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⁠Texas Man Allegedly Used $1.1M in COVID-19 Relief Funds to Buy Crypto U.S. authorities have accused a man of securing COVID-19 relief funds to invest in cryptocurrency.

⁠High Stablecoin Buying Power Could Predict Bitcoin’s Next Bull Run Today, stablecoins buy 15-times as much Bitcoin as in early 2018, this could bode well for the next bull run, if and when, it happens.

The trickle is becoming a wave... As traditional finance people move over to crypto, they're bringing their Wall St. colleagues with them. In an age of money printing, top investment bankers and strategists from Goldman…

⁠Seychelles-Based Bitcoin Transfers Continue to Gain Dominance, Analysts Find Crystal Blockchain reports that crypto transfers in the Republic of Seychelles keep growing as regulatory pressure increases for the G20.

⁠Self-Healing Blockchains Are Cure for Sharding’s Scalability Woes Self-healing blockchains are the only way to create a truly decentralized world within the decade.

⁠Two OneCoin Promoters Found Dead in Mexico Two promoters of $4 billion crypto exit scam OneCoin have been found dead in Mexico.

⁠Gemini Unveils Hardware Key Compatibility on Mobile App U.S.-based exchange Gemini announced hardware key compatibility on its mobile application, bolstering security capabilities for customers.

⁠PayPal Letter Seems to Confirm Crypto Capability Rumors Global payments giant PayPal could indeed be developing a crypto-based solution, this document shows.

⁠Paxful Reaches the $4.6B Milestone in P2P Bitcoin Trading Volume Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform Paxful crossed the $4.6 billion trading volume threshold as the company is entering its fifth year.

⁠Chainlink Integrates With Social Network Led by Distributed Computing Pioneer An alternative social networking platform that aims to give users control over their data is integrating Chainlink data oracles.

⁠Shariah Law Opens to Crypto Trading, but Full Adoption Highly Unlikely The Islamic world seems primed for widespread digital asset adoption, as well-respected scholars claim that crypto trading is fully compatible with…

⁠US Army Seeks a Cloud-Based Solution to Track Illicit Crypto Activities The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division Command plans to use a web application to track and trace cryptocurrency transitions.

⁠BitGo Releases Crypto Wallet Compliance Tool for FATF's Travel Rule Major digital asset firm BitGo announces API support for the Financial Action Task Force’s travel rule.

⁠Binance to Remove In-App Audio Recording Feature in Next Update Top cryptocurrency exchange Binance has reviewed its Android app code following spyware concerns.

⁠Blockchain Tech to Help Spanish Cider Makers Fight Counterfeits Spanish cider companies are integrating blockchain to fight against counterfeit cider products and over-production.

⁠Binance’s Swipe-Powered Crypto Debit Card Debuts in Europe Binance Card, a highly anticipated crypto debit card by Binance, will support four cryptocurrencies at launch.

⁠Data Says HODL! People Are Trading Ethereum (ETH) More, Bitcoin Less Exchange balances for ETH and BTC move in opposite directions in a new insight into investor sentiment.

⁠US Regulators Take Joint Action Against Crypto Firms’ Swaps Offering Two related cryptocurrency firms have fallen foul of U.S. financial regulators for entering into illegal off-exchange swaps in digital assets and fore…

⁠Focus on USDT and DeFi as 5-Year Anniversary of Ethereum Approaches Five years following the launch of ETH in 2015, and the future of the blockchain may lay in DeFi and USDT, according to industry experts.

⁠Rich Dad Poor Dad Author: ‘Gold Guys are Being Phased Out’ Real estate and precious metals like gold may be on their way out as investments, according to Robert Kiyosaki

⁠Third Crypto Co-Founder Behind $25 Million ICO Scam to Plead Guilty Following Sohrab Sharma’s plea, only one of the three men behind the $25 million initial coin offering scam will stand trial in November

⁠Crypto Exchange Coincheck Supports Trading for BAT Tokens The Basic Attention Token, native coin of the privacy-based Brave browser, will soon be available for trading on Japanese exchange Coincheck

⁠Police Thwart Dark Web Criminals Who Planned to Firebomb a Nebraskan Pharmacy William Burgamy and Hyrum Wilson pleaded guilty to conspiring to firebomb a pharmacy in Nebraska.

⁠South Korea Could Issue a Crypto Capital Gains Tax as High as 20% Crypto taxation in South Korea could increase to 20% for capital gains.

⁠Crypto Scams Reach New Heights in 2020 With $24M Stolen So Far Whale Alert alleges that crypto scams are skyrocketing in 2020 compared to statistics from 2017.

⁠Price Analysis 7/13: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, ADA, BSV, BNB, LTC, CRO, LINK Equities markets are surging and many altcoins continue to push higher as Bitcoin price consolidates into a tight trading range.

​​How should you prepare for global debt crisis? Is buying Bitcoin the answer? ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees talks debt, maximalism vs. pluralism, and NY crypto regulations in Cointelegraph's latest interview!

⁠Crypto Lawyers Are in Hot Demand as the Industry Goes Mainstream, Say Experts Crypto companies are looking for legal talent as the industry becomes more established.

⁠Compound ‘5x Overvalued’ as COMP Farming Accounts for 88% of Its Assets Researchers claim that the Compound token is at least five-fold overvalued as over 88% of its $1 billion book is lent to liquidity miners.

⁠Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Record High of 17345948872516.06 Just two months after May’s Bitcoin halving event, both hash rate and difficulty have shrugged off post halving dips to hit new all-time highs.