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⁠Adam Back Denies Having a Beer With Satoshi Nakamoto An early Bitcoin adopter contends that Adam Back had a beer with Satoshi Nakamoto in London, while Back categorically denies it.

⁠DeFi Token Rally Pushes Aave (LEND), (SNX) Market Cap Above Maker (MKR) Aave (LEND) and Synthetix Network (SNX) surpassed Maker’s market cap as the DeFi sector continues lure investors

⁠$10.9 Billion Bitcoin Stash Proves Satoshi Is Still the Biggest Whale Recent analysis suggests Satoshi mined $10.9 billion worth of Bitcoin but can they ever be spent?

⁠As US Banks Running Out of Coins Bitcoin Keeps On Chugging Along US banks running out of coins while Bitcoin has plenty of spare change

⁠Global Banks Reportedly Limit Service in Hong Kong for Political Reasons Banks like Credit Suisse and HSBC are reportedly scrutinizing Hong Kong clients for political reasons over China-backed national security law

⁠China Adds a New City to Their Fintech Pilot Initiative China’s central bank adds a new city to its fintech innovation supervision pilot.

⁠Don’t Fall for These Fake Chinese CBDC Scams Scammers promise high yields for people who allocate their money in a fake CBDC-related investment scheme.

⁠EToro Experienced A Dip in Growth For Every Crypto But Tezos in Q2 eToro users eased up on every cryptocurrency in Q2 2020 with the exception of Tezos, according to the brokerage firm’s latest report.

⁠Price Analysis 7/20: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, ADA, LTC, BNB, LINK, CRO Most major altcoins have witnessed profit booking as traders become cautious about the future of Bitcoin’s price.

⁠Ethereum Challenges Hackers to Attack Proposed 2.0 Networks The Ethereum Foundation launched two Eth 2.0 attack networks for hackers to break in exchange for a bug bounty.

What's the difference between a strategic short and FUD? As a recent report on Chainlink illustrated, we may be entering a period of crypto's evolution in which activist investors have a bigger say in the sector. Remembe…

⁠DeFi Vs. Legacy Finance: Solving Old Issues Brings New Complexities Will DeFi take over centralized finance?: A deep dive into the benefits, advantages, dangers and constraints of both systems.

⁠Major Argentine Telecom Falls Victim to $7.5M Monero Ransomware Attack Argentina's largest telecommunications company has fallen victim to a $7.5M ransomware attack.

⁠Updated Russian Crypto Bill Defangs Punishments for Using Crypto Newest version of Russian bill “On Digital Financial Assets” does not criminalize crypto usage, but there is one more bill that might.

⁠French Central Bank Picks Accenture, HSBC and Others for Digital Euro Pilot The central bank of France is about to start several experimental trials centering the digital euro.

⁠What the DOGE Is Going on? TikTok Creates New Crypto Trading Paradigm The short-lived outburst of trading activity could hint at a larger trend in both cryptocurrency and stock trading.

⁠Latest DeFi Craze Involves a One-Man Project With a ‘Worthless’ Token The weekend saw the biggest yield farming craze develop as a new governance token gained over 4,000% in a day.

⁠Coincidence? Top 5 Swiss Bank’s Profits up 34% After Bitcoin Integration Julius Baer, a top-five Swiss bank, saw its net profit climb by 34% in the first half of 2020, a period during which it began offering digital ass…

⁠Romania Is on the Way to Blockchain and Crypto Regulation The European Union’s 5AMLD has been adopted as the first regulation in Romania of virtual currencies, crypto-wallets and fiat-crypto exchange platforms.

⁠Mastercard Expands Cryptocurrency Program for Crypto Card Issuers Mastercard is reaching out to cryptocurrency firms and encouraging them to apply to become partners as part of its newly-expanded cryptocurrency card pro…

⁠Korean Exchanges Struggle With Expansion Amid Uncertain Regulations Cryptocurrency exchanges in Korea shrink within national boundaries due to lack of regulatory clarity.

⁠Bank of Japan Has New CBDC Research Team But No Plans to Launch Bank of Japan has announced the launch of a new CBDC research team, which will continue the work of its previous CBDC research team.

⁠Bitcoin Breakout on July 22? 5 Things to Watch for BTC Price This Week Analysts predict that the end of Bitcoin’s compression cycle will hit within days as price action continues to preserve $9,000 support.

⁠PayPal to Reportedly Offer Crypto Trading Through Paxos Partnership PayPal reportedly plans to introduce crypto trading through a new brokerage service offered by United States stablecoin operator Paxos.

⁠Binance CEO CZ: ‘Bitcoin Has Been Really Stable’ Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binanace, says that Bitcoin will eventually break out of this $9,000–9,500 corridor but the token is "really stable" now.

⁠Grayscale CEO: US Regulators Can’t Shut Down Bitcoin Grayscale CEO Barry Silbert believes the United States is past the point where regulators have the support to ban crypto assets like Bitcoin.

⁠Synthetix Takes Mimetic Trading Platform Out of Stealth Mode Synthetix unveils decentralized asset management platform dHedge.

⁠ERC-20 Tokens Make up About 50% of Entire ETH Blockchain Ether now accounts for only half of the value on the ETH blockchain as DeFi tokens like LINK and stablecoins take its place.

⁠Huobi Japan Opens Voting on Listing 6 New Tokens Account holders at crypto exchange Huobi have the opportunity to vote this month on which of six new tokens they would like to see listed.

⁠Improving AML/KYC Compliance Will Be a Differentiator Says Exec Trulioo said improving compliance for AML and KYC can be a big differentiator for crypto companies.