BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM,) has invested in U.S.-based Bitcoin mining firms Marathon Digital Holdings and Riot Blockchain. [...]
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20 August 2021 15:20
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), the two largest cryptocurrencies by their market capitalization, are closing the week on a positive note. At the time of writing, BTC [...]
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20 August 2021 12:21
Police in the Australian state of Victoria have seized almost A$8.5 million ($6 million) in Bitcoin from online drug traffickers, in the country’s largest-ever cryptocurrency seizure. According [...]
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20 August 2021 12:12
Mayor Jayson Stewart of Cool Valley, Missouri, plans to give all of the town’s 1,500 residents $1,000 worth of Bitcoin. “Look, it’s digital gold,” Mayor Stewart told [...]
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20 August 2021 10:51
Authorities in Sweden have reportedly returned approximately $1.3 million worth of Bitcoin to a jailed drug dealer who amassed the funds in illegal online sales. Following the [...]
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20 August 2021 10:02
The price of ADA has skyrocketed by 17.4% over the last day, reaching a new all-time high of $2.54 in the early hours on Friday. Last week, [...]
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20 August 2021 09:39
Within 20 minutes of its crowdfunding round going live on token launchpad MISO earlier this week, BitDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO,) backed by Singapore-based derivatives exchange [...]
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20 August 2021 08:01
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance today announced that all users are now required to complete Know Your Customer (KYC) verification. The update also includes existing users who have not [...]
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20 August 2021 07:41
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced via Twitter today that the publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange received board approval to add $500 million of cryptocurrency assets to its balance [...]
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19 August 2021 23:56
When Visa and Mastercard cut off payments to adult website Pornhub last year, concerned over reportedly lax policies to prevent minors from posting content, the site leaned [...]
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19 August 2021 23:23
Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon is used by an array of decentralized finance (DeFi) services and platforms to conduct cheaper and faster transactions than Ethereum’s mainnet can [...]
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19 August 2021 21:37
Decentralized governance is a wonderful thing. Unless, of course, a few whales have enough tokens to sneak through self-serving proposals. That’s the argument being made about a [...]
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19 August 2021 20:32
