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⁠Grayscale Hasn't Bought A Single Bitcoin in Over 3 Weeks For several months, Grayscale was buying more Bitcoin than was being mined, but this trend came to a screeching a few weeks ago.

⁠Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx Lists Polkadot’s DOT Token The exchange also plans to launch additional trading pairs in the near future.

⁠Grayscale Says Bitcoin ETF Only a Matter of Time Grayscale’s managing director talks inevitability of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, or ETF.

⁠Russian Cybercrime Surged 25x in 5 Years, Says Local AG Russian cybercrime is up 92% since last year.

⁠Law Decoded: Pushing the Legal Limits, July 10–17 In this week’s newsletter, we look at a series of developments that test the limits of governmental authority over crypto, as well as the contest with social media.

⁠Ripple's Garlinghouse Says China Leads US in Crypto Regulatory Outlook Ripple’s CEO said China is ahead of the United States in terms of crypto regulatory thought.

⁠Americans Are Googling ‘Bitcoin’ in the Middle of the Night 1 AM Eastern time is the most popular time in the US to search the biggest word in crypto.

⁠Venezuela Bans Crypto Mining From Public Housing Crypto mining can harm the country’s electricity distribution, says a Venezuelan minister.

⁠Price Analysis 7/17: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, ADA, BSV, LINK, LTC, BNB, CRO Bitcoin and a few altcoins are showing signs of weakness, which could result in a minor dip in the next few days.

⁠About 80% of ETH Supply Is Qualified for Staking, Says ConsenSys About 86 million ETH is held on non-exchange wallets containing enough Ether for staking on ETH 2.0.

⁠Twitter Has Been Trying To Hire Senior Security Engineers for Two Months In the months leading up to the most devastating hack in the company’s history, Twitter was trying to hire cybersecurity pros.

⁠Institutional OG: The Fact That You Can Go 100x Leverage on Bitcoin Is Pretty Wild High usage of leverage in Bitcoin futures is the symptom of a gambling mentality in crypto, argues CMS Holdings’ Dan Matuszewski.

⁠A Banking Trojan That Steals Crypto Is Targeting Latin American Users The “Mekotio” trojan went from conventional banking malware one fine-tuned to steal crypto.

⁠US Law Enforcement Is Watching for Bitcoin Drug Purchases on Darknet The NCIS has seen an uptick in darknet purchases using Bitcoin. Blockchain analytic firms discuss procedures to combat crypto-related crimes, along wi…

⁠It’s Not Too Late For Some Victims of the Twitter Scam To Get Their Money Back The countdown clock has expired for many, but not all.

⁠38,000 People Are Watching a Fraudulent VeChain YouTube Scam Right Now 38,000 viewers are reportedly tuning in to a YouTube live-stream promoting the classic “double your money” scam targeted at users of VeChain VET tok…

⁠Transparency of Russia’s Blockchain Voting Setup Put Under a Microscope Russia’s blockchain vote was the largest DLT-powered experiment in the country, but whether it went well or not is another matter.

⁠India’s Former Finance Secretary Spars With Industry Experts on Crypto Ban For the first time, the former Finance Secretary of India who proposed a blanket ban on cryptocurrencies discussed digital assets with industry…

⁠Bancor Invites Bounty Hunters to Peek Into Its Code Ahead of V2 Launch Bancor V2 is getting ready for release as it publishes both the code of its smart contracts and a bug bounty for researchers to report vulnerabiliti…

⁠Report: Investors Are Dumping Compound Token as Soon as It Gets Listed A report from Flipside Crypto contends that investors are dumping Compound tokens as soon as it gets listed on exchanges with the majority of the su…

⁠Top Spanish Banks Finalize Trial of Payments Using Smart Contracts Five major Spanish banking institutions have completed a proof-of-concept for payments using smart contracts.

⁠Where, Oh Where Has Bitcoin Volatility Gone? Part 2 Diving into the mechanics of term structure and discussing BTC trading strategies in the current environment.

⁠Bitcoin’s Active Supply Hits 19 Month Low — Is It Bullish or Bearish? Bitcoin’s active supply has hit a 19-month low, mirroring the setup before the 2017 bull run.

⁠Binance Isn't Permitted to Operate in Malaysia, Local Regulator Says Binance is said to be “operating a recognized market” without authorization from the Malaysian regulator.

⁠AI-Blockchain Platform Creates Digital Assets From Personal Data KNEO is a new platform for connected edge AI devices through blockchain technology, creating secure private networks which harvest data as digital assets.

⁠Blockchain Gaming CEO: Cryptographic Tokens Will Usher Gaming ‘Renaissance’ Speaking to Cointelegraph, entrepreneur and blockchain gaming executive Yat Siu described NFTs as driving a property rights revolution that wil…

⁠Scott Melker on Twitter: ‘We Cannot Depend on Centralized Platforms’ Scott Melker, the "Wolf of All Streets," spoke on the danger of relying on centralized platforms after being locked out of Twitter.

⁠Japan Should Urge US to Hurry Up With Digital Dollar Says Fisco Exec. Japan may need to rely on the United States to have some influence over the development of digital currencies.

⁠Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Champion Says He Lost Bitcoin Bought in 2015 Fighter Craig Jones lost Bitcoin he bought before the 2017 ATH, but will now get tokens from a crypto exchange sponsorship.

⁠Algorand Spikes 30% After Surprise Coinbase Listing ALGO gained nearly 30% today following its surprise Coinbase listing and has tripled in price since the mid-March crypto crash