Earlier this month, (now former) OpenSea employee Nate Chastain was accused of insider trading—he knew which NFTs would feature on OpenSea’s homepage, and allegedly bought and sold [...]
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25 September 2021 15:17
Jack Dorsey, the Bitcoin maximalist CEO of Twitter, put his money where his mouth is this week. His company rolled out “Bitcoin tipping” to its 300 million [...]
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25 September 2021 15:01
Yesterday, China’s central bank declared that cryptocurrency trading and all related services, including Bitcoin mining, are illegal. In two notices published on the central bank’s site and [...]
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25 September 2021 13:12
WallStreetBets, the Reddit forum whose members coordinated to send GameStop stock through the roof, is creating a separate subreddit just for cryptocurrency discussions. According to a Wednesday [...]
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25 September 2021 00:02
One of the biggest players in the GameStop saga is being drawn into an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Michael Burry, head of investment [...]
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24 September 2021 21:11
What’s the biggest NFT project to date? In terms of total trading volume, it’s not NBA Top Shot or CryptoPunks. No, it’s Axie Infinity—an Ethereum-based, Pokémon-inspired, monster-battling [...]
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24 September 2021 20:17
Behemoth cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been cagey about where it’s located. Its biggest competitor has no such issues. FTX, the second-most-popular crypto trading platform, has officially moved [...]
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24 September 2021 19:33
The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies across the industry—essentially the combined price of all tokens in circulation—decreased by nearly 5% today after the Chinese government again [...]
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24 September 2021 16:17
In case you haven’t heard, DAOs are all the rage in crypto right now. Proponents of these “decentralized autonomous organizations” see them replacing traditional, centralized corporate models with [...]
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24 September 2021 15:11
From Xinjiang to New York, controversy around Bitcoin’s environmental impact has come to the doorsteps of those who mine Bitcoin. It is a commonly cited point in [...]
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24 September 2021 14:33
Investor and social media influencer Gary Vaynerchuk has rapidly become a major player in the NFT space, launching his own hand-drawn VeeFriends series—which will have an in-person [...]
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24 September 2021 13:00
Kathleen and Arthur Breitman are crypto royalty. The husband-and-wife team created Tezos, an early leader in the “second generation” of blockchains, and are the authors of an [...]
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24 September 2021 12:01
