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⁠China Gets Its First Blockchain-Based Public Resource Bidding Platform China’s Yunnan Province has developed the country’s first blockchain-based public resource bidding platform.

⁠Ebang to Establish Crypto Exchange and Mining Farms After Going Public The mining equipment firm, scheduled to go public via Nasdaq later today, is preparing for a massive expansion.

⁠Thailand Vows to Crack Down on Narco Profits Stashed in Commodities and Crypto Thai authorities are cracking down on drug networks and the methods they use to launder their profits, including cryptocurrency.

⁠How Bitcoin Empowers the Unbanked and Combats Injustice After seeing an abject failure of traditional financial models, people might turn to decentralized peer-to-peer technology with crypto as the future.

⁠Experts Debate Bitcoin Price Volatility as $675M in BTC Options Expire $675 million worth of Bitcoin options is expiring today. Experts explain its potential impact on Bitcoin’s price.

⁠Bitfinex Launches Open-Source Crypto-Powered Streaming Protocol Bitfinex has uploaded the code for a crypto-powered open-source P2P data streaming protocol to GitHub.

⁠Derivatives Traders May Have Manipulated COMP Rally Some analysts believe that Compound’s Governance Token’s dramatic rally and crash may have been engineered by derivatives traders.

⁠Crypto Prediction Markets Face Competition From Facebook ‘Forecasts’ Facebook’s Forecast app has been launched in beta even as the blockchain-based Augur platform readies for its v2 revamp.

⁠Billionaire Says an Exponential BTC Price Increase Would be a Disaster Chamath Palihapitiya says Bitcoin is uncorrelated to financial markets, which is one reason people should invest 1% of their wealth in it.

⁠Blockchain Verifies the Authenticity of Non-Genuine Nikes An Australian custom shoemaker is using VeChain to verify the authenticity of its licensed Nike shoes.

⁠At This Rate Grayscale Will Own 3.4% of All Bitcoin by January Grayscale Investments has added 19,879 BTC to its Bitcoin Trust in the last week, purchasing Bitcoin faster than the tokens can be mined.

⁠Anchorage Launches Support for DeFi Token KEEP Crypto custodian Anchorage has launched support for KEEP in its latest bid to emerge as a leading custodian for DeFi tokens.

⁠Bitcoin Price Reclaims $9,300 as Traders Expect Increased Volatility Bitcoin price recovered from its drop below $9K but traders expect increased volatility ahead of Friday’s $1.06 billion BTC options expiry.

⁠Major Japanese Firm Reveals Plans for a Digital Securities Exchange Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, a major Japanese traditional financial institution, is working towards launching a digital security exchange in Japan.

⁠Even $7.9K Bitcoin Price Won’t Help Bears Ahead of $1B Options Expiry Even a 15% correction won’t help bears as Bitcoin price remains bullish ahead of Friday’s record $1.06 billion BTC options expiry.

⁠COVID-19 Ransomware Plagues Canadian Android Users CryCyptor ransomware poses as a government-backed COVID-19 Android tracing app to deploy its attack.

⁠SEC Charges Lobbying Kingpin Jack Abramoff With Fraud For Promotion of 2018 ICO Abramoff and the founder of AML Bitcoin face charges for fraud in misrepresenting the token’s compliance, with the founder himself facing j…

⁠Research Suggests Transparency is Key for Utility-Based Crypto Projects Crypto prices on the secondary market may depend on how much information is given to stakeholders says fintech researchers.

⁠BTC Payments Reportedly Now Disabled for Venezuelan Passport Purchases Bitcoin’s payments for Venezuelan passport applications disabled “temporarily” without official explanation.

⁠Cybercriminals Use the Blockchain to Relay Secret Messages SophosLabs published a study that revealed hackers use the blockchain network to share secret messages.

Japan has exported NINE of the world's top 25 media franchises - including the top two. Why are Japanese characters so successful around the world, and what does this mean for NFTs and blockchain gaming? A fascinating se…

⁠Regional CBDCs Can Fuel International Trade, but USD Seems Unbeatable As Libra and COVID-19 give a push to CBDCs, some projects are looking to dethrone the main international currency.

⁠Former US Treasury Head Calls Payment ‘Friction’ the Best Argument for Crypto Clinton-era Treasury Secretary Summers doesn’t buy some of the crypto community’s anarchic sentiments but agrees that they are solving a majo…

⁠Coinbase Welcomes Compound DeFi to its Platform Coinbase has listed Compound's COMP asset.

⁠Oops. Roger Ver Says Bitcoin.com’s Forum Closure Post Was Premature Roger Ver says that Bitcoin.com’s forum closure announcement was premature, but the closure alert is still on the website.

⁠Diabolical Malware Targets Windows Users to Mine Monero A malware called “Lucifer” is targeting old vulnerabilities in Windows systems to install a well-known Monero mining application.

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⁠Foul Play Alleged at Bitcoin.org by the Site's Long-Time Overseer A recent message from one of Bitcoin.org's overseers hints at foul play.

⁠JPMorgan’s Blockchain Offshoot Kadena Gets First Ever Token Listing Kadena preps its first ever listing on Bittrex Global, with initial trading pairs including Bitcoin and Tether.