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Bitmain Increases Crypto Mining Capacity by 50% with 600K New Mining Chips

According to reports in the Chinese news media, a person close to the crypto mining giant Bitmain has divulged that the semiconductor manufacturing company has recently placed new hardware orders in the overall sum of 600,000 cryptocurrency mining machines. With these additional crypto mining chips, Bitmain is anticipated to increase

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US State Secretary Pompeo: Same Regulatory Framework to Crypto as SWIFT Is Required

U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo expressed his belief that cryptocurrencies and other crypto assets should be regulated in the same way that SWIFT and other financial institutions are. He made these comments in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday (transcript).Regulation of crypto assets has been a hot

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US FTC Settles With Alleged Crypto Pyramid Scheme for $500,000

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled charges it filed in 2018 against an alleged crypto pyramid scheme involving four individuals.Terms of settlementAccording to an official statement on Aug. 22, the regulator permanently banned the defendants from multi-level marketing and misrepresenting investment opportunities and charged a total

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Ex-Morgan Stanley Exec Joins His Former Colleagues at Shenzhen Crypto Firm

Former Morgan Stanley Asia head of derivatives Jeffrey Wang officially joined Amber Group, a Shenzhen-based cryptocurrency company.As Bloomberg reported on Aug. 23, Wang will operate out of Vancouver as the head of Americas for Amber. According to the article, he previously worked at Morgan Stanley with four out of

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Blockchain Wallet Adds Support for Crypto Payments Processor BitPay

Crypto wallet service Blockchain Wallet has integrated cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay.Payments conducted through Blockchain WalletBlockchain announced the news on Aug. 23, stating that it now allows its users to copy or scan invoices, allowing them to make a Bitcoin (BTC) payment entirely through its wallet app. The new functionality reportedly

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How Facebook’s Libra Has Been Influencing Crypto, Politics and Finance

Over the past few days, a number of Libra-related announcements have been made — only, they weren’t from Facebook, the Libra Association, Calibra wallet or any other party involved in its development. First, top crypto exchange Binance announced a project called “Venus” — coincidentally, another astrology-themed name — which will

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