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⁠Master of Puppets: Bitcoin Cuts the Strings The centralized financial system has compromised itself several times during the last two decades alone, and now it’s time for a serious change!

⁠Documentary Review - Banking on Africa: The Bitcoin Revolution A new crypto documentary promises to tell the story of how cryptocurrency can affect social change across the African continent.

⁠The Death of the ICO: Has the US SEC Closed the Global Window on New Tokens? As Telegram learned, regulators in the U.S. are a major barrier to new projects looking for funding anywhere in the world.

⁠Got 10 BTC? You’re Now in the Top 0.5% of 30 Million Bitcoin Addresses There are now 30.4 million Bitcoin addresses with a balance, but those with even a whole coin form a tiny minority.

⁠Ethereum 2.0 Release Date Set for the Eleventh Hour as Issues Persist Bugs, management issues and competitors: What challenges is Ethereum facing before its anticipated proof-of-stake upgrade?

⁠DeFi Exec Believes Crypto Community Mostly “Short-Term Thinkers” DeFi entrepreneur Alex Mashinsky has slammed crypto’s culture and community for short-term profiteering.

⁠Ontology Partners With German Startup to Accelerate Supply Chain Identity Solutions Ontology has partnered with digital identity specialist Spherity to expedite the development of ID solutions across the supply chain.

⁠Crypto Healthcare Project Announces Telehealth Exchange for Remote Medicine Cryptocurrency healthcare startup Solve.Care announced a blockchain remote medicine platform.

⁠Where Are the Bitcoin Pizza Coins Now? Approximately 10 years ago, someone paid 10,000 Bitcoin for two pizzas, but what happened to those coins after the purchase? Coinfirm has found out.

⁠Yiedl Announces Marketplace for NFT Rentals and Mortgages Predicting the increasing tokenization of real-world assets, Tokyo-based startup Yiedl plans to launch the first P2P marketplace for NFT mortgages and rentals.

⁠We Have All Had A 'Pizza Day Moment' — What's Yours? Detailing his own coffee purchase experience, Andreas Antonopoulos said many other similar stories likely exist from the years following "Bitcoin Pizza Day".

⁠South Korean University Announces New Blockchain Campus A Daegu-based university has made a deal with the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association to build a blockchain campus.

⁠Bitflyer Donates Cheezy Pies to Shelters In Honor of BTC Pizza Day Taking advantage of a memorable day in cryptocurrency history, BitFlyer decided to donate pizzas to folks in need.

⁠China Strikes Down 10% of Global BTC Hashrate, Who Will Pick Up The Slack? Citing the increase in illicit crypto-related activities, the provincial government of Sichuan moves to stamp out 10% of the global Bitcoin hash…

⁠African P2P Volume Beats Out Latin America for First Time African peer-to-peer Bitcoin trade has generated more than $14.6 million in weekly volume, comprising a new record for the continent.

⁠Wyoming’s Congressional Blockchain Committee Holds First Meeting After graduating from task force to select committee this week, the blockchain crew within Wyoming’s state legislature held their first meeting today.

⁠New Bill in Ukraine to Finally Let Crypto Firms Open Bank Accounts The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine published crypto draft law “On Virtual Assets” in response to FATF’s June 2020 deadline.

⁠JP Morgan: CBDC Threatens Hegemony of US Dollar JPMorgan believes that central bank digital currencies may undermine the hegemony of the US dollar.

⁠Layer1 Stabilizes Texas Grids With 'Bitcoin Batteries' Layer1 Technologies has deployed its proprietary mining containers as electricity storage systems to stabilize Texas’ electricity market.

⁠Institutional Investors Buying Up BTC Like Crazy After Halving Institutional interest in Bitcoin is experiencing an unprecedented surge, with GBTC alone swallowing up 17% of newly mined Bitcoins.

⁠New Ransomware Employs Never-Before-Seen Attack Method A UK-based cybersecurity firm unveiled new details of Ragnar Locker ransomware attack that uses a VirtualBox app.

⁠Price Analysis 5/22: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, ADA A few major cryptocurrencies are in an uptrend and they could offer buying opportunities in the short-term.

⁠Plus Token Leadership Faces Criminal Prosecution in China PlusToken main criminal suspect is facing public prosecution.

⁠Steem Soft Forks to Sanction Mysterious 'Community321' Account Steem has completed a soft fork which sanctions the account that went rogue and sent 23.6 million STEEM to Bittrex in protest of a recent hard fork.

⁠"It’s Just a Matter of Time" Before BTC Break's All-Time High, Investment App CEO Says One Crypto industry CEO sees Bitcoin hitting all-time highs at some point as the perfect facilitatory atmosphere sets up the move.

⁠Crypto Exchanges Speak Out as Binance Takes CoinMarketCap’s Top Spot Binance taking the top spot on recently purchased CoinMarketCap has raised concerns among executives from other top crypto exchanges.

⁠Russia Proposes 2M Rub Fine and 7 Years in Jail for Illegal Crypto Use Russian politicians suggest fines and prison terms of up to 7 years for illegal issuance and use of cryptocurrencies.

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​​Don’t forget to eat a pizza today 🍕 Today, the crypto community celebrates the anniversary of the most expensive pizza in history bought with Bitcoin. Exactly 10 years ago, on May 22, 2010, crypto enthusiast Laszlo Ha…