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⁠Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone: Crypto Paradise or Digital Shakedown? CHAZ inhabitants can apparently use crypto at a handful of businesses — but are less scrupulous types capitalizing on the situation?

⁠CoinShares, Ledger and Nomura Release Long-Awaited Custody Platform Global investment bank Nomura, hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, and digital asset manager CoinShares, have released an institutional-grade custody…

⁠Singapore Carpooling App Ryde Launches Wallet for BTC Payments Singaporean carpooling app Ryde announced the launch of its own cryptocurrency wallet which will facilitate Bitcoin payments for its service.

⁠Bitcoin Broker River Financial Announces $5.7M Seed Round The San Francisco-based Bitcoin financial services firm announced it had raised $5.7M in a seed funding round led by Polychain Capital.

⁠BTC Investors Bullish Even as Bitcoin Price is Below $10K — On-Chain Data Bitcoin price is pinned below $10K but on-chain data and market correlations show investors remain bullish.

⁠Zoom Will Offer End-to-End Encryption to All Users The video conference app will launch its end-to-end encryption in July 2020 in a beta stage for both free and paid users.

⁠77% Of Bitcoin Volume Is Generated by Boomers For This Bitcoin Broker Baby boomers are responsible for the 77% of volume growth for a San Franciscan Bitcoin broker.

⁠Mysterious ETH 2.0 Staking Solution Author Claims No Pursuit of Glory Recent comments from anonymous Ethereum 2.0 staking solution creator heyheeyheeey show his desire for continued anonymity.

⁠Fed Chair on CBDC: ‘We Need to Understand It First and Best’ — But Is He Too Late? The Fed is looking at issuing a central bank digital currency, but can’t point to any concrete progress.

⁠Civic to Launch Vaccination-Proofing Tool on Apple & Google App Stores Civic Technologies’s new app will act as both a vaccination proofing tool and a wallet for crypto.

⁠Price Analysis 6/17: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, ADA, CRO Bitcoin price is struggling to overtake $9.6K even as Federal Reserve policy appears to be driving new investors into BTC.

⁠Well-Known Ransomware Gang Strikes Three Companies in the US and Canada REvil’s ransomware group begins campaign of leaking sensitive data from three companies.

⁠Online Fantasy Sports Company Recognizes Ransomware Attack in SEC Filing DraftKing reveals that a ransomware attack was behind the latest cybersecurity incident of SBTech.

⁠Decred Co-Founder: CBDCs Can Facilitate Crony Capitalism Co-founder of Decred believes that the CBDCs could create greater information asymmetries that would benefit ruling elites.

⁠American Gaming Association Urges Policy Change on Digital Payments The American Gaming Association has laid out a proposal of new guidelines for gambling payments.

⁠BlackBerry Partners With Intel to Launch a Cryptojacking Detection System BlackBerry releases crypto mining and cryptojacking detection software focused on computers running Windows 10.

⁠Vitalik: Ethereum Supply is 40M Lower Than Originally Expected Vitalik Buterin pointed out that 40 M fewer Ethers have been mined today than was envisioned five years ago.

⁠Akon’s Crypto City Moves Ahead Awarding $6B Construction Contract A US engineering firm awarded singer and entrepreneur Akon with a $6B contract to build a crypto city in Senegal.

⁠New Head of US Bank Regulator Talks Bringing Crypto to DC With Cointelegraph New acting head of U.S. bank regulator talks about innovation expands financial inclusion and the government’s role in building frameworks for…

⁠Ubisoft Launches Blockchain-Based Collectables to Support UNICEF The gaming giant released blockchain-based Rabbids tokens that will gather funds for UNICEF.

⁠US Tax Court Says You Should Sell Your Crypto Savings If You Owe IRS The US federal court sides with the IRS in a dispute involving crypto whales and unpaid taxes.

⁠Telegram Founder Chastises Facebook & Instagram For Allowing Scams to Thrive Telegram founder Pavel Durov admonishes Facebook and Instagram for generating ad revenue from scams that are being promoted from his name.

⁠World Economic Forum Suggests Fighting Corruption With Blockchain Tech A new World Economic Forum study has revealed how blockchain technology can be used to prevent corruption in public procurement.

⁠Expert: News of Chinese Banks' Crypto Crackdown Greatly Exaggerated Last Monday, Chinese media reported that police in Guangdong froze thousands of bank accounts belonging to over-the-counter traders.

⁠Decentralized Tech Can Protect Activists From Social Media Crackdowns As protests against police brutality continue in the U.S., privacy advocates warn of the risks posed by centralized social media platforms.

⁠After Raising $20m in 2017, ATBCoin Claims It Can’t Afford A $250,000 Settlemen ATBCoin has claimed that it is unable to pay a $250,000 settlement to a lawsuit over its $20 million ICO, prompting calls from the plaintif…

⁠How Cryptocurrency Can Help in Paying Universal Basic Income The utopian idea of universal basic income — which has been with humanity for at least half a millenia — can become real with digital currency.

⁠“XRP is Not a Security” Says Ex-CFTC Chairman, Now Paid by Ripple Chris Giancarlo, who as CFTC chairman decreed that both Bitcoin and Ether were not securities, has argued the same for XRP. However he is now at a law fi…

⁠Crypto-Ransomware Attacks Are Spreading Like a Hacking Wildfire With ransomware attacks up 200% in the last two years, Cointelegraph looks at some of the methods bad actors are employing and how to avoid them.

What does "decentralized" really mean? We spoke with Gavin Wood (co-founder of Ethereum, now at Polkadot), Jameson Lopp (Bitcoin core, Casa) and Charles Hoskinson (Cardano founder) about "Benign Dictators" and the notion…