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⁠PayPal rumored to be eying acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo Shortly after it was revealed PayPal will launch crypto payments in 2021, rumors are circulating that the payments giant is looking to purchase a digital…

⁠PayPal’s crypto integration means Bitcoin could triple its user base PayPal’s crypto integration may bode well for Bitcoin price as its user base could triple

⁠Not everyone in the crypto industry is thrilled about PayPal's recent news PayPal’s Bitcoin integration is “probably not because they want to spur healthy adoption,” explained SatoshiLabs.

⁠Blockstack PBC changes its name to 'Hiro' The name is a reference to the protagonist in Neal Stephenson’s novel, Snowcrash.

⁠Top traders say Bitcoin log chart points to a 2017-style BTC bull run As Bitcoin price rises to new heights, top traders say the monthly and logarithmic chart signal that BTC is entering a new bull trend.

⁠For the first time since 2018 Bitcoin balances on exchanges fell below 2.5M Bitcoin's balance on three popular exchanges decreased by 390k BTC over the past 9 months.

⁠Bitcoin market sentiment and fundamentals still favor BTC price bulls As Bitcoin briefly surpasses $13,000, its highest price for 2020, market sentiment and fundamentals both favor a prolonged bull market.

⁠Bitcoin now has a 7% chance of beating $20K highs in the next 2 months Bitcoin odds are "repricing quickly," says Skew as one analyst highlights the current price pump's "organic" nature.

⁠Bitcoin officially flippens PayPal The asset has overtaken the network’s market cap following an announcement that PayPal intends to integrate crypto.

⁠‘The cryptoruble is the future’ says Russian policymaker The parliament member claimed that there are no anti-blockchain voices in the Russian government

⁠Chainlink brings Verifiable Randomness to Ethereum mainnet, keeps other chains in sight Sergey Nazarov: there is a demand for Chainlink VRF from other chains like Matic.

⁠Bitcoin’s brief trip to $13.2K suggests profit-taking price correction Analysts expect a profit-taking pullback in the Bitcoin market after BTC hits $13,000 upon the PayPal news.

⁠Paul Tudor Jones says Bitcoin is 'like investing early in Apple or Google' It scores highly among the possible options to counteract inflation.

⁠Siemens-backed blockchain energy platform showcases in Germany The German state-funded energy project uses DLT to enable transparent market transactions.

⁠DLT security standards may turn legacy industries into blockchain innovators Member-led working groups are helping define security standards for tokenized use cases.

⁠Gemini exec to join Bitstamp crypto exchange as new CEO Bitstamp is replacing its CEO for the first time since the company’s establishment.

⁠Bitcoin top signal from 2017 reappears, but here's why it may not matter this time The price of Bitcoin rose to $20,000 in 2017 and crashed. According to Glassnode, the same top signal has emerged, but this time feels d…

⁠Yearn Finance doppelganger scam tries to trick visitors out of their keys Scam websites posing as famous crypto projects ask for private keys so they can steal users' funds.

⁠Bitcoin price hits new record high in these 7 countries Bitcoin price hits a new record high in seven national currencies of 500 million people.

⁠Philippines' central bank isn’t ready to pull the trigger on a CBDC The central bank wants to learn from private-sector digital currencies — but still believes they are inferior to central bank money.

⁠Finance Redefined: Is DeFi really a threat to centralized finance? Oct. 14-21 If you look at its governance, definitely not.

⁠PayPal might issue its own cryptocurrency soon, says CoinShares exec The CSO of CoinShares thinks that a payments-focused PayPal token could be forthcoming.

⁠China's Ant Group releases digital copyright platform on AntChain The platform is just the latest product in the fintech's long-evolving blockchain solutions.

⁠Yield farming fuels 623% growth in DAI supply to nearly $1B Demand for Ethereum-based stablecoins exploded during the third-quarter DeFi bubble, with DAI’s supply growing by more than 600% and USDC expanding 200%.

⁠Voyager crypto broker set to open to Europe after LGO merger LGO exchange is a gateway for Voyager to access Europe.

⁠Almost half a billion USDT minted in past 36 hours as Bitcoin rallies Of the 450 million new USDT tokens, more than 185 million have been distributed with 126.9 million USDT going to Binance alone

⁠Central bank digital currency could 'threaten' Bitcoin says CZ Binance boss Changpeng Zhao aired his views on CBDCs adding that Bitcoin could be under threat if a more advanced currency was launched

⁠Brock Pierce: True decentralization is a way off True decentralization will take time, U.S. presidential candidate Brock Pierce suggests, citing DeFi as a crucial stepping stone towards this end.

⁠Kraken relaunches crypto trading in Japan as part of APAC expansion Japanese residents can once again trade BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP, and BCH on Kraken, two years after it pulled out of the country.

⁠Russian officials must now declare crypto holdings The move reverses a 2018 decision that officials did not have to declare crypto holdings.