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These Ethereum NFTs Change Based on Who Bids for Them

Fortune’s latest issue focuses on the rise of decentralized finance and the wider crypto world, so it makes sense that the publication would follow the lead of [...]

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6 August 2021 17:59

Wilshire Phoenix Takes Aim at Grayscale With Rival Bitcoin Trust

Wilshire Phoenix, a New York-based financial firm, has filed a new amendment to its wShares Bitcoin Commodity Trust (BCT) application. The initial filing was made back in [...]

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6 August 2021 16:01

CryptoPunk Owners Have New Way to Make Money: Renting Out Their Avatars

A non-fungible token (NFT) rentals protocol called reNFT launched on the Ethereum mainnet recently, allowing users to “rent out” assets like CryptoPunks. While interesting on a conceptual [...]

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6 August 2021 14:42

Ethereum Co-Creator ‘Confident’ About Next Steps After London Hard Fork

Yesterday, Ethereum completed a major upgrade, the London hard fork.  It appears to have gone off without a hitch, implementing EIP-1559, an update that reduces the variability [...]

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6 August 2021 14:13

Tether-Linked Banker Faces Trial in February 2022

Reginald “Reggie” Fowler will appear in court in mid-February next year, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.  In 2019, Fowler was accused of bank fraud and [...]

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6 August 2021 10:57

Crypto Industry Mobilizes to Stop Controversial Tax Plan

The crypto community is pushing back against the recent crypto tax amendment that could have disastrous effects on the burgeoning industry, according to a new petition published [...]

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6 August 2021 10:20

Binance Restricts Derivatives Products in Hong Kong ‘With Immediate Effect’

Crypto exchange Binance today announced—with immediate effect—that Hong Kong users will no longer be able to open new derivatives products accounts. On a date to be announced, [...]

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6 August 2021 09:56

Army of Crypto Lawyers Propose New ‘Builder-First’ DeFi DAO

Authored by members of the DeFi project Yearn Finance and crypto-specific legal group LeXpunK, the “builder-first legal activism DAO” seeks to create an advocacy group built “in [...]

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6 August 2021 09:35

Users Lose $490,000 Trying to Mint Knockoff CryptoPunks NFTs

Ethereum users lost just over 174 ETH (worth roughly $490,000 at current prices) today as they were trying to mint a “COVIDPunks,” a new collection of non-fungible [...]

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6 August 2021 06:36

Biden Deals Blow to Crypto Industry, Backs Plan to Tax Proof-of-Stake

In a surprise move, the Biden Administration threw its support behind an amendment to a major bill in the U.S. Senate that would subject a broad segment [...]

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6 August 2021 05:10

Rival Amendment to Senate Infrastructure Bill Threatens Proof of Stake

The U.S. Senate is now reviewing two amendments to a contentious cryptocurrency provision tucked within a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Depending on which (if any), they choose [...]

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6 August 2021 00:55

Venezuela Will Launch ‘Digital Bolivar’ in October

Venezuela’s currency will be getting a new look, in more ways than one, as the government tries to simultaneously tame inflation and institute monetary sovereignty. The Central [...]

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5 August 2021 20:56

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