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Bank of Korea to Pilot CBDC on Samsung Galaxy Phones

Korea’s central bank is piloting a digital currency through the Galaxy smartphones of South Korean multinational tech giant Samsung Electronics, according to a report by The Korea [...]

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15 August 2021 13:26

Dark Web Drug Dealer Indicted for Laundering $137 Million in Bitcoin From Prison

A dark web drug dealer from Maryland known as Xanaxman is accused by a Maryland federal court of laundering $137 million worth of Bitcoin from prison. Xanaxman, [...]

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15 August 2021 12:00

XRP and Ethereum Classic Rise 10% Amid Slight Market Decline

XRP and Ethereum Classic both blew up 10% today, despite a 0.52% drop in the global market capitalization of cryptocurrencies. XRP commands $59.13 billion of crypto’s $2.10 [...]

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15 August 2021 11:19

‘Too Weird Even for Crypto’—Lessons of the Poly Network Hack

“This is too weird even for crypto,” wrote one of my Decrypt colleagues on Slack this week. He was speaking, of course, about the $600 million Poly [...]

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14 August 2021 15:04

Premier League Soccer Team to Wear Dogecoin Shirts in Upcoming Season

Players from English soccer team Watford F.C. will wear Dogecoin on their shirts this season, according to British sports outlet The Athletic. Dogecoin will appear on all [...]

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14 August 2021 14:25

Portraits of Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin From 2015 Selling as NFTs

On Tuesday, Californian photographer Matthew Reamer announced the sale of three NFTs of portraits of Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. Reamer took Buterin’s picture four months after Ethereum’s [...]

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14 August 2021 13:32

Bitcoin’s ‘Realized’ Market Cap Hits All-Time High of $378 Billion

Bitcoin’s “realized” market capitalization reached an all-time high of $378 billion today, according to data from metrics site Glassnode. #Bitcoin $BTC Realized Cap just reached an ATH [...]

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14 August 2021 12:02

Can Circle Win the Stablecoin Wars?

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has big plans for his company and for USDC, the stablecoin it operates. In a blog post this week, Allaire wrote that Circle [...]

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14 August 2021 12:01

Cardano, Dogecoin and XRP Surge Overnight

Holders of three of the most popular altcoins: Cardano, Dogecoin and XRP, had good mornings today. The popular altcoins continued to rally with overnight price gains of [...]

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14 August 2021 11:43

Request Network Token Up 314% in Week Amid Coinbase Listing

Payments platform Request Network’s token Request (REQ) is up ​​314% in the past seven days. It currently trades for $0.27. Launched in 2017, Request Network lets users [...]

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14 August 2021 10:42

TIME Magazine and Cool Cats to Give Away NFTs for Great Memes

Cool Cats is one of the hottest NFT crypto collectible projects right now, as the collection of 10,000 randomly-generated cartoon cats is fueling up to millions of [...]

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14 August 2021 01:01

Tech Giant Intel Is Holding Nearly $800K in Coinbase Stock

Intel, the computer processor giant and world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today that it has purchased 3,014 shares in [...]

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13 August 2021 22:40

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