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Why Two College Football Stars Launched Their Business Careers With NFTs

When Dreamfield, a new platform to connect college athletes with companies for endorsement opportunities, centered its entire splashy rollout on July 1 around NFTs featuring its two [...]

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3 August 2021 19:44

Zcash Creator Urges ZEC to Be Less Like Bitcoin, More Like Ethereum

Proof of stake (PoS), a consensus protocol that uses deposited crypto to secure a blockchain, is becoming more in vogue. Two projects from Ethereum co-founders—Polkadot and Cardano—use [...]

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3 August 2021 19:15

Crypto Tax Startup ZenLedger Raises $6 Million From Mark Cuban, Others

Against the backdrop of the United States Senate attempting to pass a now-$1 trillion infrastructure bill with a controversial clause about cryptocurrency tax reporting, crypto tax software [...]

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3 August 2021 18:44

Singapore Regulator Says Crypto Exchange Binance Not Yet Licensed

A spokesperson for the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) tells Decrypt that Binance Asia Services, which is Binance’s registered entity in Singapore, is not currently licensed.  Binance [...]

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3 August 2021 18:42

Sandwich Shop Quiznos Accepting Bitcoin

American fast-food restaurant chain Quiznos has announced that it will soon allow its customers to pay for meals with Bitcoin thanks to a new partnership with digital [...]

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3 August 2021 15:08

EFF Pushes Back Against Senate Infrastructure Bill Targeting Crypto

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a privacy-oriented NGO, has criticized President Biden’s new infrastructure bill, which the EFF claims will increase the government’s ability to surveil everyday [...]

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3 August 2021 12:30

Crypto Exchange FTX Launching Sports NFT Platform

Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX is teaming up with Dolphin Entertainment to launch a sports and entertainment non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace.  “We’re beyond excited to team up [...]

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3 August 2021 11:34

SEC Chairman’s Crypto ‘Intrigue’ Takes Back Seat to Consumer Protections

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler has made it clear that his rich background in blockchain and crypto doesn’t mean he’ll make any concessions [...]

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3 August 2021 10:44

Elon Musk Tweets Pump Dogecoin But Not Bitcoin: Research

Since joining the crypto conversation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has had an outsized influence on market moves. New data, however, suggests that this influence hasn’t always been [...]

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3 August 2021 10:38

Crypto Meme Coins Dogecoin, Baby Doge and Safe Moon See Price Crashes

Some of the crypto industry’s most popular meme coins—Dogecoin, Baby Doge, and Safe Moon—are all down this week.  Dogecoin (DOGE)—one of the most famous cryptocurrencies due to [...]

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3 August 2021 09:42

Thorchain Surges 17% Leaving DeFi Tokens In Its Wake

At the time of writing, Thorchain’s native RUNE token is trading at around $7.13, gaining nearly 18% in the past 24 hours and 83% in the last [...]

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3 August 2021 09:28

How Will EIP-1559 and Ethereum’s ‘Triple Halving’ Affect ETH’s Price?

An August 5 Ethereum upgrade, known as the London hard fork, will bring a major change in the form of EIP-1559—a code change that begins to remove [...]

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2 August 2021 23:35

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