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⁠Final Block Mined Before Halving Contained Reminder of BTC’s Origins In the final block, Miner f2pool immortalized a NY Times article highlighting the similarities between the 2008 financial crisis and today.

⁠Here’s Why Exchanges Haven’t Integrated Bitcoin’s Lightning Network On Sunday, Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark explained why exchanges have been hesistant to integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.

⁠Crypto Hedge Funds Doubled Assets Under Management in 2019, PwC Report Says Cryptocurrency hedge funds’ assets under management doubled in 2019, but the launch of new funds depends on Bitcoin prices.

⁠YouTube Cancels Cointelegraph's BTC Halving Livestream for Being 'Harmful Content' What a twist! YouTube pulled the plug on our seven-hour livestream.

⁠Binance Adds Its Own Leveraged Tokens After Removing FTX Binance recently added its own leveraged tokens, just weeks after removing similar FTX products from its exchange.

⁠Ashton Kutcher Participates in Lolli’s $3M Seed Round Notable entrepreneurs are backing the seed funding round led by Pathfinder that aims to strengthen Lolli’s app.

⁠It Happened: Bitcoin Just Experienced Third Halving in Its History Bitcoin has just experienced a one-in-four-year event, its third halving, which has cut the miner block reward from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC.

⁠Main Barrier to CBDC Is Philosophy, Not Tech, Says European Central Bank Rep ECB executive board, Yves Mersch, believes that the main impediment for CBDC is philosophical rather than technological.

⁠Crypto.com Launches Plugin for One Million Ecommerce Merchants on Ecwid Crypto.com is integrating with ecommerce platform Ecwid, which now features a plugin supported by Crypto.com that lets customers pay with crypto on…

⁠Top Crypto Traders Predict Bitcoin Price Direction After BTC Halving Bitcoin’s price saw wild volatility leading up to the halving. Top crypto traders discuss where the price is likely headed to next.

⁠Ammous and Voorhees Come to Consensus on Failures of Centralized Powers Two of the cryptocurrency space’s most outspoken critics of central banks spoke about failures during the current coronavirus pandemic and how Bitc…

⁠Genesis Mining’s Marco Streng: 'You Can't Just Switch Miners On and Off' The Cointelegraph Bitcoin Halving live party continues with a deep dive into how the mining industry is affected by the sudden, but very predictab…

⁠Binance.​US Launches OTC Trading Platform Top crypto exchange’s U.S. branch now supports over-the-counter (OTC) trades.

⁠Digitized Europe: The Shift to a Cashless World Emerging technologies such as blockchain are reshaping the landscape of the traditional financial system in Europe.

Bitcoin Crosses $9K as Paul Tudor Jones Confirms 1% BTC Portfolio Bitcoin crossed $9,000 on Monday just before the halving started as macro investor Paul Tudor Jones confirms that Bitcoin represents 1% of his portfolio.

⁠Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Protect Individual Privacy? Top crypto industry and policy experts debated the privacy ramifications of state-issued virtual currencies during the first day of Consensus.

⁠Unprofitable Miners Already Leaving Bitcoin Network Ahead of BTC Halving The halving is just a few hours away — and many miners are already shutting their soon-to-be unprofitable rigs, says Poolin VP Alejandro De La Tor…

⁠Leaders of the Digital Dollar Project Talk Privacy and the Next Century of Money Former CFTC royalty and current leaders of a U.S.-based think tank to promote a digital dollar talk privacy in new AMA.

⁠Hodling Pays Off as Buying Bitcoin Has Been Profitable 95.4% of Days As crypto traders brace for today’s Bitcoin halving, data shows buy and hold remains the most profitable strategy.

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⁠Korean Luxury Retail Clients To Manage Reward Points on Blockchain Blockchain-powered rewards startup MiL.k stikes a partnership with a retail cluster in Seoul downtown, brings the technology to “millions.”

⁠Vietnam Govt to Launch Crypto Research Group to Evaluate Policy Vietnam finance ministry has established a research group to develop and scrutinize digital currency-related policy proposals.

⁠Coronavirus Takes Toll on Bitcoin Halving, but Pandemic Won’t Steal the Show While miners took a double hit, the combination of the pandemic and halving could provide an unlikely tailwind to the crypto industry at large…

⁠Bitcoin Crosses $9K as Paul Tudor Jones Confirms 1% BTC Portfolio Bitcoin price action turns volatile once more as daily gains circle 4% despite bad news from traditional markets, which are tipped to open lower.

⁠Exchanges Bolster Their Bitcoin Insurance Funds After ‘Halving Dump’ After Bitcoin price plummeted on May 10, several exchanges scrambled to inject liquidity into their BTC insurance funds.

⁠Virtual Consensus 2020 Kicks Off with ECB Official Discussing CBDC Major crypto event, Consensus: Distributed, kicks off virtually, with ECB board member Yves Mersch discussing central bank digital currencies.

⁠Calm Before the Halving: Bitcoin Pending Transactions at Weekly Low Activity on the Bitcoin blockchain is slowing down as miners process almost all pending transactions in the mempool.

⁠Join Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin Halving Party, Less Than 3 Hours to Go As Bitcoin’s halving draws ever closer, Cointelegraph is going live with some of the biggest names in crypto, to celebrate the event.

⁠South Korea Sees Influx of Blockchain Platforms for Unlisted Stocks The South Korean blockchain space sees many new platforms trading for unlisted stocks, following an offering from state-backed Koscom last year.