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⁠Bitcoiners Are Not Looking for a Store of Value, Gold Bug Peter Schiff Says Although Bitcoin holders often describe the asset as a store of value, gold advocate Peter Schiff said such participants do not actually seek w…

⁠Over 7M Americans Own BTC But Hold None In Retirement Accounts Millions of U.S. citizens own both Bitcoin and a retirement account, but hold no Bitcoin in that retirement account.

⁠China Considers Implementing Blockchain Tech in Equity Trading Centers China’s Securities Regulatory Commission allows regional equity markets to experiment with blockchain in the equity trading industry.

⁠Ethereum ‘Flippens’ Stablecoins to Become the Most Used Blockchain Increasing stablecoin use and the rise of DeFi has made Ethereum the most used blockchain.

⁠Why Did LocalBitcoins Give Up Their Users’ Privacy? LocalBitcoins COO Elena Tonoyan explains how the oldest peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange is fighting against criminal activity on its platform.

⁠Kazakhstan Needs National Crypto to Fight Corruption, Says Local Official Kazakhstan’s digital tenge has the potential to provide “full transparency in movement of budgetary funds,” chairman at local anti-corruption ser…

​​New PwC, CV VC and Cointelegraph Report Highlights Blockchain in the Art World Swiss blockchain investment firm CV VC, PwC and Cointelegraph released a report covering top global firms focused on implementing blockchai…

⁠Could Compound’s Governance Token COMP Be Deemed a Security? Examining COMP’s ability to pass the Howey test for being qualified as investment contracts and to be considered a security.

⁠Sizeable Portion of Tether’s $4.5B Growth Comes From Exchange Fiat Tether rose quickly to $9.1 billion in 2020 as supply doubled since March, but some of that is old money being repurposed into USDT.

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⁠Crypto Scammer Sentenced by South Korean Authorities Man sentenced to two years and six months in prison after multi-million dollar crypto fraud.

⁠Bitcoin Volatility Hits 2018 Lows but Is a Repeat 42% Drop Possible? Traders remain cautious as Bitcoin’s current lack of volatility is similar to November 2018 when low trading volume resulted in a 42% drop.

⁠SEC Commissioner Peirce Asks ‘Who Did We Protect?’ in Telegram Shutdown Commissioner Hester Peirce clearly doesn’t see the SEC’s courtroom win against Telegram as a victory for the regulator or innovation in the U.S.

⁠China’s Blockchain Network Splits Over Disagreement About Public Chains China’s Blockchain Service Network splits into two entities after the pushback from state-controlled entities on the integration of public blockcha…

⁠Crypto Tax Disclosures Can Help With Internal Revenue Service Disclosure sounds like it exposes you to extra IRS audit risk, but if it’s done properly, disclosure can actually reduce your risk.

⁠US State of Texas Saddles Up to Become the Next Blockchain Capital Texas ups its aspirations to become the go-to place for crypto in the U.S., forming a new blockchain council and highlighting the state’s mining capabil…

⁠Major Victim of Cryptopia Hack Prepares to Sue Liquidator Grant Thornton The tale of hacked exchange Cryptopia’s extended liquidation is poised to see new legal action from a major creditor and token issuer.

⁠Bitcoin Price Holds Key Support and Is on the Verge of Testing $10,000 Bitcoin price finally made a move — to the upside — as the door is now open to test the crucial $10,000 BTC price level.

⁠New PwC and CV VC Report Highlights Blockchain in the Art World Swiss blockchain investment firm CV VC and PwC released a report covering top global firms focused on implementing blockchain in art.

⁠Key Metrics Show Institutional Demand for Bitcoin Is Surging Rapidly Grayscale’s $1.4-billion inflow in the first half of 2020, along with two other key factors, shows institutional demand is surging rapidly.

⁠Copper Becomes Latest Crypto Firm to Use Signature Bank's Signet The integration of Signature Bank’s Signet will allow Copper’s customers to instantly pay and settle transactions in U.S. dollars and other fiat currencie…

⁠Robinhood Postpones UK Launch 'Indefinitely,' Freezes Global Expansion Plans The popular stock and crypto trading app has put its global expansion plans on hold.

⁠Over 6,000 Participants Help Republic Note Rocket Past $8 Million Target The crowdfunding model in crypto is far from dead, as Republic illustrates with a compliant profit-sharing token that distributes the proceeds fro…

⁠Bitcoin Surges to $9.3K for First Time in a Week — Is it a Fakeout? The price of Bitcoin surpassed $9,300 for the first time since July 13 but traders are still cautiously optimistic about the trend of BTC.

⁠Wirecard Exec Reportedly Used Bitcoin to Move Funds to Russia Russian media reported that Marsalek is hiding in Russia with funds that he was able to transfer there with Bitcoin.

⁠Bank of Jamaica Invites Tech Companies to Test Digital Currency Solutions Jamaica’s central bank has invited technology solution providers to develop and test a potential CBDC.

⁠Polkadot Officially in Mainnet as Governance Removes Admin Rights Polkadot is now officially in mainnet mode as the last centralizing shackle has been thrown off by the network.

⁠Philippines Launches Blockchain App to Distribute Government Bonds The Philippines has launched a blockchain-enabled mobile application for the distribution of government-issued bonds.

⁠UK Treasury Wants to Bring Crypto Ads Under Direct Gov’t Oversight British consumers need stronger rules to protect them from deceptive crypto ads, says U.K. minister.

⁠Experts Concerned Over Twitter’s Ability to Tweet on Behalf of Users A worse scenario than the recent attack against Twitter could happen if the social media network doesn’t strengthen its internal security procedures,…