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⁠Bitcoin Hater Peter Schiff Says Dollar Approaching ‘Wile E. Coyote Moment’ Gold price reached a new all-time high and the same factors behind its rally could also push Bitcoin price higher.

⁠Huobi’s COO Thinks Blockchain Regulation Needs to be Better Defined Huobi’s COO believes lack of defined regulation and infrastructure services are preventing the mass adoption of blockchain technology.

⁠Congresspeople Call on IRS to Take It Easy on Taxing Staking Rewards Several of the more crypto-forward members of Congress have asked the IRS to sharpen up its guidance on taxing staking rewards.

⁠Do You Know The Most Valuable Blockchain Companies? Ripple ranks the highest amongst companies in the Blockchain sector according to the latest annual ranking from Hurun.

⁠‘Robinhood Influencer’ Wants the Winklevoss Twins to Explain Bitcoin to Him Dave Portnoy, also known as Davey Day Trader, now wants to learn how to buy Bitcoin from the Winklevoss twins.

⁠Dash Launches Latin America’s First Ever Crypto Debit Card Crypto exchange Taurus will offer the first crypto debit card backed by Dash in Latin America.

⁠Russia’s Biggest Bank Hypothesizes Its Crypto Token Shortly after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed the country’s recent cryptocurrency law, the country’s largest bank voiced its considerations.

⁠Twitter Hack Shows That Crypto Is Easier to Investigate Than Fiat, Say Industry Law Experts A panel of compliance experts from the crypto industry agreed that law enforcement and institutional finance have been hearing…

​​Cointelegraph China Blockchain Week Cointelegraph China Blockchain Week is one of the biggest offline events in China. The conference will last for three days, and we've invited the top industry leaders to have synchro…

⁠Chainlink Zeroes in On Smart Contract Adoption With New Grant Program Chainlink quietly unveils a grant program with the stated goal of making smart contracts “the dominant form of digital agreement”.

Bitcoin Will Get Stronger After Crisis, Says US Congressman Emmer United States Representative Tom Emmer believes that the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, will not go away once the ongoing financial crisis subsides.

⁠Chainlink Reaches New LINK Price All-Time High Eyeing $10 Next The price of Chainlink has climbed to new heights as LINK continues to be one of the strongest cryptocurrency market performers of 2020.

⁠Bitfinex Offers Up to $400M For Information Leading to BTC Stolen in 2016 Bitfinex wants to recover Bitcoin stolen from them in 2016, even if that means paying to find the hackers responsible for the attack.

⁠Tracing Fishy Risks With Blockchain Tech Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted challenges in global seafood supply chains, and blockchain tech may help improve them.

⁠Bitcoin Price Hits New All-Time High Against Turkish Lira As the Turkish lira hits record lows despite foreign reserve selling, Steve Hanke says that only a “gold-backed currency board” can save the economy.

⁠Ethereum Medalla Testnet Launch Suffers Block Finality Issue The Ethereum Medalla Testnet launched, but it is not yet achieving the participation it needs.

⁠‘High Probability’ Bitcoin Rises as USD Sinks to 2008 Levels — Trader The U.S. dollar is at risk of falling below the lower end of a 12-year trendline as some analysts argue that this may be a bullish turning point for…

⁠Bitcoin Will Get Stronger After Crisis, Says US Congressman Emmer United States Representative Tom Emmer is confident about the bright future of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.

⁠The Evolution of Blockchain Games: Three Major Stages There are certain stages that we need to go through before we are able to challenge and potentially replace the existing and proven gaming systems.

⁠The ICO Collapse Taught Projects How to Avoid Reprisals, MEW Founder Says The collapse of the initial coin offerings provided invaluable lessons on how to avoid a similar fate, MEW’s Kosala Hemachandra says.

⁠Bison Trails Beefs Up Legal Compliance Team With Former Goldman Sachs Exec Bison Trails takes on general counsel to engage with global policymakers on compliance and legal regulation matters.

⁠Over 90% of Ether Supply Is Now in 'State of Profit,' Says Glassnode Glassnode states that over 90% of the Ether token supply was bought at a lower price than that at which it's currently trading.

⁠China’s Digital Yuan to Reportedly Target Dominance of Alibaba and Tencent China’s central bank may be planning to use its digital currency to curb the dominance of Alibaba and Tencent in the digital payments sector.

⁠World Gov’ts Eye Blockchain as Dollar’s Power Wanes, Says Ripple CEO Blockchain is offering global governments a serious alternative to a strained financial system, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says.

⁠McAfee Says NetWalker Ransomware Generated $25M Over 4 Months The millionaire profits put NetWalker as one of the most profitable pieces of ransomware during 2020.

⁠Judge Orders Trial in France for Alleged BTC Launderer Alexander Vinnik Alexander Vinnik, the Russian national accused of laundering 300K Bitcoin through crypto exchange BTC-e, may now face trial in France.

⁠Number of Active Crypto Traders in Japan Decreased Mid-COVID As many in Japan were depositing fiat onto crypto exchanges in March, overall trading activity decreased in the middle of the pandemic

⁠Ripple Q2 2020 Report: XRP Sales Increased 19-Fold As the price of XRP rallied 40% in the last week, Ripple reports that sales of the token increased more than $30M in Q2 2020

⁠Four-Year Anniversary of Bitfinex Hack, and $12M of Stolen BTC Moved Within a week, criminals behind the Bitfinex hack moved more than 4,500 Bitcoin of the 120,000 tokens they stole in 2016