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YouTube erroneously purged cryptocurrency education videos from its video-sharing platform this week but claims to have reinstated them, according to a spokesperson. Content creators, however, are telling a different story.Responding to allegations that it had intentionally deleted content from cryptocurrency education channels ChrisDunnTV, Crypto Tips, BTC Sessions and others in
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Ripple, the blockchain payments firm behind XRP, the third biggest altcoin by market cap, has raised $200 million in a new funding round.Led by closed-ended investment company Tetragon, the new Series C funding round was also joined by Ripple’s major Japanese partner SBI Holdings and venture capital firm Route
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Global banking regulator Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) calls for a conservative prudential treatment framework for crypto assets.The Basel Committee — which includes banking regulators from the United States, Europe and Japan — published its report on the prudential treatment of crypto assets. The study was first announced
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The European Central Bank President, Christine Lagarde, addressed the ECB’s top brass, saying that the bank needs to outline the objectives of its upcoming cryptocurrency project before the development and the technical process begins, at a conference on Thursday.The European Central Bank is expected to have a thoroughly detailed set
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In a sharply worded brief, the New York Attorney General's Office has criticized the exchange's tactics in its case involving the Tether stablecoin's backing. Source
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Sri Lanka's Central Bank wants to use a blockchain system for its bank's 'know-your-customer' protocols. Source
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Bran Cohen, best known as author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol, has responded to some of Vitalik Buterin’s opinions about the state of technology around cryptocurrencies.On Nov. 25, Cohen, also the current CEO of the Chia network, explained in a Twitter thread why he considers many of Vitalik’s
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Bitcoin advocates call for a ban on gold as on-going investigations into Danske Bank reveal the lender offered gold bars to clients as an off-the-table service. This bypassed money laundering checks and was sold based on helping to keep the fortunes of wealthy clients hidden.At the height of the Danske
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The stablecoin Tether (USDT) has been in the news pretty much since Bitcoin(BTC)trade skyrocketed to its all-time high of $20K at the end of 2017. Several controversies and lawsuits have been hovering around Tether, alleging it manipulatively pushed the Bitcoin’s price to astronomical heights.Several researchers have even published a thorough
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While addressing a roundtable conference of more than 80 nations, India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, commented on how the country’s armed forces need to be equipped with technologies such as blockchain, AI and big data to counter the continuously changing landscape of modern warfare.Singh elaborated on how the future of
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