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Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week Calm before the storm? Analyst says $20,000 Bitcoin is possible in three monthsBitcoin volatility has fallen to a 16-month low, indicating that a sharp move is on the
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Major players in the crypto community are betting big on digital art NFTs surpassing the physical art market.According to a Sept. 21 tweet from Messari analyst Mason Nystrom, sales of non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Rarible passed $5 million in September, with a volume of 5,309 of its RARI governance tokens
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Liquibit Capital is also said to be managed by a former Barclays Capital vice president and two current JPMorgan and Wells Fargo technicians. Source
Read MoreRussia’s new cryptocurrency-related law, “On Digital Financial Assets,” or DFA, seems to have had little impact on the local cryptocurrency industry so far.In its current form, the DFA law essentially provides legal status to digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC), but prohibits their use for payments in Russia.As the DFA law
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Robinhood announced on Thursday it hired Norm Ashkenas and Kelly Zigatis as chief compliance officers of its Financial and Securities teams. Source
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Prominent figures from a range of long-established companies found greener pastures in the blockchain realm in 2019. From BlackRock to Goldman Sachs, and from HSBC to the SEC, traditional industries saw some of their top personnel leave for new prospects in cryptocurrency over the past year. Early 2019Frigid winter conditions
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Brad Galinghouse and his world-changing team of execs have released a Christmas themed message of hope for Ripple and XRP heading into 2020 and beyond. CTO David Schwartz, Ethan Beard SVP of Xpring, Asheesh Birla, Breanne Madigan and Marcus Treacher also gave their views and future perspectives. You are going to see consolidation,
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Payments startup Circle is pivoting its business to solely offering stablecoin services with the sale of its OTC desk. As part of the move, the firm confirmed the departure of additional executives, just weeks after co-CEO Sean Neville announced he would be stepping down.In a lengthy blog post Tuesday, Neville
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Eight former tech execs from financial giant Morgan Stanley have launched a crypto derivatives trading platform in Singapore and it will include XRP. The unattractively named Phemex works ten x faster than other crypto platforms and will offer 100x leverage for both institutional and retail investors into crypto. As well as XRP
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Bank of Ireland (BOI) executives have backed out of the testimony before the United States Government in the criminal proceedings regarding a $400 million worth money laundering scheme through cryptocurrency scam OneCoin.No testimony on voluntary basisAs fintech-focused news outlet FinanceFeed reported on Oct. 11, the U.S. Government filed a
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