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Foreign Exchange Transactions Take Center Stage in New BIS CBDC Report

Central banks – based in Hong Kong, China, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand – issued over $12 million on the platform, allowing the commercial banks to conduct payment and foreign exchange payment versus payment transactions (PvP), the report said. The pilot was part of BIS's ongoing Project mBridge, a

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Ethereum at the center of centralization debate as SEC lays claim

Ethereum went through a key network upgrade on Sept. 15, shifting from its proof-of-work (PoW) mining consensus to a proof-of-stake (PoS) one. The key upgrade is dubbed the Merge. The Merge was slated as a critical change for the Ethereum network that would make it more energy efficient, with later improvements

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Coin Center Sues US Treasury Over Tornado Cash Ban — Lawsuit Says Government’s Action ‘Was Unlawful’ – Bitcoin News

The non-profit that focuses on policy issues facing cryptocurrencies, Coin Center, has filed a lawsuit against the Treasury department, the secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) director Andrea Gacki. Coin Center’s court filing says that the government’s sanctioning of Tornado Cash exceeds

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Crypto Think Tank Coin Center Sues US Treasury Over Tornado Cash Sanctions

“An order effectively requiring Defendants to decriminalize use of the 20 Tornado Cash addresses would allow Plaintiffs to conduct their legitimate activities with some measure of anonymity, use their preferred software tool without fear of penalties, and engage in important expressive associations,” the suit said. “Judicial relief would also serve

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Bitcoin Miner Marathon Invested $31.3M in Bankrupt Data Center Compute North

The miner said, however, that its King Mountain and Wolf Hollow sites aren't directly subject to Compute North’s bankruptcy process. Marathon said it didn’t face any significant impact at its King Mountain site, although there were some delays at Wolf Hollow, unrelated to the bankruptcy process, according to the statement. Source

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Troubled Data Center Compute North Struggled With Crypto Winter. Then Its Relationship With a Major Lender Soured

In July, the lender asserted several “technical events of default,” which led to taking control of Compute North assets. Generate Capital exercised its voting rights to take over Compute North subsidiary that owned the two bitcoin mining sites the two firms were developing. That included the Wolf Hollow site in

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Crypto.com moves forward with multimillion-dollar renovation of Staples Center following staff cuts

Despite announcing it would cut its staff by roughly 5% in June and the recent market downturn, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has continued to move forward with an agreement to rebrand the Los Angeles-based venue formerly known as the Staples Center.In a Monday tweet, Crypto.com released an artist’s rendering of some

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