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Blockchain Bites: COMP x2, Reddit Scales and Factom Goes Bankrupt

The COMP governance token is seeing massive gains and potential listings on Coinbase Pro and CoinFlip, while Reddit looks to scale its Ethereum-based project.

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Blockchain Bites: Trump on Bitcoin, Powell on Digital Dollars and the Truth About Terrorist Financing

Who watches the watchdogs? President Trump reportedly told his Treasury Secretary to go after Bitcoin while the DEA failed to properly oversee crypto investigations.

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Blockchain Bites: River's Rise, Canada's CBDC and Bitcoin's Whales Post-Halving

The number of Bitcoin whales is at its highest level since 2017, as the network adjusts its difficulty setting for the first time post-halving.

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Blockchain Bites: Canaan's Plunge, Revolut's Control and Lightning Nodes in Africa

Canaan Creative's stock is at the lowest price since going public while Revolut is simultaneously ceding ownership of and exerting control over client's crypto holdings.

Revolut app

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Blockchain Bites: JPMorgan on Bitcoin, South Korea on CBDCs and the Porn Industry on Crypto

JPMorgan bond analysts think bitcoin has passed its first stress test while South Korea's central bank is continuing to research CBDCs.

JPMorgan

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Blockchain Bites: Designing Digital Dollars and Following the Quadriga Trail

The Ontario Securities Commission says QuadrigaCX, an infamous Canadian exchange, was a Ponzi scheme, while the National Science Foundation is issuing a grant to design a national digital currency.

Gerald Cotten, difunto CEO de QuadrigaCX, alrededor de 2015.

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Blockchain Bites: CBDCs on Capitol Hill, Custody Battles and Smart Drugs

Lawmakers will convene today to discuss the possibility of using digital dollars to distribute coronavirus relief, while Filecoin releases its new testnet.

U.S. lawmakers are meeting to discuss the prospect of using a digital dollar to distribute COVID-19 stimulus. (Credit: Unsplash, modified using PhotoMosh)

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Blockchain Bites: Libra's Future, Elrond's 'Trial by Fire' and LocalBitcoins' Volume

An unknown wallet set a $2.6 million ETH transaction fee and Hacker Noon announced it will test out Web 3.0 micropayments.

Diem Association Executive Vice President Dante Disparte

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Blockchain Bites: 'Bitcoin Billionaires' and Buying a Coke With Crypto

Is mass adoption back on the agenda with the announcement of a feature film based on the Winklevoss twins and new crypto payment option for vending machines "down under?"

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Credit: Max Morse/Flickr)

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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Surveillance, Bitcoin Wargames, CoinMarketCap Drama

The U.S. military conducted a war game involving bitcoin while Chinese police may have potentially frozen accounts linked to illicit transactions.

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