The first time Decrypt interviewed FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, in September 2020, decentralized marketplace SushiSwap was better known than the 29-year-old billionaire or the crypto exchange he [...]
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28 July 2021 13:51
The price of XRP, the native token of the Ripple network, is up by more than 10% in the past 24 hours, hitting a five-week high. XRP [...]
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28 July 2021 13:37
It’s been a volatile week for the largest cryptocurrency in the market, Bitcoin. After reaching $40,000 on Monday for the first time since mid-June, the leading cryptocurrency [...]
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28 July 2021 10:10
Crypto exchange Binance is launching a Tax Reporting Tool that will enable its users to “keep track of their crypto activities and streamline reporting requirements,” per a [...]
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28 July 2021 09:59
Calling it a blood bath is an understatement. On July 23, Chinese stocks listed in the U.S. plunged as Beijing issued new regulations cracking down on education [...]
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28 July 2021 03:01
Ask a new investor to cryptocurrency how it’s different from trading stocks, and they’ll probably tell you about volatility. Bitcoin, for example, went from $30,000 to above [...]
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27 July 2021 22:11
U.S. lawmakers today spoke about the benefits of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)—but conservatives also expressed concern over how it could turn the country into a [...]
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27 July 2021 20:03
Binance, the world’s top exchange by trading volume, is feeling the heat from regulators. In an effort to cool down, it announced changes that help it better [...]
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27 July 2021 19:38
Eco, a consumer-focused fintech app that uses stablecoin lending to provide bonuses to users, continues to gain momentum despite potential regulatory hurdles on the horizon for its [...]
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27 July 2021 18:05
At a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee this morning, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), now one of Congress’s most prominent crypto skeptics, continued to sound the alarm [...]
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27 July 2021 18:03
Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of crypto derivatives exchange FTX, drew the community’s ire today after he singled out Bitcoin and Ethereum as the two most energy-consuming blockchains. Speaking [...]
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27 July 2021 16:12
Collectibles sold as NFTs—essentially, tokens that function as proof of ownership for a digital item on a blockchain—blew up earlier this year, with an estimated $2.5 billion [...]
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27 July 2021 15:08
