dForce Doomsday and Bitcoin ATMs Boom

ConsenSys cut staff for the second time in 2020. DForce faces doomsday. And Bitcoin ATMs are booming.

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Blockchain Bites: Binance vs. Ethereum, MicroBT vs. Bitmain, Libra vs. the World

Binance unveiled plans for a new smart contract blockchain, which could compete with Ethereum, while MicroBT looks to beat rival Bitmain to market.

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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum's Inroads and Libra's Concessions

The Facebook-led cryptocurrency project has been scaled back while investors try to take advantage of market turbulence. Here's the story.

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Blockchain Bites: DLT's Great Leap Forward, Bitcoin Hoarders and a16z's New Fund

China is taking charge in the digitization of the world economy, while Maker faces a $28M class action lawsuit. Get the latest bite-sized news.

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