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⁠India Leads P2P Volume Records Among Emerging Markets Numerous emerging crypto markets are showing dramatic growth in P2P trade, with India and Ghana producing enormous growth during 2020.

⁠Chinese Supreme Court Favors Strengthening Cryptocurrency Property Rights China’s Supreme Court has called to strengthen property laws pertaining to digital currency, network virtual property and data.

⁠South Korea Finalizes Cryptocurrency Income Tax of 20% South Korea has finalized a new 20% tax rate for income generated from crypto trading.

⁠BRD Boss Recalls Operating Bitcoin Help Line During Crypto’s Early Days BRD’s chief executive shares his experience of operating a ‘Bitcoin help hotline’ during 2015.

⁠YouTube: We’re Not Liable for Crypto Scams Lawyers for the video-sharing platform argue that because Ripple impersonators were third-parties it has no liability.

⁠The Cat in the Hat Is Coming to the Blockchain Leading NFT collectibles issuer Dapper Labs has announced a deal with Dr. Seuss Enterprises to launch tokenized collectibles depicting the firm’s iconic characters.

⁠Australian Reserve Bank Blasts Money Printing: 'There's No Free Lunch' The boss of Australia’s equivalent to the Fed believes money printing is not the answer to economic problems because ‘the tab always has to be paid’

⁠OpenAI Bot Writes a Blog, Wows BitcoinTalk With ‘Intelligent’ Posts Developer Manuel Araoz fooled many of his 14,000+ Twitter followers by posting an article entirely written by a language prediction model bot

⁠Vitalik Buterin Warns High Fees Threaten Ethereum’s Security Vitalik Buterin is pushing hard for the adoption of an Ethereum Improvement Proposal — but not everyone is sold on the plan

⁠Twitter Hackers Try to Launder Funds Via P2P and Gambling Platforms Ciphertrace has identified 18 transfers to crypto exchanges, casinos and coin mixers, originating from the Twitter hackers

⁠Ethereum 2.0 Final Testnet Set to Launch on August 4 The long awaited Ethereum upgrade is set to enter its final phase of testing

⁠Verisign Wins US Patent for Blockchain Powered Domain Names Major domain name registrar Verisign has been granted a patent for blockchain powered domain addresses

⁠Cryptojacking and Ransomware Cases Grow in Mexico A new study has revealed that cloud network cryptojacking and ransomware cases are on the increase in Mexico

⁠Coinsquare’s Leadership Forced Out After Wash Trading $5.5B Coinsquare’s leadership team will resign and pay $1.6M in fines after admitting to wash trading billions

⁠Bitcoiners Are Not Looking for a Store of Value, Gold Bug Peter Schiff Says Although Bitcoin holders often describe the asset as a store of value, gold advocate Peter Schiff said such participants do not actually seek w…

⁠Over 7M Americans Own BTC But Hold None In Retirement Accounts Millions of U.S. citizens own both Bitcoin and a retirement account, but hold no Bitcoin in that retirement account.

⁠China Considers Implementing Blockchain Tech in Equity Trading Centers China’s Securities Regulatory Commission allows regional equity markets to experiment with blockchain in the equity trading industry.

⁠Ethereum ‘Flippens’ Stablecoins to Become the Most Used Blockchain Increasing stablecoin use and the rise of DeFi has made Ethereum the most used blockchain.

⁠Why Did LocalBitcoins Give Up Their Users’ Privacy? LocalBitcoins COO Elena Tonoyan explains how the oldest peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange is fighting against criminal activity on its platform.

⁠Kazakhstan Needs National Crypto to Fight Corruption, Says Local Official Kazakhstan’s digital tenge has the potential to provide “full transparency in movement of budgetary funds,” chairman at local anti-corruption ser…

​​New PwC, CV VC and Cointelegraph Report Highlights Blockchain in the Art World Swiss blockchain investment firm CV VC, PwC and Cointelegraph released a report covering top global firms focused on implementing blockchai…

⁠Could Compound’s Governance Token COMP Be Deemed a Security? Examining COMP’s ability to pass the Howey test for being qualified as investment contracts and to be considered a security.

⁠Sizeable Portion of Tether’s $4.5B Growth Comes From Exchange Fiat Tether rose quickly to $9.1 billion in 2020 as supply doubled since March, but some of that is old money being repurposed into USDT.

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⁠Crypto Scammer Sentenced by South Korean Authorities Man sentenced to two years and six months in prison after multi-million dollar crypto fraud.

⁠Bitcoin Volatility Hits 2018 Lows but Is a Repeat 42% Drop Possible? Traders remain cautious as Bitcoin’s current lack of volatility is similar to November 2018 when low trading volume resulted in a 42% drop.

⁠SEC Commissioner Peirce Asks ‘Who Did We Protect?’ in Telegram Shutdown Commissioner Hester Peirce clearly doesn’t see the SEC’s courtroom win against Telegram as a victory for the regulator or innovation in the U.S.

⁠China’s Blockchain Network Splits Over Disagreement About Public Chains China’s Blockchain Service Network splits into two entities after the pushback from state-controlled entities on the integration of public blockcha…

⁠Crypto Tax Disclosures Can Help With Internal Revenue Service Disclosure sounds like it exposes you to extra IRS audit risk, but if it’s done properly, disclosure can actually reduce your risk.

⁠US State of Texas Saddles Up to Become the Next Blockchain Capital Texas ups its aspirations to become the go-to place for crypto in the U.S., forming a new blockchain council and highlighting the state’s mining capabil…